There is still very little evidence of Ed “speaking human” as promised in the leadership election, and it seems his deputies are struggling to grasp this strange new language too. Though it’s not quite Balls’ “post-neoclassical endogenous growth theory”, surely there is a better way of describing a royal wedding street party than an “excuse to coalesce, relate, mingle”. Not according to Ed’s teaboy Chuku Umunna. No wonder the venerable bede for Generation Ed, Anthony Painter, has come to the conclusion – “everybody is ignoring us, because we are weird”.