Business as usual for Labour

The favourite sports of  the political classes were on display over the weekend including scapegoat hunting and muck spreading though nobody plays them more flamboyantly than Labour.

Express.

LABOUR erupted into a bitter war of words yesterday as rival factions clashed over the election of Ed Miliband as its new leader.

Lord Mandelson warned Mr Miliband not to reject the legacy of New Labour or face losing the next election.

He said: “It’s an insult to those people that worked for the Labour Party, who voted for the Labour Party, to say to them that they voted for something that was fraudulent, useless or didn’t deliver.”

 In this Mandelsnake is correct, Milliplonker E did help write the manifesto Labour fought upon, if he didn't believe it, he shouldn't have been involved.

At the same time, former Labour spin doctor Charlie Whelan blamed the party’s election defeat on Lord Mandelson and urged “annoying” David Miliband to “get a life” after his failed leadership battle.

Ed Miliband also came under attack from Peter Hyman, a former Downing Street adviser to Tony Blair, who accused him of “torpedoing” his brother’s career.

He said: “David was the man Cameron feared the unity candidate, the choice of most of the Labour Government’s Cabinet and a Prime Minister in waiting.”

I love the whiff of hypocrisy in the morning, Labour lost because England no longer believed they could be trusted to run the economy, simple as that.
Milliplonker E is only the leader because the unions wanted their man at the top to turn the Labour party back to the good old days of wildcat strike and wrecking the economy with exorbitant wage claims and petty grievances. Milliplonker D was tainted by the Blairite wing of the party and wouldn't let the unions come out to play, he at least knows what the price of that would be. Then again, it was always the unions who were going to pull the strings for the leadership, they own too much of the Labour party.
I don't think Cameron feared either of the Milliplonkers really, I suspect he fears the EUskeptics in the Tory ranks a hell of a lot more.