tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732407426313451205.post6580660805361307814..comments2024-03-08T15:43:20.236+00:00Comments on Keynesian Liberal: David Miliband's departure: sacrfice or cynicism?Peter Wrigleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16481117156930677255noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732407426313451205.post-74483328449069322962013-03-29T07:15:18.626+00:002013-03-29T07:15:18.626+00:00You may be right. To quote Bill Keegan from last ...You may be right. To quote Bill Keegan from last Sunday's Observer, ". . . the general public is gullible enough to accept indefinitely the misleading propaganda that our economic troubles are caused entirely by the profligacy of the last government... .." So it the press can keep that canard going in spite of all the evidence, they could, prompted no doubt by the Tory spin machine, continue to drip feed tales of Miliband sibling psychodrama. <br /><br />However, my feeling is that, if David Miliband had swallowed his disappointment and joined the shadow cabinet at once, the whole thing would have blown over by now. After all there are other "pairs" in politics who could be rivals for top jobs. Ed Balls has already tried and failed, and I've no doubt that his wife, Yvette Cooper, rather fancies her chances, especially if Theresa May becomes Tory leader. <br /><br />I don't see David Miliband's departure as any great loss in itself, but it does throw doubt on the genuineness of the commitment of the present generation of politicians to the ideas and ideals they pretend to espouse, and so demeans our democracy.<br /><br />I agree that to sit on the back benches and sulk, à la Heath, would not have been edifying.Peter Wrigleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16481117156930677255noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732407426313451205.post-18513758342231327472013-03-28T17:24:00.176+00:002013-03-28T17:24:00.176+00:00David was yet another of the PPE gang. Perhaps he...David was yet another of the PPE gang. Perhaps he has gone before having to reveal the huge profits he has been making out of 'sulking'. He was at best a lightweight with little depth - did he not at one time argue that British democracy was flourishing despite the evident apathy shown by low turn-out? Praise from Blair and Clinton? With friends like these who needs enemies? As for stickers what better example is there than Churchill who was regarded as a total failure in the 1930s?stuart archernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732407426313451205.post-34397476600585980602013-03-28T13:39:37.350+00:002013-03-28T13:39:37.350+00:00I'm not sure I agree. Having seen Nick Robins...I'm not sure I agree. Having seen Nick Robinson's fatuous pontificating on TV last night, I can sympathise with David Milliband's wish to be out of it; the trivialisers and trouble makers could never have resisted harping on any minor sign of dissent or failure to fulsomely praise everything his brother does. Incidentally the other side of the stickers in politics was Edward heath who conducted the longest sulk ever recorded.Richard Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07839924098929875524noreply@blogger.com