Here is a direct quote from MacShane's article.
Any prime minister in office today would feel the voters' anger as they see their cherished plans to spend their own money as they see fit destroyed by rising prices combined with the insatiable greed of the state in all its manifestations to take the people's money for its own, often incompetent and counter-productive ends.
I particularly like the reference to "insatiable greed". Denis MacShane, the MP for Rotherham is acutely aware that the real backlash against Brown is that he is obsessed with tax and spend. Brown is an unreconstructed socialist obsessed with destroying the middle classes ability to become independent of his client state. To problem now though, as MacShane observes, is the way the tax burden has risen for those on average incomes. It is these people that are deserting Labour in their droves.
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