{"id":1346,"date":"2006-09-07T14:10:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-07T14:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/09\/07\/milibandblairbrown\/"},"modified":"2006-11-27T16:38:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-27T16:38:00","slug":"milibandblairbrown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/09\/milibandblairbrown\/","title":{"rendered":"Miliband\/Blair\/Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After my <a href=\"http:\/\/europhobia.blogspot.com\/2006\/09\/idle-speculation.html\">speculation<\/a> late yesterday, The New Statesman has finally put that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/200609110013\">David Miliband interview<\/a> online. A quote I haven&#8217;t seen before:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We look at the debate which says, &#8216;Either we have a smooth transition or you have a train crash.&#8217; Obviously you want a smooth transition. But we want something more. These are people who are ministers, who are party MPs, party supporters; these are people of no party, who are in the voluntary sector or business or the public sector, and they want an energetic, progressive project. So what I believe is that we need more than a smooth transition to Gordon Brown &#8211; we need an energising, refreshing transition to Gordon Brown&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You don&#8217;t get much more energising than a major fight&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Still, Blair&#8217;s expected to make an announcement <a href=\"http:\/\/politics.guardian.co.uk\/labourleadership\/story\/0,,1866600,00.html\">in the next hour<\/a>. It&#8217;s wait and see time once again. Let&#8217;s just hope the wait isn&#8217;t too long, eh? I doubt there&#8217;s anyone left who hasn&#8217;t had enough of this infantile nonsense&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After my speculation late yesterday, The New Statesman has finally put that David Miliband interview online. A quote I haven&#8217;t seen before: &#8220;We look at the debate which says, &#8216;Either we have a smooth transition or you have a train &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/09\/milibandblairbrown\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-labour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}