3 comments from readers

9xzulug
10 June 2010 at 16:14

orally she holds her own,she's cunning as a fox,she's old school with a twist of modernism about her.she'll help to regain the logic of grass roots policies the party,which the labour(people's)party needs to ram home to the disillusioned public.win or lose the party will be better for the leadership challenge of this formidable lady/women.LOVE OR HATE HER SHE'S GOOD AT HER JOB NO DOUBT

andyf
10 June 2010 at 16:35

The Milliband brothers' performance and interaction with each other is just weird. David Milliband is using Blair-esq pauses.

The two Eds interacted well. Their speech is much more fluent and sounds less coached. Up to part 3, Ed Balls seemed to be making more concrete proposals and references to the problems with current Labour politics.

Would be nice to have some paired debates and discussions: all C(5,2) = 10 of them. Get 2 candidates at a time to debate with each other and then jointly debate - on the same team - against someone else, maybe against a nasty reporter.

Here's a random order for you:

[1] "David Miliband" "Ed Miliband"

[2] "Ed Balls" "Andy Burnham"

[3] "Ed Balls" "Ed Miliband"

[4] "Diane Abbott" "Ed Balls"

[5] "Ed Balls" "David Miliband"

[6] "Diane Abbott" "David Miliband"

[7] "Andy Burnham" "Ed Miliband"

[8] "Andy Burnham" "David Miliband"

[9] "Diane Abbott" "Andy Burnham"

[10] "Diane Abbott" "Ed Miliband"

Guaranteed to be informative for revealing comradeship, rhetorical prowess, and knowledge.

George
10 June 2010 at 18:14

I'm glad Dianne is got through, I was wrong earlier to say McDonnell should have gotten through. Dianne is a very engaging and passionate speaker.