Labour’s “Litmus test”

The ink is still drying on our billboards due this Friday, and the headlines continue.

Writing in today's Guardian Polly Toynbee has thrown down the gauntlet to the Labour Party: get your act together on reform, or face the consequences.

"A litmus test awaits the cabinet when it meets tomorrow" she writes.  "Will it push through the amendment to set a referendum day ­beyond the next election for ­introducing the alternative vote?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jan/25/labour-fight-soul-electoral-reform

"It's a stand-up-and-be-counted moment, a test of character and intent for any would-be leader of the Labour party."

With only days left on the clock we're still hearing the same old noises from inside the Labour Party. There is "disagreement" at cabinet. There is briefing and counter briefing, and a decided lack of action on the promise we've heard so many times in these last months.

Our supporters have worked hard to get this far. Reform is a test of leadership, and we're ready to expose those who've flunked it, and let down the voters. And if that requires a copy of Photoshop, a van, and a few dozen square meters of paper sporting the Schools' Seceratary's face then all's the better.