Ed’s Change of Heart
When Ed Miliband was elected in 2010 he said:
“You have put your trust in me and I am determined to repay that trust to you. The first way I need to repay that trust is by uniting our party and taking it forward together.”
He made clear that he wasn’t going to follow the Blairite route of dividing sections of the party against each other with talk of hard choices. Less than two years later he’s had a typo-free change of heart:
Len McCluskey is entitled to his views but he's wrong. Im changing Labour so we can deliver fairness w less money.That means tough decisions—
Ed Miliband (@Ed_Miliband) January 17, 2012
In a way he has united his party, all wings seem to have it in for him. It won’t stop him taking their money though…
I wonder when the penney will drop with the unions and Labour party that Ed is dead Ed?
“The first way I need to repay that trust is by uniting our party and taking it forward together.”
So now we have the shadow cabinet out loose all committing to completely different spending commitments, with the 2 Eds finally backing the cuts (without a shred of sincerity) and the Harmful Harman woman on the radio today still opposing the cuts.
The party and the unions are more divided than ever!
A old man once told me, “it is easier to destroy than to create.”
Perhaps it was inevitable that after destroying Britain, the Parasite Party would begin the process of destroying itself.
“so we can deliver fairness”
Socialist fairness = equal misery for all.
Anyone hear Harperson on the radio this morning vainly trying to defend the indefensible? Wanted it both ways and kept repeating the “too far, too fast” mantra. Amazing, really, that she can so resolutely defend two entirely opposing positions resolutely as though it made complete sense!
She was a lawyer once
She’s doing the same on the DP show now.
Where’s Brillo?
I think marrying a woman called Jack Dromey could be regarded as wanting it both ways.
Harriett doesn’t mind which way she turns !
Mong Montague just let her rattle on and on!! FFS BBC!!!
My real name is O’Brien.
If they are bright enough to realise that, they wouldn’t have put him in the leader’s job in the first place…
How do you trust a brother who stabs you in the back?
It is I am Ed, or failing that I’m
Wen u only hav 140 spaces 2 play w, u mispel & dont punctu8.
That’s if you actually believe that all of a sudden Ed’s just woke up & gone ” you know what I’ve been wrong all along , let’s change “
Divide the party & rule
Teddy Eddy is a toothless Goon. The only person I see taking the Labour message to the public is Chuka with those nice crisp suits of his.
Typo. free?? not ” ith standing also ‘ and . missing
Poor old Neil Kinnock. He thought he had his party back!
Well, he still has some of it back. Other bits are just running around in circles making shit up as they go along!
Listening to the Week in Westminster on R4 last Saturday morning I was suddenly convinced that Miliband is very short-dated stock and will not be leader much longer. Nobody, however strong or talented, could possibly long survive a ringing endorsement by that unremittingly flatulent arse Kinnock.
Let’s hope he does stay around for a while. It lets the coalition get on with their work without any troublesome opposition. On the day Kinnock rubbed his hands in glee, so did I.
Red Ed is a gift to the coalition. On the day that Kinnock rubbed his hands in glee, so did I.
And so did I Sir!
Is there bookie’s where I can get good odds on Ed going by August?
He is physically awful–he will never get rid of the Wallace and Grommit tag.
He cannot speak properly.
He makes a fool of himself every time he opens his mouth.
He gets his facts wrong.
He twitters like a twat.
He changes his mind more often than a fat-arsed woman shopping for knickers.
He has no friends.
To be fair though, he isnt Gordon Brown.
FFS – bloody ‘fairness’ bollocks again. In other words we’ll be forced to have what fucking Ed thinks is ‘fair’.Wanker.
Personally I think it is unfair that most of my income is taxed at 52%
and with employers ni it goes to 64 pct.
We don’t– so THERE! *(razzberry!)*
I built up an export business and paid tax whilst doing it. Then I sold the business and had to pay a load of CGT. The balance went into the bank and paying off our mortgage. Now I pay tax on what’s in the bank. My pension was somehow bent out of shape. If I pop off now my children have to pay Inheritance tax begause I am a rich aristo who was totally broke in 1982 but now needs to be punished for employing people and earning exports. Tax. Don’t you love it? No comments on tax avoidance please. It’s our only industry now.
