tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post8315218642474069362..comments2024-03-27T09:14:27.496+00:00Comments on All That Is Solid ...: What #webackEd MeansPhilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-86904721574444847742014-11-16T16:08:16.783+00:002014-11-16T16:08:16.783+00:00Ed being reported in a little more positive way he...Ed being reported in a little more positive way here.<br />http://www.scotsman.com/news/euan-mccolm-ed-miliband-down-but-not-out-1-3606384Vinyl Minerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14143010575470895405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-90057341484804564202014-11-10T19:49:13.843+00:002014-11-10T19:49:13.843+00:00I happened to stumble across the Heil on Sunday. T...I happened to stumble across the Heil on Sunday. THREE PAGES of utterly fabricated coverage on MiliE, including dredging up a load of has-beens and never-weres, and what seems to be an entirely made up quote by Hunt, the only person of any relevance quoted, but then he wasn't actually quoted given that he probably didn't say what he allegedly said.<br /><br />As I have said I won't be voting for Labour- and nothing I've seen of Ruth Smeeth has convinced me otherwise- but whatever you've done to scare them, you've done it good and proper.<br /><br />I find Miliband's ideas a mixture of the unfeasble and the undesirable- I think, for instance, that his energy policy will end in tears- but I've always rated his abilities more highly and I think we are likely to get him, even if we don't want him.*<br /><br />In spite of the claims, I don't think anyone of any seriousness expects a change. Neither Umunnah or Johnson has shown any signs of actually wanting the job or trying to get it or anything. This is all just an attempt by certain media types to weaken Miliband, who reigns supreme as far as I can see, and it can only be because they fear him.<br /><br />*This belief, although it basically stands, has waned somewhat given recent doings in Scotland. My attempts to warn that Yessers were still a force to be rekoned with and shouldn't be ignored fell on deaf ears. I'll find occasion, I'm sure, to bore you with details of the two elections in 1910 but suffice to say the SNP replacing Labour is a threat no one seems to have prepared for and they should have listened to me. I still think he can come out ahead but Shameron, followed closely by Cleggover and MiliE, has caused grief here.asquithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14246701347539264295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-33466154436088876842014-11-10T12:41:14.302+00:002014-11-10T12:41:14.302+00:00I believe the last paragraph to be flawed to that ...I believe the last paragraph to be flawed to that of the Conservatives.<br />The idea that Ed storms it in Leader's debates is the long shot that Labour foot-soldiers are hinging on.<br />Flawed but not if there is more in the bag.<br />I'm not seeing too much on pensioners or 'the workers' of whom make up almost everyone other than immigrants and under-graduates!<br />Boosting the minimum wage is a back-door way of elevating wages overall but is clumsy and long winded. Zero hours contracts is a minority sport with an outlook on the mass conscience.<br />Your last paragraph is weak if it is representative of the big idea.<br /><br />The Tories are giving us our pensions, EU referendum and high 'free tax' and their line appears to be of a Grande style.<br />My belief is that more is to come from their locker.<br /> Gary Elsbynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-73038394342989699982014-11-10T08:50:29.751+00:002014-11-10T08:50:29.751+00:00Indeed: I said it here.Indeed: <a href="http://averypublicsociologist.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/its-sense-of-security-stupid.html" rel="nofollow">I said it here</a>.Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-33480911633831298032014-11-09T22:52:22.317+00:002014-11-09T22:52:22.317+00:00The problem re. the last paragraph is that voters ...The problem re. the last paragraph is that voters don't vote too much on policy - they vote on a narrative, an idea. Labour lacks that. It's systemic in an age when social democratic parties across Europe have been entirely compromised by neoliberalism and therefore don't have a clue how to respond to traditional parties of the right.EightFolkPathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15855020518921234108noreply@blogger.com