All That Miliband Has To Do

I understand that Ed Miliband is under attack from the intellectual titan that is George Osborne. Still, it is good to hear this Government admit, yet again, that it is Blairite to the core. Will its defenders ever take it at its word?

As for middle-earners in Middle England, it depends if you know what middle earnings are (most commentators think that the figure is about fifty grand, which it is not, and heaven knows what Osborne imagines it to be), and it depends where you think that Middle England is. Labour won hardly any seats in the South East outside London in 2005 and it still came out with a comfortable overall majority. That is simply not where General Elections are won and lost, as a matter of fact.

All that Miliband has to do is to beat electorally the least successful Party Leader ever to have become Prime Minister, and that was before he cut everything by a quarter, in the two-horse race that next year's local elections will demonstrate that we now have, since who on earth would still vote Lib Dem these days?