FDUEMA
Change of nose, than a change of heart. Assume he’ll have his PIP brain replaced. What’s next for this shoddy Franken-Mili ?
Hard choice, sacking a front bencher over use of a Downfall spoof, or sacking a front bencher for tweeting more stupid comments to journalists about whites dividing and ruling?
Hard choice taking fingers out of ear, and not saying la, la, la, I can’t hear you.
Blaming Fatcha for failings of bankers, capitialism, or saying we got somethings wrong between 1997 and 2010.
“It won’t stop him taking their money though…” – You might want to check the advert at the side of this story, then look at who funds “Ken’s Fare Deal”.
The ad keeps changing. Clever that!
We must tax those workers more because we have run out of money.
Exactly how many people do you know that work and the money to pay them doesn’t come from the state, I think you will be very much surprised.
Who are the one’s actually earning revenue these days? Certainly not MP’s either.
Oi Guido!
Are you posting on CiF nowadays then?
Are you ‘Guido F’ or ‘Guido Fawkes’ or both or neither?
Some of us want to know.
I don’t think you are ‘Guido Fawkes’ but probably are ‘Guido F’.
Some of us want to know.
Off topic: great news that ITV have bought the rights to broadcast all of the up- coming England matches for the next few years – something which the BBC with their £3.6 billion compulsory tax revenue from you and I apparently cannot afford. Either that, or they really couldn’t care less that it is our national game and millions of people would rather watch it than Formula 1. Although they can apparently afford to send a sports reporter to Australia (reporter, not commentator) to announce the half-hourly sports bulletin on Radio 5 Labour.
I will happily be watching a vastly improved F1 coverage on SKY & I cannot wait!
You do not yet know if it will be improved – you are just guessing/hoping.
I suspect you are paying a little more than the equivalent of the licence fee for the privilege too.
I have no interest in any other sports. If I could pay per view for each race then I might consider it but I would be forced to buy umpteen other “packages” before I could even do that. It would cost me a fortune. I do not see why I should pay to watch adverts either. One of the other but not both.
Does Murdoch thre@ten legal action, fines and imprisonment if you don’t subscribe to his channels? The Stalinist BBC on the other hand…….
F1 is almost beyond improvement.
Trebuchets with rotting cow carcasses would liven things up.
Make that rotting Socialist carcasses and I might be interested.
Actually F1 coverage is something that the BBC have always excelled at once that tit Peter Dimmock was kicked out. ITV tried it and got it wrong–even with Murray Walker. Count up how many countries took the BBC commentary feed.
In any case only the commentary varies now as all races are produced by Formula One Management except Monaco and Japan, just the commentary varies. Sky, like everyone else is just a rebroadcaster.
all of the up- coming England matches for the next few years
national game – do you mean cricket?
if it is footba’ anything LESS than the 14 months a year coverage would be welcome in our house
Point taken Spartacus, but I always think of all the over 50′s who have grown up with football as their main interest outside of work all their lives and feel that being able to watch England whenever they play (yes, I know it can be painful) is something they should be able to take for granted on the BBC.
And I’m sure you would have been much happier had they paid the insane sum the FA charged ITV; it’s not like you would have been frothing at the mouth about BBC wastefulness etc etc etc ad nauseum.
It’s our national game and the BBC knows that.
No-one would mind if they paid over the odds if it’s for an important event which millions of people want to watch.
The BBC is a disgrace. Repeat after repeat. How can Mark Thompson justify his salary. What’s to do at the BBC if the majority of programmes are repeats. What’s happening to the revenue from the license fee payer?
Why is this comment awaiting moderation (12:45). Fuckwit moderation.
Perhaps moderating your foul language might help
perhaps because it’s got the letters e a & u joined up in it somewhere…
Repe@t after me: “No ‘Repe@t’ w/o ‘@’ sign, if you wanna get thru 1st time.”
Guido’s extreme reaction to the five a day officer.
Ah yes, BBC sports reporting…. Two weeks ago a footballer was abused by a person in the crowd. As it was a trying experience, he burst in to tears and had to be ‘comforted’ by other players. The match was disrupted and it not only made the sports news but the main news as well.
