Losing the Plot



I haven't picked up the latest edition of Private Eye, but I agree with John Rentoul's comment in The Independent that Labour has lost the plot once it starts blaming the media for the woeful performance of its leader, Ed Miliband.  


Daily catch-up: once a party blames the media for its leader’s unpopularity, it has lost the plot

Ed Miliband makes his ‘comeback kid’ speech today, with a lot to come back from


1. Private Eye (above), part of the media conspiracy against Ed Miliband. Paranoia is setting in around the Labour leader. Andrew Grice, our political editor, has advance news of today's speech by the leader of the opposition:

“He will blame the recent turmoil in his party on ‘powerful interests’ – including the Conservatives and their newspaper allies, the banks, hedge funds and energy companies – who do not want Labour to win next May’s general election.”

Andy Burnham, one of the contenders to succeed him, repeated this rubbish on the Today programme this morning.

Once the party starts to blame the media for its leader's unpopularity, we are back in the days of Michael Foot and Neil Kinnock. As yesterday's Ipsos MORI poll confirmed (see item 5 below).

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