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Wednesday, September 14, 2011
According to a poll carried out for the Times, 47% of Labour supporters think that Ed Miliband will never become Prime Minister, with 22% strongly believing that he will never make it to Number 10.
Tell us something we didn't know, Ed - Ed Who? as I like to call him - has made no impact on the voters whatsoever, he hasn't even made much of an impact on his own party.
As politicians go he is possessed of that unique skill to make people stop listening. We've fast learned that he hasn't much to say, and that he'll say it with all the charisma of Mr Bean on sleeping tablets.
Labours lead in opinion polls comes in spite of Ed Who and his comatose style of leadership, not because of it.
ConDem's useless coalition is a boon to Labour in the opinion polls, with disaffected Liberals angry at Cleggs sellout to the Tories and puppet on a string position in the coalition, signalling their support for a Labour party that will forever wear the millstone of the Blair years around its neck.
Whether that will translate into votes for Labour should there be a general election is anyones guess, people will not quickly forget the ruinous decade of Labours misrule we just suffered.
What we really have are lame ducks from all three of the big parties - Climbdown Cameron, Clueless Clegg, and Ed Who?
The coalition has failed, with the Liberal Democrats now finding themselves facing decades trying to win back the core support they so keenly sold out to get their moment in office.
Cameron and the Conservatives have done a good job blaming every climbdown, weak policy, and coalition shortcoming, on the Liberals, but that act is wearing thin. Britain will not forget all those broken pledges any time soon.
Which leaves us with Labour and Ed Who?, picking up some support not because people really back them but rather because they're just aggrieved at the flop of a coalition that, far from fixing Britains ills, is going to add to the mess Labour made.
It's an interesting time, and a sad one. Voting - when people can be bothered to vote, apathy reigns - for Lib/Lab/Con now really comes down not to which will do the best for Britain, but rather for which might do the least damage or whichever one hasn't been in office and upset people most recently.
None of the big three have a thing to offer, their lacklustre leaders are fitting symbols for their parties as a whole.
Ed can take comfort at one thing though, and that's the fact that neither himself, Clegg, or Cameron are up to much.
Chin up Ed, you'll never make it to Number 10 it's true, but that's a blessing in disguise for you, obscurity is better than bumbling through a term in office and being remembered as yet another failure who wrecked Britain.
You're the lucky one. When - well, if - people remember your name, it will be with less anger than Clegg and Cameron will be remembered for their abysmal coalition of broken promises and betrayals of Britain.
Just another politician who got nowhere and faded away is a far better political legacy than that.
Labels: condem, Ed Miliband, Labour Party
