So after months and months of campaigning, Labour’s new leader is Ed Miliband who beat his brother David by just 1.3% of the vote, this adds another issue to the many Ed now faces.
We all know the UK’s media environment is dominated by the right wing press and in the few hours since Ed Miliband won they are ramping up the ‘Red Ed’ rhetoric and you can already imagine The Sun’s headlines tomorrow, how if at all can he fight that one friend of mind asked?
And the newspapers and commentators are not alone, the Conservatives must be thinking Christmas has come early, David Cameron as PM now faces a more left wing candidate, who only got over the finish line with Union support after losing out in the Party Members and MP’s sections. Its as lethal an attack line as the Blair Government’s labelling of the Tory leaders he faced as rabid right wingers.
If Ed Miliband is not to be caricatured in the wider general public’s mind by his opponents as soon as his conference speech next Tuesday as another Neil Kinnock or Michael Foot, he and his advisors will need to fight back hard and quickly to change the narrative.
Either that or the final piece of the puzzle has been put in place for politics from now on to be another re-run of the 1980’s, particularly here in Wales.Any source
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