Meanwhile, on the same day in France a British sailor arrived back in port having skippered a yacht to beat the world record for sailing non stop around the globe. He risked his life by sailing at top speed through the Southern Ocean not being able to see icebergs in the pitch dark night. If he had struck one the chances of a rescue would have been slim. It was a trying experience but I’m pretty sure he didn’t start weeping. When he got back he was modest about his achivements, he grinned at the camera and finished off the bottle of champagne he had sprayed the crowd with.
Needless to say this world class achivement was never mentioned on the BBC news. Channel 4 added to the end of their football report. Maybe the Beeb don’t recognise sporting achievements other than football. Maybe they shy away from ‘manly’ things. Maybe they just think that sport=football, so they do not have to mention anything else.
BFT, you are absolutely right – it is just another example of how blinkered and narrow-minded those who report sport at the BBC are. Maybe they think sailing is only for toffs and doesn’t chime with their their political agenda. That said, no doubt if any Brits win Olympic medals they will be all over them like a rash. I was just making the point that football is of the (majority of the) people and when the national team play, the LF payers should be able to see it.
I’ve got my party back.
But not your heart. That went in the bin long ago.
What time is the party? I’ll come as an Apostle.
Divide & Rule Ed. You bad boy
Told you so
Not you again
It’s just nice to see them divided. And we all know how good they are at squabbling amongst themselves.
Fairness was the subject of Cameron’s Conference speech in 2010. Cameron was talking about “tough choices” at least as far back as 2009. I expect Miliprat and the BBC will be telling us in the next 24 hours that these the are original Thoughts of Ed stolen by the Tories.
The fairness mantra is pure, unadultereted, fabianist socialism. Though, an Italian called Benito started the “progressive” movement in the 1920′s with his variant of corporatist socialism. The LabLibCon, are all devotees of both.
I would imagine that David Miliband is not too pleased either. Robbed of his crown by his brother under false pretences.
Mmm..the unions could be asking for their money back under the Trades Descripton Act……
O/T The Daily Politics new theme/titles are bl**dy awful. Reminiscent of the Business Lunch rebranding shortly before it fell on its arse. DP going the same way?
Style over substance?
Leave my little boy alone.
He has no resemblance to Gromit whatsoever. I like Gromit!
Typo free? He’s missed out an apostrophe in “im” and missed a space after the full point before the last sentence. He’d never get a job proofreading where I work.
He’d never get a job!
I could be wrong, but I’m pretty sure Guido’s comment contains a typo, too.
Shouldn’t “Less than two years later” have a possessive apostrophe after “years”?
No
I thought you were in IT – not a greengrocer.
Typo free? Isn’t the short form of “I am” abbreviated to “I’m” and not “Im”?
Thank God for the European court of Human Rights, keeping us safe in an unsafe world.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16590662
O/T I see from Guido’s BBC link that Parliament’s portcullis symbol is viewed as a gate to keep people out.
Perhaps it could be replaced by a picture of Sally Bercow’s legs since they have never kept anyone out.
Sort of ‘Open For Business’
Open all hours too.
“Getting on with the job… lmake the tough and difficult decision” etc. etc. Where have we heard that before? Oh yes, almost a straight lift from McBroon…. catastrophmeister.
Dear oh dear, can’t Ed come up with anything better…
My daddy had a saying and it has never failed me yet:
“Never let a good crisis go to waste!”
That was my advice to the HNIC when I worked as the White House Chief of Staff, too. Seems like Ed M goes along with the program, too.
Hooray, hooray, hooray, hooray for Baroness Flather.
Fuck me, you could almost feel the shock from Jo Coburn as the Baroness called out those abusing the benefits system.
Brilliant.
Guido needs to blog this…
Accusing Asians of breeding for cash and saying housing benefits must be capped as it is only right and fair will not sit well with the BBC.
Bet she is not invited on again. The labour machine must be still on the phone to Mark Thompson at the BBC.
I reckon it’s time Dave got his revenge on the Huhne. A perverting the course of justice charge would be just the ticket.
I have just returned from having tyests which show I have sleep apnoea- same as Ed Milliband.It can lead to things such as high blood pressure and other nasties and is treated with airflow at night.I am reliably informed, by a specialist, that there is no operation to cure this, so what was Millipede’s operation for? He said it was for sleep apnoea .Now it is not important in itself but why lie about it?
