Beneath the surface

Time now for some Labour bitching. This appears to have been knocked up at quite short notice in response to the unexpected rise in support for Nick Clegg and his Lib Dems - hence the rather cheap paper stock and poor printing.

This is so vicious and negative that it barely even mentions the party who sent it at all. Only the horror that will apparently ensue if I vote Lib Dem, and the terrible risk of some sort of Lib Dem-Tory alliance.

It's like they've been studying wartime propaganda – I half expect to see these leaflets being dropped from the sky by German planes. The only thing they haven't done is use some sort of 'horror' typeface with blood dripping off it, but they might as well have.

Verdict

I'm not the first person to use the word 'desperate' to describe the Labour party these days.