AHC: Neither Miliband in 2010

How could the 2010 Labour leadership contest have occurred without Ed Miliband or David Miliband standing as candidates?

Would Gordon Brown sacking David Miliband after his Guardian article in 2008 that sounded like some to be a leadership challenge have lost him the support needed to become a candidate?

How would Ed have been kept out of the race too? I don't know how this could exactly have been achieved.

Any ideas?
 

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I wonder if the Balls-Cooper household should have sent Cooper instead of Balls. It's possible she could have won if she had stood and Ed Miliband had been pressured to stand aside, perhaps because of the perceived bad publicity of competing against his brother.
 
How could the 2010 Labour leadership contest have occurred without Ed Miliband or David Miliband standing as candidates?

Would Gordon Brown sacking David Miliband after his Guardian article in 2008 that sounded like some to be a leadership challenge have lost him the support needed to become a candidate?

How would Ed have been kept out of the race too? I don't know how this could exactly have been achieved.

Any ideas?

I think Miliband would have run and probably won in 2010 if Brown had sacked him for his Guardian article in 2008. He'd become the King across the water two years early and Labour would be itching to put him in power.

I think this is quite a hard challenge, you can beat Ed and David with the right candidate (Alan Johnson, basically) but to keep them both out of the race takes some doing.

Also, as you've heard of the Mili-D Guardian article, you may be interested in this.
 
I think Miliband would have run and probably won in 2010 if Brown had sacked him for his Guardian article in 2008. He'd become the King across the water two years early and Labour would be itching to put him in power.

I think this is quite a hard challenge, you can beat Ed and David with the right candidate (Alan Johnson, basically) but to keep them both out of the race takes some doing.

Also, as you've heard of the Mili-D Guardian article, you may be interested in this.

Hmmm, I've been wracking my brain for ideas but I can't think of much. Maybe an earlier challenge by David in 2007? I don't think it's totally plausible, but it's one of the few ideas I've had.

Leaving Ed out seems very difficult - I think only a major scandal whilst in Brown's Cabinet could really shake him.

Ah yes, For Want Of A Paragraph. I read a couple of updates but never commented because of Christmas - it was a really good read.
 
Hmmm, I've been wracking my brain for ideas but I can't think of much. Maybe an earlier challenge by David in 2007? I don't think it's totally plausible, but it's one of the few ideas I've had.

Leaving Ed out seems very difficult - I think only a major scandal whilst in Brown's Cabinet could really shake him.

Post-2009 European elections would certainly be a win for David, considering how badly things looked.
 
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