It's Blair, Iraq and immigration
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1441366,00.html

Those expecting a Labour election walkover should get out more. From
Beeston to Brentwood, the mood is increasingly hostile

Patrick Barkham
Saturday March 19, 2005
The Guardian

If a May election is called, the signs on the streets point to a
possible Tory victory. Forget the politicians, the punditry and the
polls. This is not a forecast forged in the bars of Westminster or at
the dining tables of north London. This is mood music; and the mood of
ordinary voters is increasingly hostile to the government.

In the past week I've met more than 50 voters in south Nottinghamshire,
south Dorset and south Essex. It was not a planned assignment to assess
public opinion; it was not an attempt to talk up chances of a
Conservative victory; I was not seeking discontent. But the discontent
found me. Alarmingly for the government, a popular critique of Labour
was implacable and inescapable.