Classic New Labour manoeuvre. Tony makes some fear mongering stuff up about a completely fictional leftward shift, gets his mates to write about it in the press. It suddenly becomes a thing. Ed responds to the thing by reasserting a wholly unpopular but apparently necessary commitment to austerity without end: Ed Balls has moved to claim the centre ground in British politics, in a rebuttal to critics who claim that Labour has swung too far to the left to win this year’s general election. In a strongly worded article for the Guardian, setting out the battle lines for the coming weeks, the shadow chancellor writes that he would continue to cut the deficit if elected, but that the Tories have lurched to the right under a chancellor who is happy to move towards a shrunken, “35% state” Balls’s use of the phrase “centre ground” comes only days after Tony Blair used the same expression in an interview with the Economist, which was widely interpreted as a criticism of Ed Miliband for moving to the left. gu/p/44h5c
Posted on: Thu, 01 Jan 2015 23:47:53 +0000
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