UK: Ed Miliband wins the election to be the new leader of the Labour Party
 

how exciting

Not shocking but time for him to get a new haircut.

Not too far off the number of people who will be voting for them at the next election too.

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CONSERVATIVE PARTY CHAIRMAN BARONESS WARSI:


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Ed Miliband wasn't the choice of his MPs, wasn't the choice of Labour Party members but was put in to power by union votes. I'm afraid this looks like a great leap backwards for the Labour Party.

TONY WOODLEY, JOINT LEADER, UNITE UNION:


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We welcome Ed's victory - this is a fantastic achievement for him and for the policies he has been promoting. His victory, coming from nowhere a few months ago, is a clear sign that the party wants change, to move on from New Labour and reconnect with working people. Ed has won by hitting the issues people care about - stopping the assassination of public services, fighting for a living wage, standing up for manufacturing, a better future for young people. Now the party must unite behind its new leadership and take the fight to the Tories.

DAVE PRENTIS, GENERAL SECRETARY, UNISON:


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Unison backed Ed Miliband because of the way he listened and understood the needs of ordinary working people. We look forward to working together to challenge the coalition government and its regressive cuts agenda. Under Ed's leadership, Labour must offer an alternative economic strategy, promoting growth and recovery, together with fairness ... As a priority, Ed must reconnect with Labour's lost voters, including public sector workers, many of whom have been turned off in the past because they believed that Labour had deserted them.

DAVID BLUNKETT, FORMER HOME SECRETARY:


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We've never seen anything quite like what we've had, with two brothers neck and neck. These are brothers. They're blood brothers. They can't afford to fall out in the way we had with Tony and Gordon, and neither can we."

its the unions that voted him in.

in case your not from the uk or do not understand labours voting system.

it works like this.

they do not belive in 1 man/woman 1 vote, but rather you get a vote for being in labour, and a vote if your a trade union member and a vote for somthing else. I think some had 5 or so votes.

Then the party is run by the unions, and for the unions.

Labour do not belive in democracy as most of us would or freedoms. They still are saying we should have more cctv and more of our rights removed.

And within a few weeks we will see them stab ed in the back, and then those who stab ed in the back in turn will be stabbed.

It was telling a few years ago when one of the women in Labour was giving them suport till she was not put on the front bench. She then attacked g brown saying he was a bully.

Probably that many care in the UK.