Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Is there no-one who is willing to fight for Ed Miliband?














Very harsh of the Guardian to illustrate a Rafael Behr article on the future of the Labour Party with a picture of Ed Miliband already the other side of the Exit door:  http://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/2015/jan/28/labour-interesting-alliances-forming-to-plot-partys-future

"The perpetually betrayed left craves Syriza-style Marxist revivalism and the aristocracy of New Labour complain that their legacy has been traduced."

"They no longer look to Miliband as the author of Labour’s intellectual future."

"The essential analysis is that New Labour simultaneously failed to tame excesses of the market and placed too much faith in the centralised bureaucratic state as a mechanism for effecting social change. The Blair-Brown years were, in this view, a missed opportunity to regenerate an older tradition of Labour politics that was more explicit in its attachment to values of cooperation, community, faith and identity. From that weakness, it is argued, flow many of the party’s current difficulties connecting with and inspiring disillusioned voters.
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My goodness are we going to have 99 days of watching the Labour party self-destruct?









Lefty populist Owen Jones is threatening secession and the foundation of a new party (like that worked in 1931).

And the Blairite rump is attacking the very cornerstone of Labour's electoral strategy:  http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/jan/27/miliband-nhs-plans-risk-losing-election-blair-supporters-warn

Is there no-one who is willing to fight for Ed Miliband?

It's like that moment in the film Troy when the hero Achilles (David Cameron) kills the hulking great brute (Ed Balls) and all the opposition army cowers in fear:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BiLCJxpqi4



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