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Well he may have beaten his big brother to the Labour leadership but judging by his first performance as leader at the Labour Party Conference today, it really doesn’t feel like Milliband E is ready to lead the country any time soon. We may be 5 years away from the next General Election, but it’s probably more likely that Wallace (or even Gromit?) will be the next PM than Red Ed.

No harm to Labour but watching the coverage of Ed’s day at the Conference on the news, you can’t help but wonder what genius behind the scenes thought that it would be a great idea to bring Gillian Duffy (yes that bigoted woman) to the conference to give her expert opinion on the state of the party; then to introduce her to the new leader as he left the stage having delivered his speech and to share that cringingly awkward moment with the viewing public when Ed tries to be all warm and friendly to her with all the sincerity of his predecessor when he met her back in May; and then to play that beautiful moment out against a musical backdrop of the Kings of Leon’s Someone Like You (genius)…whatever you think about Tony Blair - as a charismatic, refreshing, dynamic new leader of a party that is ready for government…Ed is no Tony…but maybe, as the song went all those years back, Things Can Only Get Better (whatever happened to DReam?).

What must poor old Tony Benn have thought of the whole charade. We’ll probably never know. For those of you who missed it on the ITV News, he fell asleep in mid-conversation with Mrs Duffy as she was sharing her views on the state of the nation, classic moment. Probably sums up the state of the Labour Party right now.

A new generation for change? Doubt it.

Say goodnight to the folks Eddie.