It wouldn’t matter if Ed Miliband could turn seawater into gold – no one would buy it off him because he’s simply unelectable. His personality is just too weird. He looks like a public schoolboy in his blazer not a potential world leader.

I know it. You know it. The PLP know it. The Labour Party members know it. The polls show it. Everyone reading this knows it. He only leads because of the Union dinosaur votes and unless Labour ditch him now they will be trashed at the next election.

Which is what I said about Gordon Brown and I was right then as well….

Later on Ed is asked about welfare reforms and he says of course welfare must change , because well because of the Banking crises, hold on your welfare reforms started in 1997 not when the banking crises started or did we miss something.

Now we see Miliband looking back to Thatcher telling us Thatcher was right on Union reforms, she was right on spending, was she, but why look back why not tell it as if you were going to do it, then after his kick at Blair , he says Blair was right as well, so what is so different between Ed and Kinnock, not a lot really bother are heading out the door one because he is old and the other because he has no ideas.

The politics of populism, though undoubtedly tempting for the career minded politician, is not what we need at the moment. Difficult times lie ahead and powerful vested interests know what’s at stake for them. Even the most naive of airheads realises that such interests seek closer control of popular opinion during times of change. Anon – if you think your interests are well aligned with these people’s, then bully for you. If not, then please tell me who you think is better placed to protect your interests – I’m genuinely interested to know!

Robert – I’m interested in your criticism of Ed. To my ears he’s the first mainstream Leader in a long long time to talk about what to me are the key issues for social justice and prosperity – extreme inequality and the lack of democratic control of our FM capitalist economy. While I would be much more radical myself, I think ED does get it on building a democratic and prosperous society to replace the corrupt, elite manipulated and inefficient dog’s dinner we have now.

should read mis-selling

sorry

You say:

“Surely not that weird anti business speech from the conference.”

Now considering the fact that you maintain, “Labour has not been a party of the working classes for a long long time”, how can you look at examples like the extortionist interest rates charged by Payday Loans or Wonga.com and view them as anything but actions of predatory capitalists? Was the OFT action against PPI misspelling simply a leftist bureaucratic interference with the entrepreneurial spirit of fine British Banks? There are many examples that would justify Ed Miliband’s notion and I would say that action needs to be taken to offset the harm caused by such exploitations.

The party chose David. But the unions elected Ed. I hope they’re happy.