The Labour Party leadership debate is about to begin

Looks like a battle for traditional labour party values versus New labour.
I'm backing Ralph Miliband to win this one as his sons compete for the post.

Ralph's classic was The State in Capitalist Society
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8684063.stm

Ed Miliband has confirmed he is to stand for the Labour Party leadership against his older brother David.

The former energy minister declared his intention in a speech to centre-left think-tank the Fabian Society.

Ed Miliband, 40, kicked off Saturday's speech by joking that everybody had been asking whose bid their mother would support - then said she was behind the left-wing MP John Cruddas.

"Fundamentally, we lost touch with the values that made us a progressive force in politics and lost touch with the people we were meant to represent."

He said Labour had to face up to the fact it had "lost trust catastrophically" over the Iraq war and also MPs' expenses.

He added that Labour must not allow itself to be divided.

"We have got to leave the whole Blair/Brown business behind us... move on with a new set of ideas," he said.

David Miliband was the first to announce his intention to stand

Asked how he felt about standing against his brother, the former foreign secretary, Ed Miliband said there would be a "civilised contest".

Cursed twits. Actually I don't much like the look of ANY of the talent...

but I loved their father's work which is still debated on progressive websites.

http://www.isj.org.uk/?id=294