David Miliband is quitting

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I think he is right tbh.

He must be soooooo gutted.

I wonder if Ed would have done the same?
Christmas at theirs will be awkward, eh.

Oh no ! much prefer him to Ed. Ed reminds me of Cameron [shudder]

I would quit too. It's asking a lot of him to stay, far easier if it was any old opponent that beat him but very difficult situation when it's family.

I wouldn't work for a family member - I don't think politics would be any different ...

Good for him for doing the right thing!

Good to see Labour isn't going to have another ten years of briefing and undermining carried out by the lackys of a sulking loser who is convinced that he should be in charge.

Oh, sorry, they are.

Pfft.
Now everyone is going to say it's a case of sur grapes. I don't think Ed would have done the same at all. David thought he had it in the bag and he's sulking.
What's he going to do, follow Princess Tony onto the savingtheworld speech circuit?
Going off to read the Labour website.

I can't stand Ed. So there goes my support of the Labour party. Like Skippy, he reminds me of DC, but at least DC is true to his Tory self. I find him smug and arrogant. Can't abide his girlfried, either.

David is chucking his toys out of the pram now. Pathetic.

He is deeply uncharismatic, so much so it never occurred to me that David wouldn't win. Ed just looks so very uncomfortable in his own skin.

Who would love to be at Christmas dinner in that house?

"Pass the salt"
"No, you pass the bloody salt"
"I'm leaving"
sulk

FFS he is supposed to be committed to doing his best for the Labour Party. Given that he was Foreign Secretary, how the hell does he think that withdrawing his experience from the Shadow Front Bench will help?

Silly arse.

Well he looks like a monkey, so now he is behaving like one.

I prefer David too, but this smacks of cutting off his nose to spite his face. I don't like Ed (not as vile as DC, but that's a whole other issue!), but this is just stupid.

TheCrackFox and NotWoozy have basically said everything I was thinking.

why? because he didn't win?

diddums.

PMSL NW

What TCF said, except I do like Ed and don;t find him in the least bit like DC (but tehn ExPat sees my FB so she knows what I think of DC LMAO.... subtle? moi? never....)

Thanks Tainted!
I do think Labour are missing a vital fundraising opportunity there, tickets to that dinner would cover their costs for the next year at least......

He could never have stayed. Every nuance, every sentence would have been massively dissected, signs of 'brotherly war' would have been detected where there were none, and it would have been impossible for both of them.

I hope he will be back in a few years time.

I am a member of the labour party and quite frankly bored shitless with the little boys

I noticed Ed did that Tim Henman thing last night of trying to look tough and "Raaaah" at the end of his speech but looking like Mister Wimpy Woo instead.

He's thrown teddy out of the pram, big style.
Surely they must have considered this when they both stood for the leadership?

I was sorry that Ed Milliband won the vote, rather than David.

But not now that I know his brother is capable of flouncing like a big girls blouse.

Trouble is, the media - since the announcement Ed won - have been looking for divisions between the two of them. And this would only continue, creating an apparent schism like the one between Tony and Gordon.

He can't win, really. If he doesn't go, he's risking undermining his brother; when he does go, he's having a strop!

I don't see it like that at all. I think him being there would always distract attention from his brother who presumably just wants to get on with it now. He's leaving him a clear run, makes perfect sense to me. Who wants to have the label of so and so's brother throughout their career, far better to move off entirely.

In what way has he thrown his teddy out of the pram - i thought he just left.