Is Ed on the way out?

• howard mcsweeney1

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  6 November 2014     15:37274150
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  His popularity and credibility is at an all time low and there are rumblings of discontent from MP's worried about losing their seats.
  
  
  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2823476/Ed-Miliband-s-poll-ratings-worse-Callaghan-Kinnock-Major-Hague-Howard-Brown-marched-parties-defeat.html
• Jan Higgins

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  6 November 2014     18:11274161
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  Yes unless he wins the next General Election outright.
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• howard mcsweeney1

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  6 November 2014     19:03274164
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  I was thinking about now not after the election Jan, seems a decent chap but completely distant from his party's core support.
  
  I cringe when I watch him flailing around and looking silly, I cannot imagine him as Prime Minister.
• Jan Higgins

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  6 November 2014     20:15274168
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  I dread to think of him as Prime Minister he just does not have the right sort of gravitas.
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• Guest 725

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  6 November 2014     21:52274169
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  I'd hardly call him a decent chap. It's the likes of him and his fellow sixth formers who want to take this country to a British version of all things soviet.
  One can only hope he keeps his job in the same way Foot, Kinnock and other extreme lefties did just at the right time - during a general election. It's all we can hope for.
• Guest 715

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  7 November 2014     07:17274170
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  Perhaps we can get Simon Cowell to organise a reality programme to choose the next leader?
  Audere est facere.
• howard mcsweeney1

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  7 November 2014     12:14274174
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  The general consensus is that it is too close to the election to change leaders but Yvette Cooper and Andy Burnham are frontrunners to take over afterwards. I can't visualise either as Prime Minister.
• Jan Higgins

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  7 November 2014     12:22274176
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  Can't stand Yvette Cooper always turn her off when she is on tv, at least Andy Burnham does not annoy me in the same way.
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• Guest 653

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  10 November 2014     07:28274274
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  Wasn't it Andy Burnham who left a note at the at the end of the outgoing (Labour) Government, saying something like "Sorry, there's no money left".
  
  
  
  Roger
• Guest 649

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  10 November 2014     07:45274278
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  As I said they should have given the job of leader to his brother David he was a very good talker and a better all rounder.
• howard mcsweeney1

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  10 November 2014     09:16274281
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  Can't remember who it was Roger but it wasn't Andy Burnham he was Health secretary.
• Jan Higgins

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  10 November 2014     12:46274285
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  I just looked it up, it was Liam Byrne.
  
  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1279242/Liam-Byrnes-note-new-Treasury-Im-sorry-tell-money.html
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• Guest 653

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  10 November 2014     22:26274308
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  Thanks Jan.
  
  
  
  Roger
• howard mcsweeney1

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  12 November 2014     14:33274357
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  More bad news for Ed. will be more pressure exerted to get him to stand down.
  
  
  http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/nov/12/conservatives-three-point-lead-labour-poll
• Guest 715

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  12 November 2014     17:34274364
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  The campaign against him is working if the polls are correct, Sky TV and the Tory press will be delighted.
  Audere est facere.
• howard mcsweeney1

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  12 November 2014     18:04274366
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  The blue high command don't want him to go. they see him as their best vote catcher.
• Jan Higgins

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  12 November 2014     18:30274367
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  I know it has all come to the fore now but can any of you honestly say you ever thought of ED as prime ministerial material, I know I never have.
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