Inbrew, the head of the IMF and World Bank agree their is no light at the end of the tunnel.

Your arguments are very weak and poor.

Miliband was ahead of the story with the ECB/Eurozone & Phone Hacking. Poor Cameron has been weeks behind on both issues.

Then again you have no idea of Cameron's eurozone policy have you?

I see the head of the World Bank is criticising Cameron's leadership.

Robert Zoellick wants the eurozone debt crisis sorting.

Somehow Mr Zoellick hasn't much confidence in take your bat and ball strategy.

Surely Ed hasn't forgotten The First Rule: that there is no gratitude in politics.The Second that the electorate are pretty fickle and have short memories, vey short memories and think more of their own stomachs than lofty ideals. And the Third: don't trust them the electorate promise one thing and do another.
The Indy alsohas a pretty poor report on Ed.
My own view isthe public can't connect with him. Ed doesn't pass the 'would you be happy to have a drink with him at the local especially if he was buying' Test?
Same with Yvette, she wouldn't connect either. Neither does Ken whose turning out to be a miserable so and so.
But I regret and ashamed to say that the old buffoon Boris does pass the test. Likeability and chuminess.
Our next Labour Leader has to be just that likeable.

Look another Ed Miliband hater, how pathetic.

Unemployment at a 17 year high seems to be mind numbing for many conservatives, then again they don't care.

I don't think that it is Ed doing anything so drastically wrong. I'm just not sure what labour stands for, after the new labour years.

However, Labour will probably always have the vote of the unions and public sector, which is large and the inner cities. So maybe they can get in without an amazing leadership.

I think the biggest threat to labour votes, may not be Ed's leadership. I think it may be a loss of votes in Scotland to the snp and also, the stance Labour takes in europe.

I can't see how Labour would manage to get away with spending more, inside the strict austerity measures Europe wants to impose.

I think whatever leader Labour has, it will be more about how their policies can be implemented in a recession, rather than the actual leader.

These are difficult times for any leader.

If the Feltham by election did not show that the British; yes, care about Europe, but will not based their vote purely on Europe; then nothing else does.

If a person's appearance is what makes him an electable leader, then take caution in the two most morally bankrupt leaders of our time; namely, Blair and Dodgy Dave.

"I'm just not sure what labour stands for"

@C Baker has nailed it. EM should have really gone hard at developing the Labour strategy. Instead EM has spent a year focussing on tactics, sadly as usual for Labour. So now we dont know what the party stands for (apart from disagreeing with the Tories often in direct conflict with the majority of poeple) or where it is going.

e.g. take the Cameron treaty veto. 60% of people support it, a huge majority, and we now find the UK has what it want AND will be involved with the full group signing up to the treat - a Win-Win for Britain. But instead of thinking and applying a set of beliefs and strategic priciples Milibandwgaon jumps into a popularity tactic immediately after the veto and makes a big play critising it. Now millions of people see him a weak coward who would be first in the queue to sell British interests cheaply to win himself popularity.

Oh dear.

Millions of British people see ED as weak, that why the first test Dave faced to prove that theory, he lost his party 8% of their votes in a targeted seat.

I LOVE THE BRITISH PEOPLE!!

Only a tiny majority of people turned out - Labour were unable to raise a wave of anti-tory voters: its because there is no wave. The election proved the majority of people are conent with the coalition.

EM will be worried why so few people were willing to protest given the EU crisis, public sector strikes, world economic downturn, and his inspiring leaderhsip.

8% is a very small mid term swing in such a strong Labour seat and not enough to win the party power. If the Lib dem vote collapses then it is signaling the Tories will win next time.

I totally agree with saltyseadog above. Cameron is a shallow, snake oil merchant. As has been said, he and his Machiavellian Prince Boy Georgie could not win a majority at the last election even with all the probs that Labour were having. If you remember Boy Beorgie did not even feature in the last election very much as he is totally untrustworthy and the electorate know it. Gideon is a clueless, ideologically driven fool who spouts austerity and even more austerity whilst spouting his Orwellian "doublethink" mantra that "We are ALL in this together".and economy goes down the gurgler. He is basically a lying, arrogant Tory toad. I like Ed Miliband. He comes across as an honest, decent bloke having to deal with snakes, vipers and vermin across the despatch box and I think he does a good job showing them to be "hollow men" who will get their comeuppance.

John Henry

You say of Ed Miliband,
'---He comes across as an honest, decent bloke having to deal with snakes, vipers and vermin across the despatch box and I think he does a good job showing them to be "hollow men" who will get their comeuppance'.

This john is what the British public sees as well.

The pundits as usual, ignored the most important results in the recent polls; the British public find Ed more in touch with the British people and more honest than Dodgy Dave.

THIS IS WHAT THE BRITISH PUBLIC WILL VOTE FOR.

Ed Miliband is not who the Blairite media wanted, so never mind opinion polls, even actual votes for a party led by him do not count.

Labour's fifth by-election win in succession since Ed Miliband became Leader. An 8.5 per cent swing from the Conservatives to Labour.

But none of that counts, because, rather poignantly today, he is The Wrong Brother.