tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post6307409662375180170..comments2024-03-29T07:14:55.029+00:00Comments on All That Is Solid ...: Managing Ed MilibandPhilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-35970932466566545032014-06-13T18:18:04.020+01:002014-06-13T18:18:04.020+01:00I never knew this blog would be the site of a medi...I never knew this blog would be the site of a medical first, but here we have it ladies and gentleman. In this here comment box we have isolated a digital sample of the British disease. Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-15451116496470570102014-06-13T17:50:40.237+01:002014-06-13T17:50:40.237+01:00"Everyone knows Ed's a geek. Everyone als..."Everyone knows Ed's a geek. Everyone also knows geeks are clever, focused and passionate. So why not play up on this."<br /><br />"Ed's an intellectual. Dave isn't."<br /><br />Yes, great, please go for this. All the voters go for geeks, especially out-and-out self-confessed geeks. Go tell the world Ed has "intellectual self-confidence", i.e. is a self-confessed bighead whereas Dave (scoff, snort, get this!)... doesn't! How can that old thicko possibly compete against Labour's campaign of the intelligentsia telling the little people what's best?<br /><br />By the same token Stanley Baldwin will never win over the people with that pipe-chewing plain country-man shtick, and Thatcher (who - gosh! - only got a 2:2 at Oxford, Christ how thick is she?) won't get that homely housewife live-within-yer-means shpiel over.<br /><br />What the British want is someone who can pronounce neo-endogenous growth theory like they know what it means. And who - most important - can sneer at the Tories for not playing the same game.WHSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-77287680797820223672014-06-13T14:09:05.833+01:002014-06-13T14:09:05.833+01:00He's a curious beast. I think he has got nous ...He's a curious beast. I think he has got nous and consistency. You don't get to the top of the Labour pile by being hapless. Then again, we all have our blind spots and this, in politics, are supposed to be the bits your spads and media people keep an eye on. Clearly, something is very, very wrong.Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-87153374552895055882014-06-13T03:06:46.638+01:002014-06-13T03:06:46.638+01:00I got here via a tweet.
I'm not a Labour Party...I got here via a tweet.<br />I'm not a Labour Party member but voted for them in the last General Election after falling out of love with the LibDems during the 2005/7 leadership shenannigans.<br />I will not vote LibDem again, and I have and will never vote Conservative.<br />So, my vote is up for grabs and I've been hovering around Labour since the last election.<br />I absolutely believe you got the wrong Miliband, but what's done is done and you have to do the best with what you've got.<br />I've seen him 'in the flesh' a few times and he comes over as dedicated and thoughtful.<br />The thing is, you can mess around with Miliband Minor all you want, but you will not make him look like a leader while he allows himself to be made to look mindless by his so called advisors.<br />Either he hasn't got the instinct and perception to see that's happening, or he's demonstrating appalling judgement for not stopping these situations arising (advertising The Sun!) then he's not going to win in 2015.<br />If it was down to me, I'd get shot of him now while there's still time.Jackienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-32863004526621877942014-06-11T21:22:43.935+01:002014-06-11T21:22:43.935+01:00It's funny how you go from ultra-leftism to ri...It's funny how you go from ultra-leftism to right-wing positions at the flip of a coin, Speedy ;).<br /><br />Just remember, it was individual union members who decided to back Ed by a small but significant majority. *Individual members*. <br /><br />Okay, you don't like Ed. Fine, that's your prerogative. But put away your David blinkers and look at the evidence. Labour has led the way consistently on a whole raft of policy that addresses the lives of every day folk. That's not me spinning his record - it is demonstrable and real.<br /><br />Do I think Ed should go further? Of course he should. Will he go further if he becomes Prime Minister. Yes, I think he will.<br /><br />Your problem I'm afraid Speedy is you've already given up on 2015, that means you've given up on the chance of scrapping the bedroom tax, tackling zero hours contracts, building up to a million new homes, and significantly raising the minimum wage. That's a shame because all hands are needed on deck and for those, like you, who are anti-Ed, instead of moaning you need to start thinking about how to use his strengths more effectively - that is, of course, if you want us to win.Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-19433708160438281712014-06-10T08:04:47.294+01:002014-06-10T08:04:47.294+01:00er.... actually, as a Labour member i did not vote...er.... actually, as a Labour member i did not vote for him, because i knew he was the wrong candidate.<br /><br />The majority of Labour members voted for his brother.<br /><br />Ed was put in by the unions, looking out for their own interests. Ordinary members knew he was a loser.<br /><br />the unions are congenitally stupid - ushered in Thatcher with their winter of discontent and handicapped Labour with their placeman, incapable of preventing them carving up the NHS or defending the public sector from the blame of the crisis.<br /><br />What an utter, utter loser, only it's the people who lost. Thanks again unions. Speedynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-87293547653034453132014-06-09T14:33:09.300+01:002014-06-09T14:33:09.300+01:00The "knifing your own brother" claptrap ...The "knifing your own brother" claptrap is pure Daily Mail speak. We voted for him, remember, because we believed he was the right candidate Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-37263539828365920072014-06-09T10:15:20.515+01:002014-06-09T10:15:20.515+01:00Point 7:
Then let's hope nobody minds not hav...Point 7:<br /><br />Then let's hope nobody minds not having a referendum vote on the EU.<br /><br />Gary Elsbynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-7664923063918747382014-06-09T09:13:23.400+01:002014-06-09T09:13:23.400+01:00all well and good, but you're wrong on (4) - a...all well and good, but you're wrong on (4) - apart from Syria, what?<br /><br />he totally lost (did not even make) the most important argument - he let the public sector take the blame for the crisis. Criminal incompetence. <br /><br />furthermore it is not just being a geek - the public knows he cannot make a decision. He is congenitally indecisive, except when it comes to knifing his own brother (which was never going to go down well). <br /><br />And he is indecisive Phil, it's not just a mis-perception. He will not win the election. Speedynoreply@blogger.com