http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jeremy-corbyn-tony-blair-labour-leadership-win-general-election-comres-poll-a7363306.html Labour would have a better chance of winning if Tony Blair came back as leader. The Independent exceeds even its own standard of truth distortion. As a "newspaper" (even an exclusively on line version because it did not sell on the news stands) the Independent is famous for manufacturing "facts" and producing concocted "opinion polls" to suit whichever line of rubbish it is currently peddling. This week, it is Blair. Last week it was Milliband Major who the Independent sought to promote as the saviour of the British people. Blair, the hypocritical war monger, exposed (eventually) in the Chilcot report as a puppet of Bush and the American neocons, would never be trusted to run a whelk stall let alone have another stint at destroying this country. They say that in war, truth is the first vic...
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http://www.jeremyforlabour.com/open_letter_from_2015_labour_candidates Open letter from 2015 Labour candidates Leadership candidates Support for Jeremy Corbyn to be the next leader of the Labour party grows by the hour. The media and television are petrified at this prospect and are indulging in a vitriolic and noxious campaign of smear, innuendo and hysterical scare tactics in an attempt to influence the party members to vote for an alternative candidate. In this nasty negative agitation, they are aided and abetted by some current Labour MP's and former party members such as Blair, David Milliband and Man dellson, who seem determined to vilify the only candidate proposing a real alternative to their tired old policies. The growing number of ordinary people joining or rejoining the Labour party indicates that Jeremy Corbyn has struck a chord with people across the country. This open letter from some of the 2015 candidates adds support and another perspec...
http://news.sky.com/story/1524306/david-miliband-backs-leader-with-new-ideas The former Foreign Secretary appeals to Labour not to vote for Jeremy Corbyn. Former Foreign Secretary David Miliband Milliband Major emerges from his self inflicted exile in New York as President and CEO of the International Rescue Committee to reveal to the waiting throng how he believes that the Labour party needs "new ideas" and drops the broadest hint that members should vote for Liz Kendal, the Blairite candidate. Now there is a surprise. Liz Kendall; Trailing in 4th place in the leadership race. Milliband Major's thinly veiled criticism if not hostility towards Jeremy Corbyn should also not surprise anyone, who will remember how this Blair camp follower and sycophantic admirer of the "Blair legacy" was rejected by Labour in favour of his brother Milliband Minor. The elder of the two, never really came to terms with his loss and stalked off ...
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/07/02/david-miliband-development-spending_n_5550533.html?ref=topbar David Miliband Praises David Cameron For 'Sticking To His Guns' The brothers Miliband. Milliband major and Miliband minor, both support Tory policies in many areas. The Labour party chose minor instead of major, but it doesn't really matter as either would have made little difference. When it comes to political choice in this country there is not much to choose between any of the parties. All offer essentially the same programme with only small variation at the margin.
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/feb/16/flood-area-defences-funding-cuts Flood area defences put on hold by government funding cuts David Cameron visiting a flood-hit area Has anyone ever thought that the spending cuts have not contributed to the present disastrous conditions in the Thames Valley or the Somerset levels, or any of the numerous other locations around the country? Successive governments, but predominately this current ConDem coalition disaster, save £millions with their budget cuts, and it costs the country £billions in flood damage, farming losses and disruption to travel and transport with a huge repair bill to come. It has also resulted in immeasurable hardship and suffering for thousands of people who have seen considerable damage, or even complete destruction of their homes and businesses, the loss of sometimes irreplaceable possessions and disruption of their lives for months if not years to come. Funding cuts for essential s...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/10630499/David-Cameron-warns-flooding-victims-they-are-in-for-long-haul.html More storms bring flooding threat to Home Counties and London Village of Moorland in Somerset Disregard all the rhetoric, finger pointing, mud slinging blame game nonsense. Forget the photo opportunity tours by Cameron, Smith, Clegg, Patterson (Pre op version), Hammond and the rest and today to be joined by Miliband and no doubt others to follow, all designed more for PR than solution. The bottom line to all this rhetoric, comment and hand wringing "sympathy, is a simple one. It will be stated by people standing up to their thighs in flood water outside their homes, It will be repeated by Environmental Agency workers as they continue the battle against ever rising water levels laying sand bags and fitting pumps where the rivers should be. It will be stated by railway workers as they try to repair sto...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/order-order--is-it-time-to-bring-rowdy-mps-into-line-and-reform-pmqs-9027619.html Is it time to bring rowdy MPs into line and reform PMQs? Controlling the mob? I have long been critical of the weekly circus of "Yaboo" politics so loved and commented upon by the media pundits of television and press. "The Prime minister was clearly left reeling after heavy blows were landed from the opposition benches" or some other cliche ridden rubbish from BBC News or Sky News or some other media commentators, frequently dominate the political news "reports", and are as meaningless as they are banal. (http://new-agenda2012.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/the-weekly-visit-to-kintergarden.html) It is not only during Questions to the Prime Minister that this playground behaviour of trading insults and shouting banalities across the chamber of the House of Commons is put on public disp...
