David Cameron never did win that overall majority. So he never did get to keep Peter Mandelson in the Cabinet, as had been publicly announced. Nor, as was also a matter of record, to restore James Purnell to Work and Pensions. But he has been able to appoint Purnell's ideas man, David Freud, to persecute the gravely ill when not restrained by valiant Peers of the Realm.
Alas, David Miliband never did become Leader of the Labour Party. So Freud is not in receipt of the Labour Whip while serving in this Government, as would have been the case if that had happened. Mandelson and Purnell would also have retained the Whip while serving in a Cameron Cabinet. A Cabinet which David Miliband would have attended.
Ed Miliband must stay. Or else the unions, the co-ops, and every Labour MP with ties to either or both, must secede.
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This party within the party should be expelled. Then many of us could become active again and many of you could rejoin. Only David Miliband's surname keeps him and his entourage from expulsion.
ReplyDeleteAs you have been pointing out elsewhere this week, not only are the failings of Ed Miliband lost on the voters, but Cameron's popularity with the media is because he is the leader of the Blairites. If the people who wanted David Miliband for Labour Leader love Dave so much, then why do people who would describe themselves as Tories? Mandelson, serving in Brown's Cabinet, announced as a matter of fact that he would be carrying on in Cameron's. Neither Brown nor Cameron corrected him. The presence of David Freud confirms what would have been the presence of James Purnell. Only the hung Parliament and the defeat of David Miliband saved us from this one party state that the media still wish to impose on us by bringing down Ed Miliband. Keep up the fight.
ReplyDeleteThat is the big problem with Ed, he is Satan's brother. The Masonic/Mormon lore about Jesus and Lucifer comes to mind.
ReplyDelete"Satan" is not far wide of the mark, considering that he is a torturer.
ReplyDeleteOne of the most pernicious things about the party within the Labour Party is that it includes most, possibly all, of the paid staff, certainly below a certain age.
Were it not for their employment, then they would have left the party when David Miliband was defeated, or even when Tony Blair gave up. As it is, they are the party machine, even using that machine in London to campaign for Boris Johnson.
Can't imagine who you might have in mind.
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