British politics is littered with Former Future Prime Ministers. William Hague obviously springs to mind and most of the others still living are from the Conservatives. Neil Kinnock is perhaps the only surviving Labour Former Future Prime Minister. A Former Future Prime Minister is a politician who was once acclaimed as “The next Prime Minister" but who flatters only to deceive or, through a combination of ill luck, ineptitude and a copious dollop of that repulsive sliminess that afflicts those who aspire to high office, manages to fluff his big chance. Such a man I fear is young David Milliband.
Milliband’s move to offer himself as the natural successor to Gordon Broon last week was made way too early. Though party wonks have hailed The Boy David (Mk 2) as a future leader for some time any move to catapult him straight into No. 10 would be doomed to fail. He might be well known in politics but few of the public know who he is and even give a flying fuck. A Boggart Blog survey revealed that of the representative cross section of the electorate we interviewed, 42 % thought he used to be in a Boy Band, 27% thought he was a Blue Peter Presenter, 24% thought he was “that kid who plays Harry Potter and just 7% thought he was something to do with the Government.
Milliband’s problem you see is he looks twelve. How can somebody run the country when they don’t even look old enough to vote. Older and more traditional members of The Labour Party have noted this.
Milliband’s credibility was called into question by Linda McDougall, wife of Grimsby’s verteran M.P. Austin Mitchell. She commented: “The trouble is I can’t take either of the Milliband boys seriously, I used to change both their nappies.
And that, we suspect was happening last year.
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Milliband’s other problems are his wild and scary eyes and his weird way of smugly grinning to himself like there's a little voice in his head feeding him the punchlines to jokes that none of us will ever get.
Having no talent need not stop someone getting to the top, I know, but the way he got into politics through nepotism might be a problem as it has left him with no proper grounding in ordinary life. Apart from that, given the complete lack of talent elsewhere in the Labour Party, I suppose he is in with a shout.