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AOL UK:

…Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman admitted the results had been “disappointing”, but said that the elections had taken place against a background of rising economic concerns.

“We have got to reflect on it and listen to what people are saying,” she told BBC1’s Breakfast programme.

“People are concerned about rising food prices and the increase in fuel bills and there is a worry about the financial stability and we have got to recognise those concerns and do absolutely everything we can to make sure that people are protected from the economic problems that are out there.”

They still don’t get it. Or perhaps, that’s more the Castro-ist perspective. But in democracy, most adults don’t expect honestly to be “protected” from prices that fluctuate and some other ups and downs.

Rather, the first rule of government must always be “do no additional harm”. However, for years, almost anything Labour has touched policywise has turned to rust. Governing, it has rarely done little but “harm” in all of its endless parade of reviews, redirections, reorientations, relaunches, and, of course, new regulations, all of which are usually paid for with higher taxes. All that is what has made people’s lives unnecessarily more complicated and, therefore more difficult, and made for the major reason Labour got crushed on Thursday.