Labour’s new leader has been in office barely two months, yet this hasn’t stopped a motley collection of ex Ministers, frustrated David Miliband supporters and it would seem some party officials, from moaning in the ear of one Dan Hodges, who last week launched into print in the New Statesman, giving vent to their – […]
Posts Tagged ‘David Miliband’
Ed Miliband needs to get a grip
Nov 22nd, 2010 by Mark Seddon.“If a week is a long time in politics”, as Harold Wilson once said, two weeks away from politics on paternity leave is clearly an age. Ed Miliband returns this week to Parliament after a fortnight helping to change nappies, only to find that some on his own front bench have been busy doing some […]
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Ed would have won by more under OMOV
Sep 25th, 2010 by Jon Lansman.The Tories have been criticising Ed Miliband because of the importance of trade union support to his victory, as if there was something wrong with the votes of 211,234 individual trade union members who support the party. Others – like the Guardian editorial and Andy Burnham – think that we should have a simple OMOV […]
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But what if David Wins?
Sep 22nd, 2010 by Andy Newman.Voting is almost over, and in reality I am sure that there are few punters cool enough, or indecisive enough, to be casting at this eleventh hour. At the outset of the contest Jon Cruddas made the wise observation that even though he had known all the candidates personally for 20 years, he didn’t really […]
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Panic about the Milibands
Sep 20th, 2010 by Michael Meacher.The last minute flurry of media columnists giving a lift to David M in a final effort to head off the Ed M threat, just before voting ends this Wednesday, shows how panicky they are that the safe haven of New Labour as an acceptable temporary option to the Tories may be about to end. […]
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Miliband Funding: Rich donors and Sun slurs
Sep 10th, 2010 by Jon Lansman.David Miliband is still way ahead in campaign funding, almost all of it coming from rich Blairites, according to the latest information published yesterday by the Electoral Commission . In line with its history of support for things Blairite, The Sun chose yesterday to present the “facts” rather differently. It falsely alleged that trade unions have […]
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Compass and the Leadership
Sep 2nd, 2010 by Jon Lansman.“By this week-end, three quarters of the votes in the 2010 Labour leadership election will have been cast. The contest will effectively be over.” So Dan Hedges at Labour Uncut points out. And the effective end of the contest neatly coincides with the announcement of the result of the Compass ballot on who they’re going […]
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Extraordinary Rendition: The truth about David Miliband please!
Sep 2nd, 2010 by Mark Seddon.As ballot papers for Labour’s leadership land on doorsteps this week, those electing the next Leader of the Opposition, namely party members, MPs and affiliated trades unionists have a duty not only to consider their party’s best interests, but the country’s best interests too.
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The Blairites are really rattled
Aug 31st, 2010 by Michael Meacher.So Blair, possibly the most unpopular man in British politics, and Mandelson, the second most detested man, think Ed Miliband would be a ‘disaster’. It takes some gall for the architects of Labour’s ruin to think they have any right to give us lessons on Labour’s prospects when their own record was – well, disastrous.
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Black arts of Blair machine now in top gear
Aug 29th, 2010 by Michael Meacher.So David Miliband would pose the greatest threat to the Tories? How convenient for DM that this alleged private remark of David Cameron’s has hit the headlines, via an unidentified ‘well-placed source’, just 4 days before voting starts for the Labour leadership. It is of course the oldest trick in the political book, ever since […]
