Miliband V Miliband.

As previously mentioned on Saturday September 25th Ed Miliband was elected as leader of the UK Labour Party. In the process he beat his younger brother, David Miliband into second place. Since then the UK news media has been obsessed with how the result will affect the relationship between the two brothers and what the losing brother will do next.

Like a lot of people I have a brother. So with a lot of imagination you could think the Miliband saga is a sort of metaphor for the relationship between me and my brother ahead of this Court of Protection ruling. Sadly that is so far from the truth it's taken until now for me to make the connection.

The Brits have been promoting this spin on the Miliband story in order to give the Commonwealth and anyone else who'll listen a false impression about this Court of Protection case. They're trying to convince everyone that I've asked the Court to rule on a subjective question about who would make the best attorney for my grandmother. I haven't. I've asked the Court to rule on a narrow question of law which has a definitive answer. Of course the Brits would prefer it if everyone believed that I'd asked the Court the subjective question because that would make it easier for them to explain why the Court has ruled against me.

As to why the Labour Party have involved themselves in this the answer is twofold. Firstly they're kind of dumb. Secondly it's a hangover from May's chaotic General Election. After their crushing defeat Labour responded by quickly announcing that they would elect a new leader and that new leader would be announced at September's Party conference. The idea being that they would soon be back in power after causing the ConDem coalition to collapse. As the months ticked by from May to September it soon became apparent that this wouldn't happen. This prompted David Miliband's camp to encourage his supporters to vote for Ed Miliband instead. The idea being that David Miliband would lay low as a backbench MP while his brother served as Leader of the Opposition for four years. Then, just before the 2015 General Election, David Miliband would re-emerge and become Prime Minister. In political terms 2015 is a long way away so I'm not sure if this will work. However this has certainly been the worst kept secret in UK political circles.