Miliband

It is said by those who know a lot more about these things than I do that Miliband has had a good couple of weeks over the News of the World scandal. He may have done but Cameron has come back positively and I doubt whether in three or four weeks time many will remember how good or bad Miliband has been since I have to say I do not rate him as a winner. There is something about his persona which is not exactly unattractive in the way Kinnock was unattractive but is unattractive nonetheless. There is that air of superiority and weakness about him which is off-putting. He also comes across as two faced. He must have known whilst he was a Minister that Brown was as nutty as a fruit cake and yet he was prepared to support him and the awful people such as McBride and Whelan that Brown had gathered around him. He complains about Coulson and yet has appointed Tom Baldwin as his communications director who, like Coulson, comes from the Murdoch stable. Baldwin is a nasty piece of work being instrumental in the effort of the Times to discredit Lord Ashcroft. I feel sure that more about Baldwin and also about Miliband is going to come to light and that it will be of a much more embarrassing nature than the fact that Cameron invited Coulson to Chequers two months after Coulson had resigned. The BBC and the Guardian are trying to kick up a storm about this but they should be careful - it will rebound on them and when it does those of us who have been appalled by their behaviour will have the last laugh.