Hate the 80s?

The ad that, like an Audi Quattro pumped with the wrong fuel, backfired, dammit, rather badly for Labour when the Tories spoofed it (despite their ‘ Let’s fire up the Quattro...’ line making Cameron’s real persona trickier to fathom than a Rubik’s Cube). That’s the trouble with playground politics; no-one looks good from a bystander’s point of view when a scrap kicks off from petty name calling. Why can’t politicians rise above it and give it to us straight Gene Hunt style?

The main thing is do you want to go back to the 80s? Well it depends what part you remember. The bit when the pits closed down or when we apparently had loadsamoney in our pockets. The decade that brought us body warmers and body poppers is rather fashionable now so Labour have done themselves no favours in making the Tories (with an average member age of 50) more hip than hip-replacement.