I've always had reservations about the way Labour's campaign has run. "One of us" is a stupid slogan - it's a standing joke in Crewe that in order to be counted a Dabber (a native of Nantwich) your family has to have lived there for at least three generations! I'll still vote Labour on Thursday tho'

Dave, Crewe,

I have to say, it is probably the most tactical suicide i have ever seen politically. Having worked and run many elections i had to laugh when Labour decided to go down this road. It was the worst decision they could have made.

It is truly sad that they opted for this route & may well cost them

Graham Brady, London,

Gordon Brown is the leader of a disfunctional group of politicians who are out of touch with the voters. Sooner or later Mr. Brown will pay a heavy price for his destruction of the best Pension System in Europe - make no mistake this was a greedy Brown decision to raid the Pensions industry in 1997.

David H. Sewell, Kenilworth,

Also, I believe Tony Blair attended two by-election campaigns whilst Prime Minister - Uxbridge in 1997 & Eddisbury in 1999. Brown wont go to Crewe & Nantwich because everybody knows he is a liability, plain and simple.

JC, Deep South, UK

Unfortunately dear Gordon has been labelled as aproving this way of campaigning: his previous devious wayus mean this is true to form whether he is guilty or not. Labour is on the out, IN STYLE"!

William, London, UK

Cornered, self righteous labour and its workers and funders are revealing their true, unpleasantly discriminatory colours and techniques.

helen, Norwich,

It was fairly predictable that a damage limitation try would take place from the tory faithful,hence the distortive approaches............Lets be realistic,they are a group of out of touch toffs who frankly have never know need or experienced need.............wake them up Crewe reject them

Eric, Southwick, England

Didn't Harriet Harman come from a well to do family and attend one of the best schools in England? Using the class war card is just rude and has no longer a place in our society. At least Mr.Timpson has manners and shows respect to his opponents, which is more than can be said for the Labour Party.

Peter, Brixham, Devon

Timpson's family made their money making and mending shoes. Meanwhile I wonder what useful "working class" trades or jobs those obnoxious young activists - or their Labour masters - can boast?

I suspect Timpson is far more in touch with reality than they are.

Chris, Cheltenham, UK

Why isn't insulting someone based on their birth considered a hate crime?

jonathan, manchester , UK

Fuel prices, food prices, catastophic immigration policy, selling us all down the river with the Lisbon Treaty - remember this one everyone because this will really create problems - are the reasons people will not vote Labour. Tory toffs? What an outdated campaign.

MJ, Aylesbury,

All the Labour party is is anti Tory. All of labours original aims when the party was formed are now in legislation and are part of the law of the land. The need for a Labour party has gone. Lets hope this is the begining of the end.

Johnny Norfolk, Mileham, GB

Incitement to class hatred should be made a crime - just as incitement to religious or race hatred is. "A house divided against itself cannot stand". Incitement to class hatred is a form of treason. Indeed most anti immigration / racist views are based on economic / class fears.

Michael Boon, Farnham, UK

So the Labour Party is confirming itself as the party promoting the politics of envy and are living decades in the past. Bring on the general election and kick out these dinosaurs...

Peter, London,

Who cares what Labour say or do anymore? They are history and we just wait for our day to kick the bunch of free-loaders out.

Mikko Takala, Drumnadrochit, Scotland

Hopefully, Labour will get the hammering it deserves. They have treated the people of this country with total disrespect and we've had enough. Class wars, spin doctors, lies, all childish behaviour and they won't be forgiven for the 10 tax raid which is only being giving it back for this year.

Jackie, Wiltshire,

"Look - he's not working class."

So define working class. Coal miners? Few of them. Steel workers? Few of them. Factory workers? Heavy engineering?

Oh look, the majority of people have been dead-ended in the service sector - and that's not seen as working class.

Who are you trying to woo

WS, Manchester,

Knocking people up at four in the morning by labour canvassers posing as tories is totally indefensible and if, as reported in the press, this campaign has been sanctioned by Brown they really are scraping the bottom of the barrel.
I hope the Crewe electorate gives Labour a bloody good hiding.

philip, Ipswich,

Another crisis as predicted for Calamity Brown. Whatever he touches these days turns to dross. But we have him for another two years - one hates ti think of the damage he can do the country in that time when globally things are on the down turn!

M. Cawdery, Portadown, Co. UK, EU

This typifies the difference between Brown's old labour, mired in class wars,and Blair who did persue a "one party fits all" agenda.
Brown and the labour party with him as PM is unelectable in the modern world.

A.Williams, Cradley Heath,

This kind of immature personal insult is entirely typical of the political left, and precisely why nobody should ever vote Labour.

James E. Petts, Burnham, England

Labour's plain stupid idea to play the 'class' war will backfire badly against them on Thursday. People are not interested in that sort of negative comments any more. It just goes to show how bereft Labour is of any positive ideas for the people of this country. The message is:Time for Labour to go!

Colin Barker, Teversham, Cambridge

Adrian Gilbert, what a fatuous statement you made, of course people in Scotland experience exactly the same financial experiences as England, in fact much worse as we have to beg Westminster to get some of our own money back. Pity that England has not grown out of petty racist Nationalism also.

Mr Angry, ayrshire,

You have to laugh at this. Labour are trying to label the Tory candidate a toff when in fact his family run a successful business.On the other hand voters are being asked to select a Labour candidate based in part on her being the daughter of the last MP ? Do Labour now stand for heiredatory MP's ?

Tony, Cardiff,

This tactic was bound to fail. First, a far larger proportion consider themselves to be middle class and secondly, more again have aspirations to be middle class.
So Brown has offended everyone who is, thinks they are or want to be middle class.
Do you think he's secretly working for the Tories?

Phil Bailey, Shrewsbury, UK

Typical tactics, the Labour activists always stand in the way of those who want to speak out against their party while the PR people have the ministers spin wonderful tales of their sucess. Some democracy.

steve tea, manchester, cheshire

By running a campaign criticising your opponent's 'class' Labour have regressed to the 1930/s/50s. The rest of the country has moved on from then. If this really was Gordon's idea (he surely can't be THAT stupid) it is another indicator just how out of touch he is: especially with English voters.

Donna Walker, Effingham, England

If the only argument the Labour party can level against Mr. Timpson is that he is not a by-product of the a state-run school system they are not only making plain they cannot win on policy, but that they are now going to rely on hate-mongering in the desperate hope that the electorate are idiots.

byrne harris, whyteleafe,

Perhaps we can learn from this event that England has grown out of juvenile class envy. These days it is a much more meritocratic society than even before. People go up and down in wealth all the time. Can the same be said of Scotland? Is that he cause of Brown's mistake?

Adrian Gilbert, Tonbridge,

If Labour loses, then I suppose these dreadful campaigning tactics (for which they deserve to lose) will be blamed on a few young overzealous local activists.

Meanwhile, Brown's "moral compass" must be spinning in its grave at such childish and purile antics.

Chris K, Cheltenham, UK

Typical if Gordon Brown sanctioned the use of class in the coming by election. It will backfire though, when normal minded citizens realise that this just means that Brown has NO class at all. The man is a buffoon, more suited to resignation than anyone who has gone before him. Utter stupidity.

Alan, London,

The Labour party no longer knows what it stands for and certainly has no ideas to offer the electorate, hence the pathetic attempt to make the election into a class war. This incompetent government doesn't understand that people want competent politicians and no longer care about their backgrounds.

Roger, swindon,