Labour Knives Out For "loser" Red Ed....

[ToraToraTora]

So proclaims the Mail on it's front page. Is this just electioneering from the mail or does ED have a problem?

[jim360]

Possibly a bit of both. These headlines appear with alarming regularity, so even if the stories are exaggerated then there's probably still something in them. I don't think many people find Ed all that convincing.

[janbee]

Both I think TTT. Ed is not a leader, never was never will be. He was the wrong choice and he is the reason I left the Labour party after being a member since John Smith's days.

[bazwillrun]

http://www.nottinghampost.com/Boots-boss-says-electing-Ed-Miliband-catastrophe/story-25956247-detail/story.html

hardly rocket science, anybody with even half a brain knows this....just look at past labour governments

[ichkeria]

Electioneering
Part of the usual media campaign to make the Labour leader look unelectable
A view presumably not shared by the Tories or they would not be trying to wriggle out of the TV debate with him

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2934698/Labour-knives-loser-Red-Ed-Election-panic-grips-party-big-guns-turn-haunted-Miliband.html

[Zacs-Master]

Plus some doubt of his capabilities from the business sector:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/ed-miliband/11382303/Boots-boss-Ed-Miliband-would-be-a-catastrophe-for-Britain.html

[Gromit]

And Boris has been plotting to oust Cameron if he does not win the election, for years. Not to mention Theresa May.

Whoever loses the election will no longer be their party's leader for very long. So of course there is manoevring in the shadows by member of both parties. I am sire that if Miliband loses thenhe will qickly be removed and replaced. Ditto Cameron.

[Gromit]

The billionaire businessman Stefano Pessina should be safe from Ed's tyranny, living in his mansion in Monte Carlo.

[retrocop]

ichkeria
If Cameron is trying to wriggle out of a debate it is not Red Ed but Nigel Farage who he should fear. Farage can hold his own in any debate unlike Ed who can't even eat a bacon buttie.

[atalanta]

Bearing a strong resemblance to a cartoon character ( and a dim one, at that) has to be the kiss of death.

[Quizmonster]

Click http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/554510/George-Osborne-Gaffe-Hand-Cider-Farm for a picture of Osborne failing to react appropriately towards a bottle of cider...and making an exhibition of himself at the same time!
I'm sure if I sent an army of photographers to follow just about anyone around day after day, I'd get loads of pictures of him/her looking silly. Consequently, anyone who imagines a laughable bacon-buttie picture of Miliband is a valid political comment is being ridiculous.

[ichkeria]

"If Cameron is trying to wriggle out of a debate it is not Red Ed but Nigel Farage who he should fear. Farage can hold his own in any debate unlike Ed who can't even eat a bacon buttie."

It is Miliband, not Farage, that Cameron would face in a head-to-head debate. And your comment summarises very nicely, I believe, the reason why the Tories are reluctant to go with it:
namely, that it is far better for them to claim that inability to look suave and sophisticated while eating a bacon butty is the be-all and end-all of political leadership, or the ability to debate intelligently. Anything Ed does on TV would be bound, however, mildly, to give the lie to that

[Orderlimit]

He does seem to be leading Labour to defeat (keep him where he is).

[naomi24]

It might be electioneering - but then again it might be genuine concern among the ranks. Even the faithful, if they’re honest, must realise that Ed is not fit to lead the country.

[mikey4444]

The DM, having a pop at a Labour Leader...who would have thought it possible ?

[naomi24]

But Mikey .... they're not alone.

[agchristie]

Shades of Kinnock,PM for the taking,wrong leader at the wrong time....

[ichkeria]

Is there a link to an online version of this story?
I had a bit of a go at trying to find it, but, having navigated my way hurriedly past someone called Casey Batchelor and her enormous chest, all I could find was quite a good article about the predicted election strategies for the main parties

[naomi24]

AOG gave the link at 11:21.

[Farriercm]

David Mellor said on TV news this morning, that the cons have no chance of
winning the Election, and he is a con himself, WOW.
Can not wait for May, to see the cons as the opposition party = Enjoy.