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/03/27/david-milibands-resignation-tories-_n_2961783.html?utm_hp_ref=uk David Miliband's Resignation Signals Labour 'Lurch To The Left', Claim Tories The Milliband brothers. Conservative MPs have seized on David Miliband's decision to quit parliament as evidence the Labour Party is "lurching to the left" under the leadership of his brother. (Huffington Post 28th March 2013) Tory bigots doing what Tory bigots always do when seeking to divert attention away from their own incompetence and ineptitude. The "reds under the bed" cliches have been around for decades and are as shallow now as they have always been. Moreover they are fallacious and puerile in suggesting that Labour has "lurched to the left". If that were the case, the party membership would have increased by thousands overnight as all those disillusioned activists who have left the Labour party in droves since 1990 and ...
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/03/26/david-miliband-resigns_n_2958259.html?1364332630&utm_hp_ref=uk David Miliband Resigns: Former Foreign Secretary To Step Down As MP To Take Job At 'Top Charity' In New York David Milliband. From the general tone of this article, ( David Miliband Resigns:), the hyperbole ridden “Tweets” and a significant number of the contributions in the comments section, readers could be excused for believing that a great catastrophe has befallen the country generally and the Labour Party in particular. It will come as no surprise to anyone reading my contributions, either on Huffington Post or here on the pages of this Blog, that I do not share the gloom at the prospect of political life without the presence of Milliband major. The “Blairite” faction of the Labour party has lost another, perhaps the only remaining rallying point, for those awaiting the return of a messiah to lead them back to “good ...
Questions to the Prime Minister. Ed Milliband David Cameron Questions to the Prime Minister. The weekly excursion into the world of “Yaboo” politics where each side of the House of Commons can indulge themselves in mindless baying and snide remarks from one side, no doubt shouted in order to provoke reaction from the other side or to draw the “referee” Mr. Speaker to intervene with “Order, Order” or a phrase that Mr Bercow has taken to using over recent years of “The honourable member should calm down”. Questions to the Prime Minister now demonstrates for around 30 minutes each Wednesday, everything that is wrong with British politics and why, generally, there is such disillusionment amongst many people in this country with the political structure. Scoring cheap political points or “landing blows” on your political opponents is not the way that we should expect our elected representatives to behave. In fact I would p...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/sep/08/labour-barack-obama-david-miliband David Milliband has re-entered the debate about how to put Labour back in government, warning his brother that he will not win the keys to Downing Street by disavowing New Labour, relying too much on working-class votes. David Milliband spouting the Blairite garbage which has already been exposed as self serving populist nonsense which betrayed the Labour Party previously. Labour must learn from history, reconnect with its roots and assume the traditional role of representing the people of this country in the face of ever increasing oppression from the Tory party and its Liberal Democrat allies. At a time of rising unemployment, a stagnating economy, cuts in social services, decimation of the NHS, punitive attacks on the sick and disabled, imposed by private companies getting very rich on handout contracts awarded by government, bankers greed and corrupt...