Oh dear. I know Neil Kinnock is trying to rally the troops and all that but, really, I don’t think this is terribly helpful. Of Ed Miliband and his little speech:
“It was magnificent and I will never be able to praise him enough,” the peer told a packed hall.
Ooops. The young voters of today probably have little to no recollection of Neil Kinnock*, but this is a little like receiving an endorsement from Jimmy Carter**. Except that Carter actually won.“A trade union delegate leaned over and said ‘Neil, we’ve got our party back’. I thought that was so accurate as an instantaneous response to the leader’s speech.”
As for Red Ed, for all the talk that he’s not as left-wing as the Daily Mail would have one believe one can’t help but notice that the Proper Left (as distinguished from the Loony Left) seem to consider him, to dig-up an old phrase, “One of Us”.
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