Burnham cries for help
David Blackburn 10:57am
At last! There’s a bit of British spunk about the Labour leadership contest. Andy
Burnham has accused his rivals of smearing him. The finger
of suspicion points at Ed Balls - given past form and his natural proclivities. Burnham and Balls are fighting for a similar constituency – both are running broadly ‘traditional’
tickets. Both are struggling. Balls has 5 Constituency Labour Party nominations to Burnham’s 8: the Milibands have 80 between them.
Balls’ team, staffed by the saintly Tom Watson and Charlie Whelan, probably is briefing against Burnham; and it was probably Balls who introduced the rumour that the Milibands were smearing one another. But equally, Burnham could be fishing for sympathy in an attempt to mobilise the devout anti-Balls vote. (I’m convinced that there is more to Burnham than Liverpool, his lachrymose eyes and an unhealthy obsession with Nye Bevan.) Either way, the contest has found some much needed fire; well, a flame at any rate.
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Swiss Bob
July 8th, 2010 11:14am Report this comment"the contest has found some much needed fire"
No more than could be put out by a drunken MP staggering out of one of the bars on the Parliamentary estate.
Austin Barry
July 8th, 2010 11:21am Report this commentThis seems like a reversal of Denis Healey's aphorism:
Balls, Whelan and Watson are savaging a dead sheep.
ollie
July 8th, 2010 12:12pm Report this commentI saw Burnham on This Week, and I was astonished by his total and complete lack of gravitas - and intelligence. I thought he was shrill, light, deeply partisan, and wholly out of his depth.
His tiresome - and utterly irrelevant - peddling of his background is the best he can do to attract supporters.
Saying that, the other candidates aren't any better either - but Burnham is a nothing person.
Magiric
July 8th, 2010 12:16pm Report this commentBurnham? I wish somebody would.
Yam Yam
July 8th, 2010 3:26pm Report this commentThis is the same Tom Watson who had the gall to accuse Michael Gove of being a 'pipsqueak'.
Ed P
July 8th, 2010 3:58pm Report this commentSo Burnham is obsessed with Bevan? Bevan was a disgusting & avid supporter of Stalin, even after his atrocities were common knowledge. This vile socialist is therefore ideal to lead Labour into electoral obscurity.
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