Why The Tears?

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Some of the morning papers report that David Miliband’s wife reacted with tears and ‘absolute fury’ at the ‘betrayal’ by those whose votes resulted in Ed Miliband becoming Leader of the Labour Party. Speculation is also rife as to what David Miliband will or will not do now that he has lost the leadership election.

No election, or very few of them, is a foregone certainty so one of the Miliband brothers was bound to be disappointed at not being elected Leader, and it follows that the wife of the loser would also be disappointed.

It was a guaranteed cast-iron certainty that one of the brothers was going to lose, so why the disappointment and tears? Or is it because the loser thought his election was in the bag?
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I Want To Hear

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We’ve had one union urging supporters into civil disobedience and other unions urging concerted strike action against government cuts, all of which have yet to be announced.

Now we have some BBC staff threatening to black out Cameron's keynote speech to the Conservative Party Conference and to disrupt coverage of Osborne's spending review.

Spending cuts - already promised by the last government without all the huffing and puffing that is going around at the moment - are no surprise, and we are all waiting to hear about where they will fall.

We understand why the cuts are needed and also that they will affect everyone in this country. So why one small section of the community is threatening to black out what will undoubtedly be important speeches is wholly unacceptable.

I want to hear what David Cameron and George Osborne have to say. I may not much like what they have to say but, nonetheless, I want to hear them.
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