The coronation of Ed Miliband? – politicalbetting.com
The coronation of Ed Miliband? – politicalbetting.com
Ed Miliband is trying to “position himself for a coronation” to replace Keir Starmer after the local elections – reports @DavidPBMaddox https://t.co/ZJbr3JLQ5J pic.twitter.com/JI5iwAwk2m
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He could at least tell the plastic patriot Farage to go fxck himself .
If Ed Miliband ends up as leader then Labour deserve to become extinct .
The key to a coronation is that no rival candidate has 81 nominees.
It still feels like that- and as long as supporters of Buggins don't want to risk Fuggins getting in, and vice versa, Muggins stays in place.
- does not want to be leader again after getting duffed up as LotO
- wants to be Chancellor, perhaps running domestic policy like Brown under Blair
- has held negotiations with Angela Rayner to that end
Of course, things have moved on since then, and if Rayner has cold feet, Andy Burnham is unavailable and Wes Streeting is on the wrong wing of the party, then perhaps Miliband is now up for it.Fortunately it is fairly small.
That's not to say he shouldn't be on our screens attracting NF as much as he can. Same goes for Burnham and the rest of them. One reason for all of this is that we have all let No 10 become the source and focus of everything, and then wondered why it keeps collapsing.
If Labour want a fresh start then I see no reason why Carns shouldn’t become leader .
The Court of History: Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz speak with Alastair Campbell about the King's visit to the USA. Campbell gets a nice Scottish uppercut in when they call Charles the "King of England".
(The introductions are a bit over-complimentary, but the conversation is wide-ranging and unalloyed.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPr-QsS3f0Q
A lack of coronation I think bad news for Ed Miliband and Andy Burnham, who isn’t an MP which for somebody who wants to be Prime Minister is a bit like a eunuch wanting to be a porn star.
Talking about eunuchs. How about Khan for the lols when he meets Trump.
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America 2026.
This is not AI
https://x.com/donwinslow/status/2047813826998075572?s=20
It is incredible that less than 2 years from a landslide victory talk is all about replacing another leader
I know not what labour will do but one thing is certain by mid may they either stick or twist
Why would you say Brown in 2007 and Sunak in 2022 were not proper coronations?
Miliband - Green Labour
Mahmood - Blue Labour
Streeting - New Labour
To be honest, I'm not convinced by any of them, but in terms of the marketplace of ideas, that's what's on the table.
They need someone who can ignore all that and deliver something sensible for 3 years. And frankly that’s why binning Starmer is quite risky - he does at least have a dogged survival instinct, if nothing else.
These things echo down the years.
Palantir software finding hundreds of corruption cases in the Met.
- it’s Palantir
- They are picking a first target where few people will complain
- Palantir will be selling that “if you let us lose on the whole countries data…”
Obvious ref. Person Of Interest - The Machine delivers the first actionable intelligence
https://youtu.be/jb6gJhsgj9c?t=118&si=5xei6QQKtNr-R-wy
Palantir want to build Samaritan
Switzerland seems to be a stronger jurisdiction.
My history is that in the 1990s I went for Fastmail (Australian), then Yahoo Mail, then I was early on Gmail when it was introduction only because it was more secure at that time. If I recall Gmail was partly because that had an option for access from a Desktop client.
Now I'm considering taking out US services where I can.
The language of Shakespeare evolves and needs no protection, apart from people misuse/incorrectly use/do not use apostrophes.
Maybe it will concentrate minds on opposing Reform rather than imitating them.
Yes, I realise it's utterly insane to think he could have returned under the circumstances but they might well have tried. After all, they were insane to elect Truss.
I think Johnson's withdrawal, even under pressure, means 2022 counts as a coronation.
Here is a citation from 1707:
Here the verb “coronate” and the past participle “coronated” mean something more like topped or furnished with a corona, as in this 1707 citation from a work about the flora and fauna of Jamaica: “A round purplish knob … coronated by a long membrane.”
Nuff said.
* https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2009/09/a-crowning-moment.html
And Ed Miliband has lost none of his ambition, and is popular with MPs and members too.
