No shortage of advice for Labour to relaunch

Some words of advice from political commentators for Gordon.

In the Mirror,Kevin McGuire thinks that it is time to declare war and for a cause celeb he should look no further than the exploitation of workers.

The "intolerably poor working lives" uncovered by the TUC's Commission on
Vulnerable Employment were condemned as far back as Victorian times, yet they
persist in the 21st century.

and he adds

A Prime Minister who fails to help "twilight workers" - semi-legals in care homes, hotels, haulage firms, beauty salons, the security industry, hotels, restaurants, construction sites, hairdressers or wherever they toil, can kiss goodbye to any election.

Former Home Secretary David Blunkett writing in the Sun says

NOTHING short of a dramatic shift in policy will restore the Government’s fortunes.

and that dramatic shift

why not a £3billion windfall levy on the huge profits of oil companies?
The money could be used not just to postpone this autumn’s 2p rise in fuel duties, but to make a dramatic cut until world oil prices stabilise.

But as with McGuire,he sees Labour's salvation as being the party to look after the less well off

why not give an even bigger uplift in child benefits — then tax it so the better-off neither gain nor lose out.
This could be linked to radical measures to get people off welfare and into work.

Alice Miles in the Times says forget bins but concentrate on more important issues

I bet the real Gordon Brown has, this week, been more concerned about the Burmese than about “bin bullies”, as the Tories call them

The problem for Brown being that last week's elections showed that voters have little time for the wider global issues when they are under attack on the domestic front.

Meanwhile in the same paper Simon Jenkins says

Brown's salvage effort looks stuck in a time warp. He'd do better to cheer up and seek a charisma implant

adding

He appeared besuited on a Sunday television sofa, looking like a wet afternoon and talking about "getting our message across" and telling "the truth about the Tories". His friends spoke of relaunches and policy revamps, of "reconnecting with core voters" and deriding people they called "toffs". This is not so much a repeat of John Major in the mid-90s as of Harold Macmillan in the early-60s, who just wished that the 20th century would go away. The Brownites clearly wish the same of the 21st.

The solution to his problems according to Simon lies in looking at Boris who

was camping it up in a policeman's hat at a Sikh festival in Trafalgar Square.