Not So Red Ed Running Out of Friends
The new boss of Unite, Len McCluskey has put both Dave and Ed in a tricky spot this morning. His Guardian piece is a boorishly militant call to arms, suggesting that the unions need to take a leaf out of the student protesters book and start smashing stuff up. Well he doesn’t quite say that, but phrases like “preparing for battle” “assault” and “developing our resistance” don’t leave much to the imagination.
Obviously this doesn’t bode well for the Prime Minister’s planned frosty beer and sandwiches with the union bosses today, but the meeting was hardly going to be sweetness and laughter anyway. It’s Miliband that the article really backs into a corner though. Explicitly slamming New Labour for keeping Thatcher’s union controls and hinting that they want him to shift to the left, Ed has been forced to come out this morning against the very people who gave him his job:
“The language and tone of Len McCluskey’s comments are wrong and unhelpful and Ed Miliband will be making that clear when he meets him in the near future.”
So the purse-string holding unions that Ed schmoozed over the summer are teaming up with the extreme left “Coalition of Resistance”. The more centrist Parliamentary Labour Party, which on the whole didn’t vote for Ed, remains unconvinced by his performance thus far, as do big donors. Leaders of the Opposition need friends, not least on their own side.
When the going gets really tough, who exactly is Ed going to turn to for support?
Red Ed is turning into a Wet Ed
Can we imgaine the unions, the BBC, etc taking the same stand if Labour had adopted these policies, which they surely would have?
After the crash Gordon.
It would be nice if Labour MP’s stood up and said “yes we fucked it up, we support the government”.Can’t see them putting country before a useful opportunity to get some advantage.
Dont be silly , That would require morals !
Blair, Brown and Co do not give a stuff. Blair is inappropriately milking money from his former position of power, after so many people died and lost their limbs, without even so much as a mention of morals. He has bought million pound properties for himself and children from his disgraceful behaviour. He is hiding millions in offshore accounts when we had Brown and Prescott shouting about Ashcroft. Blair needs to investigated, charged and prosecuted for his war crimes. At the very least he should be stripped of his assets from his inappropriate behaviour as his fortune was a consequence of his time in office. The man lied to the country and is a national disgrace. He certainly should not be allowed to profit from his actions.
There needs to be a right of recall to hold MPs and government to account if they behave inappropriately during their time in office/government. People like Clegg who has been shown to have deliberately lied to get elected-”no way not under any circumstance” is categoric language to get elected as an MP and he was leader of the Lib lies. The sophistry and specious langage subsequently used to deflect his lies compounds why he should be recalled and booted out of parliament, along with some his ministers including the expense cheat Laws.
he’s shitting himself because he’s beating cameron and clegg is now an irrelevance
why should Brown apologise for the lack of regulation in derivatives markets in the U.S?
This person is a troll, no non-The Sun reader is this uniformed about the cause of the U.K’s financial situation
As Labour polled 43% in 1997, Red Ed is clearly a new Blair!
Fvcking pollsters and the MSM scum who pay them, make it up to suit the narrative dim-wit. Nobody believes those polls, not even Liebour fuck-wits (not the MPs anyway). The raw-data in opinion polls is diabolical. They add any amount of voodo to get the polls to say what the hell they like. The media narrative for these polls was written months ago. It meets the spin needs of the Left, it sets up the future narrative of “how did the evil Tories get re-elected, it must have been the spell cast on the electorate by the forces of darkness!” or some such bollocks. They have conveniently dumped the supposed ex-Lib-dem voters onto the Labour pile. Not because that is what they have been told, but because that is what they want the poll to say.
Thatcher crushed you with relative ease.
A child sent to do a mans job.
“There needs to be a right of recall to hold MPs and government to account ”
I thought this was offered as part of the tories election campaign.They’ve been in power for 8 months;when are we going to see it implemented?
Perhaps McLusky feels that the seventies were a great period in British political history? A period we should all aspire to repeat. Hoon!!.
Mummy !
Thith ith dithgrathful. Thomebody hath thtolen my yoghurt.
1970′s all overr again.
