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| Ed Miliband has become a figure of public ridicule |
"Last week in
this column, as we reached six months before the general election, I wrote
about how uncertain the outcome looked with it almost being impossible to
predict what political colour or colours of government we will end up with.
However, what
is certain is that the Prime Minister that emerges after the election will be
the leader of either the Conservative or Labour party. The same is true in
Crawley in that it is certain that our MP will be elected from one of the two
main parties, which of course directly affects who will become our Prime
Minister.
The last 30
years have shown that whichever party wins in Crawley, also sees their leader
becoming Prime Minister. We elect individual MPs with a Parliamentary system but
the reality is that a Conservative vote is a vote for David Cameron to be Prime
Minister and that a Labour vote is a vote for Ed Miliband to be Prime Minister.
As I write
on Sunday, it is looking uncertain that it will be Ed Miliband leading the
Labour party into the election. It appears that many in the Labour party have
finally woken up to what the rest of us knew years ago, in that Ed Miliband is widely
not seen as a credible potential Prime Minister. People may well ask if Crawley
Labour will continue to sing the praises of Ed Miliband and if they intend to
feature him strongly in their election material next year? A leadership contest has to happen very soon or Labour will have to painfully plod on until May with Ed Miliband. I suspect he may be persuaded by colleagues to resign which would be the easiest way to replace him. I hope this happens as regardless of the obvious electoral advantage to the Conservatives of Ed Miliband leading Labour into the election, I view it as vital for democracy that our country has a choice of two credible Prime Ministers at the election."
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