Voters threw Labour out four years ago, and the party has given them no good reason to change their minds.
Lib Dem supporters who threw Labour votes to keep the Tories out may not do it this time, too angry over the war.
A sound election platform, plus a powerful national urge to throw Labour out, may allow the Lib Dems to hang on to most of the southern seats that look vulnerable to the Tories, while taking a few from Labour elsewhere.
Andrew will be back from the crack of dawn tomorrow, when another lamentably naive/carefully calculated comment from Clegg will probably throw Labour and the Tories into panic and disarray once more.
The apparent adverse reaction threw Labour's Millbank appratchiks into a tizzy two weeks ago as they rushed to deny reports that they would abandon a top-secret internet advertising blitz.
At the reported urging of the London and Olympics minister, Tessa Jowell, who has been delegated by Gordon Brown to throw Labour's full weight behind the mayor's campaign, Livingstone has begun a series of coffee-morning visits to outlying boroughs.
In 1979, after Margaret Thatcher and the Conservatives had thrown Labour out of office, the Party moved to the left and ran, for a time, on a quasi-socialist manifesto that later became known as "the longest suicide note in history".
The Balls plan to throw Labour's five-year tax and spending plans to the mercy of the judgment of the fiercely independent OBR is high risk, but betrays the struggle Labour is facing to persuade the electorate that it will not be fiscally irresponsible in government.
Hastings repeatedly makes the grim point that the British Army was, throughout the war, largely exhausted and unhappy with its leadership (as it demonstrated by throwing for Labour when it had the chance), and that Churchill knew it.
But for those who can scrape £60 ($110) together, there is a flight from Bratislava to London.The British government is under particular pressure because it is throwing the labour market open immediately to workers from the new member-states.
