ARE WE BACK ON TRACK ?? A GOOD WEEK FOR LABOUR??

After what looked like being another shit week for the government and for Labour I think things have begun to look up a bit. Don't get me wrong I think it's going to be tough to win the next election but at least the Tories are under some kind of pressure and The Sun seems to be hell bent on making an arse of itself.

The win in Glasgow last night was better than expected and I suspect it was a combination of a number of factors:

a) We ran a campaign. Not rocket science I grant you but if the neighbouring seat's campaign record was anything to go by then the voters of this part of Glasgow probably haven't seen a Labour canvasser since Kier Hardie was a lad. I'm only speculating but I don't think Glasgow North East's voter ID returns will have taken up much space on the Labour Contact Creator server before the by-election team rolled into town.

b) Gordon Brown has had a mixed week but The Sun's peevish attack on him this week about the misspelled letter has backfired. Most of the people I have spoken to and heard on radio have begun their sentence with "I am no fan of Gordon Brown, but....." and have then gone on to say that they thought he was trying to do the right thing by sending a personal letter and that the nonsense in The Sun, and in particualr the secretly taped phone conversation was a bit of a low blow. The Brisitsh people are nothing if not fair and they don't like bullying. They especially don't like bullying by the mouthpiece of some overseas newspaper meglomaniac.

c) The Scottish Sun hasn't gone for the Tories in the same doe eyed way that their English counterparts have.

c) The Daily Mirrors' sterling work in keeping the pressure on the Tories must have some effect on working class Labour voters who surely by now are realising that although this might not be the Labour Government of their dreams it is a squizillion times better that the alternative. Their headline this week showing Cameron gurning and laughing his way through a Tory Central Office photo shoot at the Garden of Rememberance in London must surely have marched a few reluctant Labour 3's to the polling station. The Headline by the way was "How Low Cam You Go". The link is here

More soon..............