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Originally Posted by gynn
After a year as Labour leader, what are everyone's views on Ed Miliband's performance as Labour leader?
No doubt Mancie sees him as the potential saviour of the country, rescuing us all from a fate worse than another term of Tory rule. And jaysay will say he is just as bad as his predecessor, plotting to plunge us all into another decade of doom and gloom.
As a neutral, I have to say that he worries me. He reminds me of that boy with the lisp in the corner of the playground who struggled to make friends. He found it hard to live in the shadow of his handsome brother, who always had loads of girl friends, and he turned out to be the one who told teacher he saw us smoking behind the bike sheds. The class sneak.
Am I being unfair?
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Gliding effortlessly from a question about the performance of a politician to smoking behind the bike sheds seems more than a little wierd
However, as a neutral and a foreign observer, but one who does try to keep in touch with what is going on in British politics, Ed Miliband seems indistinguishable from a Canadian Liberal. There aren't enough right-wing votes to keep the tories in power; and there are not enough democratic socialist votes to elect Labour. For either one to gain and hold power, they must attract an increasing number of voters in the center. (The Lib-Dems seem more bent on commiting political suicide than contending for office.) And, your politicians, even more than ours, see gaining and holding power as much more important than governing the country.
Maybe it all stems from Thatcherism: destroy the working class, and you will destroy Labour. Although it seems the bitch didn't take into account "New Labour," a party which any Canadian Liberal would feel comfortable voting for.