What's Ed Miliband playing at?

Stronghold Barricades

The only question anyone should be asking these clowns is:

"Who will be Labour Party leader in 12 months time if you win the election?"

KT everytime

Are we starting to witness Mr Ed coming up stealthily on the inside rails?

Vulture

Another great picture saying more than 1,000 words. Who's the psycho sitting behind the ranting Millipede?

Nicholas

"The last thing Britain needs is a government that thinks its only role is to get out of the way"

Well, for the last 13 years Ed's party has done the exact opposite of that. Pushed its foot and poked its nose into every possible field of what should be private life. And what do we have to show for it? A dysfunctional society, a ruined economy and an oppressive relationship between the state and the individual. Hmm.

What Ed is doing here, and it shows the manipulation that New Labour excel at, is to make it appear as though the Tories vaguely stated policies of what they might do in power are somehow responsible for the 13 years of misery actually wrought by New Labour. This is essentially an opposition plea, airbrushing out any responsibility for 13 years of actual government where none of the progress he so passionately espouses has been achieved and replacing it with a plea to give them another chance - worded like a first chance. In that it is an admission of failure - sort of - but twisted and spun to appear like an opportunity.

I suppose some people may fall for it. Judging by the fact that I don't read into what you do I guess some people already have.

Percy

Nicholas, it's an old trick of Mr Ed's, he tried the same sort of line when Broon was 'elected' PM, I can't remember which programme he was on but he was soon slapped down.

Sunder Katwala

err, missing one crucial piece of info: Ed Miliband is in charge of writing the Labour manifesto.

That is his brief from Gordon Brown, in addition to being climate change secretary.

Rob Alcock

"The clue is in how far he steps off his ministerial beat, to deliver an overall prospectus for the Labour Party:"

...er, isn't that what we'd expect from the man charged with co-ordinating the Labour Party's general election manifesto?

Robert Eve

Who will believe a word of the Labour or Lib Dem manifestos after Lisbon?

Micky D

Is it just me? Every time i see Ed on telly , i think of this bloke ...

http://www.wallaceandgromit.com/

Pete Hoskin

Sunder and Rob: thanks for the comments. Very true. I've added an update above.

Tiberius

I think the answer to your headline, Pete, is failing to be Muhamm Ed Ali.

Is that other character a re-made model of Spitting Image's David Steel puppet?

Number7

@ KT Everytime

As I've said before - "Look out, they're coming round on the blind side"

WRT Climate Change Secretary ( FYI I live on a flat earth ). Could he (Milliwatsit) please explain how warm/hot weather or floods in Cockermouth = AGW (Anthropogenic Global Warming), whereas the current revisitation of a normal winter is merely weather?

Liz Brown

Is this his manifesto for the coming election or the one that never was...........after all Peter Watts was complaining that he hadn't delivered first time around

mitch

These idiots went to court to prove that manifesto promises carry no legal expectation of delivery.
Explain why we should believe anything they say this time.

El Sid

Also not surprising that the Energy Minister is going on about engineering jobs, given that one of the big thrusts is supposed to be about jobs from green technologies such as wave power and offshore wind.

OT, but I see the debtometer is now showing >£30k/family :-(((

Wight Tory

Of course we're worse, of course, of course,
And no one can talk any worse of course
That is, of course, unless you're worse than the famous Mister Ed.

Go right to the source and ask whose worse
He'll say Brown, the answer that you'll endorse.
He's never on a steady course.
Talk to Mister Ed.

Brown's yakkity yak a streak and waste your time of day
But Mr. Ed never speaks sense unless he wants you to pay.

Of course we are worse, of course, of course,
And will talk crap 'til his voice is hoarse.
You never heard of us talking worse?
Well listen to this: "I'm Mister Ed."

In2minds

Ed Miliband, the fruitless one.

Beer Moth

What's Ed Miliband playing at?

The photo' would suggest Charades, perhaps?

Major Plonquer

We have a Miliband D. and a Miliband E. Perhaps someone can tell me what happened to Milibands A, B and C?

One conspiracy theory is that they went the same way as the Preperation A through G haemorrhoid medicines that blazed the metaphorical path for Preparation H.

Another somewhat more Freudian theory is that Ed is consumed by fraternal envy because his big brother has a banana and he doesn't. The psychoanalytical implications of this theory are that if Ed Miliband is ever elected Leader of the Labour Party he'll definitely need Balls.

Andy Carpark

'What's Ed Miliband playing at?'

Flushing an imaginary bog chain, a piece of 'gesture politics' made famous by the clownish Neil Kinnock.

Harder, Ed, harder!

Rob P

Ye Gods, Micky D, now every time I see the bugger, I'll think of Wallace (admittedly with a bit less hair). Thanks... I think.

Hope this doesn't augur a new W&G movie where he invents a nifty global cooling contraption - or has he done so already?

Sevo Slade

Both of them are intellectual lightweights, but at least Ed doesn't make me want to throw a brick through the television set every time his face appears on the news.

Pie

"We need to rebuild our economy in a different way from the past, with more jobs in real engineering not just financial engineering."

Good man.