Better get some candles in…
I’ve got a candle in!
Mindbleach!
Lights out at 10:00; candles by 10:30! Was the rule at boarding school.
“When the going gets really tough, who exactly is Ed going to turn to for support?”
Ain’t gonna be his brother….
I have no brother.
You bastard
I faked my own death
Ten of me make a Centiband.
How come Heathrow is run by a long haired spotty faced Yoof?
I always thought Ross Noble was a crap comedian. Perhap he’ll do better with planes.
Who doesn’t seem to know his arse from his snowplough?
Andrew Teacher is just a PR man. Doesn’t have a clue about airport management, new to the job and is employed to Bullshit to the media. Everything he says should be treated as pure Spin.
http://www.prweek.com/channel/ConsumerEntertainment/article/1014006/UK%20airport%20operator%20BAA%20appoints%20Andrew%20Teacher%20to%20head%20of%20media%20relations%20role/
Could you clarify what you mean by “run”?
into the ground.
Feckin’ell. I work my frigin balls of all year. Parts of my family and my wife’s family are overseas, and we face this shyte every time we go to see them. I’m going to be after blood soon.
It’s what happens when you get too much of the white stuff
using the tread saying keep your friends close and your enemies closer tune to ed, prime time PMQ’S and his closets aids on his bench, i would only trust in strait jacket in high security unit and me on the out side, but lets be open and truthfools labour has few friends, labour betrayed the working classes and became the easy shag of the city spivs, and we all know what the city does to easy shags.
We don’t shag homos
We sure do
Strongly suspect that there’s rather less union militancy among the general population than McCluskey and his thugs might be banking on. Sure, there will be some – there are always useful idots and trouble-makers – but a return to the 1970s? Somehow, I think not.
I used to catch two trains and a bus to school in the 1960s. Every winter the rail unions had a strike or a work to rule and the experience made me swear a vow that I would NEVER NEVER vote Labour for as long as I lived. And I never have.
+1. Similar experience, same outcome.
I had two busses too and most of the time they were full and I walked to work including in the snow and smog for 2 miles.
This is a great game.
I used to get up half an hour before I went to bed etc etc
@Steve
Luxury!
Our leader used to beat us up with a Nokia and call people a bogot.
I’m continually amazed that anyone who suffered the damage caused by these Trades’ Onion morons in the seventies can actually vote Labour, yet they do in some utterly misguided left-wing Utopian dream.
It makes you want to weep!
Because their father did and his father did and his father did. Because they believe the lie that the left look after the working man and believe in equal distribution of wealth. Bob Crowe certainly believes in equal distribution of wealth. He belives in having wealth equivalent to all his members put together.
…quite.
Once the “working man” improves his standard of living the Lbour Prty ceases to have a reason to exist. QED keep them poor.
Once a useful idiot always a useful idiot. It’s a generational thing.
How dare the union members not spare a thought for poor you!
They should of accepted whatever terms they were offered so that you were not inconvenienced….
‘should of’…………sigh
Spot on sapper.
I think the left are making an epic misjudgement of the British electorate and we should do our best to egg them on. I believe there is a growing disenchantment in the country with welfareism and succouring one bleating interest group after another. Union militancy will deepen this sentiment.
Welfare reform is the Tories’ trump card that must be played before the next election because the issue is a dog whistle for the left and their defence of entitlements will complete their alienation of the centre.
Once electoral boundaries are made fair we should then be set for a blue decade. Until then Cameron et al. mustn’t frighten the horses! Softly softly catchee monkey.
Much as I’d like to believe you engineer, I’m sure if we didnt have them before then New Labia would have imported enough of the fuckers in large numbers…
In one respect i feel sorry for Ed , His grassroots and unions want him to go left , Mps didnt vote for him , And swing voters dont even know who he is .
No matter how you dress it up , Socailisim cant work .
Some people can’t even spell it.
I.T. – oldest one in the book
“Coalition of Resistance”
Would be hilarious, but I think they actually believe it.
The actual CoR is the Con/Lib Coalition.
