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Labour's only got themselves to blame, and Miliband's assertion that he isn't going to be driven by narrow political interests will go down as one of his more laughable pieces of political contradiction. I can't remember what it was he said yesterday, but I thought it was astute of the BBC to edit it into their summary as the person who did the commentary had clearly done the scenario building I had and realised that Miliband had committed himself to something he was never going to deliver

There are some legitimate concerns over the west Lothian issue, and he's right to say it needs looking at in greater detail, as does the whole of the devolution idea, but until he can prove that a demand exists elsewhere in England, he can only throw regional assemblies into a manifesto mincer and see what gets churned out. Even then, he needs to reconcile it with existing agencies

The really big gaff Labour made (and they didn't realise it at the time) was campaign against AV. That is going to come back to haunt them

<blockquote data-quote="Warbler" data-source="post: 2470108" data-attributes="member: 65228">Labour&#039;s only got themselves to blame, and Miliband&#039;s assertion that he isn&#039;t going to be driven by narrow political interests will go down as one of his more laughable pieces of political contradiction. I can&#039;t remember what it was he said yesterday, but I thought it was astute of the BBC to edit it into their summary as the person who did the commentary had clearly done the scenario building I had and realised that Miliband had committed himself to something he was never going to deliverThere are some legitimate concerns over the west Lothian issue, and he&#039;s right to say it needs looking at in greater detail, as does the whole of the devolution idea, but until he can prove that a demand exists elsewhere in England, he can only throw regional assemblies into a manifesto mincer and see what gets churned out. Even then, he needs to reconcile it with existing agenciesThe really big gaff Labour made (and they didn&#039;t realise it at the time) was campaign against AV. That is going to come back to haunt them</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Warbler, post: 2470108, member: 65228"] Labour's only got themselves to blame, and Miliband's assertion that he isn't going to be driven by narrow political interests will go down as one of his more laughable pieces of political contradiction. I can't remember what it was he said yesterday, but I thought it was astute of the BBC to edit it into their summary as the person who did the commentary had clearly done the scenario building I had and realised that Miliband had committed himself to something he was never going to deliver There are some legitimate concerns over the west Lothian issue, and he's right to say it needs looking at in greater detail, as does the whole of the devolution idea, but until he can prove that a demand exists elsewhere in England, he can only throw regional assemblies into a manifesto mincer and see what gets churned out. Even then, he needs to reconcile it with existing agencies The really big gaff Labour made (and they didn't realise it at the time) was campaign against AV. That is going to come back to haunt them [/QUOTE]

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