BRITAINS LOCAL AND REGIONAL ELECTIONS - AN INCONVENIENT LESSON FOR COUNTRY'S LABOUR PARTY! PART 1.

Are there times when the saying, 'it is never too late to learn', proves to be true, and, if so, will Britain's Labour Party's leaders prove themselves to be the exception?

The United Kingdom has just had some of her local council and regional mayoral elections.  Which has seen the country's ruling Conservative Party making a net gain of over 500 seats. 

While it embattled Labour Party has been given what, in local parlance, could be described as a brutal beating. 

One which it cannot recover from, in it current 'ostrichised' form. And requires it make drastic and immediate changes in its leadership and ruling executive.

It is, of course, not a bad thing that Britain's Labour Party should have to contend with such a brutal and necessary lesson. Which it really needed.  

As it had been continuing with its policy of ignoring the British electorate and media, and listening only to its swollen membership of  'the converted' for the past 18 or more months. 

Choosing to listen only to its own echo, and to those who have been speaking up for and not against the Party's lurch towards self-destruction. 

Failing to appreciate the very important difference between the blind passion and support of a Party's members, and the views and concerns of the British electorate.  

Only some of whom are Labour Party members, and the majority of whom are not members of any political party, or would want to become members of such parties. 

An electorate who make their decision on which Party and politician they should vote for, on the basis of their likes and dislikes.  

And on what they perceive to be in their and the country's best interest. 

On which politician and Party they believe to be most credible and likely to do do a 'good job.' 

In other words, they attempt to make a 'rational decision', and not one based on loyalty to a particular political party. Unless that party has a tradition of 'being rational' and a history of 'doing a good job.'

We are into the age of the consumeristic electorate, who have the means to gather and compare the product which the parties are selling and promising, and make informed decisions.

The British Labour Party badly needs to learn the lesson about, 'how to listen to the electorate', in order to understand and learn how to 'appeal to the electorate.'  

To be continued.