Resisting McCluskey and his fellow nutters!
Camp Ed has put out the instruction that the word ‘Coalition’ is forbidden – the approved phrase for use in critical comment is ‘The Conservative-led Government.’ I bet the BBC will take this up shortly.
If the left is about to go into self-destruction mode then this is excellent news.
starting to think Mrs T didnt go far enough in the 80′s. Union leaders should be imprisoned in the tower for treason against the UK. They seem to want to destroy the country to prove they are more militant than anyone else.
Dave … just hint to the Met that McCluskey is a brazillian electrician and let them lose!
Lose what?
Lets be fair to RedEd. He may have all the charisma of a wet lettuce and the political nous of a Guppy and the social standing of a mutt with orange eyebrows, but the three main political parties in Labour, soft left, loony left and militant left, are going to have their internecine war to the knife and nothing or nobody is going to stop them. The break up and break-down of Labour as a coherent organisation is the direct result of that supper in the Granita cafe. That is the true legacy of Blair and Brown, and it would be wrong to say that I’m anything other than ecstatic with the result.
+1
What have you got against Guppies….?
Steve Guppy was a speedy little winger for Wycombe once
+1
He can’t even count on his brother.
Slippery than ice, wetter than slush, his leadership will melt by the spring.
As they say in Wimbelon, new Balls please!
Is wanting to punch Cameron’s lights out so wrong?
No .
surely you could just use the switch?
The electoral switches stopped working, a long time ago.
Len McLusky’s own words…
The magnificent students’ movement urgently needs to find a wider echo if the government is to be stopped.
we must not let the law paralyse us.
A key part must be a rejection of the need for cuts.
I would argue there is no case for cuts at all
IMO he’s not living in the 1970s, but the 1830s. To the barricade mes braves!
(So which character is Red Ed playing?)
So its carry on printing then ?
That’s because McLusky’s a fuckwit retard
Surely he can be done under the Civil Contingencies Act for formenting civil disobedience? I do hope so
Lucky him to have the luxury of picking and choosing which laws he accepts.
I suspect the irony of applying his principle generally has evaded him, as it always does.
Anonymous said:
“IMO he’s not living in the 1970s, but the 1830s. To the barricade mes braves!”
More like Paris in 1848, “To the wall mes braves……… ready, aim, fire!”
There was to be a mass demonstration in Belfast last Friday as the Unions fought the massive (yeah right) cuts in the Civil Service.
Then it snowed and was a bit cold, so they didnt turn up.
Here’s a good threat: “Every service area that goes on strike will be privatised”
Worked for my hubby.
Just say no to striking workers!
Starting with the BBC………….
you assume, of course, that management are always right, correct in everything they do!
Uh Waddy, old chap. Heathrow has been privatised and is in foreign ownership. Do try to keep up.
And then get real, and forget this left-right stuff. We now have transnational corporatism – big business in bed with big government – that is screwing everyone.
Too right. The dividing line now is between those who want to keep the nation state, and those that want global governance for whatever reason.
+1
Gudio
You know I support Red Ed
And that will see him through…
“who exactly is Ed going to turn to for support?”
When all else fails he’ll lock himself in a darkened room call on the stalwart of the student left being Ma Palm and her five lovely daughters.
I’d happily do it for him.
Only a mong such as McMental could have taken UNWED ED seriously
Only a train wreck of a party could have conspired through fuckwittery and incompetence to elect someone they didnt want as leader. You could not make this up.
I think their fuckwittery and incompetence is even more amazing, given that this government was always destined to be a one-term wonder.
The Coalition will break down within 6 months, a new General Election will be held within 12, and David Cameron’s working tirelessly for a Labour victory and how does Labour respond? It elects – and keeps – an utter retard as leader.
As you say, you couldn’t make this up.
Coalition to break down in six months, election in 12 months…
Weren’t they supposed to have gone by Christmas? Perhaps I misheard & it was next Christmas
Hard work pays off in the future…Laziness pays off now.
Who is Ed Milliband ?