But Ed Miliband’s Party is not being fair.
Here in Stoke-on-Trent, the Labour Council is cutting £5m more than it needs to and is shutting yet another elderly care home.
Guess which political party they are blaming for cuts?
Today’s Daily Politics, how refreshing to have a Baroness that speaks the truth on housing benefit etc. The Baroness made Harman look stupid, although in fairness that wasn’t difficult.
Harman is so stupid, but cannot see it. Harman believes herself to be wonderful. Did Harman answer a question – NO!
If you want to know what’s wrong with labour look no further than Harman. She is truely pathetic.
Oh Bugger Ive lost that piece of paper with my computer password and user name on it. Can anyone remember what they were?
Why the fuck is my comment at 12:37 moderated. Guido et al you are nothing but complete shit faced fuckwits. Fucking useless, fucking hopeless. You wouldn’t even get a job as Ed Miliband’s shoe cleaner.
O/T
So “Hardline Islamist Abu Qatada cannot be deported to Jordan because it would be a “flagrant denial of justice”, European judges have ruled.”
What sort of a fucking country puts up with shit like this from the ECHR?
A: The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
No wonder Scotland wants out…
But Dave said he was going to sort all this Human Rights rubbish out – what have we had nothing, nothing and more nothing
The guy is a blow-hard ! Makes Neil Kinnock look competent
O/T
So “Hardline Islamist Abu Qatada cannot be deported to Jordan because it would be a “flagrant denial of justice”, Europ e a n judges have ruled.”
What sort of a fucking country puts up with shit like this from the ECHR?
A: The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
No wonder Scotland wants out…
I feel you’re being a little unfair. “The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland” does NOT put up with “shit like this from the ECHR”. It’s our spineless useless tosspot politicians, smug out-of-touch idiots such as Bliar, Brown, Camoron and Clegg, who put up with shit like this from the ECHR.
Quite!
No Policies and sonn no money from the Unions
Please DUEMA
Time was in my day there was no ‘A’ levels and I never not got any anyway and look where I got Prime Minister Departy and all coz Pauline me wife wanted it a Pier I mean and I floated up ‘th Thames once ter show what filith floats there cor i’m hungry anyone gotta sandwich . . . pie . . patsy . . . phwoooar look at that walking past . . . lovely pair hang on i’ll be back in a jiff . . .
Amazing. labour’s in a spin!
In order to pull the wool over the eyes of the electorate and get a little support for the sinking labour ship militwit and bullyballs, pampering to the electorate are saying (insincerely) we support the cuts; hattyharpic pampering labour grassroots. is saying we need to spend more money and mcclusky is trying to make people believe the unions are at war with, not controlling, the labour party.
It looks from the outside like an alycampbell spin scenario.
Come on Guido – Ed would never say one thing and do another. This is NOT the man who shafted his more able and electable brother for the job, he did NOT prop up McRuin for years, he did NOT say that getting married was not important to him and then leg it down the aisle and he did NOT hold pathetic talks with the Lib Dems after Labour were kicked into touch and tell Sky the talks were “going well” shortly before the Lib Dems waltzed off with the Tories.
God knows what promises he made to the Unions but i’m sure he kept them – he is made of steel.
Who is Im and why is he changing Labour?
McCluskey will continue to slag Labour while funding them. Principles? Who needs them? Socialists need them because they don’t have any.
Ed, a bit of advice to keep you in post for at least 6 months.
SACK SOMEONE, anyone. It works every time. Ask Thatcher.
DUEMA
Does anyone else think Ed sounds like he’s patronising the listeners whenever he speaks? He sounds like he’s deliberately using small words and simple sentences so us plebs can understand.
Ahm young, gifted an bl*ck, ah says ahm young, gifted an bl*ck.
Memory loss Ed tries to delude himself his party did not screw up everything. Now this spin and bull about unions being angered – all BS trying to get the so called middle ground which labour said goodbye to years ago.
If only Labour had had the brains on day one to stand up and say mea culpa ….we wouldn’t be here.
The twats are STILL in denial.