True, the opposition does need to ensure it appeals to a broad enough swathe of the population to get the Tories out. Trouble is, many voters are quite barmy, to put it mildly. For example, here we are in north Lincs, one of the poorest areas of the country, and where so many folk depend on the state in one way or another; for benefits, credits, for health, for transport, for pensions, for social support and protection of all kinds. And wherever they look they can see what a calamitously underfunded state everything’s in. And what do they do? They vote for a clown-car of a party dedicated to shrinking the state and to privatisation, and instead worry about kids in dinghies and about the EU. Why? Because they’ve been told they are the problem, not the bunch of %$£*& in Westminster and Downing St.