You met him once at an orgy
Two buddies are walking by a cemetery when they see a tombstone that reads:
-here lies a good, hardworking man and a devout Muslim-
“Fuck me!” says one of the blokes. “Couldn’t they be arsed to bury them in separate graves???”
Talking about courage.
What happened to Guido on QT? – he was totally eclipsed by the student activist Penny Red and her cohorts, and even allowed Dumbleby to state that Wikileaks also addressed Brown “to promote balance” as they harped on about Cameron and Clegg.
Also Cameron is stated to have pleaded in the USA on behalf of the hacker they want deported – yet Guido did not raise this!!!!!! again Brown got the kudos.
Since Iain Dale is no more I for one want more fight and outspokeness from Guido when he is invited on the old media.
A mixture of nerves and career planning, I guess.
That’s putting it very charitably!
Guido is positioning this site for a sell-off.
Wouldn’t want to put off the wealthy mainstream by being too reactionary would we?
Trust me
No fucker wants to buy it
Guido’s better on radio for all sorts of reasons.
I have noticed that ventriloquist’s are much more convincing on that medium.
You in the States buying another child, David?
Sweet child in time (wait for the ricochet Ed).
Strange …… I thought he was a MP in this country
Brown too. And yet he seems to be doing a Blair and living in the US raking in all he can get.
Bit racist, David.
Is there an ASDA there for him to open?
its wall-mart in the states
It must be a climbing up the wall-mart.
….and your point is?
I was going to write an in depth analysis of this post, but frankly I can’t be arsed, suffice to say Wed Ed and Len are fuckwits
This afternoon i will be a facebook server.
when are you going to be a man you fat arsed muffin?
Beer and sandwiches? BEER AND SANDWICHES???!!!!???? CHAMPAGNE AND CAVIAR IF YOU DON’T MIND. Nothing’s too good for the worker’s ‘representatives’. This isn’t the 1970s you know.
Red Bull and Turkey Twizzlers.
Should have served the bastards hemlock & strychnine…
or at the very least laced their mince pies with Ex-Lax…
Cover-up in Coventry
http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/2010/12/20/independent-inquiry-into-coventry-benefit-cheat-councillor-case-92746-27856322/
As clear as can be, this is being Choreographed by reds/ed/unions to make Ed seem less red.
It would have hampered his election chances to have had the Red Ed label stick..
If he can be known as the man who stood up to the unions, it serves him better electorally.
Classic good cop bad cop stratefy.
Every time I pour a round of drinks, It goes all over the place.
I think I need glasses.
From Guido’s link above;
Union leaders are to meet David Cameron to raise their concerns over the coalition government’s cuts programme…
The representatives will be members of the TUC executive, which is made up of major union general secretaries….
Mr Cameron’s spokesman said the economy, public services and pensions would be on the agenda for the Downing Street meeting with union leaders.
He added that it was “part of the dialogue we want to have”.
Why the F*ck is Cameron listening to them, let alone inviting them to No 10? Since when were trade union representatives experts on the economy? Does he really think that any of them will concede that public sector & welfare spending is out of control, and that the final salary scheme pensions offered to public sector employees will have to be revised in some form? The Brothers will more likely seek solidarity from each others’ presence, rather than acknowledge any of Cameron’s points.
I heard yesterday that public sector workers are going to be asked if they mind if their annual increment is not paid this year, to save redundancies.
My advice to them is to try working in the private sector. My husband didn’t get a pay rise for 6 years back in the 90′s recession.
They’re lucky to have a bloody job!
Indeed.
The cunts don’t they are born, and they have a pension too unlike must of the private sector that has theirs robbed by Gordon Brown.
It was Ed Ball’s idea to destroy the private pension industry
Perhaps they all fancy a gangbang ?
Perhaps they’ll all walk into the room, the door will slide shut and the room will fill with Zyclon-B.
What a good idea!
“I don’t want to Wed Ed”
Right wing political blogger,Guido Fawkes said: “The coalition’s Christmas message to the sector is funding cuts, higher fees, fewer university places, a pay freeze and attacks on staff pensions.
