Ed Miliband’s last-minute holiday to Ibiza was hardly the way in which the former Labour leader had envisaged spending the week after the election. Still, a week on the party island with his wife Justine is hardly a bad way to commiserate his failure at the polls.
Now he is on his way back to the UK to face Labour’s comedown. The Morning Star have published a photo of Miliband on a flight back to the UK. One Jack Forrester spotted Miliband and claims that Ed and Justine had some of the worst seats on the plane:
With all the wannabe Labour leaders taking it in turns over the past week to stick the knife into Labour under Miliband’s leadership, Mr S suspects Red Ed may wish he had extended his holiday until the nominees are decided in June.
Query: what kind of electoral landslide is it when most of the electorate doesn’t turn up? Not quite a landslide, I’d say – more the shifting of shingle. To put it another way, in the Irish presidential election, fewer than half of voters turned out (45.8 per cent). Three in four electors did not vote
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