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Is Red Ed On His Way Out?
//Mr Miliband has faced criticism over his leadership strategy from the Labour ranks amid concerns over Labour's falling poll lead. //
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It wasn't so much the result of the poll that prompted this question, but this:
//Mr Miliband has faced criticism over his leadership strategy from the Labour ranks amid concerns over Labour's falling poll lead. In a letter to the Guardian a broad coalition of Labour grandees were united in calls for more clarity about his plans and for his vision to be bolder.
In the letter they said Labour needed a mandate for “transformative change” and warned: “If Labour plays the next election safe, hoping to win on the basis of Tory unpopularity, it will not have earned a mandate for such change.”//
//Mr Miliband has faced criticism over his leadership strategy from the Labour ranks amid concerns over Labour's falling poll lead. In a letter to the Guardian a broad coalition of Labour grandees were united in calls for more clarity about his plans and for his vision to be bolder.
In the letter they said Labour needed a mandate for “transformative change” and warned: “If Labour plays the next election safe, hoping to win on the basis of Tory unpopularity, it will not have earned a mandate for such change.”//
His strategy seems to be not to offend anyone. Unfortunately the result is that he pleases no one. He seems scared of a fight and ducks all the time. The coalition have made many mistakes and their record is poor. But Miliband has not capitalised on that at all. He has given Cameron and Clegg an easy ride.
I keep thinking he is saving himself for the election fight, but I fear they will wipe the floor with him.
I keep thinking he is saving himself for the election fight, but I fear they will wipe the floor with him.
I doubt that they will be seriously contemplating a change in leadership at this stage in the election cycle.
I doubt also that a poll about styles will have much influence or is even particularly noteworthy. As has already been noted, polls are volatile.
All party leaders will face criticism from within their own ranks over particular issues of policy - its a fact of political life. But Labour do need to start better articulating what alternatives they plan to offer on the substantive issues, that is certainly true.
Difficult to assess his leadership ability as yet. Will only be able to do that once it has faced the test of the electorate. He has had some awkward and weak moments in Parliament, but he has had his moments too, on issues like hacking and energy prices and Syria.
As to the soubriquet "Red Ed",i t was perhaps inevitable given his name. But when I hear people using the phrase, they always remind me of Joe McCarthy and the whole paranoid "reds under the bed" witch-hunts in 1950s US.
When it comes to names, I feel sorrier for Ed Balls. One imagines that almost all serious politicians at some point in their career will have daydreamed about becoming PM; But to know that you will never ever become PM on the basis of your name alone must be a bit dispiriting :)
I doubt also that a poll about styles will have much influence or is even particularly noteworthy. As has already been noted, polls are volatile.
All party leaders will face criticism from within their own ranks over particular issues of policy - its a fact of political life. But Labour do need to start better articulating what alternatives they plan to offer on the substantive issues, that is certainly true.
Difficult to assess his leadership ability as yet. Will only be able to do that once it has faced the test of the electorate. He has had some awkward and weak moments in Parliament, but he has had his moments too, on issues like hacking and energy prices and Syria.
As to the soubriquet "Red Ed",i t was perhaps inevitable given his name. But when I hear people using the phrase, they always remind me of Joe McCarthy and the whole paranoid "reds under the bed" witch-hunts in 1950s US.
When it comes to names, I feel sorrier for Ed Balls. One imagines that almost all serious politicians at some point in their career will have daydreamed about becoming PM; But to know that you will never ever become PM on the basis of your name alone must be a bit dispiriting :)
3T - "largely anti British family" - Really? Please, enlighten us with your wisdom.
Or is this yet another example of your mindless trope that you have been articulating of late - your simple-minded and baseless assertion that anyone left of some political line that you have drawn up in your head is "anti-British"?
Or is this yet another example of your mindless trope that you have been articulating of late - your simple-minded and baseless assertion that anyone left of some political line that you have drawn up in your head is "anti-British"?
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