The court of Ed has a new hero. Francois Hollande, who was credited with ‘turning the tide’ of austerity by taking a ‘different way forward’, has been usurped by Bill de Blasio, the Democrat Mayor-elect of New York, who Team Ed credit with a ‘different kind’ of politics.
Ed’s greybeard Lord Wood has penned a gushing paean to de Blasio in today’s Telegraph. Wood applauds de Blasio’s ‘Disraelian theme: “One New York, Rising Together”’. Mr S can’t see all that much of Disraeli in de Blasio’s mundane slogan — the word ‘one’ seems to have assumed mythic proportions in the minds of Ed’s counsellors. Then again, it’s Lord Wood’s business to talk nonsense and he’s very good at it.
His lordship has also flagged up one newspaper editorial: ‘the Daily News said in its endorsement of his candidacy, “De Blasio will arrive in City Hall with a mandate to ease the punishing cost of living”’. Now, where have we heard that phrase before? It’s almost as if Labour believes that its message for 2015 has been road tested on the streets of the Big Apple.
It’s a coincidence, I’m sure, that the Daily News is edited by former News of the World editor Colin Myler, whose daughter Katie used to work for Miliband and who is married to Greg Beales, who remains an integral part of Team Ed. A small word, eh?
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