Lord Glasman's target is the other Ed

David Ossitt

"They worry that the shadow Chancellor is so obsessed with defending Labour’s record in office that he is drowning out what Miliband is trying to say about the future."

How wonderful.

toco

Ed Balls is a very unpleasant piece of work-his association with the Smeargate trio(McBride,Whelan and Dolly Draper) is no coincidence.As an aside perhaps given he and his spouse Yvette('don't call me precious')Cooper were journalists comes as no surprise to those of us who have endured years of Labour duplicity and spin.

Heartless Curmudgeon

Ah! neo-endogenous growth - or whatever the gibberish it was that NooLieBOre finance operatives spouted . . . how could we ever forget those heady days?

And the Great Economic Pretender, - that genius that brought us to where we are today! (I’m almost becoming emotional!) Any sign of arraigning the wretched creep and his coterie? . . . never forgetting of course, the Hero of the H2B!

Archibald

Glasman and his Blue Labour are about the only thing that can drag them into the 21st century. Perhaps Ed's praise for Thatcher in his conference speech was an indication he was listening to him more than some people would have us believe. I don't really see the fit though, Glasman is surely leaning more towards the Blair/Cameron centre, but unless Ed isn't that Red after all, something doesn't add up. David Miliband on the other hand... surely not New Year, new brother?

Tankus

funnier than the Morecambe and Wise reruns ..the saga of the two Eds .... best Tory poster boys ever , get more torys out voting over the whole country than the most popular tory MP.... by far !

Mal

Balls may well be a low life, but you do not have to shout very loud to drown out what Ed M has to say. It is Ed's weakness that gives Balls a voice. Bad for Labour, bad for the country and bad for a decent opposition.

fergus pickering

For the good of the country we must all support fat Balls in his splendid and necessary work. He MUST stay in post. Glasman needs to be destroyed. Do we have anything on him except that he wears funny glasses and looks like a rodent.

Cynic

‘Endogenous growth, flexible labour-market reform, free movement of labour, the dominance of the City of London — it was all crap, and we need to say so.’ Wouldn't it be more honest to admit that the whole of Labour's Brownomics during their 13 year disaster period was all crap? As it is, Labour (new, old, reconstituted or whatever) persists in pretending everything in the garden was lovely, they made no mistakes because it was the big boy (in the USA) who did it.

BigAl

This is just more Labour spin.

Dennis Churchill

The election of Miliband just showed how out of touch the Labour party was with the electorate.
Their problem is they seem to view the British people not only with more than a hint of distaste but as if they belonged to a foreign culture. Then maybe they do.

WetherspoonThree

As a purely academic pastime, continuing to speculate over the future of the Labour Party and its leadership, is of very limited value to the citizens of the UK.

Consider for a moment please, what the political and economic landscape of this country would have to like, to persuade the majority of voters of this fair country, in their desperation and despair, and with no other alternative, that they felt compelled to place their trust, once again, in a Labour government.

We would have had to have reached some sort of economic and social Armageddon and it would not be a place that I would wish to bequeath to my children and grandchildren.

So, please, no more sixth form debates about the make-up of the next Labour government. We are more likely to serve the current political discourse if we confine ourselves to considering the very serious challenges facing the current political leaders of our country.

REPay

Glasman is on to something - with Balls gone City regulation, the overspend and the Brown/Balls bust might edge further into history. Ten years of government and private debt fuelled boom followed by a bust they said would not happen. Balls should have retired quietly like Brown has done...

ButcombeMan

Glasman is right. The utterly odious Balls should never again be let near the economic seat of power.

Red Ed lacks the will, the political nous or frankly the "balls" to tell things as they are.

Labour will consequently, soldier on and fail.

Lee Jakeman

The Labour party is full of SHRIMPS - (Sanctimonious, Hypocritical, Righteously Indignant, Middle class Pr*cks). The only "Labour" they know anything about is the cheap, foreign kind, of which we now have millions of examples.

Sir Everard Digby

And Glasman has taken how long to work this out? Perhaps he and Ed should have conducted some further opinion polls amongst all voters,not just Labour ones.I think the results would clearly show how detested Balls is.

However,why am I surprised? The political classes never learn lessons and spend large volumes of time and money coming up with statements of the obvious like Glasman's,or the impenetrable,Like Ed's.

What we require is a political party which will act in the national interest first.

Judging by this turn of events, Labour are a million miles away from being that and moving further away all the time.

Boudicca

So what is Miliband if not an 'old face from the Brown era.'

Does Glassman really think we are so senile to forget that Miliband was Brown's bag carrier in The Treasury and a Minister in his Government?

Glassman is right in one respect: Labour won't win again whilst the failures of the last Government dominate the Shadow Front bench.

Percy

There's a Miliband project? And it has an intellectual! Wow!

Hexhamgeezer

I reckon if dave was a tory he would be planning a snap election early this year.
As opposed to fighting on a 'coalition' ticket in a couple of years' time.

Otherwise it barely matters if the ConLibs, Labs or LibLabs or ConLibLabs are in power.