Ed Miliband’s betrayal of Cameron shows he is unfit for office.

Ed Miliband’s betrayal of Cameron shows he is unfit for office.

Before I get going, I would like to say I did not support military action in Syria however for me the vote was overshadowed by Ed Miliband’s display of opportunism.  The big news on the eve of the big vote over Syria was that Ed Miliband had withdrawn his support for the government’s proposals for military intervention, after initially giving his support.  This did not surprise me to much as it involved making a big decision and as Ed has shown throughout his leadership, he is not very good at making decisions. 

In response to Ed Miliband withdrawing his support for the government’s proposal to intervene in Syria Cameron conceded to the Labour leaders demands and altered the government’s proposals.  So surely, Ed Miliband would return to his initial stance and support the government however, he did not.  Why?  Well Ed Miliband took the issue of Syria and changed his position on it overnight because, he saw an opportunity to weaken the government and enhance his own popularity.  Labours position was not a position of principal but a malicious political attack on the government.  They took a serious life or death issue and played politics with it and in the process showed that the party is not yet fit to govern as it still has no idea how to handle the serious issues.

Last night was a victory for democracy as parliament did represent the public’s view on this most serious of issues, it was not however a victory for Ed Miliband.  Ed’s performance in the house was described as poor by his own frontbench and Labours own motion urging further evidence of the Assad regime’s responsibility for chemical attacks was defeated by 112 votes.  Of course, last night was more damaging for the government than the Labour party however I doubt it will effect David Cameron’s position.  But as Ed Miliband showed once again a complete lack of leadership and another poor commons performance maybe Labour will start looking for a replacement after all even his own front bench were embraced by his performance yesterday.