If Labour think things are bad now...

...wait for opposition.

Here's a taste of what they're going to face:

1. Defection of moderate Labour MPs to the Liberal Democrats (predicts Paddy Ashdown today) if, as is likely, the Left starts to reassert itself.
2. Death by a thousand memoirs as Brownites let loose against Blair and Blairites attack Brown.
3. A leadership crisis as key figures lose their seats in the 2010 General Election and the sparsity of alternative talent becomes apparent.
4. The return of shadow cabinet elections and all the controversy they bring.
5. The rise of a Left blogosphere - urging the party in contrary directions.
6. Mass redundancies of Labour-leaning operatives as public affairs companies switch to employing people with Tory connections.
7. A collapse in funding from the Unions as they plough money into campaigns against the Conservative government and its austerity measures.
8. The end of the Communications Allowance which Labour MPs have been using to propagandise.
9. Media interest falling off the cliff.  Some of us remember the Hague years when it was a Herculean task to get any positive coverage in the press.
10. Exposure by incoming Tory ministers of the scale of Labour's behind-the-scenes incompetence.  It may not be a Domesday Book but expect the CCHQ machine to indict Labour (Winter-of-Discontent-style) for a generation.