Labour in meltdown?

There is a fair bit of talk on the blogs about Labour's tactics in the Goldsmid by-election, which it has to be said has become somewhat erratic, or perhaps desperate, as the campaign has gone on.

Their website tells residents to 'Vote Local' for their candidate, when in fact she lives miles away on the other side of Brighton. Our excellent candidate Howard Spencer lives on the border of the ward.

Then there is their bizarre 'Campaign HQ' - which someone really has to point out to them is actually in the wrong ward. At the bottom of Selborne Road in my ward you'll see office windows covered in their candidate's name and Labour logo. A senior Labour operative tells me that it is their by-election HQ - if what he says is true, I do hope someone will be checking their election expenses that the going commercial rate for the site is declared. My rough calculation estimates that they've in fact used up most of their expenses on this one site alone.

Meanwhile, on the doorstep, they like to spend their time telling people that the Lib Dems only have two councillors - oblivious to the fact that in Hove they only have one themselves!

And here is the best of the lot. Labour have been out in Brunswick today (you'd have thought they would be worrying about Goldsmid - they came a poor fourth here last time) delivering a newsletter urging people to vote Labour in the 4th June Euro Elections - an election which they were hammered in and that actually took place well over a month ago.

The electorate really does deserve better than this.