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"No clear idea and a steaming pile of fudge" - Ed Milliband
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2708868/Ed-Miliband-extraordinary-attack-Gordon-Brown-s-key-aide-warns-Labour-election-plan-totally-dysfunctional.html
Rather an accurate description I would have thought ;-)
Rather an accurate description I would have thought ;-)
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For Miliband, the Daily Mail or possibly both?
I was wondering whether McBride might yet come back to haunt the likes of Miliband and Balls so dispite this article being written in a rag it'll be interesting to see if this leads anywhere.
McBride was a Labour spin doctor ;-)
....and Gordon Brown's attack dog.
You sound like you need to be reminded of Damian McBride's track record:
"On 11 April 2009 it was reported by The Daily Telegraph that McBride had sent a series of emails to former Labour Party official Derek Draper discussing plans to set up the controversial Red Rag blogsite which would be used to post rumours they had made up about the private lives of senior and high-profile members of the Conservative Party. These false rumours would have included sexual and personal allegations about certain Tory politicians and their spouses, including Nadine Dorries, David and Samantha Cameron, and George and Frances Osborne"
I don't think that even The Daily Mail would stoop this low.
There seems to be a huge conflict in the Daily Mail's narrative of New Labour. One one hand they are hyper critical of all most every aspect of the way the party operated under Blair and Brown, yet on the other they also seem to be critical that Milliband isn't behaving in exactly the same way.
Make up your mind; is it good to be a centrally controlled, media obsessed, conservative minded party that ignores it's members or not?
Yup. I'm not sure I would have used those exact words but nevertheless it concisely sums up Ed Miliband for me.
But this time we need them to tell us what that something is.
Perhaps David Axelrod has dealt with a "similar" problem in his past career and is relishing the prospect......
Let's not forget Dan Hodges. The journalist with the most inappropriate strapline ever:
He writes about Labour with tribal loyalty and without reservation.
Yes, good old Desperate Dan. The tribal loyalty to ultra-Blairites only. Wish his mum would give him a clip round the ear for being such an annoying twerp.
If you had a friend who was driving at top speed towards the edge of a cliff, would you try to get them to change direction or would you cheer them on as they drove off the edge?
Because judging from the response to criticism that originates from within the Labour camp it appears to me that Labour supporters prefer the lemming approach.
Just sayin'
What vitriolic responses from within the "Labour camp" have there been in this thread ?
vitriolic
ˌvɪtrɪˈɒlɪk/
adjective
adjective: vitriolic
filled with bitter criticism or malice.
They have when they infiltrated a memorial service to dish the dirt on Ed Miliband's father.
Well Northantsgirl is kind of advocating the use of violence to shut up Dan Hodges. ;-)
Fair enough - Maybe "vitriolic" was a slight exageration - I've removed the offending word for you.
I know nothing about Dan Hodges as I don't read newspapers but it seems strange that someone with unreserved tribal loyalty towards Labour would be Cameron's favourite columnist.
So you're saying that McBride is both a 'grade A cock' and a good judge of Ed Miliband's electoral strategy?
You've mispelt the word "truth".
Well I'm definately saying the first which doesn't necessarily preclude the second.
I would say his work experience at least gives him some credible background with which to comment on Labour electoral strategy.
The Daily Mail is no friend of the Tories. Far from it, personal attacks by the Mail on Ed Miliband are not indicative of them favouring the Conservative Party.
If Cameron was caught parking this afternoon in a disabled bay you can bet your bottom dollar that it would be a banner headline story in the morning's Daily Mail.