Guido enjoys browsing the entire website devoted to Awkward Ed Miliband Moments, CCHQ’s press office delights in re-tweeting gurning pictures of the Leader of Her Majesty’s Opposition and now the Mail joins in with 9 pictures taken during his speech yesterday. Not so much ‘Red Ed’ as ‘Weird Ed’.
Is this the face of a Prime Minister?
Guido has gone back to his source regarding the sighting of Ed Miliband at his North London home this weekend – when he was supposed to be on honeymoon – the source is adamant that they saw Ed at home on Saturday morning. Guido has now had a second source come in that makes this very plausible.
Guido’s co-conspirator on easyJet says Ed flew from Gatwick on the 1310 easyJet 5177 flight Sevilla Airport, “He had priority boarding sat in row 3 in the window seat with Justine squashed in the middle next to a fat Spaniard. Only luggage was a large rucksack – looked like a student.” Which is a pretty good description of the normal look of the Leader of the Opposition.
Seville came to a standstill on Sunday, as the rather lame “Spanish Revolution” (©Laurie Penny) reached Ed’s chosen honeymoon destination. The revolutionary fervour began before the recent elections, it has been so successful that the centre-right Popular Party saw massive electoral advances. There is a lesson there…
Guido wonders if Ed Miliband really went on that “5 day honeymoon somewhere in Europe” that papers were briefed about. On Saturday he was spotted by a Guido co-conspirator at his North London home in Dartmouth Park. This evening he has been spotted in London again by an EyeSpyer.
http://twitter.com/#!/eyespymp/status/76339738826653696
Guido put it to a Labour source that the “somewhere in Europe” might mostly be London NW5. “No comment” was the reply…
The ComRes/Indy poll makes pretty sorry reading for Labour HQ (Con 37%, Lab 37%, Lib 12%). The Ed Miliband honeymoon is clearly over.
Guido wasn’t expecting the Tories to be level pegging with the Labour Party in the polls until the autumn conference season. Guido expects Ed will underwhelm the already restless rank and file during the Labour Party’s conference. With half the shadow cabinet in despair with their weak leader and even Tom Baldwin seeming to have lost his motivation to spin, MPs are beginning to contemplate the unhappy prospect of getting rid of the Labour leader next year. Plotting Blairites are setting Ed up for a fall, claiming that if Boris wins the London mayoral election, Ed will have to go. Guido doesn’t quite follow why that should be a consequence. The CCHQ “Save Ed” faction is getting worried…
Ed Miliband was out campaigning in Gloria De Piero’s seat at the weekend in the run up to the locals. It was all smiles and door knocking as per usual. One local council candidate Keir Morrison looked very happy to see the leader, though Guido wonders what the leader would make of the young man’s attire.
Always one for a good march, will Red Ed be joining his Labour colleague as one of the generation that “will dance on Thatcher’s Grave”?
