No policies: it must be a catching Labour disease
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September 29, 2011 at 10:21am
British Labour leader Ed Miliband
Damian Reece in The Telegraph today:
Ed Miliband will remain a hypocrite until he comes up with specific policies
Ah, but he’s probably hiding them so that David Cameron and Nick Clegg don’t steal his cunning plans.
I’ve posted a link to the article, below.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/damianreece/8792840/Ed-Miliband-will-remain-a-hypocrite-until-he-comes-up-with-specific-policies.html
Never did think that Ed was leadership material. (maybe it’s the lisp). His brother would have been more formidable.
You’ve got it spot on about both our Labour ‘leader’ and Ed have similar non-policies.
However the best comparison is that they are both hypocrites. Little Joey, however, lives it, although he can’t spell it.
David Miliband would not have been acceptable to the majority of us. He was complicit in clandestine rendition on behalf of the US, and was also caught out in the MPs’ expenses scandal.. Ed, on the other hand, did not even apply for all the expenses funds to which he was entitled.
Unfortunately, ‘nice’ guys usually finish last in politics, Susan. We’ll see.
Following this coverage I particularly liked the usual pungent and straight-to-the-point style comment by Norman Tebbit about the endemic improper use of vocablualry by socialists and their selective history amnesia.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/normantebbit/100107561/ed-miliband-cant-help-himself-hes-a-backward-looking-socialist/
I read somewhere today: “Labour, a no policy zone”.
Was watching BBC News on Monday and was amused at seeing the journalist at the Labour Conference interviewing a 16-year old “delegate” (yes they used that term) who had delivered his address which was received with a standing ovation.
[Daphne – All conferences have delegates, Alfred, not just party conferences.]
In the short clips that we were shown he was all “This is bad… NHS reform will ruin people… Government should better avoid doing this… and that.”
It rang a bell. Now I’m convinced that he was probably being mentored by Nakita and the other elves.
Well, I had the same feeling when reading the Daily Mail of Tuesday 27th. An article in this paper mentions Ed Miliband encouraging youngsters to get involved more in politics. He tried this on Twitter and got a lot of abuse and had to abandon the campaign. With the Start campaign FZL seems to be copying the British Labour Party.
Soon on Twitter:
Il-PL jesiġi bilanċ u imparzjalità fix-xandir tal-Blokk Ta’ Defni.
Well, just a typical Daily Tory Telegraph op-ed….
Both Labour Parties are in the same predicament.
They have picked the wrong leader and are desperately trying to unravel the mess.
Both parties are using the same tactics.
The leader is allowed, even encouraged, to make a fool of himself in public. He talks drivel and is applauded.
In the UK Red Ed will soon be history.
In Malta, Joey will survive only because the vast majority of the party grass roots are harebrained.
Found this on Facebook… thought it would be worth copying here:
“Skont l-Orizzont, il-PM huwa ddeterminat li jsejjaħ elezzjoni bikrija, imma l-maġġoranza tal-Ministri ma jaqblux miegħu.
Dan kollu, skont l-Orizzont, ħareġ mil-laqgħa tal-Kabinett tal-Ministri li saret nhar it-Tnejn u li l-ġurnal tal-GWU ddeskriviha bħala laqgħa li kienet taħraq aktar mis-soltu u f’rapport li ngħata prominenza fil-faċċata, qal li kienet waħda mimlija tensjoni.
Dan kollu, pero’, jirriżulta li mhu xejn ħlief fantasija, għax nhar it-Tnejn lanqas biss saret il-laqgħa tal-kabinett u għaldaqstant din tal-Orizzont hija biss storja vvintata, gidba mill-bidu sal-aħħar.
Il-Gvern spjega li nhar it-Tnejn ma saritx laqgħa tal-kabinett għax il-PM kien fi triqtu lura minn New York wara li ħa sehem u indirizza l-Assemblea Ġenerali tan-Nazzjonijiet Uniti.”
Another perspective:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/sep/27/ed-miliband-polly-toynbee-commentary
Out of topic, but from Mlatasatr today:
The two, 17 year old Josè Luis Monroy Garcia and , 27 year old Ricardo Yague Llorente, respectively were drinking in straight street in the early hours of the morning….
…….. and they ended up in dire straits.
Why do I get the impression that these whizz kids are either into shortselling stocks or hogging the political limelight?
It’s not a catching disease, it’s arriviste ambition inhibiting perception, I believe it’s called psychosis.
Funny how they use generalisation and fear to disrupt anything beyond them. It’s so tasteless and insulting when they go on about someone else, appropriating any hope of a serious analysis.
What they lack in depth and authority they compensate with pomp and cheek.
Who gives a toss who they ‘like’? Do they seriously believe we’ll mentally connect them to the results achieved by others?
I never heard Fenech Adami do that, nor Lawrence Gonzi and neither Alfred Sant for that matter.
These are spoilt brats, weaned on reality shows and soundbites, whose political allegiance is only an instrument to power and its perks. On second thoughts, just its perks.
Yet another power-hungry champagne socialist.
It seems he does have one single policy, exactly the same one Jozef has:
“This was how Ed Miliband’s ‘Promise of Britain” speech got underway today. Twenty minutes after the Labour leader was supposed to have started, the assembled members of the public and press were still waiting for him to appear.”
http://www.totalpolitics.com/blog/159322/heavy-on-the-problems-light-on-the-solutions.thtml
Every time I watch Ed Miliband speak, I can’t help thinking what a terrible choice the British Labour Party made for its new leader.
Considering that Joseph Muscat looks up at this chap for inspiration, we are surely heading for a rough roller-coaster ride.
It’s not perhaps “it must be a catching Labour disease”, but it is definitely a condition Labour Parties suffer from.
The sort of people who are attracted to Labour are the ones who tend to favour over-simplistic and childish solutions which the naive will swallow hook, line and sinker.
Anyone with a few active grey cells will never follow a Labour Party, be it Maltese, British or whatever.
However the (Malta) Labour Party is at a particular disadvantage having a leader who is young, inexperienced and takes up to six years to understand the result of a referendum.
Watching an Ed Miliband speech is a total waste of time. You wait and wait for that something which is THE solution and he ends up with “ I haven’t finished yet” (while there is a long applause)…..you wait, and wait, and Sylvester says: “no party like Labour can run the NHS like it does” (or something to that effect) …and then the final applause.
What do you make of this Daf ?
Any chance of a translation into layman’s terms?
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110929/local/man-fails-to-annul-notarial-deed-of-compromise.387002
Comparing the UK Labour Party to Malta’s is ludicrous.
UK Labour spent from 1997 to 2010 in government. Ed Milliband has been in charge for just over a year and his party is going through a difficult transition from Blairite third way policy.
Malta’s PL spent nearly twenty years in opposition and Muscat has been in charge for over three years.
Furthermore, despite your assertions, UK Labour did propose some concrete, if modest, policy measures:
A tax on bankers’ bonuses.
Reducing VAT from 20% to 17.5%
One year slashing of VAT to 5% on home improvements
One year national insurance tax break for small firms hiring extra workers.
Fast tracking long term infrastructure investments.