Labour elects Socialist Corbyn:

Hardly anyone contemplated such an outcome after the party’s previous leader, Ed Miliband, led Labour to defeat in May’s general election, on a platform already seen as being to the left of Mr. Blair. After that electoral rebuff, most expected the right of the party to reclaim the leadership. Instead the Blairites tried frantically to derail Mr. Corbyn, a vegetarian teetotaler based in North London who made a career of rebelling against the party line and until now had little public profile outside of party activists.

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Although Britain’s economy is growing fast, Mr. Corbyn’s message has struck a chord with workers and families still feeling the aftershocks of Europe’s financial crisis of 2008.

Note the anonymous "seen". Note the framing that Blair's brand of New Labour is somehow the obvious solution now.

That's the only mention of Miliband in the story. Maybe the evidence shows being Tory-lite and refusing to argue for your party's policies that support the middle class isn't a good approach these days?

And a 1.7% annual rate is fast??!

(sigh)

Best of luck to Mr. Corbyn and his party. Maybe his ideas are too left to be implemented at the moment, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't be seriously discussed.

Cheers,
Scott.

Seems Wonkette is doing sarcasm wrong.

Wonkette strikes back.

rofl.

Cheers,
Scott.
(Who really wonders what's going on at the Times these days...)