Janan Ganesh on the 35% frisson of Miliband…

“…Mr Miliband does not have a 35% strategy. He has a 35% world view. He is authentically left-wing and was only ever going to seek a left-wing path to power. His effort to cobble together enough like-minded voters to pull off a slight but doctrinally pure victory is better understood as an urge – what Amis calls a “frisson” – than a decision. And it was not his error to follow this path; it was Labour’s error to choose as its leader someone who was always incapable of doing anything else.”