Miliband approaches the point of no return

J H Holloway

Interesting. Still, it suggests that Milipede could prevent a massive Labour wipe-out. It seems the country has (rightly) turned against Brown himself.

Mike, Brighton

Do the math:
Brown + Labour = Electoral Meltdown

Millibland + Labour = Electoral Catastrophe

So the problem in Labour, the leader merely compounds the problem.

Surely Labour's worst nightmare is to go through the pain, divisiveness and appalling PR of removing Brown to replace him with (say) Millibland.
For the polls to barely move yet the election has now been brought forward by a year (or more)

Faceless Bureaucrat

Milipede, Harpic, Purnell, Cruddas - all irrelevant.

It's over for Labour, whoever is at the helm...

TrevorH

Just how would Milliband prevent a Labour wipe out?

Is he going to conjour up benign economic circumstances?

Milliband is an empty vessel - a state-ist marxist empty vessel. He like ALL of Labour stood by and applauded all the way through Browns ministrations as Chancellor, which have now been shown to be useless.

Lets be clear - if Milliband succeeds in his ambitions then all we will get from him is spin - plus surrender to the EU. The marxist Milliband family hate everything Britain stands for.

JR

To repeat what I commented on Peter's post:

"The fact Brown will dither is actually a significant opportunity for Milliband or someone else to position themselves as a friend to the voter and enemy to Brown. Given the deep seated hatred of Brown among the electorate there is a possibility of a figure (or movement) within the Labour party to upsurp Cameron as the 'opposition'.Coupled with a bold, almost reckless, set of policies on becoming PM (e.g. free prescriptions, tax on £250ks to fund increase in personal allowances, windfall tax on energy companies, free childcare for all etc) it could pull them back to respectability - and a snap election could then give them a fighting chance of a hung parliament."

I don't think Milliband is the man to do it - but a combination of Milliband and Johnson (with Johnson taking DPM and doing lots of media) - I could just about see it.

Fergus Pickering

It's OK folks. This man is not the man to bother David Cameron. This is the poor man's Obama. I gather your average voter thinks he IS Obama, same haircut, same light brown complexion, same patronising bullshit, same discomfort among ther poor. He's gratifyingly useless.

Carrie

I wonder who are Milbands supporters?

Tel, Spain

Ed Balls is the man to watch now, his next move will be telling. If it comes down to a Miliband V Balls contest civil war will break out inside the Labour party......hold on tight it's gonna get interesting!!

David C

The worst nightmare for Labour would be to repeat (albeit on a smaller scale)
the mistake Brown made last Autumn.
The aborted ‘election-that-never-was’, lead to the events that convinced the public that Brown was not fit to govern.
For Labour to set in motion a leadership challenge, yet lack the courage to carry it through, would leave an already frustrated and deeply sceptical electorate with no other impression than Labour itself is no longer fit to govern.

Harman and Milliband, together with the background noise from the PLP, have started the process that leads to the removal of Brown; the survival of the Party will be decided if they succeed or fail.

Nothing like pressure, is there?

Miliband for PM???

Tnak God for the BBC iplayer!

Frank Pulley

I just don't want this ugly, self-regarding little greenhouse-raised Marxist representing my country as Foreign Secretary (albeit as Mollocks-Brown's puppet), never mind as Prime Minister. As for anyone who thinks that he did "quite well" on the Jeremy Whine show, they really shouldn't be writing for this magazine; it was puerile, LSE text-book political prattle and if Brown had any balls other than Ed, David Milibollocks would be sacked today. However, instead the BBC gives him a two hour political broadcast to launch his bid, aided and abetted by Jewermy, with a filtration process that shielded him from some really shitty questions that should have been forthcoming and weren't. Ye Gods!

kiffa

On that show, only one caller got through: an extremely angry working class lady who told him that Labour couldn't run a bath! It was classic.
The BBC pro-Labour filtration process is a disgrace: it is time we turned our fire on that institution, as well