I've heard of party-infighting, but this was a classic, I don't know why the MSM didn't make more of it:
Geraldine Smith said Mr Miliband was "trying to stir up trouble" and should get on with his job, adding that if he was sacked he would return to being a "nonentity" on the backbenches.
Rather than being a non-entity at the Foreign Office, presumably.
Via Neil Craig, here's a delightful summary of The Millipede's non-achievements so far (scroll about half way down).
Tuesday 5 August 2008
"Foreign Secretary is a non-entity" says Labour MP
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A wonderful scroll of non-achievement. However, I think he's mistaken about the BBC and Brown. The BBC is both surprised (which shows how insensitive its political antennae are) and upset about Brown's complete failure as PM.
The BBC actually believed its own hype about the "genius" in No 11. Even now, Brown is given a free pass in respect of his gross mismangement of the UK's finances. Every time the parlous state of the UK's economic position comes up the BBC looks the other way and brings up "credit crunch", "US problems" and "cost of oil". Even so, in its desperation to salvage something from the Labour wreckage, the BBC is backing Miliband because he's the only one (so far) to put his head above the parapet. Had Alan Johnson (clearly not public school and Oxbridge) done the same the BBC would have thrown its free publicity at him.
The BBC had contempt for Hague and Davis, not because they have provincial accents or come from outside the charmed circle, but because they offered an alternative to the Islington approved agenda (particularly scepticism about the EU) as spouted by Blair. To the BBC's relief Cameron has become (or, rather, been confirmed) a fully paid-up member of the Guardianista tendency as have his team (with Letwin, Osborne and, now, Gove in the vanguard). It is the final page of "Animal Farm" come to life: the book which should permanently be the BBC's "Book at Bedtime".
Book at bedtime? Guaranteed f***ing nightmares, more like.
1984 is the ZanuLabour manual.
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