Why Voters Tune Out Democrats

[Lydia Leftcoast]

31. Still, the Dems should take the fate of Britain's Labour Party as a warning

They got in by saying that they were the anti-Conservatives in 1997 but after then spending the next 10 years 1) Maintaining policies enacted by the Conservatives instead of undoing them, 2) Adopting more and more over-the-top surveillance and security state practices, 3) Allowing virtually unlimited immigration from Eastern Europe, which displaced a lot of would-be entry level British workers, and 4) Getting involved in Bush's wars, Labour lost their credibility with the British public.

It didn't help that Cameron put on his sweetie-pie face during the campaign and that a lot of people assumed that the Liberal Party in coalition with the Conservatives would keep their worst instincts in check. People were disappointed in Labour, and so they were out.

Now recent news reports are saying that Conservatives in Parliament were laughing gleefully as they cut benefits for the unemployed and working poor.

You may say that British voters were stupid to vote the Conservatives in, but if Labour had been doing its job instead of going all Third Way, they'd still be in power.