Cameron and Osborne blame their spending cuts on the Blair/Brown legacy,when really it’s all approximately their obsession with tax cutsI did not get where I am today predicting the future of the Labour party’s electoral prospects; nor, for that matter, and by forecasting the outcome of a referendum called by a prime minister prepared to gamble with the future of the United Kingdom in order to support his party in office.
For,although it may now be conventional wisdom that Ed Miliband was never going to win an election in a thousand years, it did not seem such an odds-on bet to David Cameron at the time, and when,frightened by the threat to his position by Ukip and his Conservative colleagues, he committed himself to the coming referendum.
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Source: theguardian.com