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Ed Miliband pipped his older brother, David, by a short head, in the Labour Party leadership election contest.
I have to say, as a Labour Party supporter, I think the wrong man got the nod. I think the more experienced David has more potential as a future Prime Minister.
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I think the problem with him is that he looks like a Jew and the British public have traditionally always been suspicious of them.
He will never make PM.
Good voting system, eh? The best advert to not use AV I have ever seen. Winning, winning, winning, winning – lost.
In other news, Ed Miliband will lead the United Trade Union Party in parliament.
A lurch to the left.
Only won due to the unions, will be difficult for him. If not in the unions pocket, unions will shout loud and clear if they don’t get what they want. Making it virtually impossible for him to stand up to them. If he does, then they’ll (quite rightly) accuse him of saying what they wanted to hear, just to get elected.
And what if Ed Balls is chancellor? Spend, spend, spend. Does not believe in the cuts needed to put this country on a level footing.
I could see myself voting for brother David, but not this Red Ed.
Thank You Liberals for not choosing this lot.
Value Is EverythingA nudge rather than lurch to the left methinks and not unwelcome after Blair and Brown, who presided over administrations whose tenets were to most intents and purposes indistinguishable from those of the Conservatives
As ever, I’ll give the new boys and girls a chance but suspect it’ll all end up with the time-honouresd same ol’, same ol’, meet the new boss same as the old boss
Ed’s wild wide eyes are a little unsettling I feel. P’raps he has x-ray vision
Perhaps I’m in a minority of one here, but over the years I’ve become more and more sickened by living in a country governed by accountants where the employers only think about the shareholders of their companies and not their workforce [people to be discarded as and when neccessary]. Maybe Labour will be in perpetual opposition, but at least the working man might have a voice again. The optimism of my youth and faith in human nature has been reignited [won’t last long!….]
I predict that Ed Miliband’s tenure will be a disaster. The union members who voted for him in favour of his brother are probably purring like big fat cats who have just drunk all the milk, but they will rue the day they did so.
The annoyingly pompous, Dr. David Sharkey, said on Question Time, that Ed had stabbed his brother in the back. Now, I usually have little time for what that little man has to say, but for once I totally agree with him.
David Miliband, for all his public support of his younger brother, must feel utterly betrayed by him, and did the right thing by declaring that he was now opting out of front bench politics.
Ed Miliband comes across as a opportunistic, egotistical geek; a very average public speaker, who has put political ambition and machinations before the good of the Labour Party.
He should never have stood against David in the first place. It was interesting to hear Ed Balls say more or less the same thing.
Well, be it upon their own heads. You reap what you sow.
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………..who has put political ambition and machinations before the good of the Labour Party.
An accusation that could never be levelled at Brother David, eh?
This is going to be the shiftiest looking Shadow Cabinet in history. I predict David Icke is hired as a special advisor before the next full moon, and that Ed Balls changes his name to Charles Manson soon after.
Can’t see why Ed should have stood aside for David. Would he have stood if not a brother? Yes.
Why should he stand aside just because he’s the younger man?Those voting wanted another reincarnation after an election defeat. Public won’t fall for it.
New Labour is dead, long live New New Labour. How long will it be untill we have New New New Labour?
David M would not give them a break from "New Labour", they couldn’t discard their appalling policy decisions with him. Where as Ed M "did not vote to invade Iraq". They’ve forgotten Ed M wrote the maifesto. He’s slightly (may be a little more than slightly) more left wing than D, promised the unions the Earth, is against a lot of the much needed cuts; so was bound to get the Union vote.
Either ha’s going to encourage strikes, which will do the country harm; or back-track, which will look as though he said what he needed to to get in.Either way, he’s going to look a right xxxx to the public or Unions or both. The only way he can become PM is if the coalition balls it up.
Speaking of Balls, hope Mrs Balls beats Mr to chancellor.
Value Is EverythingYvette Cooper, like the rest of the New Labour coterie, is no style, no substance. Evasive and patronising in equal measure, she somehow manages to come across as insincere, condescending and needy all at the same time, whenever interviewed. This is perhaps a reflection of her being a lifer politico, with little in common with the people she purports to represent.
Perfectly qualified to be a PM, in other words.
I hold fast my firm belief.
Miliband the younger could have waited a few years, surely !
Now he faces a plethora of derisory nicknames from the Tories and the Murdoch minions – to go along with "Ed the Red", "Gromit" and "Forrest Gump"
Won’t be long until a photo of him appears on the front page of the Sun, with a photo of his face transposed onto the head of a horse with the caption, " Mr Ed talks Balls "
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Over time it will be interesting to see what he deems to be a New Labour policy and an Old Labour policy.
We already know that he’s dis-owned the Iraq war, what else?
Thanks Nick .. everything thing is fine at my end. How’s life treating you, well I hope
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