Damien

The problem with labours election chances is simply blair. If brown was leader there would not be a big problem. Most people trust labour more than torys on health, education, tax and so on. Torys have a lead on crime and immigration. However labours advantage doesnt show in the polls which could be down to a number of things although i think that the polls do not show labours real suppport

1) There are people who say lib dem as they really annnoyed at labour but when it comes to 5th may they will vote labour to avoid a tory victory

2) Some people are simply ashamed to say they will vote labour

3) A lot of current 'swing' votes are likely to vote labour, they voted them last time but this time are unsure. But will decide against the torys.

Labours election campain has been awful so far. Hopefully they will do well in the remaining weeks now that there manfisto is published.

Unemployment has gone up 25,000 in the last few months although i still think its one of the lowest in history