War Peaceman
You're a big guy.
The thing that makes me laugh the most is I've heard two things from Milliband this week; wanting to close the loophole which allows low skilled immigrants to undercut locals and the betting shop machines. BOTH of which were caused by Labour when in power! Fantastic election slogan idea: "we will reverse everything we did from 97-10, promise!"
What do you want them to do? Complain if they do, complain if they don't. If you think this is the right thing to do, support it. If not, criticise it. Milliband wasn't in charge and large amounts of that leadership is gone; they've tried hard to move away from New Labour as it is...
It all sounds rather a lot like an intentional "leak", a proverbial bone so that when they eventually reveal it to be closer to as you say, it can be them making a compromise with their backbenchers.
That was my impression too.