“After weeks of attacks on students and universities through budget cuts and increased tuition fees, the coalition has delivered a real Christmas kick in the teeth to the sector by announcing these cuts to funding and student places and attacks on pay and conditions.
“The Government seems to think that the sector will be able to deliver more for less and students will be happy to pay three times the price.
“That is absolute madness, especially when we consider the increased spending on higher education in the vast majority of developed and developing countries around the world.
“Put bluntly, by cutting funding and access to university, attacking staff pay and conditions and charging students record fees, we are going to be left behind.”
Only in graduates of Comparative Flower Arranging and Circle Jerk Fuckwittery. Just like you they would be no loss.
he says:
“The magnificent students’ movement”
(so I guess desicrating the cenotaph and vandalising public buildings is magnificent then?)
“we know the vast rise in tuition fees is only the down payment on the Con-Dem package of cuts, charges and job losses to make us pay for the bankers’ crisis”
(eh? are the cuts only to pay for the “bankers’ crisis” ? We had a structural deficit of abour £60billion/year before the crisis even hit, and we had an accumulated debt of over £2 trillion at that time too if you count the real figures and not the labour official lying figures that hid all the debt. Besides which, it was labour that created the system that not only created the crisis in the uk but which also allowed contagion from the usa to hurt the uk more than anyone else).
“The bigger issue is winning working people to the conviction that the cuts can be stopped…
I would argue there is no case for cuts at all”
(eh? so with about £4trillion of debt and a structural deficit of about £150billion/year you don’t need to cut spending?)
he’s quite mad, and his attitude will have the same effect as the students’ demos did; they’ll take away what little support they did have from the public.
People’s attitude to the unions will be like:
“You’re either living in a parallel universe to everyone else where facts/reason/logic and the laws of maths don’t apply, or you’re a lying lunatic. You’re on your own, mate, you’ll get no support from us.”
“I would argue there is no case for cuts at all”
One could almost fall off a chair in disbelief. If you’re completely insane and severely retarded, and you want the whole world to know it, do one of the following:
1) put a big flashing neon “I AM UTTERLY INSANE AND RETARDED” sign above your head with a big flashing arrow pointing down at yourself
or
2) State for the record that “I would argue there is no case for cuts at all”.
“Do what I want or I’ll thcweam and thcweam until I’m thick”
What a waste of public funds !!
Student protests against tuition fee rises are causing a “major draw” on police resources, a chief constable said today.
The Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police Peter Fahy said plainly that officers policing protests were not “chasing burglars” as he revealed the force’s daily bill for such events was around £4.99.
Mr Fahy said future campaigns by students would impact on local policing, although the force did not experience the violent scenes of similar protests in London and enjoyed the co-operation of students and universities.
12 INCHES! But enough about me… there sure is a lot of snow out there!
“When the going gets really tough, who exactly is Ed going to turn to for support?”
knicker elastic
Certainly not his brother, mother or girlfriend.
It would be a bit fucking pointless McClusley bringing BA out on strike now wouldn’t it?
Gove has caved in on sports partnerships in schools according to sky !
OOPs!
A Union leader saying, by mistake, what a lot of ordinary people are thinking – Labour/Tory is there any real difference?
Government and Westminster – just who is it for as it despises its electorate?
‘National media’ – in Westminster’s pocket, silent and toeing the ‘its good for taxpayers to steal from taxpayers’ line.
Yep: time for ordinary people to start chucking bricks and fire bombs through a few political and corporate doors – its all that is left to get these greedy troughers and criminals to listen.
Time for another UK Corporal Jones moment: ‘They don’t like it up ‘em!’…. simples
George Osborne is “stuck in New York”
well throw a bucket of water over him !
After some very positive disscussions with my union colleague and friends
we have reached an agreement that every person of working age will become a member of a trade union by 2012 in return the unions have given a cast iron guarantee that they wont smash up the country !
it’s the right thing to do and it’s good for britain !
McClusky reffered to red Ed on the World at One as an “individual”, so I think that we all know how much the unions value his opinion
or DAVE come to that.
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re-arrange into the correct order
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