Ed Milliband, is that the best Labour can do?

This is the reason why I support what the Asker is saying: http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/ind... I do not believe Ed Miliband is much further left than his brother - a bit like comparing the two Dimbleby brothers, Jonathan is marginally more left-wing than David. What New Labour was, was a Social Democratic Party, quite similar to what the Gang of Four set up in 1981, but more right-wing. Vince Cable was a Social Democrat.

So was Charles Kennedy, and Mike Hancock. Ed Miliband shrewdly calculated he would gain brownie points from his party by suggesting that these Social Democrats have sold out. That was always the Labour position, ever since the SDP was formed.

The Labour Party though is more than its MPs and its members, since the Affiliates also form an important part of the movement - those people who are not involved enough or too busy to become activists, but feel a part of the movement through various Socialist societies and of course the trade unions. The election of Ed Miliband over his brother reminds the Party who their paymasters are, and where their interests lie. Why should the millionaires have the whip hand over all politics in this country?

It is right and proper that there should be an alternative from the Left, which will be tested by their Opponents and judged by the electorate.

An opposition leader that is a Union puppet is not good for Democracy. He wasn't voted in by the Labour rank and file, he won because he did a deal with the Unions. While I fully appreciate many "traditional" supporters felt New Labour abandoned their, left wing, principles, a return to the chaotic militant 70's is not what this country requires.

His speech about the middle classes and hard working people is a joke and an insult to our intelligence.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.