Of Course Labour Should Pick David Miliband. Who Else is There?

So, a “well-placed*” source tells the Guardian that while David Cameron would like Ed Miliband to be the next leader of the Labour party, he thinks the party would be best-advised to select Ed’s brother David. This news, scarcely earth-shattering to anyone who isn’t already a Labour party member (and obvious even to many of those that are) has Labour types suspecting some Deep Tory Game is Afoot.

Is this a bluff? Or a double bluff? Or a diversion? Or something else entirely? Both Sunny Hundal and Labour List’s Alex Smith took to their Twitter accounts to warn that this must be some devious Conservative plot. Rats are everywhere and leadership elections are especially prone to infestations.

Well, maybe. I’d say only this: David Miliband is manifestly the most impressive candidate in a mediocre field and Labour, if it wants to win elections rather than just feel good about itself, would be stupid to pick anyone else.