What Labour needs is a shot in the arm, not a bullet in the head.

As the sweat starts to trickle down the backs of the Labour Party anoraks in Manchester this week, there is much work needed between now and May 2015. There is one chap who may come to the rescue that man is Saul Alinsky - I know most of you may not have heard of him - but Obama has him to thank for getting him into Pennsylvanian Avenue. He is the man who micro-managed the campaign, in other words new more that any other via a vast data base about you. That told him where you shopped, what you bought, what you read, where you lived, the size of the family, education and a lot more besides. Armed with this data bank they set the troops to work on the phone, emails, tweets, brochures etc. The result we all now about.
Labour needs to do that sort of focused work. To some degree the Yes referendum did that last week doing relatively well and stealing some of the old Labour vote. Ed Miliband has David Axlerod from Obama's team - now he has his mate Saul. If they can get their collective act together and focus the the 'message' to a number of limited objectives the public can understand then they are in with a chance, but the Tories and UKip will run them ragged over the next eight months or so. The Lib/Dems are a busted flush so no need to worry about that philanderer and gullible Nick Clegg they are all heading for the exit and dustbin of history.
Getting the male and female working class vote back to the Labour Party is the only way to Downing Street and the sine qua non for victory as Churchill said in 1941 "victory no matter what the cost might be". As the new alignment of the centre/left they can do it. The Tories and UKip will be on the centre/right - so the new centre of gravity and political change is the centre/left. Lets hope Ed gets and understands this message.