How Labour should behave

Sunder Katwala at Next Left, the Fabian Society’s excellent blog, has laid down some rules for how Labour supporters should act  during the current crisis:

“1. Behave sensibly. At all costs, avoid triumphalism about an economic crisis, however well the Prime Minister handles it. 2. In particular, could anybody banging on about the Falklands please stop it. It is in very poor taste all round. 3. And, particularly particularly, if any MP wants to say ‘when the crisis is over, perhaps there might be an early election’, perhaps arrangements could be made for them to be quickly taken out and shot.”

This is wise advice. Considering the damage that the election that never was did to Brown, Labour would be nuts to start flirting with the idea of going early. It would revive all the public’s concerns about Brown.

Labour would be well advised to sit tight at the moment and see how the Tories react if Labour continue to move up in the polls.