If Labour members really want to vote for Ed Miliband then bully for them. Quite why they think doing so would advance their prospects of regaining power is something that’s lost on me. But if they do want to plump for Miliband Minor then at least they should do so for the correct reasons and not on the back of an utterly bogus poll.
That’s the poll that “found” that 72% of “undecided” voters would be less likely to vote Labour if its new leader decided that New Labour was still a Good Thing. Ordinarily the Guardian likes to think of itself as a serious newspaper for serious people. Lord knows why they decided that this campaign poll deserved to be treated as an objective finding. Somehow one doubts that the paper would have reported a poll sponsored by, say, Imperial Tobacco quite so credulously.
Luckily for Ed Miliband he seems to have plenty of pals at the paper.
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