labour party old stories take up the spotlight.. but where is the news?

[ecuworrier]

how to bury bad news .... by the specialists the Daily Telegraph

old news already.....  first the well i thought it was a bit of a non event the great conspiracy of Balls in the Torygraph....and almost as an afterthought David Miliband's speech that didn't quite make it featured in the guardian......

the DM speech was poignant to read....  but mostly cos he suddenly found he had another spare time preoccupation other than being in the front line of politics....  i think personally that his disappearance from view was perhaps the strongest reason he should not have been in leadership... though the whole brother thing was a bit incestuous...

but it seems to have been the Ed Balls thing that captured the medias attention... the Stephen Nolan show had a right rave on it.. pitting an MP i'd never heard of who was a supporter of Balls in the last contest for lkeadership..... against Torygraph person.....  hmmmm i didn't quite get why the quietly spoken MP didn't quite get a handle on .... the rabid activity of the torygraph person ..... you see it is pretty close to being a non story ...... except as Polly T points out..... why now!.... so while everyone is being deflected off of the place our attention needs to be right now not just the oipposition shadow chancellor and all that ..... the real story which deserves minjute by minute coverage is..... even some tories are a bit bemused

well one of my sanity persons of the minute puts it this way:


http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jun/10/david-miliband-ed-balls-leaks-damaging


GOD BLESS!

Peace and Love,

[AndyHB]

Is it old news, ecu?  Remember that the issue is something that - in rather the same way that the discarding of Maggie Thatcher damaged the Tory Party for about 20 years, this could have an impact on the public's opinion of the Labour Party for a similar period of time.  As it is, we have a very weak opposition in the Commons at the present; do you really want this to continue?

[Boudi]

Isn't it news because they told us it didn't happen at the time, so it's actually an exposure of lies, and the liars are still there?  Andy makes a good point in that there's an opposition, but no-one would  notice.  they were talking on radio this morning about there being no question of a labour challenge at the next election because there seems to be no driving force

[AndrewF]

No it is not news - we knew what was gong on at the time. an now they are trying to tie it in with friction between the Milibands - but Millibad 2 has said he had got over Milliband 1 wining (hence him being no 1!). This is a non-story, whipped up by the media because they have nothing else to make a story out of.