Ed is wrong again

A day is a long time in politics. The U.S. administration has gone into over-drive  to get world support for military strikes against Syria and you do get the impression that the so-called rebels who defeated Prime Minister David Cameron in parliament last week over Syria are starting to have second thoughts. Twice this week the Labour Party have inquiered whether there is going to be a second vote on Syria in parliament. The coalition government has quite wisely said no;in otherwords you have made your decision now you have to live with it. Labour leader Ed Miliband thought his stance on Syria would win him some badly needed popularity but no:he is still as unpopular as he was before.  And ofcourse there is President Obama who said yesterday:“My credibility is not on the line. The international community’s credibility is on the line.” And then the French government said:“not acting in Syria would send wrong message to Iran.” So really Ed Miliband should have a long hard thought about his parliamentary stance on Syria. Not only has he weakened the Special Relationship with the U.S. and put Britain on the back-foot he hasn´t gained any favour with voters either. I admit in this space last Sunday I said that Prime Minister David Cameron had become a “lame duck.” I was wrong. Infact, I think that at the moment the international community is proving that Cameron was right over Syria. The lame duck is poor old Ed, who got it wrong again.