What will Labour do?

It is now 12 days before the election and the polls have you 3% to 8% behind. You have two sets of choices before you.

The first choice is whether you hope the lead will fade, confident that your party’s policies and record will win through, or do you go for a “circuit-breaker”?

If you decide to go for a circuit-breaker, then you have a choice of a positive or a negative circuit breaker.

A positive circuit breaker is something like the student loans no interest pledge. However the pledge card has been printed, and a significant new policy at this stage would have a credibility issue and potentially undermine their fiscal costings.

So what does that leave? An inevitable conclusion that Labour is going to go very negative and very very dirty. On the brink of being kicked out of office, they will hold nothing back. Truth will not play a part in decision making.

And when will this happen? Well they need to influence the polls for the final week, so it will occur this week or at the latest do another exclusive with their friends on the Sunday papers to try and set the agenda for the last week.

This is confirmed by Labour in the The Press, saying “”It’s onslaught from now on”