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Originally Posted by Doctor Zeus
I don't really get people's problem with labour atm. I'm not gunna vote for them, but EdM is pretty astute, and Balls is a steamroller who is doing a pretty ace job at predicting how and where Osborne is getting things wrong, and an ok job of saying how to get it right.
Sounds like a labour voter trying to pretend he isnt
Edm is a ****ing ******. An intellectual lightweight incapable of getting any policy across ( what are his notable policy positions? I have no idea - other than saying the tories are bad and should feel bad ) - Balls was a special advisor at the start of new labour and got parachuted into a safe seat, backed everything Tony and Gordon did, including all their mistakes and now we're supposed to believe he isn't associated with that and if he got the chance he'd do it all right?
Balls is positioning himself as the next labour leader, and will probably get it after Ed loses the next election.
Ed is like a new labour version of william hague - it doesn't matter how smart he is or what he does - he sounds and looks like a 6th former who hasn't gone through puberty yet.
He was only elected leader of labour because the trade unions got him through - the party and the MPs preferred David.
The current backbench tory stuff is because the lib dems are getting shat on in the polls - all the disillusioned labour voters who switched to lib dem were pissed off at the coalition and went straight back to labour. The tory back bench want a new general election because it would put ed into television debates that he would lose by virtue of being himself and put the tories in with their own majority rather than relying on the coalition.