The only Milliband I want to hear about is the Steve Miller Band

I was quite enjoying following the Labour party Leadership contest.

The sibling rivalry, familial and of the old Brown & Blair camps... Ed Balls and David Milliband provided the hypocrisy that is necessary in any political campaign today: Both have told us we were wrong to go to war despite supporting it whole-heartedly at the time...both told us they towed the line because it was important to line up behind President Blair... and then both, in the first breath they uttered to tell us why they should be the next labout leader, told us they were their own men and stood firmly behind their principles. Hypocrisy is hopefully high on both of their lists of principles!

Ed Milliband, in a bid to distance himself from the Blairite new Labour crowd, tried to take the moral high ground by claiming he played no part in going to war as he was not an MP then. Unfortunately he forgot to mention that he was a key advisor to Gordon Brown during those years and no doubt lent his opinion on the subject of Defence funding, if not in going to war!

Then their was Andy Burnham, who did a great job of proving to us all that he had neither the personality nor the presence, or gravitas, to win the campaign... anybody's lap dog, that's Andy Burnham!

And finally, there as Diane Abbott. My choice... if I was a Labour supporter... which I'm not... but still... Diane did have the moral high ground as she voted against the war and was generally never afraid to share her thoughts on New Labour and it's Leader... that man who ended up a multi-millionaire whilst doing a job that pays £164,000 p.a. You can't help wondering what the Labour Party would be like under Miss Abbott... but we'll quite probably never know.

So Ed won. We were all shocked... and confused... and we listened to all the polite speeches, and watched at the Labour conference where we heard them all rushing to line up behind the new leader in a united Labour... united except for David Milliband, who had decided not to server his brother as he had the support of most of the Labour Parliamentary party so didn't want them playing with his ball...

Is Labour united... can Ed hold the confidence of the Parliamentary party, and does he support the Unions? I'd say no on both counts. Time will tell as Mr Miller Band gets his feet under the desk... but I don't care. To be blunt I don't give a hoot! I've had so much of Bert and Ernie in the past few weeks that I don't care if I never see, or hear from them again.

It could be any party in power... all the Leaders look and sound the same... the collection is complete and Britain has become the first country to have a 3 party 1 party system. Yes, 3 parties fighting for the sacred 'middle-ground'. Ironically that used to be the Liberals' turf, but they are now the least likely to win it.

"Some people call me the space cowboy" - quite possibly, Ed.
"Some call me the gangster of love" - I doubt that, Ed.
"Some people call me Maurice, as I speak with the pompetous of Love" - No! You lost me there Ed. You could be A joker tho'... jut not the one I want to hear about from now on...