Labour took a hammering across the UK last night and in this podcast I consider this rather crude analogy first used by one of its own leaders with regard to how it views the folks who were its core supporters. with reference to Northern Ireland and Jersey I argue that it cannot close the gap that now exists with its core and as such it can never hope to regain power and in Wales – as has already happened in Scotland – it may well become an irrelevancy. I refer to this piece on Tory sleaze from last week. One day that will matter but maybe it won’t for a very long time. Footnote: But for the unhelpful intervention of UKIP in its death throes the Tories would indeed have won Wrexham. As for Plaid, it went fronm a poor third to a less poor third. The timetable for Labour irrelevance is delayed but its still there here in Wales