Why Labour Should Learn to Stop Panicking and Love the Eighties

After all the fuss about the open-sourcing of the new Labour poster, it seems Victoria Street would have been better off sticking to their own in-house washed out ideas. As even the left online are accepting, the Ashes to Ashes spoof poster is a spectacular own goal. Well done, rather than exploit weaknesses, you've managed to associate Cameron with a popular, working class, funny figure. And sorry, what exactly was wrong with Eighties?

If the 1980s were so bad, why was the key moment of change in the Labour Party the dropping of Clause Four and the acceptance that the values and practices of the Eighties made this country great and changed for the better how it was run forever. New Labour was built on Eighties values.

Labour seem determined to take us back to the Seventies, to the days of strikes and unions holding the country over the barrel. The reason Labour don't want the Conservatives to take us back to the Eighties is because it would make the entire Labour Party as it stands today an irrelevance. New Labour was an Eighties-lite project and an incoming Conservative government will force it into the dustbin of history where it belongs. 

This last ditch attack shows just how shallow and hollow the whole idea was. Labour supporters clearly do not understand what made Blair and New Labour attractive and electable. Just look at the disgusting class-based drivel of the entries that didn't win the competition to show you just how idiotic and moronic the active Labour grass-roots are. It was Blair's embracing of the Eighties that means the Labour Party, for better or worse, still exists today. Bring on May 6th so this floundering, broken, deluded and misguided project can finally be put out of its misery.