”If the Labour Party start telling us what their plans would be, if elected, then comparisons can be made with the current opposition. But such information does not seem to be forthcoming.”

Any competent businessman/woman will tell you that you don’t set out your bargaining position for your competitors to see prior to negotiations commencing. Neither should a political party set out, several years in advance of a GE, what it’s manifesto wil be, or may be, when the GE comes around. we are two years away from the next scheduled GE, and things may well have changed radically by then, warranting different policies.

The Opposition’s job is to oppose the actions of the government, not to act as the government’s advisor or unofficial ‘think-tank’. Only an idiot would give his opponents two years’ notice of his election plans. Ever heard the expression ‘Keeping your powder dry’?