Miliband needs coaching
Mary Wakefield 3:39pm
When David Miliband's team get together this afternoon to talk through his performance on the Jeremy Vine show, I hope they realise they've got to do something about his voice. There's the embarrassing 'mockney' accent (not shared by brother Ed). And worse -- his recent attempt to widen his appeal and stop dropping his t's: "Grea', sorry I mean GreaT" "Vo'ers, I mean voTers".
Then there's the fact that DM's attempts at a Blairish matey-ness end up sounding not just patronising, but slightly psychotic. It's as if he's convinced we're all brain-dead cretins, so he's putting on his special slow, patient voice in the hope that it helps us get the point: "If you bother to think about it, it's really quite simple, Terry."
Can Mr "I can" learn to disguise his contempt for the people he hopes to lead?
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Full Steam Ahead
July 31st, 2008 3:55pm Report this commentI think DM could turn out to be the Portillo of New Labour. If DB does bring down GB he will be hated by sections of the party and in the country he will be seen as a man who cannot be trusted with blood on his hands.
He would have been wiser to let GB lose the next election then take over in a more amicable way.
If oil falls and interest rates are cut in '09 economic panic should abate and GB could re-base the party.
Drew
July 31st, 2008 4:15pm Report this commentHe could start by giving that moustache back to Ronald Coleman.
Craig Barrett
July 31st, 2008 4:19pm Report this commentActually, I reckon the moustache makes him look like Raul Julia playing Gomez Addams.
Tracey
July 31st, 2008 4:27pm Report this commentI like him. He is actually quite good looking in a geeky way. Although I can't believe he is OLDER than Cameron.
David
July 31st, 2008 4:36pm Report this commentIt's Cesar Romero's moustache and you know it! ;)
Mary, I agree about the fake accent. That said, have you ever noticed how Ed sounds almost 'exactly' like Tony Blair? It's the staccato wot does it.
TrevorH
July 31st, 2008 4:50pm Report this commentGood looking? ho ho
Moustache? what moustache - thats just seedy 5 o'clock shadow surely?
MW has picked upon what i said yesterday. He is faking his jokeyness mateyness - as shown to absurd proportions when he was doorstepped by a Newsnight reporter. Of course it could be the enormity of his mistake has dawned on him.
If he believes that Brown should be replaced then the only honourable course should be to resign. He is hoping that his actions undermine Brown and position him but without him actually doing anything directly himself.
Milliband is an empty headed Marxist 'wonk'. He has nothing more to offer Britain over Brown except a thin veneer of humanity - very thin.
Marian C
July 31st, 2008 6:19pm Report this comment"I like him. He is actually quite good looking in a geeky way"
Good god Tracey, if you think he's good looking then I'm sorry to have to say; you really need to get out more.
Millie both looks and sounds like a dope.
The media keep saying how brilliant and intelligent he is, but were is the evidence!
From what I can see, if he had an extra brain cell then he'd probably make a good rubber plant.
Charlie T
July 31st, 2008 6:38pm Report this commentSurely the tache makes him look like Private Joe Walker and the cod cockney accent too.
All the more prescient as hes trying to sell us shoddy knock off goods as well.
Elizabeth Elliot-Pyle
July 31st, 2008 9:12pm Report this commentWhy doesnt he just have the courage of his convictions and GO FOR IT?
It seems to me that he is behaving in a cowardly and dishonourable manner.
Nu labour through and through then.
Captain Coma
July 31st, 2008 9:54pm Report this commentHe is Monkey Boy.
Lance Diatessaron
August 1st, 2008 8:33am Report this commentAnd he's got a Lego haircut.
Philip Eden
August 1st, 2008 9:26am Report this commentHas anyone considered that older voters (the most likely to do so) will look with contempt with someone who drops his Ts? Blair did it and so does Harman but that's affectation. I think Milliband does it from sloppiness. And can we vote for somebody who can't grow a moustache.
Trivial points maybe but remember the PM has a finger on the nuclear trigger amd can we trust a little boy with that?
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