Austerity, injustice and the forces of callous Conservatism

Cameron and Osborne blame their spending cuts on the Blair/Brown legacy, when really it's all about their obsession with tax cuts

I did not get where I am today predicting the future of the Labour party's electoral prospects; nor, for that matter, by forecasting the outcome of a referendum called by a prime minister prepared to gamble with the future of the United Kingdom in order to keep his party in office.

For, although it may now be conventional wisdom that Ed Miliband was never going to win an election in a thousand years, it did not seem such an odds-on bet to David Cameron at the time, when, frightened by the threat to his position by Ukip and his Conservative colleagues, he committed himself to the coming referendum.

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