Sayeeda Warsi congratulates Ed Miliband

On behalf of all of us in the Conservative Party, I congratulate Ed Miliband on his election as Leader of the Labour Party.

He will have many challenges ahead in these next few days, but if he wants to be taken seriously, the first thing he's got to do is own up to his role in creating the mess that Britain is in and tell us what he'd do to fix it.

From advising Gordon Brown in the Treasury in the 90s, to serving in his Cabinet in the 2000s, he must recognise his central role in creating the financial mess we're all paying for.

For the past five months, all we've heard from Labour is knee jerk opposition to our plans to tackle the deficit. Now is the time for Mr Miliband to tell us what he'd do instead. He promised us a Labour spending plan before the spending review, now we'd all like to see it.

The new Labour leader now has a clear choice. He can either serve the national interest by joining with us and the Liberal Democrats and set out how he would cut the deficit, or he can stand on the sidelines and refuse to engage with the biggest challenge facing Britain in decades.

The fact that Ed Miliband owes his position to the votes of the unions does not bode well. At the moment this looks like a great leap backwards for the Labour Party.

After 13 years of Labour failure, we need your help to hold Ed Miliband to account. So please forward this email to your family and friends - and don't forget to follow and share our updates on Facebook and Twitter.

Yours,
Sayeeda Warsi
Co-Chairman of the Conservative Party

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If you want to criticise Labour's democratic process, have someone other than UNELECTED Baroness Warsi as your designated Spokesgrouch.

It's also a bit daft to try and blame Ed Miliband for the credit crunch.

I don't see how Ed Miliband is responsible for getting the country into the mess that it's in! There has been WORLDWIDE recession, FFS. Yes, our previous governments including Labour ones helped to make our country more depending on the banking industry than it need have been, but the idea that the Tories like to push that our financial problems are all due to spending on public services is just ideological nuttery.


'The fact that Ed Miliband owes his position to the votes of the unions does not bode well...'

Yes because if you're leader of the *Labour* Party you obviously must have no connection with the representatives of labour! Well, that does seem to have been Blair's view.

Mind you, this could make some sense, as nowadays 'Conservative Party' means 'seekers of breakneck radical change for its own sake'. 'Liberal Democrat' means that the leaders got into a collaboration with very illiberal policies, without much democratic consultation of the membership. And of course any party with 'Unionist' in the name is generally guaranteed to promote disunity!