David Miliband quitting politics. Is Labour dead?

[Rascal]

It all has the smell of the '92 election to me. I just can't see business & media getting behind Labour again. 9/2 Tory majority looks massive to me.

You are aware that there is no know correlation between wanting something to happen and the likelihood of it actually happening,I take it?
If 9/2 is a massive price,then put your money where your wish fulfilment is.
I think you can get better than 9/2 on the exchanges if you shop around.

The best price on Fetters not being banned in May is 6/4 but i got 7/4 ante post

 

[dum spiro spero]

It all has the smell of the '92 election to me. I just can't see business & media getting behind Labour again. 9/2 Tory majority looks massive to me.

You are aware that there is no known correlation between wanting something to happen and the likelihood of it actually happening,I take it?
If 9/2 is a massive price,then put your money where your wish fulfilment is.
I think you can get better than 9/2 on the exchanges if you shop around.

Or a Labour majority at 5/4 is way too short if you like. Considering we have yet to see a single policy. Apart from spending the bankers bonuses on every single department to get a headline.

 

[nijinsky's fetlocks]

It all has the smell of the '92 election to me. I just can't see business & media getting behind Labour again. 9/2 Tory majority looks massive to me.

You are aware that there is no know correlation between wanting something to happen and the likelihood of it actually happening,I take it?
If 9/2 is a massive price,then put your money where your wish fulfilment is.
I think you can get better than 9/2 on the exchanges if you shop around.

The best price on Fetters not being banned in May is 6/4 but i got 7/4 ante post

That's a truly shocking price mate.
I was banned three times in fucking February,and that's the shortest month of the year.
I'll be permabanned long before May.

 

[ifiwasarichfan]

The blind leaving the blind.

Actually it is more of a case of the Bland leaving the Bland.

A Labour Government of any sort, Blairite or miltant would be preferable to this assortment of power hungry minority liberal apologists and their conservative masters, as snidy a bunch of I'm all right Jacks my Country has ever had the misfortune to come across.

Yet it could be worse. They could be led by an evil meglamaniac from Grantham.

Whichever Labour party we see next will still at the very least attempt to look after the weaker members of our society.

 

[Rascal]

I assume yoursecond paragraph was aimed at Tony Blair's tenure btw...

Neatly switched as i expected, a forensic mind and all that.

Personally i had no love of Blair as well you know as he took my beloved Labour party away from its Socialist roots in pursuit of power and Clegg has taken his party away from its Liberal roots in pursuit of power.

As the right becomes more extreme the only natural coalition should have been Socialists and Liberals but the Orange book extemists are more at home with the tory free marketeers than they ever will be with Labour.

I find it quite amazing that a party can have two people such as Laws and Cable whose views are so diametrical opposed can still function as a political entity. The SDP wing of the Liberals has much to answer for and should consider comng home to the Labour party in my opinion

 

[TheBlueDune]

Other brother might step up - Steve Milliband, but I heard might be a bit of a joker

Utterly wasted on this lot, fella!!

:D

One can but try

 

[Rascal]

The best price on Fetters not being banned in May is 6/4 but i got 7/4 ante post

That's a truly shocking price mate.
I was banned three times in fucking February,and that's the shortest month of the year.
I'll be permabanned long before May.[/quote]

Mod money from Singapore perhaps

I was 50/1 to get banned but recieved one and probably lots of mods and ITKs made a butty

Corrupt mate corrupt

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

I assume yoursecond paragraph was aimed at Tony Blair's tenure btw...

Neatly switched as i expected, a forensic mind and all that.

Personally i had no love of Blair as well you know as he took my beloved Labour party away from its Socialist roots in pursuit of power and Clegg has taken his party away from its Liberal roots in pursuit of power.

As the right becomes more extreme the only natural coalition should have been Socialists and Liberals but the Orange book extemists are more at home with the tory free marketeers than they ever will be with Labour.

I find it quite amazing that a party can have two people such as Laws and Cable whose views are so diametrical opposed can still function as a political entity. The SDP wing of the Liberals has much to answer for and should consider comng home to the Labour party in my opinion

I wouldn't describe my mind as forensic, so much as brilliant, as I'm sure you'll agree.

Every political party is a broad church:

Skinner and Mandleson.
Clarke and Tebbit.

Your attempt to distinguish the Liberals in this regard is intellectually dishonest. I wonder if the difference between Laws and Cable would have been quite so pronounced to you if the "Rainbow Coalition" had, in fact, been formed.

You sometimes display a pathological lack of empathy.

But it doesn't make me love you any less. In fact it makes me love you even more.

 

[Blue Mist]

I assume yoursecond paragraph was aimed at Tony Blair's tenure btw...

Neatly switched as i expected, a forensic mind and all that.

Personally i had no love of Blair as well you know as he took my beloved Labour party away from its Socialist roots in pursuit of power and Clegg has taken his party away from its Liberal roots in pursuit of power.

As the right becomes more extreme the only natural coalition should have been Socialists and Liberals but the Orange book extemists are more at home with the tory free marketeers than they ever will be with Labour.

I find it quite amazing that a party can have two people such as Laws and Cable whose views are so diametrical opposed can still function as a political entity. The SDP wing of the Liberals has much to answer for and should consider comng home to the Labour party in my opinion

Rasc, you are far more knowledgeable about politics but you seem suprised that politicians of any pursuasion want power at any cost. I grew up with Wilson-Benn- Castle- and whilst I didn't agree with what they stood for I respected the fact that they were committed. I don't think I could name one politician around today that believes in anything but lining there own pocket or being in power at any cost. I include all 3 major parties in this. Politics today is a sham.

 

[mackenzie]

I never really believe that any political animal truly 'steps away' particularly at the age of David Milliband.
I'm sure he will be willing to step up to the plate again if circumstances were such that he was assured of the party backing.