[Dingus]

'Blue Labour' creator has criticised Ed Miliband's leadership for having 'no strategy, no narrative and little energy'

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2...-lord-glasman?

Lord Glasman, the man that Miliband appointed to the peerage has made a stinging attack on Miliband's Leadership, but it is also clear that he has equal contempt for the deadwood with which Mr Ed has surrounded himself.

http://www.spectator.co.uk/coffeehou...other-ed.thtml

Cameron couldn't have wished for a better New Year's gift.

[LaughingCow]

I'm not surprised, all I hear when Ed opens his mouth is something about how bad the coilition is doing. He needs to concentrate on furthering his own policies rather than continuously bashing the current government!

[janie48]

Lord Glasman makes a very good point.

[xenia]

all theLabour front bench were members of the government that brought this country to its knees.

Most of them were aquiesent to an illegal attack on Iraq.

Ed stabbed his brother in the back.

Vote Tory

[andyofborg]

Originally Posted by xenia

all theLabour front bench were members of the government that brought this country to its knees.

the labour government didn't bring this country to it's knees.

the early conservative shadow cabinet were all drawn from ex-government minsiters that's how these things work.

Ed stabbed his brother in the back.

no he didn't

Vote Tory

i'd sooner kiss a duck than do that

[Dingus]

Originally Posted by andyofborg

the labour government didn't bring this country to it's knees.

the early conservative shadow cabinet were all drawn from ex-government minsiters that's how these things work.



no he didn't



i'd sooner kiss a duck than do that

I think that was Lord Glasman's point. The party leadership are still desperately trying to deny what the population as a whole knows happened.

Quote from Spectator article..

But if you read between the lines of Glasman’s article it is clear that he thinks someone is holding Miliband back and he drops very heavy hints as to who that is. For instance, the second sentence reads as follows: ‘Old faces from the Brown era still dominate the shadow cabinet and they seem stuck in defending Labour's record in all the wrong ways - we didn't spend too much money, we'll cut less fast and less far, but we can't tell you how.’ If that wasn’t enough of a clue, he adds that ‘Endogenous growth, flexible labour-market reform, free movement of labour, the dominance of the City of London — it was all crap, and we need to say so.’ He could only have been clearer if he had said it was all Balls.

And that is from The Spectator. I don't expect the rest of the media to be so kind.

[Shef_Fitness]

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[andyofborg]

Originally Posted by Shef_Fitness

New Labour will be unelectable until they get working class people leading the party putting forward policys that appeal to working class people.

but what policies appeal to working class people?

[ANGELFIRE1]

Brown, Prescott, Mandelson, Blunkett and Balls and now Millibore. The mind boggles as to who would ever vote them into power.

Old Glasman certainly has an easy target.

Angel.

[Dingus]

Originally Posted by andyofborg

but what policies appeal to working class people?

Is it telling them they could pay off all their debts by using a credit card?

[Bloomdido]

I hear that Yvette Cooper is being groomed for better things and Hilary Benn could be a contender.

[andyofborg]

Originally Posted by Dingus

Is it telling them they could pay off all their debts by using a credit card?

would that appeal to a working class person?

[Dingus]

Originally Posted by andyofborg

would that appeal to a working class person?

It seems to be the illusion that the 2 Eds seem to want to peddle.

[andygardener]

Originally Posted by andyofborg

but what policies appeal to working class people?

Not the tax and spend, mass immigration, financial mismanagement, bank bailout crap that new labour persued thats for sure.

[green]

Glasman hits the nail on the head. Labour is unelectable, whilst the buffoon Balls is the Shadow Chancellor and Ed Miliband doesnt change tack soon.

Tom Watson & Chuka Ummuna are both worth watching at the moment. They represent their electorate and work hard for them.

[vinyl]

It seems that the Labour Party's year hasn't got off to a good start as Milibands policies are savaged by his own guru..

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...=feeds-newsxml

Ed Miliband’s leadership was under sustained attack last night after one of his closest allies denounced him for offering ‘no strategy, no narrative and little energy’.

In a highly embarrassing intervention, the Labour leader’s political guru Lord Glasman denounced the party’s economic policies in government as ‘all crap’ and said Labour had shown ‘no signs of winning the economic argument’.

And in a withering assessment of Mr Miliband’s personal qualities, Lord Glasman said he had ‘flickered rather than shone’, ‘nudged not led’ and had ‘not broken through’ with voters during his first full year in charge of the party.

The attack is all the more remarkable because Lord Glasman is a friend of Mr Miliband and was handed his peerage by the Labour leader last year.

The criticism is bound to fuel speculation about Mr Miliband’s prospects of holding on to the leadership.

[alchresearch]

No doubt the Labourites will soon be posting that its all DM lies and Miliband is still a great leader!

[xenia]

Originally Posted by green

Glasman hits the nail on the head. Labour is unelectable, whilst the buffoon Balls is the Shadow Chancellor and Ed Miliband doesnt change tack soon.

Tom Watson & Chuka Ummuna are both worth watching at the moment. They represent their electorate and work hard for them.

They have one over riding problem. They are socialists, and it doesnt work.

LABOUR ALWAYS LEAVE YOU SKINT

[xenia]

Originally Posted by Bloomdido

I hear that Yvette Cooper is being groomed for better things and Hilary Benn could be a contender.

Groomed? I fear it would take a brain and personality transplant to make either of those two acceptable. There is a limit to what a wash and brush up can acheive.

[Alien52]

Its all DM lies and Miliband is still a great leader!