Some Home Truths From David Miliband
There is now a clear and public split between the Miliband brothers over matters of strategy. As Guido reported earlier, David Miliband isn’t taking orders from anyone, and you can sure as hell bet that his piece in this week’s New Statesman was not approved:
“For some, this will be seductive. Reassurance about our purpose, our relevance, our position, even our morals. Reassurance Labour feels good. But feeling good is not the same as doing good – and it gets in the way when it stops us rethinking our ideas to meet the challenges of the time. And now is a time for restless rethinking, not reassurance. Our attacks on the Tories will not work if we are not clear about what we did. We should say loud and clear where we made mistakes, but we should also insist that the list of gains far outstripped the mistakes. After all, even David Cameron said on coming to office that Britain was better in 2010 than 1997.”
In the call to arms he also says the big state is a “political dead end”. Nobody seems to have told his brother though…
Bring it on!
So, David to replace Ed as Labour Leader before the end of 2012?…
NO ? !
ah I love Deadward! they were brilliant when they did ice ice baby on x-factor
DUEMA or DUDMA
i love it
Deadwood Miliband?
Nobody told me either!
Shame, I really thought we could buy one and get one free.
Ed has been landing some punches recently, and I am getting used to his less than handsome face.
Ed has to show true leadership here.
His brother and Mr & Mrs Dromey simply will not be around for the 2015 bun fight.
Ed should ask them to go now so he can bring in some new blood more in touch with the electorate. if they refuse he should withdraw the whip as I am sure none if the three are following guidelines so it will be easy to find disciplinary blemishes.
Also he should be pushing Cameron about the missing Chilcott report (if only to finish his brother off).
This Inquiry predates Leveson and the delays are beyond a joke.
Can he also get rid of Mr and Mrs Balls, if the kids are to believed Yvette is the next leader.
even David Cameron said on coming to office that Britain was better in 2010 than 1997.
Really ? In what way is Britain better than in 1997 ?
Well it certainly not better off
We should say loud and clear where we made mistakes
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If they confess, we can go after their pensions and pay, after all that is a reward for failure, and we can’t have that, can we now.
Gains? Under Labour? I really can’t think of any Labour-created legislation that actually improved anything. Just more waste, snooping, red tape, restrictions of freedom, thought policing, petty beaurocracy and inefficiency.
Oh wait. fox hunting. While the country was drifting into staggering corruption, financial disaster and mismanagement, and greater division between the rich and poor, endless hours in our over-privilidged, troughing Parliament were devoted to foxes. Fucking imbeciles.
Pay no attention to my big bwuvver.
who he?
Bananaman.
At least I can peel it back!
Lother
He got shanked by his brother. Fair enough if he wants to wield his own knife.
And he’s right. Labour need to rethink what they’re doing. Right now they’re the friend of benefit claimants and the enemy of workers.
The BBC will make sure your sort of comment never gets heard.
Thanks to the way they extort money, they can ignore British people.
Don’t forget us.
Nobody seems to have told his brother though…”
Nobody seems to have told ANY of the top three parliamentary parties!
Typo for ‘dead Ed’ ?
No thanks luv. I get into enough rows as it is.
‘even David Cameron said on coming to office that Britain was better in 2010 than 1997′
It was certainly better for us.
Says More about “Dave” than it does about the state of the country.
Next time the conservative party can elect a conservative.
Cant be too many Conservatives in the party anymore…..
Conservative seems to be the party of blue marxists.
OK if Dodgy Dave goes,who do you think will be the most electable as leader of the conservatives, the field does not look very crowded, little Willie has had his chance , Gideon, general population not really, Eric the curry no chance.
The period 1997 to 2010 saw Britain come more under the thumb of the EU and saw the reduction of the hereditary element in the House of Lords. Better? No.
Ed is your brother a predator or a producer ?……….
I’m just a money grabbing non-teacher teacher from Harringey.
Considering the lies that get taught in lefty-indoctrination/school, that might be an improvement.
They’re both trustafarians.
Is that a posh name for w.an.k.e.r.s ?……….
This is something that really drives me mad, all the shadow cabinet are wealthy, either from family money or by dint of expenses etc and yet they keep trotting out complaints about the conservatives being wealthy.
>but we should also insist that the list of gains far outstripped the mistakes
Just look at the parks full of unicorns.
Someone seems to have paid some money into a Monaco bank account that some say is to do with me.
I don’t know anything about it. if I had a bank account, I’ve forgotten about it and if someone put some money in there, well I wouldn’t know why they would do that. Just because the account is in my name doesn’t mean its anything to do with me.
I’m financially illiterate.
I can’t even spell Banc.
Stop staring at me !
Must be a Gooner?
but you are excellent at bankrupting football clubs –
Bournemouth
Portsmouth
Southampton all were worse off financially after a spell being managed by the (shh, you know who). After all you can’t run a house on Sandbanks on fresh air you know.
I’m assuming your monika is a pseudonym for one H. Redknapp.
‘Arry is a first class, ace bloke who went into partnership with my ‘boys’ in property development in Portsmouth. I arranged that they did not have to provide the legal requirement of 28 social housing units in their 25 storey development on the Southsea seafront, instead they offered £600,000 to offset this liability of approximately £3m (an extra ££2m+ to spread around). After this was agreed, the following day, the grade 2 listed building that, as a requirement of the planning permission was to be incorporated in the new building, was torched. The local police immediately put a police constable on to the investigation and to date no one has been charged with the arson. I don’t know where ‘Arry lost his £6M but it certainly wasn’t here, as we are all going to make lots of money out of it. Boaz.
