Miliband: I won’t share a stage with Clegg
David Blackburn 4:12pm
Ed Miliband has been on Sky, talking about the alternative vote and Nick Clegg. The
normally consensual Miliband was in strident mood. He said:
‘I want to win the AV referendum because I think it is important to reform our politics and I think it will make for a more accountable democracy and one where more votes count. The problem is Nick Clegg is the last thing we need to win this referendum.’
Earlier this morning, Miliband also urged Clegg to ‘lie low for a bit', after the latter's office allegedly derailed a joint event on AV between Miliband and Charlie Kennedy.
Miliband may be dabbling in the Leader of the Opposition’s stock-in-trade of curt throwaway lines, but this could signify a policy shift. As Pete noted at the weekend, Ed Balls’ description of the deputy prime minister as a 'desperate, shrill and discredited politician' was at odds with Miliband's New Year rapprochement with Clegg. Miliband’s comments today seem to indicate that Labour will not be dealing with Clegg; or perhaps the Labour leader belives he won’t need to.
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Bellevue
March 14th, 2011 4:29pm Report this commentWhat a thoroughly nasty piece of work that Ed Milliband is.
Holly ......
March 14th, 2011 4:35pm Report this commentThis Miliband bod really has a high oppinion
of himself.
Clegg would not deal with Bozo,(much credit to him for that)so why does Miliband now think Clegg would want anything to do with Balls & Bozo's chief tea maker?
Is Miliband having to distance himself from the union bods AGAIN?
I thought the unions were against AV.
Lonesome Dave
March 14th, 2011 4:36pm Report this commentThe ramblings of both Miliband Jnr and Balls have little or no bearing on the world of domestic politics, outside of the leanings of the Guardian/BBC axis.
Lightweight operators in an outmoded socialist organisation.
TrevorsDen
March 14th, 2011 5:01pm Report this commentSo Miliband wants a system of coalitions just so long as he can dictate who the leader of the other party is?
What a pity EdM left the country in such a mess and forced all these hard choices on the LDs, whilst his own Labour party ran away from them.
If there is any discredited party leader around then EdM sees him every morning in the mirror.
Fatbloke on tour
March 14th, 2011 5:15pm Report this commentFailed Blogger @ 5.01
I take it you have given up commentating on Libya, your comments on the Rafaele went down like Cleggy's poll ratings.
Oh and how are you getting on with your homework?
You know, warship recognition, can you tell the difference between a T22 frigate and a T42 destroyer?
peteN
March 14th, 2011 5:30pm Report this commentThis Ed Milliband needs to grow up how childish can you get they are pathetic to put it politely i wolud call him something lot less pleasant to his face thats for sure it is a good job they are no longer of any concern and if the people of the Nation have any sense they never will be again we also need to crush the life right out of AV it is an american idea we need to be without
Ian Walker
March 14th, 2011 5:45pm Report this commentCan anyone tell me the last time that a Labour politician did anything at all that wasn't just for narrow political gain? Or even rarer, was driven entirely by principle?
The Tories might be money-grabbing scumbags, but at least they're honest about it.
chris as usual
March 14th, 2011 6:04pm Report this commentWe all know that any political party favours 'first past the post' if it thinks that it has a chance of an overall majority.
Lib Dem knows it has no chance at all; Hence Proportional Representation (Incidentally they know that AV is rubbish, but it's better than nowt for them)
Liebore: Interesting; do they really want PR? Of course not - this is Miliband mucking around again.
Tories: Surely this experience of a coalition will mean they NEVER want to see PR in any form
TomTom
March 14th, 2011 6:15pm Report this commentFirst it was the BNp then the LibDems....pretty soon Ed will have the podium to himself
xenophon
March 14th, 2011 8:04pm Report this commentIf I were Nick Clegg, and if I bothered about this at all, I'd be heartily thankful.
Liz Brown
March 14th, 2011 8:09pm Report this commentHow I wish that the two Eds would follow their own advice and lie low - silence from them and the ghastly Yvette would be bliss
Anne Wotana Kaye 1
March 14th, 2011 8:43pm Report this commentI've heard that one should never share a stage with either a child or an animal. Into which category does Clegg go? As for the Millipede, neither child nor animal, perhaps both are just slush.
normanc
March 15th, 2011 7:07am Report this commentMiliband knows that a lot of non-committed Lib Dem voters now view Clegg as something they'd normally scrape off the bottom of their shoes so it's not a bad move by him to denounce him.
As for him backing AV, I've always thought AV would mean a Lib Dem / Labour bloc keeping the Tories out of power in perpetuity. That Cameron has foisted this on us is unforgivable, if it passes.
JK Rawling
March 15th, 2011 7:49am Report this commentPetulant little so and so isn't he?
Tiberius
March 15th, 2011 8:45am Report this commentI guess he just doesn't agree with Nick.
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