Glasgow East – Labour wishful thinking

The excellent blogger, ex journalist, ex Labour press officer (they weren’t called spin doctors in those days) and now Labour MP Tom Harris is cheerfully ignoring the general advice that Labour should not be trying to spin their way out of trouble today. But this post shows how much trouble they really are in. Does Tom really believe the Glasgow East result is no more than the kind of by-election that happens in the UK from time to time?  This is an an excellent example of what Times comment editor Danny Finkelstein talks about today of Labour “sleepwalking to a massacre.”