George Osborne and Labour

the Labour party: In London, the party appeals to cosmopolitan voters, who might flirt with the Greens, while in the north Ukip is breathing down its neck in search of white working-class support, according to The Guardian. Labour needs fresh thinking but also to rebuild a reputation for competence, especially among older voters, where it trailed the Tories badly. Voters in Scotland are highly aspirational, but for an anti-austerity, social democratic nationalism – not at all what aspiration means in the Home Counties. To complicate matters George Osborne is like a fiendish political version of Monty Don planting new lines of hedge complete with vicious and unexpected twists and turns: large companies compelled to offer apprenticeships, a living wage and city devolution among them. Meanwhile, much of the Labour party does not seem to want to move very far from where it is, marooned, slightly sulky, uncomprehending, fighting itself in a cage mainly of its own making. Freed from coalition, the Conservatives have not just moved right but become more heterodox, borrowing from across the political spectrum. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.