Ed Milliband

[David Johnson]

I have hopes that Ed Miliband will get Labour's act together.

The key requirement is to get the party to finish its policy review and get all members of the Cabinet attacking the government and offering alternative policies that stand up.

Cheers
D

[Alex L]

At least some kind soul has put all the awkwardness in one place:

[David Johnson]

Hi

http://davidcameronpretendingtobecommon.tumblr.com/

My personal favourite is

[img]http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com ... cwUIV94%3D[/img]
David Cameron woos an NHS nurse with his anecdote about Boris Johnson using the wrong sized dessert spoon for elevenses. Doris is not working class enough to understand this joke and waits impatiently for a bedpan.

Cheers
D

[Peter]

Anyone follow 'twop twips' on twitter? It's basically viz style top tips. One was,

"Ryan Giggs, stop the newspapers taking an interest in what you're up to by simply becoming leader of the Labour Party"

[number 6]

What i liked about Miliband speech was he was sticking up for things Labour should be sticking up for. He wasn't slagging off scroungers or benefit claimants, he wants the help the vulnerable,but he also realises the abusers in the system need weeding out. I don't really care about his background, as somebody said earlier he went to a comprehensive school so has mixed with all sectors of society. I just thought it was a very good speech that would appeal to many core labour voters who were pissed fof with Blair.

[David Johnson]

"I don't really care about his background as somebody said earlier he went to a comprehensive school so has mixed with all sectors of society. ,"

I agree in the sense that although a rich kid/public school/Oxbridge/political adviser path potentially can be really limiting, at least Ed Miliband went through a comprehensive with a real mix of kids.

And Clem Attlee, prime minister during the great reforming government after the war, was the son of a solicitor who went to preparatory school.

I'm more interested in the policies and what they say about the poor, the rich etc etc than their background.

CHeers
D

[Alex L]

Yes, that was funny, but comparing the two sites, it does seem to confirm what has often been said, that New Labour have never quite got the hang of New Media!

[David Johnson]

Wot! Tony Blair and Alistair Campbell were masters of the media, new or otherwise. Don't you know Cameron reads and re-reads Blair's autobiography each evening before bed for all the best tips, tricks and traps?

He forgot to read the section on dealing with the NHS. Blair Top Tip no 343, if you are going to introduce private health provision for Christ sake don't make a big song and dance about it in a flash, bang, wallop Health Bill. It will only scare people. Do it piecemeal. It looks as if the results of the "listening exercise" Cameron has gone through are going to take just that approach.

Anyway, I am sure that neither of us are dumb enough to be taken in with all this media.

Are we?

Cheers
D

[jimslip]

"I just thought it was a very good speech that would appeal to many core labour voters who were pissed fof with Blair."

....and just when the poor sod is finding his feet, guess who comes along with some "Welcome" advice. Yes, it's:



God Almighty!, why doesn't Blair just settle in America and spend the rest of his life licking Republican arse! Poor Ed's flesh must have crawled, when he saw the headline, "Be like me" by Blair, in todays Sun. I genuinely feel sorry for him.

[Alex L]

Some of the questions are amusing though!