The New Campaign for Better Politics

SO Team Miliband has decided to offer the Labour party a real choice for its leadership election – Miliband or Miliband? Oh wait, Balls, I’ve forgotten Balls – though he might not yet stand!
As Ed’s foray into the contest was botched by a careless ‘tweeter’, David was seen rambling on about ‘brotherly love’ and how he wanted to ‘change’ things in his party as New Labour is no longer ‘new’ – in fact, it’s pretty old in his book.
Apparently, the reason why Labour wasn’t re-elected is because unlike the other two parties, it didn’t say the word ‘change’ enough – and that has got to change.
Well, if that’s a way of getting yourself elected, good luck. It’s better than using the word ‘hope’ all the time.
So, David is seen as the pro-New Labourite (ironically) who shackled himself to Government as he climbed the greasy pole while eating the infamous banana at conference to undermine Gorilla Gordon. Ed, on the other hand, is more hardcore with the left and has a ‘vision’ – and yes, it’s for ‘change’.
The real question is what choice the Labour party is being offered here – if any at all? Both are professional politicians with little other experience and are cut from the same cloth – like Mili-bland clones.
I may be wrong and there may be big differences between the two but I fear that with either of them at the helm, Labour could suffer and so can the country with no effective opposition party – which is what we need.
In opposition, you need bruising politicians with real life-experience to get across what folk – ie. the electorate – are really thinking in real life away from Westminster.
As David has noticed, Labour spectacularly failed in keeping in touch with what people wanted and was rightly punished on May 6.
People are fed up with bland professional politicians spouting Blairesque spin – and I do hope that the Conservatives and Lib Dems read this and take it on board too.
Because it they don’t, we might just end up with bland clones spouting ‘change’ and a fuming electorate.