With The Grain

It is a bad article generally, but someone has still managed to put this in the mouth of David Miliband:

"An 'English Parliament' is not the answer. We must strengthen the civic pride and economic resilience of English towns and cities. This is how the sense of identity, belonging and place of the many Englands can be better embedded and expressed. Labour needs to work with the grain of local and institutional affiliations - from army regiments to hospitals, from fire services to local authorities."

If the metro-Marxist dynast had understood this, then he would never have put his name to it. Just as well that he didn't understand it, then. But who wrote it? How did anyone with such views, however well-disguised, ever make it to the position of writing David Miliband's Leadership pitch in the New Statesman? Well done.