I have to report more discontent amongst 'ordinary' voters (mainly floaters..) who frequent the trendy bars of Clapham. I was having another conversation with a group of 'non political' friends and some of their friends started the discussion around the recession, most of them are obviously worried about the safety of their jobs and they were anxious about the recession. The non political younger people amongst the group said that they were impressed of what they have seen of David Milliband but were not at all sure as to whether they would be voting for a party led by Ed. I think they meant they didn't know much about who Ed was and what he did? So its obvious that Ed needs to hire a better team of PR people to sort his image out, an election will not be won if we just depend on Labour party members to vote for the party.
I was also impressed by 3 people in that same group who said that they liked Diane Abbots rebellious mood and the fact that she does not hold back when on television. This is good news and I hope that she is offerred a position in the shadow cabinet. It looks like the Rogerites were right about her having some impact on the electorate.
We will of course have reasonable policies to fight the next election but we also have to have the right team in a Shadow cabinet capable of winning the confidence of the floating voters. I would very much prefer for David Miliband to lead the party and I think we have made an error but Ed is the Leader and we must all do our bit (The Rogerites as well) to support him. Maybe the Jon of the Rogers ( a fellow blogger..) should issue a statement urging the 'United Everyone on the left' to work for this objective? Otherwise the Clapham Pub rebellion will spread around and our destiny will go down the loo, we don't want another Michael Foot era!
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