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Here's a quote from David Miliband: David Miliband on Ed: "He's going to lead the party in the way he sees fit. He's going to lead it with conviction and purpose." Indeed! That is all good.  But, can he win?  Because according to Dan Hodges in The New Statesman  this is tantamount to political suicide .  I can understand and respect Labour re-appraising its roots, especially after Tony Blair and his entourage made sure through his mediated discourse to alienate just about everyone with his "New" Labour political discourse, but I also want Labour to win.  If Miliband, instead of engaging a precarious balance that would rally the diverse coalition of forces that support this Party, is appealing to just his base, I fear that we're going to see conservatives and liberal democrats peddling their dysfunctional policy for the long term. Opposition politics as process and practice is in itself complicated.  If handled poorly it can result in bitter...