anyway this is just further alienation of the core Labour base. How could anyone be bothered to go out on a cold winter night and go chap the doors of strangers and make the case for their candidate when what they stand for is so uninspiring and pointless. It's these people - the canvassers, the people with the passion for it - that win elections. That's why the SNP has done so well in Scotland, they've put the work in to campaigning in a way that no other party has here, at least in my lifetime and perspective. If those people aren't going to out and talk about their leader and his candidate choices with fervour and urgency, how can they expect people to be persuaded to vote for them?