Hey Handy, keep stum, you are ruining my defence. I got the idea about not being able to spell from you, nice one eh? Send my regards to your ‘boys’ and tell them everything can go ahead as planned after the trial is over. Lovely jubbly, lots of moolah. Jahbulon.
You have really got it sewn up in Portsmouth, Handy; the most corrupt city in the UK. Bringing Harry in with your ‘boys’ a masterstroke. Tell me again, how much have you salted away offshore through these planning scams? If Harry had lost £6m. Portsmouth would have to have been flooded with cocaine to make up for it. Harry, a masterstroke! When am I going to see you again in Thailand?
We are looking for non-teaching teachers for posts in Haringay. We are also looking for teachers to do the teaching of the non-teaching teachers.
I am looking for a non-nursing job. Preferably on the circle line. I have no important nursing qualifications, but have been a union activist for many years.
Something office based, £35,000 pa, mon-weds. 10-2.
Anything?
I have got non-teaching down to a fine art.
I’ve also got claiming my teachers pay to an even finer one.
You suckers.
Was never a fan of bar baiting or even watching ferrets in a sack. The months to follow will however be enjoyable as internecine warfare finally breaks out. All the contenders preparing to climb that greasy pole and make their pitch. So tawdry but so splendid. Britain has indeed got talent. The new band from Westminster:-
‘Eddy and the backstabbers’
Since when has cameron been right about anything?
Talibarn? What is Talibarn? We in Parkystarn do not even know of anyone who is coming to the country with RPG on shoulder. There is no Talibarn here. NATO makes up stories about us because they are racialists.
But no Tarly-barn live in the places that we are living, no my goodness, no.
Well, there’s certainly one less these days…
That’s leadership material that is…
The old ‘don’t say what you think*, say what you think people want you to think’ strategy. Worked for Tony Blair (and will probably work for every PM elected from hereonin).
* not that EdM thinks much beyond a vague liberal, cuddly, ‘left of centre’ muddle.
hereonin
heroin? would explain a lot.
Oh not him again – he failed twice to get the Labour Party leadership. For better or worse the party chose his brother – David there is no need to be the Thatcher style back street driver
Right, as I thought, he’s just leaving his brother in the caretaker role.
I wonder if they played at labour leaders when they were teenagers. “this time you can be foot, and I’ll be kinnock”
This is the twat,when he was the Foreign Secretary, thought it would be an excellent move if all North African countries and even Iraq were to join the EU.
What a fucking wally.
They might as well join the fuckin EU,most of their males seem to be handwashing cars while their females get on with breeding visa babies all across the member states
A Wolly
‘But feeling good is not the same as doing good…’
Could be the epitaph of New Labour and Dave’s bestest friend Tone.
Milibands divide and rule. Was Abbott right about White labour MPs?
it would be in everyone’s best interests if Ed sorts out with Cameron what will happen should Hester finally turn RBS around.
To date this remains one of life’s great mysteries. An 80% shareholding in a PLC company will take som shifting. We don’t want loads of expensive advisors financial consultants and experts getting involved or indeed Gordon Osborne arranging a private deal for the good of the tax payer with any individual with or without a title.
He might be a leftist shithead but he is twice the statesman Ed could ever dream to be.
Leftist shithead! You must be joking this fucking self-serving hypocrite is to the right of his mentor Blair. Both are grinning twats who are out to make as much money for themselves as possible and stuff the public. Haven’t you been reading what this guy has been doingthe last few months? Due for a fall I think.
Oh bother, where art thou?
“even David Cameron said on coming to office that Britain was better in 2010 than 1997.”
And that a change of direction was needed.
Not only has that cowardly twat Camerun u-turned on the EU treaty he has apparently allowed that sick bastard Young Conservative Matthew Lewis who provoked outrage when he dressed-up as a blood-stained Madeleine McCann for a fancy dress party is back working for the Tories in Europe, it has emerged.
Fucking hell, Camerun was riding high before Christmas has the twat got a death wish!!!
“After all, even David Cameron said on coming to office that Britain was better in 2010 than 1997.”
As I recall Britain had a far better financial position in 1997. Our public sector was not out of control. Our banks were not bankrupt. We hadn’t suffered from a massive property bubble. North Sea oil wasn’t coming to an end. We still has a little democracy left. We had not been involved in Iraq or Afghanistan or Libya.
In what way was 2010 better than 1997?
Wolly
while Liebore is in disarray the Tories should replace Cameron with a real Conservative. If they wait until 2015 it wil be too late.
As for the duelling Millibands – long may they continue. Perhaps the Blaite wing could split from Liebore and join the Lib Dems in a Shirley Williams / David Owen style re run on the early 1980s.
The new party could be caled the Very lib Dems or something similar
Phwoor! there’s something funny round here what is it?
Oh it’s you, come ‘ere and sit down.
You’re gonna have the troof told abowt you and put on record.
‘ere please don’t sit so close I’ve just has me breakfast thanks.
Who’s goona get his real paybeck?
Who used to carry Gordon sack?
Who put a knife in my poor back?
My bruvver;
Who’s as popular as heat rash?
Wo made the rules that caused the crash?
Who put Balls in charge of the cash?
My bruvver
My bruvver said it wasn’t He who broke dear mums heart.
My bruvver said it was me, my bruvvers rotten.
Who looks like a gormless geek?
Who chose a team of useless freaks?
Who get’s shredded every week?
My bruvver.
“David Cameron said on coming to office that Britain was better in 2010 than 1997″.
He really is a very stupid man isn’t he?
Bitter! Very Bitter! When Ed Mong is making a hash of things David says nothing. When Ed regains a smidgeon of creadibility, DM is stabbing him in the back.
Crazy Dave is well up for a ruck with baby brother
Less ‘ave it!