There is much to welcome in David Miliband’s call for a ‘comradely and serious debate’ about the future for the Labour Party, as prompted by Roy Hattersley’s recent article in the Political Quarterly on social democracy. He is certainly right about the spirit in which the debate should take place, but this initial foray will [...]
Posts Tagged ‘David Miliband’
David Miliband’s right about a debate, but it can’t ignore the big issues
Feb 4th, 2012 by Michael Meacher.
What David Miliband’s intervention really means
Feb 3rd, 2012 by Owen Jones.Those of us who have suggested David Miliband’s latest political intervention may have – let’s say – ulterior motives have received a bit of flak. Must he stay silent just because any public pronouncement may be misconstrued by the media? Why can’t he contribute to the debate about the party’s future like anyone else? Bookmarks Hide [...]
The questions on Libya Tony Blair needs to answer
Sep 6th, 2011 by Mark Seddon.Former Prime Minister, Tony Blair and former Foreign Secretaries Jack Straw and David Miliband, now face some extremely tough questions as to how much they knew about the extraordinary rendition of prisoners to Libya where they were tortured. The discovery of some extraordinary archives in the ruins of the Ministry of Information in Tripoli by [...]
Blairites party with Murdochs, 24 hours before Milly Dowler story broke
Jul 17th, 2011 by Jon Lansman.After Ed Miliband’s most successful week as Labour leader in which his bold and forceful stance against corrupt and depraved practices has brought the Murdoch empire to its knees, the Blairites, always too fond of fraternising with the rich and famous, have put those efforts in jeopardy. According to the Mail on Sunday, only 24 [...]
By all means bring back David …. to a new shadow cabinet, which understands why New Labour lost
Jun 27th, 2011 by Jon Lansman.Rumours of a possible return to the front bench by David Milliband abound. That, some pundits say, is the reason for abolishing shadow cabinet elections. As we argued last week, we favour democracy but the 300,000 plus people that put Ed into his job carry more weight with us than the 258 people who isolated [...]
The Struggle for Labour, as seen in Taiwan
Jun 19th, 2011 by Jon Lansman.Hat tip: Mehdi Hasan Bookmarks Hide Sites
The Left must back Ed, warts and all
Jun 14th, 2011 by Jon Lansman.Ed’s speech was carefully measured. A re-statement of the post-war justification for the creation of the welfare state — a social responsibility we all share. Those who saw this as an attack on benefit claimants must be basing their view on the spin and interpretation of the speech rather than the speech itself. And those [...]
We now know what a good thing it was that David Miliband didn’t win
Jun 11th, 2011 by Michael Meacher.David Miliband’s victory speech that never was to the Labour Party conference last September, leaked to the Guardian, reveals all too clearly the disastrous path down which he would have taken the party to near-extinction, by adopting the Osborne cut-and-slash strategy in full, and indeed perhaps going even further. His claim that “the party will only be [...]
David Miliband’s outside earnings top £200k
May 31st, 2011 by Jon Lansman.David Miliband’s earnings from outside parliament this year now exceed £200,000. These earnings include: £25,000 for a lecture in Abu Dhabi; £42,600 for three lectures through the London Speaker Bureau and £10,000 for another organised by McKinsey; almost £24,000 for one week’s teaching at MIT plus the same again for his whole family’s flights and [...]
The Blairite ultras would lead Labour to surrender. They must be stopped
May 19th, 2011 by Owen Jones.I never thought I’d say but it but, Christ, I don’t half know how Thatcher felt. Until her administration came and put the ‘Great’ back into ‘Great Britain’ (and all that), post-war Britain was a picture of despair for Maggie. The Tories had capitulated to the political settlement established by Clement Attlee’s 1945 government, with [...]
