Miliband Junior

Well there you have it. Ed has won it. Even though their election system is somewhat undemocratic, even flawed, if that is the way the Labour Party wants to elect their leaders then so be it. It will though serve to remind the rest of us that the Labour Party does not believe in fairness (one member, one vote) but in elites, in the nomenklatura, like all fascist/communist parties. In other words like all parties of the left. We know little about Ed but will know too much about him shortly. Now he has taken the crown what kind of leader will he make? Probably more centrist than his rhetoric to date has led us to think but probably more of an attack dog than his brother would have been. Ed Balls, a fully certified attack dog, I am sure will be given an important position in Junior's team if the body language between the two Eds whilst they were watching the announcement of the voting results is anything to go by. The coalition I hope have done their homework and have an idea of how to handle Ed as opposed to David Miliband as leader of the opposition? The coalition will no doubt be put to the test in defending the decisions made to handle the deficit and I expect to be bored rigid being told again and again of the difference between debt and deficit and how the latter must be brought under control. As John Redwood says the coalition should also frequently remind us that the cuts are in the amount of the increases planned over the next five years not cuts in what is being spent out of our taxes today.