David Miliband strikes for the middle ground

Frank P

The sins of the father - beware! It's in the genes. The "Y" chromosome should be regarded as the "Why, indeed?" chromosome and the answer should be, "Not on your Nelly!" We must ruthlessly rid ourselves of this mutated Marxist virus. It's here in this magazine and you don't need a microscope to see it. It looms large between the lines in the shape of youthful eejits mesmerised by the spawn of the devil.

libertarian

Can anyone explain to me why everyone is obsessed with the small number of centre ground middle class voters yet no one pays any attention to the 60% of voters who never vote.

Why do we not have a mainstream political party that wants to represent the aspirations and wants of 60% of the country yet we have 3 parties who think Guardian readers and the BBC represent the people

Alex

Can you please fix the font on your posts. Every time you quote something the final paragraph looks tiny. Or is it just my screen?

John Lees

The Grandfather was worse he was a Polish Stalinist who forght against the Poles in the Russian/Polish war.

Chuck Unsworth

Well, Bob Crow and RMT strike for nothing. What's Miliband D's position on the Unions?

Maggie

How much are you deluded fools at the Spectator being paid for this daily onslaught of publicity for David Miliband? And what is the basis for your belief that anyone is interested?

justathought

If Labour ever was a centrist party then it was a wolf in sheep's clothing. They alienated the centre long ago with their 50 stealth taxes and immigration policy.

The social housing program , thinly disguised as an attempt to house our doctors, nurses and firemen, in reality was a magnet for economic immigrants wanting a free ride.

Nowhere else in europe could you pitch up and leap frog to the top of the local housing list while the locals languished for years on the waiting list. Couple that with the benefits these people enjoy and you can see why the low paid and middle classes abandoned labour.

Furthermore labour was seen to use the revenue of the country to prop up every pet labour quango while expanding the public sector. There was simply no way they could win the election and bring about the correction that the new coalition will deliver.

David Milliband would be the best leader that labour could choose however the voters that left labour will not trust him to change the mindset of the unions and other looney left to which they are associated.

Paul Hawkins

Whilst conveniently forgetting that he and his cohorts spent 13 years undermining and attacking the 'middle classes' and masked their assault by allowing the population to borrow a deluge of cheap money and sprayed benefits everywhere to buy votes. Now that strategy has failed, what brilliant alternative is he offering ?

He has zero credibility and zero bloody clue about what happens in the real world.

Verityred

Oh dear, the true Labour faithful aren't going to like this one bit. Still, won't stop some of them strapping on the tribal blinkers and voting for him. D Millibland, another closet Maggie fan.

Then the wailing and gnashing of teeth will start all over again. Good.

charles hercock

It is opposition we are talking about
Elections are 5 years off
Where is the opposition fire in David M's belly?

TrevorsDen

Get back on the medication.

Miliband is not the spawn of the devil - he is just a very very misguided boy.

bohodotcom

What on earth does the middle ground constitute these days???

ollie

Another day goes by - and yes - another plug for miliband by the speccie.

Stuart Seacole Smith

I really do worry these days about what the Spectator tries to pass off as the "middle ground". One man's middle ground is another's loony-left quagmire.

"Justathought" puts it well above I think.

And the fact that MiliD manages some semblance of a sane individual in search of the middle ground doesn't make it so. Think back to Bambi's earlier days, the big smile, the endless silky-smooth porky-pies, that allowed the Labour government to grindingly implement their poisonous social policies behind the scenes.

MiliD doesn't represent the middle ground and never will either. But he's the most dangerous candidate because he's likely to be the best at saying soothing things while labour get up to their usual soul-destroying quangotastic mischief.

Ultimately, I think you could say MiliD's the most fundamentally dishonest of the lot - at least the others proudly sport their tinfoil hats for all to see. Still, there's a fair way to go to the next election (I hope), and it's a game of two halves, anything can happen, it's all to play for, and all that...

I'm hoping MiliE gets it. Now that'd be funny.

Frank P

Trevor's Den

Your amusing ploy of deeming anyone clinically mad who doesn't agree with your take on events is consistent, I'll grant you that much. As for 'very misguided boy'; poison in the genes is a much more profound condition than 'misguided'- nature as well as nurture is involved in the evolution of the Milisiblings; why do you think that they have risen like scum from the cesspool of socialism? Moreover, if you don't think that Marxism is hell on earth, then you haven't been paying attention to the history of the last 100 years or so. Metaphorical maybe, but 'spawn of the devil' is by no means inappropriate. The LSE has spread its political pus throughout academia and seeded/polluted an entire generation.

Baron

and does the poll say anything about his standing amongst the growers, suppliers of bananas?

Boudicca

I don't think the country's ready to vote for someone with a lopsided face who talks out of one side of his mouth (although I suppose that's an improvement on his brother, who looks like one of the muppets and talks out of his ar$e).

Andy Carpark

Frank P speaks the truth. How Miliband D makes his pitch for the centre ground is uncannily reminiscent of how Nuth would have practised his art upon the Gnoles.

http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~fadey/ss5.html

Antichrist is coming!

Maggie

The one mildly amusing thing about Miliband is that he thinks his only selling point would be an endorsement from the Tories. Anonymous (ie imaginary) Tories are forever telling him and his friends that the Tories live in fear of him.
His spin doctor, Madlin Sadler, former lobbyist and daughter of Barry Sheerman MP, must have a vivid imagination.

Dorothy Wilson

"According to the Guardian, MiliD has a signigicant [sic] lead when it comes to which candidate is the "most effective alternative to Cameron"."

So that's gospel then!

ian boyd

Why on earth would we want someone in power who chooses to share the knackered flatlands of quiet despair with us centre-dwellers. Washed-up consensus is no ticket out. Say something interesting instead.