Tag Archives: ed miliband

Ed Miliband dodges the bullet

2:24pm Fri May 4th

Miliband’s opponents on both sides of the chamber were hoping that today would be the moment things got very sticky for the Labour leader (see this cartoon from ConHome).

But with the SNP failing to snatch Glasgow City Council and and Ken Livingstone’s defeat balanced by a strong showing on the London Assembly, Miliband-aligned Labour sources are digging their heels in: “None of those looking to destabilise Ed can deliver the change the party needs.”

Or as one Glasgweigan MP put it:

“This is astonishing. The SNP have been well f**ked!”

No wonder David Cameron wants to talk about porn.

“Drop the Health Bill” e-petition gains 12,000 signatures in one day

3:00pm Tue February 14th

5 comments

In perhaps the most effective thing that Ed Miliband’s team have done with his Twitter account, the opposition leader’s team have helped to push an e-petition against the Health Bill such that it has gained 12,000 signatures in one day (click here to sign).

But as ever collectivism is key and a fair portion of these signatures are likely to be the work of campaign group 38 Degrees, who have today also asked their members to sign the petition.

Meanwhile, elsewhere on social media, our nation’s prime minister is disseminating cat photos:

Perhaps Cameron should get his priorities straight.

“Doncaster” doctor used by Cameron at PMQs doesn’t live in Doncaster

4:43pm Thu January 26th

9 comments

A “Doncaster” doctor used by David Cameron to promote his health reforms yesterday has quit his commissioning group and doesn’t even live in Doncaster. The prime minister attempted to embarrass Miliband at PMQs by quoting a medical worker supposedly from his own constituency:

Speaking as acting chairman of the Doncaster pathfinder CCG he said this: ”Becoming one of the first national pathfinding areas is a real boost for Doncaster” … I think what is good for Doncaster is good for the rest of the NHS too.”

But the health profession magazine GP magazine has revealed that Dr Conner was no longer chairman of the commissioning group — at the cornerstone of Andrew Lansley’s controversial reforms — and had actually left the area.

Nice attack line. Shame about the facts.

Chilly Mili: Ed Miliband pretends it’s not freezing in Davos

3:56pm Thu January 26th

4 comments

With temperatures barely above zero in the canton of Graubünden, Ed Miliband was determined that his tailoring shouldn’t go to waste earlier this afternoon — shunning a much-required coat while conducting interviews.

Someone please give him a scarf.

Ed Miliband: American football fan?

10:34am Mon January 23rd

6 comments

While British political geeks remain transfixed by the Republican primary race, it would seem Ed Miliband is eyeing another American contest: the NFL play-offs. Sure to shock many who never had him down as an aficionado of Gridiron, Ed’s comprehensive tweet summary of the New England Patriots- Baltimore Ravens stateside showdown was full of expertise befitting of an armchair supporter:

It will come as a blow to Ed’s football team Leeds United. While, the Labour leader has previously described himself as a “lapsed” follower of the Whites, his commitment to the Massachusetts based Patriots leaves little doubt as to who is the apple of Ed’s eye.

We look forward with interest to Ed’s analysis of the Super Bowl.

UPDATE (11:07) »Apparently Ed became a fan of the New England Patriots and Boston Red Sox while his family stayed in Boston during his father’s tenure at Brandeis University.

↑↑ Return to top of story ↑↑

Newt Gingrich steals “predators” attack line from Ed Miliband

10:35am Wed January 11th

5 comments

Newt Gingrich’s ailing nomination campaign has hit on a bold new strategy – appropriating attack lines from Ed Miliband. The Labour leader’s predators and producers concept, the centrepiece of his conference speech last September, is being used by the Republican grandee by in his latest media assaults on Mitt Romney.

As Romney closed in on victory in New Hampshire, Gingrich’s campaign attacked the bedrock of his business credentials: his time at Bain Capital LLC where he “advised” companies to fire workers and outsource to developing countries.

In what is set to be the basis of a new anti-Romney TV ad campaign, one of Gingrich’s advisers said:

“Mitt Romney is not a capitalist. He is a predatory corporate mugger. If you ever wonder why so many manufacturing jobs are overseas, you need to look no further than Mitt Romney.”

This uses remarkably similar language to Ed Miliband’s address to delegates in Manchester:

“Producers train, invest, invent, sell. Things Britain does brilliantly. Predators are just interested in the fast buck, taking what they can out of the business. This isn’t about one industry that’s good and another that isn’t.”

This isn’t the first time that US politicians have borrowed from Labour. In 1987 now-Vice President Joe Biden’s nomination campaign came to an abrupt end when he was accused of plagiarising a speech by Neil Kinnock on university education and social mobility.

The Gingrich that stole Miliband.

Miliband vs Humphrys: Today interview called “Radio 4 Jedward”

10:50am Tue January 10th

1 comment

In a quarrelsome interview on Radio 4’s Today Programme, John Humphrys quizzed Ed Miliband on the Labour leader’s speech later this morning and his grand vision for the party.

Mired with sibling-like squabbling from Humphrys, the host’s interview style ensured tiffs blighted the encounter between (John) Humphrys and (Edward) Miliband, leading to the Today Programme’s Garry Richardson cheekily taking the opportunity to refer to the duo as “Radio 4’s answer to Jedward”.

With the Labour leader poised to deliver a keynote speech from London’s Oxo Tower, Miliband is expected to warn his party over spending and challenge the notion that Labour are solely a party for the good times.

The main event starts at 11.30. Stay tuned for updates.

Ed Miliband tweets “Blackbusters” instead of “Blockblusters”

2:27pm Fri January 6th

2 comments

Poor Ed — it seems it’s been one of those weeks.

Has he been taking Twitter lessons from Diane Abbott?

UPDATE (14:50) »In discussions on whether the gaffe was a typographical error or some form of Freudian slip, some have pointed out how far the letter A is from O on a normal QWERTY keyboard. But could Ed's office have been using the alternative Dvorak Simplified Keyboard available on many smartphones?

↑↑ Return to top of story ↑↑

Tag Archives: ed miliband

Follow us on Twitter