Am quoted here in today’s Independent on Sunday with my reaction to the resurgence of Ed Miliband bouyed by of the Coalition’s difficulties and Labour’s good election results. The full comment I gave them went something like this:
Nothing defines a winner like winning and Ed Miliband is on a winning streak. His argument that the government are cutting too far too fast is resonating now the economy is in recession and the debt and unemployment figures keep getting worse. Miliband is the first politician in generations to stand up to Murdoch and win. The local elections has let him give his party what Cameron has failed to do for his: deliver a strong victory, putting Downing St is within his sights.
In the past the public thought Cameron confident and Miliband geeky but now even his own MP’s think that confidence is turning to arrogance and Miliband is undergoing his own reassessment.
On the Guardian website today polling confirms that Ed the Unstoppable is winning over Lib Dem converts/ reverts sickened by their party’s collusion in the coalition. It may be three years to go until an election but things are looking up for Labour and Ed M.
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May 14, 2012 at 11:30 pm
monty
Ed the Unstoppable?! It’s not the Lib Dems who are the next biggest threat(after the Tories) to New Labour, it’s the Green Party. The Greens are a genuine Socialist party with an appealing ecological agenda for good measure. Also, the Greens are not run by Oxbridge barristers and solicitors. The true party of the Left is now the Green Party not the champagne Socialists who run New Labour. Once the Greens get the funding to put across their agenda to the wider population they (not the Lib Dems) will take the Left vote from New Labour. The future of the Left is not red – it’s Green.
June 4, 2012 at 11:18 pm
Robin Taylor
I wonder what exactly qualifies Monty to pontificate about what is or is not a “genuine Socialist party”, especially given previous comments he has posted in support of Cllr Dennehy’s outburst against Southall’s Indian community. If I was a Green Party member I would be decidedly worried about having Monty’s support.
June 6, 2012 at 1:54 am
monty
Have you read the Green Party manifesto, Mr Taylor? If not, and I suspect not, then I would encourage you to do so.
June 6, 2012 at 6:32 pm
Robin Taylor
Why, does it encourage racial hatred?
June 18, 2012 at 11:52 pm
monty
Y a w n…
June 19, 2012 at 6:13 pm
Robin Taylor
Easily your most intelligent comment.