In a previous post I likened Ed 'Cain' Miliband to the young Al Pacino in The Godfather but on second thoughts there is more than a hint of Norman Bates, the creepy motel owner in Psycho.
photo: http://www.moviemarket.com/Photos/C301535_B3249.html
Consider the following thought process which must have passed through Miliband's mind before he decided to run for the leadership: Ok, if I do it it, it will definitely upset my brother who has set his entire career and his heart on becoming Labour leader, and if I actually win, it will, it must, drive an irrevocable political and personal wedge between us and our families. Our wives and our children will be forever split and divided with the danger of a very real personal enmity arising. If that is so, is it worth it? Well, we all know the answer he came to and so we are entitled to draw our own conclusions. It is, I think, yet another proof of the description by the late Auberon Waugh of the vast majority of parliamentarians as friendless, social psychopaths with a warped perception of the real world.
To be fair, which I'm not inclined to be, David Miliband deserves his fate for his feeble cowardice in the face of Gordon Brown's heavy-fisted intransigence when he failed to challenge him for the leadership last year. He demonstrated the lack of visceral guts required in a political leader. When it came to wielding the assassin's dagger, his younger brother didn't hesitate - even when the target was his older brother.
Compare and contrast with the Kennedys and the way they supported and fought for each other. They even 'took one for the team', an attitude that sadly, never caught on this side of the Pond.
Posted by: GD | Tuesday, 28 September 2010 at 17:30
GD, welcome to D&N, yes indeed, a thought to conjure with!
Posted by: David Duff | Tuesday, 28 September 2010 at 17:34