OK, this is getting even more hilarious - Peter Hitchens of the Mail (yes, another of the Oborne honest right-winger school) has blown the gaff on the Tory spin machine today about Miliband.
Read this and weep with laughter!
https://twitter.com/reddeviljp/status/484052405319786496/photo/1
I'm genuinely torn on this - I think the Greens damage the chances of a progressive majority in this country (as do Ukip for the right) but Lucas is such a fantastic MP. Purna Sen is her equal but will get swallowed up in the PLP whipping machine.
Peter Oborne is a conservative but a rare breed of one, one who writes honestly without partisan intent. Please read this http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/ed-miliband/10940839/Labours-much-maligned-leader-has-a-big-decision-to-make.html
Its indictment of the lobby profession is...
This fine piece by Stefan Stern is basically the last word on this anti-Miliband shite http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/01/ed-miliband-leader-labour-victory
The weight of attacks are bound to take some toll - but the idea that say, we elect someone like Cruddas as leader, and the Tory press are going to full about what a wonderful leader he is, well, politics in this country don't work like that and never will - as long as we have a majority Tory...
Labour left winger offering advice to a centrist Labour leader? Jeezus Buzzer is that the best you can do? You are aware there have been divisions like this in the Labour party since, oh I guess, 1906?
As for that Guardian piece, yes there is a second group apart from increasingly flustered...
The Tory press (and with the so-called left wing BBC taking cues from its agenda) have been trying to talk down Miliband for many, many months but guess what? The public ain't buying it, no matter how hard these paid shills try