As much I loved him in Person of Interest and The Passion of the Christ sadly he's properly drank the MAGA/QAnon kool-aid, normally I can ignore the politics of actors etc, but struggle here.
If the next Labour leader is chosen in 2027/8, a lot more people enter the list of possibles. Whereas the clock is beginning to tick very loudly for the ambitions of Burnham, EdM, possibly even Ange.
I know... mad briefing driven by insane personal ambition... whodathunkit?
However I am concerned by your use of “eunuch”. Generally a eunuch is a man with his testicles removed, so he cannot impregnate ladies. It is quite possible to be a eunuch and have a penis and still “get it up” - ergo a eunuch COULD be a porn star, just a slightly odd one. Maybe his lack of cullions would be his USP - “meat and no veg”, something like that
Interestingly there doesn’t seem to be an English word for a man who has had the “clean cut” - tho the Chinese have one - “huanguan”. Perhaps PB can devise the right and fitting term
If they were the alternatives if I was Starmer I would stay put and refuse to go given I had led Labour to landslide victory in 2024 after 4 successive general election defeats. If Labour are second on seats and NEV in May to first placed Reform it would likely be Kemi going anyway not the PM
As for eunuchs, no money shots.
I love the sheer fecundity of the English language. A beautiful monster of a language that devours all the others, with barely a burp
One is a sort of formal, judicial one. Some aspect of Mandygate makes his position untenable. We end the week where we started it- some smoke, a gun, Hodges excited, but no smoking gun. Yet.
The other is the political herd. The cabinet gives up on him and says so. Stuff the rulebook, it's what did for Thatch and Boris. Could happen, but it requires the challengers to be at peace with not picking up the crown themselves. And that doesn't seem to be the situation. Yet.
Labour will get hammered for it.
They should stick by the leader they've got. Tell him to implement the manifesto instead of a load of stuff they never mentioned (jury abolition, digital ID etc.,) and concentrate on (a) housing (b) helping the young - student loans, for one thing and (c) trying to be vaguely competent and honest.
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Fiat. Fiat. Fiat
But they need to show a little more steel or no leader will be able to survive in the 24 hour news, social media fury age - we've not had a PM last more than just over 3 years for awhile, and whilst many deserved that, some of it seems to be down to how things just spiral and pressure never lets up in a way that was easier pre-internet.
** Sips her very good strong coffee while laughing quietly to herself **
Basically Labour are doing everything they possibly can to deliver a Reform government
In other news the FT has a new Saturday “lunch with” article today (where they lunch with a notable person and chat about the food and the notable person and their views: an oddly excellent format)
This weekend it’s Lord Chagos Hermer, the controversial Attorney General. The comments below the line are brutal and contemptuous of Hermer, so much so that one FT journalist tried to wade in and complain about the rage and hatred and change the tone, but he failed, and so they’ve closed comments completely. Before noon on the day of publication
And this is the FT! Not the Telegraph. The anger and disgust now directed at Labour is, I think, unprecedented
Initially I thought not being wedded would make him more able to take what works. But the truth is he has nothing guiding him. No curiosity. No interest.
He is completely stuck.
The loathing is off the dial. And if you’re angry about Labour there are now two viable alternatives - Reform and Greens (taking the role of the SNP when they destroyed Labour in Scotland)
This is a very bad place for the Labour Party. That poll showing them FIFTH in Wales might not be an outlier
I am now extremely confident he will go very soon.
It’s only taxpayers money after all
It doesn't ring true.
It isn't performatively cruel enough.
And there is the real thing available.
*That's a lie - I never believed they would smash the gangs.
Back after a somewhat emotional funeral yesterday; wife's best friend. Moving, non-religious ceremony.
On topic, why should losing an election once mean that a party leader can never lead their party into another election. Looking back, in my youth it was the norm. Churchill fought the 1950 election having comprehensively lost in 1945, and having lost again, tried a third time and won. Wilson won, lost, but won again.
But the damage is done and the perception is cemented. And the British people don’t just want the boats to stop, they want quite a lot of people already here to go away ASAFP
Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike,
Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike...
What evidence is there that he'd actually be any good at it ?
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