Labour MP attacks party's 'deafening silence' on policy

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2. Here's what gets me about the present attitudes to Labour

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I have no illusions. I've met Ed Miliband and like him but his capacity for political leadership is currently "not proven," to say the least. And there are still too many Blairites skulking around playing the same old "it's about doing capitalism better" tune on the same old fiddle, as the UK burns.

But is it my imagination or weren't we being told unanimously by the Great and Good (including the Labour panjandrums) after the last election that there was no way that Labour was going to be a political force again for a decade and that their strategy would have to be for 2020 because there was NO chance of a victory in 2015? And wasn't the coalition going to make that MORE likely? Likewise Miliband's "unfortunate" leadership victory?

But now it's doom and double-doom because, two years before 2015, they "only" have a consistent single-digit lead in the polls?

And what kind of a "roll" exactly is a government on when, two years in, no-one can remember the last time the lead party had a poll lead and the other is in a nose-dive?

As we say hereabouts, "hawway, man ...."

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