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A return of Miliband (Major) or even Blair !

  http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/may/12/labour-shelves-plans-to-complete-leadership-election-by-summer-union-levt-payers Labour shelves plans to complete leadership election by summer        A tactic probably engineered by the "party right" to gain some time to organise a by election in some safe Labour seat (if there is one) and parachute in Miliband Major, or even worse, the warmonger Blair, in order to have their man eligible to be nominated. Pay no attention to the "requested by the Union leaders" nonsense. There are those in the Labour party determined to have a "Blairite" as leader and will stoop to any dubious tactic in order to achieve that outcome.

Blair and Mandellson offer their "advice and guidance"

  http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/may/10/labour-soul-searching-modernisers-attack-miliband-mistakes Ed Miliband lost the election because he ditched New Labour, says Tony Blair Blair and Mandellson The television and media, are full of speculation about who should be the next leader of the Labour Party. Blair and Mandellson have offered their "advice and guidance" and numerous Labour MP's have jumped in with their "Ed Miliband took us too far to the left" or "We lost our appeal to the middle ground" or some other combination of the same theme. Joining these MP's  and the Blair Mandellson combination, are the usual suspects from the BBC and Sky television news who's questions to pundits, journalists or the casual passer by, are even more loaded than the planted questions in the House of Commons every week during Questions to the Prime Minister. The icing on this particular cake of course is the almost hysterical barrage o...