Guardian: Reports on the changes to the Labour Shadow Cabinet after the Labour Party Conference, the article states the perception within the Shadow Cabinet, “ ….expressed alarm at the frontbench names being floated…..seeking to fill it with Blairites who are not the people who supported him to become leader. ” After the disaster that was the Labour Party Conference the leader Ed Miliband had to something, his speech that stated that Labour once in power would say what was a good business and what was a bad business went down like a lead balloon. The Shadow Cabinet as a whole could not explain the policy, its allowed the centre right media to return to the view that Ed Miliband was “ Red ” Ed, the speech didn’t go down well on the street, of course Ed Miliband has another problem, most people still don’t know who he is, and when they do get it is a Miliband, they think its David Miliband the ex Foreign Secretary. This of course raises the fact that there is the perception that Ed Miliband stabbed his own brother in the back to get the Labour Leadership, something that is not going away folks. Then there is the problem that the Labour Party Conference booed the name of Tony Blair, the most successful Labour PM ever, and the very fact that Ed Miliband didn’t rebuke the Conference. If Labour is to win the next election it needs to return to New Labour or ditch its leader, one or the other folks.
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