Seems that Ed has won!

[LeftishBrit]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11412031

Wasn't expecting this to be honest.

Let's hope that now the leadership race is over, they can get back to fighting the Tories.

And thanks, Harriet Harman, for holding the fort.

[miscsoc]

1. Excellent!

Rather shitty acceptance speech, though. It didn't look like he expected it either - he had a rabbit in the headlights look.

Surprised Abbott did so badly. Incidentally the BBC informed me that she was 57 earlier. She looks bloody good for 57.

[craigmatic]

2. Wow I thought for sure it would've been David

[Hopeless Romantic]

3. Congratulations to him but I predict that he will be a disaster

Labours Duncan-Smith I suspect.

[T_i_B]

4. I suspect that the ultra-Blairite wing of the party will see to that

I also don't think that Ed Miliband will turn out to be anything like as left wing as some people are portraying him. The "Red Ed" bullshit touted by the likes of Paul Staines is already getting very tiresome.

[oldironside]

5. New Labour is dead...

... which is a damned good thing, but Mr M must never forget that elections are won from the centre ground, unless you want to indulge in Rove type culture wars. My highest hope for him is that he gives us the Labour Party we thought we were getting in 1997.

[non sociopath skin]

6. I heard Ed Miliband speak a few weeks ago ...

... and was quite impressed with him. I suspect that the only reason he's branded as a "lefty" is because, thanks to Murdoch, Blair and the other usual suspects, the public political discourse has moved so far to the right.

Of course the right-wing press will go for him but let's not kid ourselves that Big Bro would have had much more of a honeymoon. Hopefully, the voters will judge by his words and his actions rather than by what his opponents think of him.

The Skin

[LeftishBrit]

8. Yes...

I don't think he's ultra-left at all. If anything, my reservations about him would be more that he may be a little too inclined to be 'all things to all people'.

But he certainly seems like a refreshing change from Blair etc.

[T_i_B]

7. Mrs Miliband to insist Ed lets David have a go at weekends

http://newsarse.com/2010/09/27/mrs-miliband-to-insist-ed-lets-david-have-a-go-at-weekends/

Mrs Miliband has told her son Ed that he needs to let his brother David have a go after he spent the whole weekend playing with the controls of his new Labour party.

Ed Miliband was voted the new leader of the Labour party by a tiny majority in a result sure to strike fear into the hearts of anyone in favour of the alternative voting system.

The result has already caused ructions in the Miliband household, with Mrs Miliband having to step in and take early action.

She said, “Yes, I know it’s Ed’s party, but if he was any sort of brother he’d let his brother have a go every now and then. I’ve told him as much and promised him his favourite for tea if he does so. David’s in a huff and is locked in his room listening to endless repeats of Nirvana’s Nevermind album.”

[non sociopath skin]

9. ROFLOL

:rofl:

The Skin

[Jeneral2885]

10. Now for him to revamp the DFID shadow team

I suggest that Douglas Alexander should go. He's done some wor, but I prefer the Clare Short/Hilary Benn type.