Labour 'must avoid fear campaign'

The perverse logic of David Blunkett: 'we want to win an election based on hope, not fear, but knowing that you don't give people hope by dismissing their fears'.

So, a government that has spent seven years stoking fear will now deliver a campaign based on 'hope' - that is, the hope that they can alleviate those fears. So, we'll have a variety of authoritarian measures like ID cards foisted upon us on the basis that our fears will then end and we can talk about positive stuff like... saving foxes or summat.

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