Ed Miliband’s plan for a “crude” mansion tax came under attack from Labour grandees yesterday as prominent figures from across the party piled into his election strategy.

With a new opinion poll putting the Tories two points ahead of Labour, senior voices broke ranks to raise concerns over leadership and direction.

www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/politics/article4229092.ece

Too late to drop him now (but they wish they could !)

Why is it too late? They are flogging a dead horse.

honey!oh sugar sugar. wrote:
Why is it too late? They are flogging a dead horse.

With ONLY 211 days to the next election they are trying to convince the electorate (stop laughing !!!!!) that they are competent to form the next government !

Hardly shows any competence when you have to admit you chose the wrong leader and it took you about four years to realise it !

Well the sooner they ditch him the better. They might just as well pull out of the election because nobody will ever vote for him. He is a liability and if he had any respect for the party he would resign.
(mind you, we saw his morals when he trampled over his brother!)

In The Know (as always) wrote:
honey!oh sugar sugar. wrote:
Why is it too late? They are flogging a dead horse.

With ONLY 211 days to the next election they are trying to convince the electorate (stop laughing !!!!!) that they are competent to form the next government !

Hardly shows any competence when you have to admit you chose the wrong leader and it took you about four years to realise it !

William Hague?

I despair of the Labour Party these days. Miliband is the worst leader I can remember, an absolute disaster. Balls, well, it's had to believe he's an adult, yet alone someone who is supposed to understand political economy. Then there's that horrendous, amoral, cynical relic Harriet Harman. And what of the relatively new blood? A woefully out-of-his-depth lisping, languid, lolloping would-be posh pretty boy Tristram Hunt (an unpursued escapee, surely, from an episode of Ripping Yarns) and the most chillingly robotic politician I've ever seen, Chuka Ummuna (who looks as if he ought to be pursuing humans on the set of Westworld). They might as well let the unions resume control of the party - at least then it might have some purpose, and a few MPs who actually have some authentic connection with ordinary people.

Pru wrote:
I despair of the Labour Party these days. Miliband is the worst leader I can remember, an absolute disaster. Balls, well, it's had to believe he's an adult, yet alone someone who is supposed to understand political economy.


... and if you think Theresa May is bad, remember the alternative is Balls' wife Yvette Cooper !

In The Know (as always) wrote:
Pru wrote:
I despair of the Labour Party these days. Miliband is the worst leader I can remember, an absolute disaster. Balls, well, it's had to believe he's an adult, yet alone someone who is supposed to understand political economy.


... and if you think Theresa May is bad, remember the alternative is Balls' wife Yvette Cooper !

I believe their kids have kept her surname...I wonder why?

Pattaya wrote:
In The Know (as always) wrote:
honey!oh sugar sugar. wrote:
Why is it too late? They are flogging a dead horse.

With ONLY 211 days to the next election they are trying to convince the electorate (stop laughing !!!!!) that they are competent to form the next government !

Hardly shows any competence when you have to admit you chose the wrong leader and it took you about four years to realise it !

William Hague?


Ian Duncan Smith is best forgotten too.

honey!oh sugar sugar. wrote:
Pattaya wrote:
In The Know (as always) wrote:
honey!oh sugar sugar. wrote:
Why is it too late? They are flogging a dead horse.

With ONLY 211 days to the next election they are trying to convince the electorate (stop laughing !!!!!) that they are competent to form the next government !

Hardly shows any competence when you have to admit you chose the wrong leader and it took you about four years to realise it !

William Hague?


Ian Duncan Smith is best forgotten too.

True Honey,but he only lasted 2 years,we had the dreadful Hague for 4....hence why I enlightened the post with that knowledge

Pattaya wrote:
In The Know (as always) wrote:
Pru wrote:
I despair of the Labour Party these days. Miliband is the worst leader I can remember, an absolute disaster. Balls, well, it's had to believe he's an adult, yet alone someone who is supposed to understand political economy.


... and if you think Theresa May is bad, remember the alternative is Balls' wife Yvette Cooper !

I believe their kids have kept her surname...I wonder why?

One is called Ophelia...

Kenneth Mintcake wrote:
Pattaya wrote:
In The Know (as always) wrote:
Pru wrote:
I despair of the Labour Party these days. Miliband is the worst leader I can remember, an absolute disaster. Balls, well, it's had to believe he's an adult, yet alone someone who is supposed to understand political economy.


... and if you think Theresa May is bad, remember the alternative is Balls' wife Yvette Cooper !

I believe their kids have kept her surname...I wonder why?

One is called Ophelia...

Kenneth Mintcake wrote:
Pattaya wrote:
In The Know (as always) wrote:
Pru wrote:
I despair of the Labour Party these days. Miliband is the worst leader I can remember, an absolute disaster. Balls, well, it's had to believe he's an adult, yet alone someone who is supposed to understand political economy.


... and if you think Theresa May is bad, remember the alternative is Balls' wife Yvette Cooper !

I believe their kids have kept her surname...I wonder why?

One is called Ophelia...

Pity ... Ophelia Balls-Up has a ring to it, don't you think ?

Will go down well at the local council estate school ?

In The Know (as always) wrote:


David would of been a top banana for the Labour Party.

[quote]In The Know (as always) wrote:



The rumours have started, honey!

Andy Burnham is preparing a bid for the leadership if (when !) Silliband fails (in 209 days time)

BUT ... other rumours say a faction is trying to persuade former Home Secretary 'smiling' Alan Johnston to "oust" Silliband right now (I suppose they are working on the principle that someone who smiles and does nothing else may be slightly more palatable to the electorate than someone who talks through his nose?)!

I'm one of those who has always felt Alan Johnson would have been a far better leader than Gordon Brown - let alone all the others.

In The Know (as always) wrote:
[quote]In The Know (as always) wrote:



The rumours have started, honey!

Andy Burnham is preparing a bid for the leadership if (when !) Silliband fails (in 209 days time)

BUT ... other rumours say a faction is trying to persuade former Home Secretary 'smiling' Alan Johnston to "oust" Silliband right now (I suppose they are working on the principle that someone who smiles and does nothing else may be slightly more palatable to the electorate than someone who talks through his nose?)!

I think Alan Johnston should take over today. Milliband will be forgotten by Monday.