While we were away on holiday the Labour Party conference took place and the expected annointing of David Milliband as successor to Blair and torch-bearer for New Labour was party-pooped by his younger brother Ed, thanks largely to greater Union-block support. I've got mixed feelings about this. Ideologically I'm on Ed's side. He's hardly left-wing in the traditional sense but he leans that way at a time when I think a small dose of old-fashioned socialism is necessary to balance the ravenous old capitalist beast.
By the same token the Murdoch media machine will see Ed as a bit of a gift and get even more on his back. Shame to say, but in these shallow times when image is everything, his lisp and slightly 'foreign' appearance will be mercilessly played upon by the other side and the usual political wolves, bloggers and professional talking heads. Is he an electoral loser when his more safe-fit brother might not have been? I worry he just might be - the electorate are so gullable and the media so lazy and dumbed-down. I can almost hear Cameron and the Eton brigade sniggering in relief.
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