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WHERE previous Labour slogans have included “The New Hope for Britain” (1983), “Britain Will Win With Labour” (1987), “It’s Time to Get Britain Working Again” (1992), “Britain Deserves Better” (1997), “Ambitions for Britain” (2001), “Forward. Not Back” (2005) and “A Future Fair for All” (2010, which, thanks to the weird word order, sounds like a plan to repeat 1951's Festival of Britain) the words emblazoned on the party’s banner today - had it not consciously repudiated such hallowed emblems of proletarian solidarity as banners, of course - could very well be: “Throw It At the Wall and See If It Sticks”.

- Phil Wisdom

That might equally well apply to any political party, but since the general election - for which it had 14 years of enforced (if well-paid) idleness in which to prepare a sheaf of winning policies - Labour has U-turned more often than a class of Year 2s playing What's The Time, Mr Wolf?