In all, 20 councillors have been told they will not be standing for Labour again.
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Fuelling those who criticise Ed Miliband for not extending Labour's appeal enough.
Annabel Goldie, the Scottish Tory leader, claimed the SNP was "riding high" in the polls, not because of support for independence, but because they were not the Labour party - which led Holyrood's coalition government for eight years.
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She argued that it was the last Labour government which introduced tax breaks for creative industries, but Mr Vaizey said that Labour could not take the credit for current successes.
Ex-Tories may be quite happy to vote for nice, safe Mr Blair in national elections, but not for the nasty spendthrift Labour leader of their local council.
In Sweden active labour-market policies became an excuse for not dismantling other rigidities in the labour market.
When Mr Blair became prime minister, a lot of Tories, not least Margaret Thatcher, were willing to concede that for a Labour leader, he was not at all bad.
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But Scottish Conservative health spokesman Jackson Carlaw was critical of Labour for not giving its full backing.
Even people who profess not to care much for organised labour say they voted against the legislation.
The coalition government has ring-fenced the NHS from spending cuts elsewhere and criticised Labour for not being prepared to match its commitment to a real-terms increase in funding every year.
It's a terrible mess but it's a temporary mess, I mean it's not a deep wound for the Labour Party, it's a irritating rash, and now we've got to stop scratching it and get on with something more serious.
It is a strategy designed to deny the Tories a majority, not a way to build one for Labour.
Plaid remains the second party in many south Wales valleys councils, but for some years has not threatened Labour's control.
"Not for the first time, hard-working taxpayers are paying for Labour's inability to manage risks and control costs, " he said.
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He argues that the rules that regulate the industry are too vague and do not include measurable, objective targets for labour and social reforms.
Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer this month blamed a "very real difficulty" in the Lords rules for his decision not to prosecute Labour peer Baroness Uddin, who had designated her flat in Maidstone, rather than her rented house in Wapping, as her main home.
For example, when Gordon Brown, the shadow chancellor, could not immediately explain the details of Labour's plans for union recognition, voters were given a rare glimpse of Mr Brown, usually a master of policy, floundering.
So when Plaid Cymru tabled an amendment to the Finance Bill to devolve air passenger duty to Wales, and Welsh Labour MPs didn't vote for it, Plaid duly condemned Labour, not that Labour votes would have changed the outcome of the vote.
But for all the changes on the margin, New Labour has not yet devised a strategy capable of matching the resources available for health care to the rising demand for it.
The Conservatives have accused Labour of not planning properly for school places when it was in power.
While the Liberal Democrats have already chosen their candidate for mayor and the Tories have elected Lord Archer to stand for them, Labour has not even worked out a selection process.
Last week's House of Commons vote blocked boundary changes at Westminster and led to the Wales Office abandoning consequential changes to assembly boundaries which would, coincidentally or not, have made it more difficult for Labour to win a majority in Cardiff Bay.
Nick Robinson said Mr Cable's article had been approved by George Osborne's advisers and the business secretary was clear that he did not support Labour's broader call for the pace of deficit reduction to be slowed and for tax cuts to stimulate demand.
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That's the priority of the Labour Party and I think for Clare Short to call for a hung parliament that would not be able to deliver a Labour manifesto, is one of the most serious situations that I think we face.
For us, expanding opportunity means not the backward-looking plans of Labour's Deputy Leadership candidates - who only see a future for more state-owned and run housing - but helping young people onto the housing ladder through a massive extension of shared ownership and the right to buy.
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