What on earth do Geraldine Smith and Bob Marshall-Andrews think they're up to, calling for Gordon Brown to sack David Miliband for disloyalty and duplicity? What Brown loyalists need to do if they're to shore up their man is to urge him to use Miliband's article and the feelings it's stirred to relaunch himself and his party with a new agenda that offers the change people though they were going to get a year ago. Miliband was not signalling a coup; he was putting down a marker for the next time there's a vacancy - realising that that vacancy is on present trends highly likely to occur within two years, and might come this side of an election. But to talk what he did up into a coup simply destabilises Gordon Brown all the more - it's a bit like panicking about the housing market. And a sacking really would let the dogs loose - that way, Brown might well fall.
If they want to help Brown, they should shut up in public and encourage him in private to be more radical and find new energy from somewhere. He probably needs to work a bit less hard, in my view, and to rise above some of the detail of government.
Anyway, hearing Bob Marshall-Andrews of all people going on about loyalty is hilarious. He's got room to talk.
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