AIBU in asking if you have DCs close in age do you agree Ed Milliband is a backstabber for competing with his brother?

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I have 2 teenage DDs close in age with quite similar talents but dissimilar personalities and outlooks. I would never expect one to stand aside for the other and although they support each other they are both strong bpartly because they always have a sibling to stand up to. If I were Ed and David's Mum I would be very proud to produce 2 DCs capable of running to be PM and I would fully expect them to compete.

I expect to wake up one day to find it's been revealed that Kay Burley is nothing more than a drawn out comedic experiment being played on the British people.

The alternative, that she's an actual journalist, is just too preposterous.

I wonder if there have been other "Your poor mother" comments when it comes to siblings who have been against each other.

I could understand this "backstabbing" issue if they were both proposing the same forward plan for Labour. They weren't, David was still very much new Labour and Ed wanted to make a distinct move to the left. They HAD to stand against each other and let the membership decide.

ed stabbed David In the back to the same extent as Alistair Brownlee stabbed his brother in the back when he won the Olympic gold medal and Jonny only won bronze. He should clearly have let his baby brother win.

This one is still going because pundits called it wrong and haven't got over it.

Of course the 'he stabbed his brother in the back' mantra is utter cack.

I'm not supporting the Labour party this election due to the way they conducted themselves during the referendum, but I still think that the party picked the right Miliband. If David had been election the party would be still be torn over the Iraq war and the toxic legacy of Blair. I don't know whether he will be Prime Minister, but he was precisely the leader the Labour party needed at that precise moment.

Poor bloody Ed Miliband. He can't win, can he?

David was not the heir apparent. Ed had just as much right to stand as his brother did. Though it would have been funny if, behind the scenes, they'd had an argument where David said, "but mum, I saw it first and he KNEW I wanted it!"

Agree that Burley is an embarrassment. She belongs on Loose Women with Coleen Nolan, that idiot Andrea thingy and the other renowned daytime pundits.

Michael Fallon parroting the opinion of Kay Burley in order to launch a personal attack Ed Milliband

Classy!

I thought the stab in the back was that ed advised david not to go against Gordon and that he would support him when the time was right to challenge only to run for leader himself.

Tim Stanley and Douglas Alexander both on the same side of this argument on Question Time! Relieved to be told IABU in contemplating that everyone but me might disagree that KB was and is way out of line in her role chairing the DC / EM discussion. Hopefully this coming to a head will mean real issues will be discussed.

I thought the stab in the back was that ed advised david not to go against Gordon and that he would support him when the time was right to challenge only to run for leader himself.

Do you have any hard evidence for this, time? As in, something other than what the Daily Mail says?

Tories must think we are all childish fools to fall for such playground stuff - oh wait, they Do think we are.