Dan Hodges’ piece in this week’s Speccie on the men and women behind Ed Miliband is well worth a read.
Given he quotes Labour ‘insiders’ as describing Team Ed as “poisonous”, “dysfunctional” and “a bunch of medieval courtiers”, unsurprisingly it hasn’t gone down well with friends of the Labour leader.
Miliband’s former speechwriter Asher Dresner goes out to bat for his old colleagues:
@asherdresner @IsabelHardman I haven't. But the people I speak to have.
— (((Dan Hodges))) (@DPJHodges) April 24, 2014
@asherdresner @IsabelHardman How do you know who talks to me Asher.
— (((Dan Hodges))) (@DPJHodges) April 24, 2014
@asherdresner @IsabelHardman I see. And which part of the current article would you say illustrates that.
— (((Dan Hodges))) (@DPJHodges) April 24, 2014
@DPJHodges @IsabelHardman I'm not claiming any inside knowledge on this at all, but Spencer Livermore disagrees, and he's running the thing
— Asher Dresner (@asherdresner) April 24, 2014
@asherdresner @IsabelHardman My cat knows strategy better than the people running Ed Miliband's strategy…
— (((Dan Hodges))) (@DPJHodges) April 24, 2014
Which, to be fair, is probably true…
