Would Ed Miliband win Labour the next general election

[Mecky]

We'll tell you in may 2015

[Flanker7]

Avid - "Thankfully the Labour Party do not follow the same criteria as the X-factor when choosing winners."

 

Do they choose winners? Ed got to be leader because so many didn't want his better looking and smoother brother. I will view Labours success or failure under him as a verdict on the majority voting system.

Labour mentality in many things seems to favour the underdog, the unpopular, the unrepresented, the minority. Laudable but it makes winning elections a tricky business.

 

We, the voters, usually vote against someone or something. Ed needs to concentrate the contest on the coalitions record.

[WeX]

No, never in a million years. The electorate may be unsure about Cameron and Clegg, but they are adamant Miliband is the worst choice of the three.

[avidcameron]

Avid - "Thankfully the Labour Party do not follow the same criteria as the X-factor when choosing winners."

 

Do they choose winners? Ed got to be leader because so many didn't want his better looking and smoother brother. I will view Labours success or failure under him as a verdict on the majority voting system.

Labour mentality in many things seems to favour the underdog, the unpopular, the unrepresented, the minority. Laudable but it makes winning elections a tricky business.

 

We, the voters, usually vote against someone or something. Ed needs to concentrate the contest on the coalitions record.

 

You are right,the majority of the electorate seem amenable to policies which appear to favour the affluent majority,even though in reality they largely benefit the chosen few.

 

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No, never in a million years. The electorate may be unsure about Cameron and Clegg, but they are adamant Miliband is the worst choice of the three.

 

You seem to think the electorate think as one-in fact the electorate are more divided than the coalition.

[poppet2]

Miliband had Cameron on the run with question time this week. If Miliband continues to bang on about the things that really matter such as the cost of living, and the unfairness of Utility & petrol prices year after year, which is what the majority of people notice, he will be onto a winner. People notice what comes out of their purse every week rather then fictious figures of crime and unemployment going down and the economy growing.

 

The housing economy is growing because overseas buyers are buying London properties. Why don't they do a region by region account of how the economy is growing?

 

Remember, petrol prices & utilities prices can only increase over the next 18 months before the next general election, giving more fuel (excuse the pun) to the fire.

[angos]

Miliband had Cameron on the run with question time this week. If Miliband continues to bang on about the things that really matter such as the cost of living, and the unfairness of Utility & petrol prices year after year, which is what the majority of people notice, he will be onto a winner. People notice what comes out of their purse every week rather then fictious figures of crime and unemployment going down and the economy growing.

 

The housing economy is growing because overseas buyers are buying London properties. Why don't they do a region by region account of how the economy is growing?

 

Remember, petrol prices & utilities prices can only increase over the next 18 months before the next general election, giving more fuel (excuse the pun) to the fire.

 

Sadly you could be right, also sadly the people that vote for him will be disappointed when he doesn't deliver what he bang on about.

[WeX]

You are right,the majority of the electorate seem amenable to policies which appear to favour the affluent majority,even though in reality they largely benefit the chosen few.

 

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You seem to think the electorate think as one-in fact the electorate are more divided than the coalition.

 

Going by every poll so far, one thing the electorate do agree on is, they like Miliband the least out of the three leaders.

 

Has Ed Miliband made it clear what he stands for, respondents were asked. Answer: Yes 17, No 67 , Don't Know 18.

Has he been a strong party leader? Strong 9, Weak 52, Don't know (and why should they?) 11, Neither 28.

Is Ed Miliband up to the job of Prime Minister? Yes 17, No 63, Don't Know 20.

 

http://www.theweek.co.uk/politics/labour-conference/55248/ed-milibands-personal-ratings-are-miserable-does-it-matter

[Southsheff]

But white working class people voted for David Cameron, and yes David is a name that cuts across all classes; but do you have such a low opinion of wwc voters that they are quite happy to vote for an old Etonian that is called David, but would not vote for someone who went to the Independent school University College London because he wad called Tristam?

 

Or perhaps what you dislike is that he's a Labour Party politician that's from a middle class background.

 

Just goes to show that parties other than Labour have their class warriors; in fact Tories have never forgiven the PCP for the regicide of their heroine - the true blue class warrior Margaret Thatcher

 

 

Tristram Julian William Hunt the son of baron Julian Hunt of Chesterton went to UCL before Cambridge? Wowza. Where do the Labour Party find these ruffians?

 

If everyone just stopped voting altogether and boycotted politics what would happen?

[Happ Hazzard]

But white working class people voted for David Cameron, and yes David is a name that cuts across all classes; but do you have such a low opinion of wwc voters that they are quite happy to vote for an old Etonian that is called David, but would not vote for someone who went to the Independent school University College London because he wad called Tristam?

It's the die-hard Labour voters I'm talking about, not floaters.

[Anna B]

Tristram Julian William Hunt the son of baron Julian Hunt of Chesterton went to UCL before Cambridge? Wowza. Where do the Labour Party find these ruffians?

 

If everyone just stopped voting altogether and boycotted politics what would happen?

 

Nothing much.

 

There will always be some who vote, and whoever gets the most, however small, will win.

 

If no one at all voted, I think they would bring in an emergency government (or the one that's already in,) and come up with a way of maintaining the system we already have.

 

Too many people see it the same way Jeremy Paxman saw it on his interview with Russel Brand, - 'if you don't vote you can't complain.' Utter nonsense of course, for all the reasons Brand said, but that view will no doubt prevail. The media will see to that.