Sunday, May 25, 2008
Miliband confides ambitions to friends
Sunday Times: David Miliband is ready to save new Labour
It seems a shame that Miliband's so called friends are unable to keep close to their chest the secrets of David Miliband who according to this article has said he is ready to take the top job if Gordon Brown steps aside. At a time when senior Labour insiders claim that half the cabinet have concluded they will not win the next election under Brown, one of those who has lost faith is one of Brown's closest allies, Alistair Darling. My own view is that the title of the article from the Times is wrong and it should be, "Miliband, ready to build a New Labour". The current New Labour has been a dismal failure that has been plagued by spin and has always suffered from a Cabinet that were weak.
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1. enuii said...
How long do you have to be PM to collect a full Prime Ministers Pension?
2. Cheekie Charlie said...
Arrogant: Making claims or pretensions to superior importance or rights; overbearingly assuming; insolently proud: an arrogant public official.(Mr Miliband).
3. montesquieu said...
The changed planning regulations were introduced under Prescott weren't they?
Another towering New Labour genius ....
4. montesquieu said...
sorry published under wrong article!
5. alan said...
David Miliband may be smart, but does he know there is no "I" in TEAM?
One of New Labour's biggest flaws seems to be the inability to get on with one another and support the leader.
6. hpwatcher said...
If a man more out for himself exists, then I have to hear about them.
Miliband is devious and the only person he is interested in helping is himself.
7. markj69 str05 said...
@hpw - I beleive you've just described most politicians.
8. uncle tom said...
I suspect Miliband is seeding these stories himself; I don't think he is a serious contender, and he'd be an idiot to actually take on the job at this time.
More likely is that he wants to be the next party leader after the election defeat.
Portillo played a similar game in the mid nineties, but then lost his own seat in '97
My logic says that if GB stands down or gets kicked out (IF..) the most likely successor is someone who will be content to have his time as PM before losing the next election, and trundling off to the Lords..
..step forward Jack Straw..
9. japanese uncle said...
David Cameron is not good enough to cope with David Karloff. Bring Doris Karloff (aka Ann Widecombe) to cope with this challenge.
10. Jimmythy said...
David Miliband is not old enough to be prime minister! It is ridiculous, he is only 14.
11. quiet guy said...
@enuii
"How long do you have to be PM to collect a full Prime Ministers Pension?"
No sure but I don't think Brown will be short of a bob or two:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article598118.ece
12. enuii said...
Strewth Quiet Guy: From Nov 2005 figures:- 'Leading the country would immediately entitle him to an additional index-linked annual pension of £62,418. The Prudential, one of Britain’s leading annuities providers, would require a payment of £3.13 million to provide a pension that big.'
Well if you want to retire early with a nice fat pension being the PM for a week or two is well worth being unpopular.
13. Mytimeisnigh said...
The economy is about to go from bad to worse, throughout these troubled times are we going to witness back stabbing followed by more back stabbing, What they don't realise yet is that it was their blind ignorance that drove us to this point and a new face and hair cut following the same f*cked up agenda ain't gonna change a thing. Dastardly and Muttley come to mind with the ever elusive pigeon in the distance. Catch the pigeon, catch the pigeon, then give me a medal.
14. titaniccaptain said...
All polytishans (my new word) including prime sinisters (Also my new word on this lovely hang over) should be made to have a state pension at the lowest rate as an incentive to do a good job or else they are proving that they are there to line their own pockets. Also they should be made to stay in a state retirement home and have to sell the family home like everyone else who is forced to put their loved ones into care........Does anyone here believe that the likes of Blair/Brown/Darling/Cameron/Osbourne (not Ozzy)/Kennedy (Not JFK)/Nick Clegg or anyone else in british politics would sign up for such a proposal?????? The answer is no......and I may seem radical by suggesting it but It would really make things more real.......you would no longer have polytishans (actually the new word sounds like a parrot sneezing) doing hypothetical politics. What I mean to say is that MPs and PMs would actually be in a situation where the decisions they make would also affect them for a change............Imagine a world where that would take place!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
15. titaniccaptain said...
And David Milkybar or whatever he is called is a wimp and I would of bullied him in school for fun
16. markj69 str05 said...
@titan11 - Couldn't agree more. Seems like a little accountability wouldn't go amiss! All the way to the top too.
If old Brownie had to raid his own pension pot to pay back the £2.7B recently borrowed, I bet he would have had differrent views on the 10p tax change.