UK LABOUR - DIVISIONS?

Diane Abbott: Most Labour MPs think Ed Miliband is set for defeat in 2015  Published: 05 August 2014 Updated: 11:36, 05 August 2014  Diane Abbott has admitted that “most” Labour MPs are worried that Ed Miliband is heading for defeat in next year’s general election, the Evening Standard can reveal.  ... She said: “Most MPs are worried that we won’t win in May — and that’s not based on figures.  Let’s say a substantial minority of Labour MPs don’t think we can win in May — despite the fact that statistically it can look like that. But then they tend to be MPs from outside of London.  “Ed’s problem, one of his problems, is that he has a shadow cabinet and most of them didn’t vote for him, so that is problematic.”  Asked by Mr Donnelly about shadow chancellor Ed Balls, Ms Abbott said that he “reminds people of the Brown years, and it allows the Tories to say over and over again, ‘These were the people who crashed the car.’ But actually he is very able.”  She said there would be tax rises and spending cuts if Labour was elected. “Whoever wins will have to put up taxation if they are serious. They won’t admit it, but they have to.”   Ms Abbott today confirmed that she recognised the remarks but said they were taken out of context. She insisted that she and most Labour MPs were very confident Labour would win next year’s election. “All the polls point steadily in the direction of Ed Miliband winning the election,” she said.  “I did say some Labour MPs are worried, but I don’t think they are a substantial minority.”  Source - Standard (UK) - here.

OMG!

Poor Milibrand.  What chance does he have with this kind of backstabbing going on.

Can you throw people out of your political party? 

I'd be wanting to ditch the talk-to-media dissenter if I were in the Labour party.

Unlikely, seeing they're voted in. 

She's Shadow Minister for Health at the moment.  Maybe he could find her something worse ... like Education.  LOL ... all those unionist teachers demanding a pay rise to contend with. 

Oh, wait, Cameron was going to fix them with a new set of no-strike and no-picket laws, so that won't work.  Add that to the against Cameron's chances list.

Ed might have a chance because Cameron looks an idiot:

• he's dumped experienced ministers for a bit of an 'affirmative action' swap;
• he's proposed draconian anti-strike and anti-picket laws;
• he's failed to make a stand on Gaza; *
• he's had the failed photo-op, on the immigration-bust rounds; 
• he parrots whatever Clegg and Obama say; and
• people want out of EU;

so all of that goes against him, surely.

Milibrand needs someone to polish his image:  give him a haircut, pull his outfits together ... and he needs someone media savy behind him, getting his profile out there and keeping him in the public eye in a positive way.

But bear in mind, I've only just started watching pollies, so I'm not necessarily on the money about that.

Get the impression that Cameron gets better press than Milibrand.

'Ed Balls' needs to change his name.  LOL.

Finally, judging from the British Prime Ministers list I was editing, Labour don't spend all that much time in office.  Too lazy to double check; but it was the first impression I had.

UPDATE

*    Cameron no stand on Gaza.  Doesn't need the Muslim vote - http://goo.gl/w30SFF