Quote: Saddened! "I'm not all that well up on politics, so don't understand this. One of the most common criticisms of Milliband's Labour was that his manifesto was too far left and ignored the centre-left. You seem to be encouraging them to do exactly what they already did?'"
That criticism is unfounded because it wasn't left wing at all.
About the most left wing things they proposed were allowing existing departments in hospitals to bid to provide services (such as radiology or whatever) whereas the Tories exclude them (only private companies allowed to bid...) and allowing rail franchises to be run as the east coat main line was rather than be compulsorily sold off.
If you thought they were left wing its because the propaganda worked.