I watched  the last few sets of the Australian Open with Andy Murray descending into sulky losing, which gave me a good excuse to sit still and  read the papers. The Observer is desperately trying to get the Labour Party  to get its act together. Lifetime Labour supporters are projecting their anger onto the Greens who have stolen  many of old Labour’s clothes and people are liking them.  New Labour are getting cross because the party has  shifted from the agenda  Blair and allies imposed.  The current Labour elite cannot bring themselves to move too far so old Labour leave in droves.

The narrative that the Greens are all idealistic 18-24 year doesn’t  fit with my experience. Many long standing supporters of Labour are finding their unchanged views now fit more readily with the Greens.

Will Hutton  is relieved that the first part the post system means the Greens  will find it difficult to gain the seats  representative of their support. Only when the present system doesn’t hand outright victory to the two major parties again will they support  a fairer system.  Voters need to make sure that it happens this time.