Miliband tells the unions 'tough'

Paddy

But where does this "plonker".....sorry "man of steel" stand.

Is he to the left, right, centre left, centre right, outside. Or is he waiting to decide.

ellis000

Yes, it's all very believable. Wallace talks tough and all the Trades Union godfathers threaten their worst. What a load of horseshit. This is staged to help the relaunch of Labour's Idiot in Chief and I for one don't believe a bit of it.

Mark

"It seems that Miliband has decided to pivot off the attack on him by the Unite and GMB unions, to use them to try and show the electorate that he’s his own man and is fiscally credible."
Sorry, fella, I'm not with you. Could you post the video you're referring to? There is no member of any electorate outside of North Korea or somewhere where men where fetching white dresses who would think anything other than that Miliband is some kind of prototype software in need of a tweak. If this is politics, bring on the post-political. Or are we there? Or is this The Daily Mash? Gah!

Scotty

They're working as a team at last - good cop = milliE : bad cop = Mc the strike.
Of course this ploy will be seen through by the wiser than labour gives credit for public.
Its called a bluff in poker and also in negotiating for power.Beers all round tonight, or is champagne the normal tipple for the affluent, who include trade union fat cats such as our Mc.

David Ossitt

We listened to this awful man being interview by Nick Robinson for the BBC 6pm evening news, he was dreadful, he was worse than dreadful he was dire he was desperate; he was atrocious, so much so that I expressed my sorrow on his behalf.

She, who must be obeyed, turned on me a withering look and said ‘stop that’ ‘after 13 years of New Labour this is part of our revenge’.

She is right of course, the pestilent dung-heap that was in power that spawned Blair, Brown and all the rest of the incompetents simply had to bring forth a freak, how could it not, that he is a monstrosity is beyond doubt, his speech, his look, his manner, his ideas are all lusus naturae.

Phil

Ed Macchiavelliband deliberately distancing himself from the Unions to prove to the disenchanted working classes,slowly recovering from a decade of unmitigated pain in the wallet,that he is not a Union poodle but on their side? He isn't that clever and more importantly If it is the plane I suspect the public are not that gullible.

BigAl

You just have to see the interviews with Sky, BBC and ITV to realise that Labour and Ed M have no policies. They think they can use lies, smoke and mirrors to con the electorate into voting for them in 2015.

Fake anger from the unions and tough talk from Ed will convince no-one.

The level of deceit is staggering!

Johnnydub

The Labour party is utterly skint. With all the upcoming campaigns over the enxt four years, the loss of the Unite funding could leave the party utterly impotent.

Socialists running out of other people's money - (C) Maggie the Prophet

Gawain

This is just the sort of nauseating spin that puts many people off politics. Unfortunately for Dead Ed we've all become inured to it. Phoney Tony and clause 4, Gordon Broon's love fest with the City, Super Dave standing up to the nasty party. And now we're supposed to believe that an avowed socialist is "taking on the unions. It is all so dull and predictable and completely meaningless. Please give us something interesting to debate.

Woody

What utter, utter tosh - we are being played like a fiddle. I can't believe people are falling for this desperate stunt.

Tankus

The man of steel and grit couldn't even keep a straight face when giving it large ...!
Look at the failed suppressed smirk's on the video at.....
0.39.... "labour tough choices"
1.12 ....."what labour cuts "
2.00 ...." cuts to save jobs"
2.50 ...." I'm leading the party"
..they really need someone whose better at dishing out pork pies

Russell

The idiot miliband says the coalition will not have paid off the deficit in 2015 therefore he will, (if elected) have to do the right thing and have cuts and pay freezes!!!!!!!!
What none of the interviewers asked was, has he forgotten that labour promised if elected in 2010 to halve the deficit by 2015, so he would have had a large deficit even if he had been in office 2010 to 2015.

Miliband is just awful.

David Lindsay

Plenty of alternative policy and campaigning work would be more than happy to take the money of that minority of trade unions which has ever been affiliated to the Labour Party.

I don't mean the Far Left, either. There is already the RMT for them until they join the Conservative Party and it crows over them while they continue to give their former groupuscules as their parties on their House of Commons passes. Seriously.

I mean alternative policy and campaigning work rooted in the trade union, co-operative and mutual, Radical Liberal, Tory populist, Christian Socialist, Social Catholic and Distributist, and other wholly non-Marxist roots of the Labour Movement. Including candidacies for office? Why not?

Lee Jakeman

I once saw an empty cab pull up outside the BBC - and Ed Miliband got out.

Sir Everard Digby

Funding will dictate Ed's policies -his paymasters put him in power and keep his party afloat. They also sponso a number of his MPs. Without that funding his aprty are screwed.

He will follow whatever policy is dicated to him,or be replaced with someone who will.

So this charade is nothing more than a media-inspired,column-inches filling exercise.

If Ed has such steel and determination and is an intelligent man of principle, why could he not articulate his balanced,well- reasoned argument for his case?

Answer -he does not have one. What we get instead is a James Joyce stream of consciousness piece.

Most of will be asking - what will Ed be standing for tomorrow? and how on earth will be understand what that is?

Chris lancashire

Has ANY politician EVER made a "difficult decision"?

Cynic

"‘I’m leading this party and making the difficult decisions. And if people don't like it, I’m afraid it's tough, because that is the way I’ve got to lead this party’" It's only words. There'll be another string along shortly.