Quote: Lord Elpers "It is this sort of view that totally fails to understand the UK electorate and which if it prevails will see Labour in opposition for many years to come.
Firstly it is clear that the deluded Milliband's union backed strategy of appealing only to his core vote (the so called 35%) in addition to a policy move to the left from the previous 'New Labour' model was a massive failure. His tactic of ignoring the wealth creators, of being hostile to business in favour of a concentration on minority issues may have been welcomed by his followers from the 'left wing metro elite' and the leftie media but did not go down well with the suburban and country voters.'"
Absolute nonsense. He wasn't remotely "hostile to business". He wanted to reduce business rates for SME's by forging a planned cut in corporation tax. So corporation-tax wise no business would be worse off and SME's would have been better off. If you are referring to things like restrictions being placed on zero hours contracts, then any ordinary voter who voted against Labour for that was a turkey voting for Christmas. And to say he lurched to the left is a joke. He did no such thing.
Quote: Lord Elpers "Secondly if we look at the results in Scotland it is quite simplistic to suggest the working classes want a turn to the left. In fact the two right of Centre parties increased their share of the vote (Conservatives by 5% and UKIP by 173%) The capitulation of both Labour and the Lib Dems who are both left wing parties provided the big switch since the 2010 election with other lefties like the Trades Union & Socialist Coalition and the Scottish Socialist Party also losing half their votes to the SNP. The increase in the turnout over 2010 provided the other voters and it is interesting to note that the number that voted for the SNP in 2015 was 10% down on their vote in the referendum. '"
Where you get the Tories up by 5% I have no idea. In 2010 they got 16.7% of the vote and in 2015 14.8%. Their share of the vote went down, not up. Your figure for UKIP is also meaningless. The got 1.6% (v 0.9% in 2010) which is 47,078 votes in all. So based given you based the rest of your post on a bunch of erroneous stats I think we can dismiss the conclusions.