UK POLITICS - ED MILIBRAND

Looks like Ed's making the most of twitter ATM -- or his assistant is.  LOL.

Good move.

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

GAZA - ED MILIBRAND ON DAVID CAMERON'S 'INEXPLICABLE SILENCE'

UK – Jewish Labour Leader, Ed Miliband Hits PM Cameron Over ‘Gaza Silence’ Labour leader Ed Miliband, who’s Jewish, on Saturday accused Prime Minister David Cameron of “inexplicable silence” regarding Israel’s incursion into the Strip. “The prime minister is wrong not to have opposed Israel’s incursion into Gaza. And his silence on the killing of hundreds of innocent Palestinian civilians caused by Israel’s military action will be inexplicable to people,” he said in a strongly worded statement. “I am a supporter of Israel and I believe in Israel’s right to self-defense. But its military actions in the past two weeks have been wrong and unjustifiable.” Miliband, who has expressed his desire to become Britain’s first Jewish prime minister, lambasted Cameron for failing to send out “clear and unequivocal message” to both sides in the conflict. ... FULL @ SOURCE http://jpupdates.com/2014/08/02/uk-jewish-labour-leader-ed-miliband-hits-pm-cameron-gaza-silence/

Benjamin Disraeli ... (21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881) was a British Conservative politician, writer and aristocrat who twice served as Prime Minister. He played a central role in the creation of the modern Conservative Party, defining its policies and its broad outreach. Disraeli is remembered for his influential voice in world affairs, his political battles with the Liberal leader William Ewart Gladstone, and his one-nation conservatism or "Tory democracy". He made the Conservatives the party most identified with the glory and power of the British Empire. He is as of 2014 the only British Prime Minister of Jewish birth.

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Good for Milibrand.

But I think he might have been pipped to the post by twice-serving Disraeli. LOL

UK - Ed Milibrand Speech - New Settlement for a New Era - National Policy Forum

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A new settlement for a new era - Speech by Ed Miliband

Ed Miliband MP, Leader of the Labour Party, in a speech to Labour’s National Policy Forum

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