There'll be tears before bedtime...

The Guardian seems to think that Labour is worried about the forthcoming local elections (here):

"Such is the concern that the culture secretary, Tessa Jowell, is fronting the London campaign and cabinet office minister Jim Murphy is leading the backroom campaign."

Wot, no Alexander, no Miliband? And Messrs Prescott and Brown keeping well out of the picture? Ms Jowell and Mr Murphy are more like the B team. Why would you put Jim Murphy, a Scottish MP with no direct experience of English local government elections in charge of the backroom campaign? This suggests that Labour has written off the English local elections...