John McTernan, John Rentoul, David Aaronovitch, Oliver Kamm if he is still going somewhere behind the Murdoch paywall (who knows, or cares?), and others besides: not just the Opposition party, but the Opposition faction within it, rather as if members of the International Marxist Group had had the run of Fleet Street back in the day.
Like the devotees of Tony Blair, Margaret Thatcher or Winston Churchill, the partisans of David Miliband are oblivious to mere facts, such as his brother's consistent poll lead, or the impending transformation of a three-way marginal into a safe Labour seat, or the fact that block votes were long ago abolished in Labour Leadership Elections by a man whose name must never be spoken in their hearing, or the reality that the affiliated section of Labour's Electoral College is by far the most extensive consultation of the general electorate in the election of any Party Leader. Away with these people.
And how much longer is a party of government to be exempt from an important form of scrutiny? No Lib Dem has a Fleet Street column. There is room for Charles Kennedy, Simon Hughes, Sir Menzies Campbell, Susan Kramer, Evan Harris, Olly Grender, Paddy Ashdown, Mark Oaten and others. Really, every national newspaper should have a resident Lib Dem. I repeat that this is because they need the scrutiny. Why don't they already have it?
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