That middle ground of British politics occupied so formidably by Tony Blair has now been taken by David Cameron, and Labour has no hope of getting back into power with its traditional messages and the support of a “rainbow coalition” of society’s excluded, either. The legalisation of same-sex marriage by the Coalition meant that in this election the gay vote didn’t lean so heavily towards Labour. Indeed, it’s thought that the vote divided equally between Labour and the Tories. Similarly, Cameron’s work in trying to lessen racial and sexual inequality in modern Britain has shot Labour’s fox in those two key demographics, too. The days when Labour politicians such as Ken Livingstone could ride to power on “a coalition of the dispossessed” are over. As fewer people see themselves as victims of society and of life, so the Labour core vote will decrease further, especially if Cameron and Osborne continue to demonstrate to the British people that it’s not just “the 1 per cent” who have benefited from the economic recovery.