"I do not often attack the Labour party. They do it so well themselves." (Part Two)

More signs of fratricidal warfare among the brothers and sisters today as members of the Labour party have been forming what one of them despairingly described as a "circular firing squad" and  Ted Heath's quote above again very appropriate.

Even the Daily Mirror's Kevin Maguire, who is probably the most pro-Labour commentator to be found anywhere in the British MSM today, described Ed Miliband's campaign here as

"a calamitous own goal."

and added

"The uncomfortable truth for Miliband and Labour is he is a geeky Weird Ed. One of his Shadow Ministers under his breath calls him Forrest Gump."

Labour MP and former minister Frank Field has savaged Miliband in The Daily Telegraph and called on the Labour Leader to join David Cameron in supporting a referendum on Britain's membership of the EU. He told the Telegraph:

"We will have a catastrophe at the next election if we go on like this. Our voters are trying to give us one last chance and tell us they want change. He [Ed Miliband] has got to free himself from this or he will drag us down with him."

The Daily Express reports how "Labour MPs attack 'Weird' Ed Miliband's disastrous poll strategy,"

and the Daily Mail reports here a further barrage of criticism of Ed Miliband from Labour or pro-Labour sources, with one Laour academic Lord Glasman, quoted as saying "It pains me to say this; I have come to the conclusion that Labour is in danger of losing England."

The same article has a cartoon with two aliens getting out of a flying saucer and saying to a Labour MP - "Take us to your leader: We feel like a good laugh."

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