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With each passing day, Ed Miliband, Labour leader, shows a clear vision. His actions and speeches remain consistent. He has appointed his shadow cabinet today, allocating portfolios among those MPs who were elected to be part of this shadow cabinet, by their peers. His selection has been called surprising , because Yvette Cooper was widely tipped to be Shadow Chancellor, but has been made Shadow...
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It is clear to me that the focus remains on buying time. Ed Miliband will take Labour on a long route leftward , to eventually end up with New Labour again. These are the learnings from Labour's recent past. It is a pity they have been forgotten so soon. If you go left, the world will ever more strongly correct you going right. If you do not choose an alternative to New Labour consciously, that's...
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CNN World Report just talked about the contest for Labour leadership between David Miliband and Ed Miliband, speculating on the family angle and the sibling rivalry angle. As a Labour party member, I thought long and hard about whom I would choose for my second preference. My first was set on Diane Abbott, my last on Ed Balls, both for feminist reasons. I finally settled on David Miliband for sec...
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Two stories, one personal and one political, both together highlighting one theme. I recently ran into a tool on the Guardian website. It asks you a series of questions and then tells you which candidate for leadership of the UK's Labour party, you most closely follow. Turns out I most closely follow Ed Balls. By a good margin. A robust, double digit margin. This gentlemen is also the husband of...
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The British press has been singing to blazes over Tony Blair's memoir, 'A Journey', which came out yesterday. He hated Brown. Brown hated him. He does not regret taking the UK into the Iraq war. Does regret the fox hunting ban (Of all things). He was attracted to royalty. He was manipulated, and he in turn manipulated, royalty. He favors we continue New Labour. There are hints about him preferrin...
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