François Hollande’s France is a preview of Ed Miliband’s Britain. And it’s terrifying
François Hollande and Ed Miliband could be political blood brothers. Neither has held down a job outside politics for any serious length of time. Both have been political bag carriers, graduating to apparatchiks. Both have tried to compensate for their essential blandness by adopting radical left-wing policies. Both now pose as socialists, and tout genuinely big (if dangerous) ideas about capital, labour and society. The biggest difference between them is that Hollande won an election, and has been able to put his politics into practice. So we can look to France to see the kind of future which may await Britain if, as the pollsters and bookmakers believe, Miliband is
