Go Take A Jump

After a disastrous party conference, one of Labour's own MPs has broken ranks and spoken candidly about the performance of his leader, Ed Miliband. 

Simon Danczuk, the Labour MP for Rochdale (just outside Manchester) is widely quoted on Ed Miliband's conference speech: 

"It was as though he was saying to his audience that I'm going to stay with my kind of politics - north London liberalism.

"He seems to be saying I'm not going to deviate from that approach, and I don't need to because the electoral system is stacked in my favour. So go take a jump.

"He doesn't come across as pro-business, he always talks about the positives of immigration and rarely about the negative consequences.

"If he lived in somewhere other than London like Rochdale he's know the negative aspects of immigration. He still refuses to how welfare really needs to be reformed."

Now I wouldn't be surprised if Simon Danczuk's fortunes in the Labour Party took a sudden slump for speaking upo and telling the truth, as he sees it at least. 

But I think what he says about the consequences of large scale immigration is very true and it's often the case that people who don't actually live in these areas always see the benefits without addressing the problems.

Danczuk has also put his finger on Labour's 'core vote' strategy which means trying to form a government based on less than 35% of the popular vote which could be a good thing in some ways.

Because such a result would expose the highly unrepresentative nature of the Westminster Parliament where the Conservatives and Labour both behave as if their two parties have the right to govern the country.