Well, even an admirer like me recognises that he is human and not a saintSpinningHugo wrote:maybe.AnatolyKasparov wrote:Because they think 1) it won't work and 2) its not their job to interfere?SpinningHugo wrote: Just not so you'd notice.
I am, I confess, very surprised at Brown and Miliband. Why have they said nothing?
Blair's interventions are a sign he knows Corbyn has won. He knows as much as everyone here that anything he says will be counterproductive for the candidate(s) he would prefer. But, he also knows he can't now say nothing. If, say, Burnham were ahead we would not have heard a peep out of him
The other striking things is how quickly politics have moved. It was only two months ago when all of us here were hoping and generally expecting Ed Miliband to now be PM. A different and more harmonious world.
The one person who could - COULD - halt the Jezza bandwagon is, of course, your old mate EM (I don't think Brown could, and he didn't intervene in 2010 either)
But maybe Ed takes the view this is a phase that the party has to go through (he has read Gramsci and all that stuff) and maybe, being human after all, he isn't unhappy to see a kind of "revenge" dished out to certain people (it is fairly well known he was *very* fracked off with Kendall undermining both him and Burnham on health policy with *that* high-profile interview not long before the GE)
Just a few thoughts.....
I think that is selfish, and a bit juvenile of him. If true.
(of course, certain people dancing on his grave within hours of the election result is unlikely to have helped there either)
I don't say that is his sole or even principal motivation for remaining schtum, but it is very likely a factor.
Though his current feelings may be summed up by the old Latin phrase "Fiat justitia ruat caelum" - I must admit I am tending that way as well.