Should Ed Miliband stay?

[Mad Cyril]

No, sadly an easy target for the Tory redtops.

Don't paint him as some sort of victim.

He was arrogant enough to think an Oxford degree and a fancy internship entitled him to run a country and equipped him with the skills to do so.

He was then ruthless enough to make sure he got the leadership when the time came.

Unfortunately he has been found lacking and is quite rightly out on his arse and thank God Ed Balls has joined him.

Labour need a ruthless purge of the dead wood and to install some fresh thinkers.

 

[Another Surrey Shrimper]

His work around the Hillsborough disaster and getting documents released and inquiries, etc, has been excellent.

As Barna says Chuka Umunna or Yvette Cooper now seem to be considered at similar odds to Burnham as well. Interesting that bookies are giving odds of around 20/1 for David Miliband but that must be highly unlikely.

Well done for knowing what you are talking about and sharing it here.

 

[Another Surrey Shrimper]

True but the lost seats were in Scotland where voter numbers are smaller so a lost seat there is less of an impact on the share of the overall vote (over 45m)

Conservative, Labour and UKIP all had an increased % of the vote at the expense of the Lib Dems.

 

[Benfleet A1]

I think that Chukka Umunna would be the perfect replacement. Get him early so the electorate can see what an arrogant, self serving ****** he really is. I've never made a secret of my contempt for Milliband, but at least have the decency to wait for him to announce his resignation before assembling a campaign team.

 

[RHB]

I think that Chukka Umunna would be the perfect replacement. Get him early so the electorate can see what an arrogant, self serving ****** he really is. I've never made a secret of my contempt for Milliband, but at least have the decency to wait for him to announce his resignation before assembling a campaign team.

I don't always agree with your political analysis, but I think I do on this one. I don't know whether your description of his character is accurate, but those occasions that I have seen him in action makes me think he is not (yet?) the right person to take over the leadership. Very ambitious fella, I think.