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It's three minutes after ten and you are listening to James O'Brien on LBC.

I was with John Soaple last night, star, of course, of the newsagents, an author rather

splendid new book, Strangeland, about which you can hear more on full disclosure next week,

I think.

No, this week possibly.

And it was, well, reading his book in preparation for interviewing him on stage in Richmond

last night, that I came across a phrase, I think you're going to hear quite a lot on this program.

He described the Labour victory in the last election as a loveless landslide.

And that's such a great little distillation of much bigger issues, isn't it?

A loveless landslide.

And the lovelessness is probably best

illustrated or best proved by the speed with which Kier Stama's approval ratings have plummeted.

He won an election almost on sufferance, a vote to get rid of the Tories after plumbing or manner of democratic depths, rather than a vote that was enthusiastically inviting Labour into Downing Street.

That's not new. I don't think you could describe Tony Blair's victory in 1997 as a loveless landslide, but certainly in the run-up to it, you had an awful lot of analysis

explaining that this was just a consequence of Tory fatigue. John Major had run out of road. The

Conservatives had been in power since 1979, and the country was ready for a change. So all

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