Ed Miliband says he is “incredibly angry” about what has happened in Falkirk. To many, it might seem an odd set of priorities that our leader is “incredibly angry” about a remote constituency selection process. All the more so, as it’s just a week after the latest round of Coalition spending cuts, about which the whole Labour front bench seemed a great deal more relaxed. Indeed, many of the attacks on the poorest in society, such as the vicious requirement that newly redundant workers should wait seven days before being eligible for benefit, have been hailed as irreversible. Now that’s what makes many ordinary Party members angry. [continue...]
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