dune Posted 12 January, 2011 Share Posted 12 January, 2011 I think he's brilliant. I'm currently watching him at PMQ's and he's a complete and utter liability. He's no match for David Cameron and even Harriet Harman is noticably cringeing with every lisp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Verbal Posted 12 January, 2011 Share Posted 12 January, 2011 Ed is not a natural - at anything really, as far as I can tell - but he comes from a good lineage. His father Ralph was one of British Marxism's most respected political theorists. So I still have high hopes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angelman Posted 12 January, 2011 Share Posted 12 January, 2011 Am I the only one who thinks that Ed Milliband sounds like a mincer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dune Posted 12 January, 2011 Author Share Posted 12 January, 2011 Am I the only one who thinks that Ed Milliband sounds like a mincer? He does come accross as being effeminate and when David Cameron mocks him he can't handle it and get's catty (which i'm sure is DC's intention). He's not cut out for front bench politics, and he's not a leader. He has the looks of Mr Bean, the charisma of Verbal and when he talks he sounds like Chris Eubank. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mickn Posted 12 January, 2011 Share Posted 12 January, 2011 Caught the end of a news item about a survey this morning, Miliband and Labour on 41% Slimey Cameron and Tories on 40 and Nick no hope Clegg on 7, sounded good to me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pancake Posted 12 January, 2011 Share Posted 12 January, 2011 "More cheese Gromit?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dune Posted 12 January, 2011 Author Share Posted 12 January, 2011 Caught the end of a news item about a survey this morning, Miliband and Labour on 41% Slimey Cameron and Tories on 40 and Nick no hope Clegg on 7, sounded good to me I'm pleased with that. By 2015 the worst of the pain will be over and voters won't want to risk letting Labour loose on the economy again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mickn Posted 12 January, 2011 Share Posted 12 January, 2011 The present coalition is the best thing ever for the Labour party Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dune Posted 12 January, 2011 Author Share Posted 12 January, 2011 The present coalition is the best thing ever for the Labour party It should help them, but it also helps the Tories. We (Labour and Tory supporters) just need to make sure that First Past The Post stays and we'll be back to two party politics again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viking Warrior Posted 12 January, 2011 Share Posted 12 January, 2011 Ed Milliband one pansy short of a full posy He does not inspire me one IOTA now his brother was a far better bet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CB Saint Posted 12 January, 2011 Share Posted 12 January, 2011 When he speaks I can't help thinking about the teacher in Charlie Brown. He probably has quite a lot of good things to say but his voice tone just switches off my attention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niceandfriendly Posted 12 January, 2011 Share Posted 12 January, 2011 PMQ's always used to be available for viewing here http://www.number10.gov.uk/number-10-tv/prime-ministers-questions but the latest one I can find is 21st July 2010. Can anyone tell me where I'm going wrong please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bridge too far Posted 12 January, 2011 Share Posted 12 January, 2011 PMQ's always used to be available for viewing here http://www.number10.gov.uk/number-10-tv/prime-ministers-questions but the latest one I can find is 21st July 2010. Can anyone tell me where I'm going wrong please? Well, there is this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/9359396.stm I don't know how it compares to what you used to watch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trousers Posted 12 January, 2011 Share Posted 12 January, 2011 (edited) Much prefer David myself..... Edited 12 January, 2011 by trousers oops....got my names muddled....easily done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colinjb Posted 12 January, 2011 Share Posted 12 January, 2011 Ed Milliband one pansy short of a full posy He does not inspire me one IOTA now his brother was a far better bet His brother had a backbone though. The unions didn't want that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dune Posted 12 January, 2011 Author Share Posted 12 January, 2011 (edited) Much prefer Ed myself.... Edited 12 January, 2011 by dune Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustMike Posted 12 January, 2011 Share Posted 12 January, 2011 Much prefer Ed myself.... id vote for him! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anothersaintinsouthsea Posted 12 January, 2011 Share Posted 12 January, 2011 It should help them, but it also helps the Tories. We (Labour and Tory supporters) just need to make sure that First Past The Post stays and we'll be back to two party politics again. I thought you supported UKIP? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eastcowzer Posted 12 January, 2011 Share Posted 12 January, 2011 Am I the only one who thinks that Ed Milliband sounds like a mincer? Has anybody else noticed a similarity with Wallace from 'Wallace and Grommitt' - except the dog has more sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deppo Posted 12 January, 2011 Share Posted 12 January, 2011 I certainly wouldn't vote for anyone with a lisp or who seeemed a bit gay. That's just what my politicial leanings are all about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintandy666 Posted 12 January, 2011 Share Posted 12 January, 2011 To be fair for him, Cameron couldn't answer his questions today. I think you don't give him enough credit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Verbal Posted 12 January, 2011 Share Posted 12 January, 2011 This takes us happily back to the various intelligence debates. The left=cleverer/right=dumbass equation seems incontrovertible, based on the thread so far. I wonder if there will be any more confirming evidence any time soon..? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docker-p Posted 12 January, 2011 Share Posted 12 January, 2011 Every time Ed Milliband faces Cameroon across the dispatch box he makes Cameroon look like fumbling schoolboy who's just wet himself. By the time the Condem love fest falls apart Ed Milliband will be ready to wipe the floor with old bubblegum face. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trousers Posted 12 January, 2011 Share Posted 12 January, 2011 This takes us happily back to the various intelligence debates. The left=cleverer/right=dumbass equation seems incontrovertible, based on the thread so far. I wonder if there will be any more confirming evidence any time soon..? I've discovered the exception that proves the rule if that helps.... Every time Ed Milliband faces Cameroon across the dispatch box he makes Cameroon look like fumbling schoolboy who's just wet himself. By the time the Condem love fest falls apart Ed Milliband will be ready to wipe the floor with old bubblegum face. ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Verbal Posted 12 January, 2011 Share Posted 12 January, 2011 Wrong trousers (assuming trousers is your surname?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Bognor Posted 12 January, 2011 Share Posted 12 January, 2011 Wrong trousers (assuming trousers is your surname?) When it comes to films, you know best :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonnyboy Posted 12 January, 2011 Share Posted 12 January, 2011 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trousers Posted 12 January, 2011 Share Posted 12 January, 2011 More time well spent by a 'higher educated' stoodent no doubt...;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotty Posted 12 January, 2011 Share Posted 12 January, 2011 Every time Ed Milliband faces Cameroon across the dispatch box he makes Cameroon look like fumbling schoolboy who's just wet himself. By the time the Condem love fest falls apart Ed Milliband will be ready to wipe the floor with old bubblegum face. Yeah, right. Ed is the over-the-trenches fodder Labour need while they regroup. If he is still at the helm come the next election then it means the Labour hierarchy have decided they cant win it. His political abilities are utterly irrelevant, he comes across as the tw*t to top all tw*ts and he will not be leading Labour into any election the party thinks it can win. Cross reference Michael Foot, possibly the best leader Labour ever had but nobody remembers anything except his donkey jacket. Ed Miliband will go down in history as that guy with a lisp who snatched the leadership from his brother. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bridge too far Posted 12 January, 2011 Share Posted 12 January, 2011 Didn't Churchill have some sort of speech impediment? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GenevaSaint Posted 12 January, 2011 Share Posted 12 January, 2011 I think he's brilliant. I'm currently watching him at PMQ's and he's a complete and utter liability. He's no match for David Cameron and even Harriet Harman is noticably cringeing with every lisp. You really need to get over this obsession you freak. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotty Posted 12 January, 2011 Share Posted 12 January, 2011 Didn't Churchill have some sort of speech impediment? fair comment, but that doesnt mean that Ed Miliband belongs in the same category as Winston Churchill. I would count myself as a natural leftie, labour voter and so on, but I cant see anything in his appointment to suggest that the party actually wants him there come election time. He is a makeweight and a bullet catcher, nothing more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorpe-le-Saint Posted 12 January, 2011 Share Posted 12 January, 2011 I think he's brilliant. I'm currently watching him at PMQ's and he's a complete and utter liability. He's no match for David Cameron and even Harriet Harman is noticably cringeing with every lisp. Get a ****ing job FFS! Or, start a thread about the disgraceful, disgusting and outrageous banker bonuses from banks such as Lloyds! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trousers Posted 12 January, 2011 Share Posted 12 January, 2011 Get a ****ing job FFS! Or, start a thread about the disgraceful, disgusting and outrageous banker bonuses from banks such as Lloyds! And, Dune, when you start said thread, don't forget to mention in passing that Labour did sod all about restraining bank bonuses on their watch. Probably worth slipping Fred the Shred's knighthood into the conversation while you're there. Oh, and final challenge: you're not allowed to use the words: Labour, hypocrites and opportunist in the same sentence. Good luck... ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solentstars Posted 12 January, 2011 Share Posted 12 January, 2011 Yeah, right. Ed is the over-the-trenches fodder Labour need while they regroup. If he is still at the helm come the next election then it means the Labour hierarchy have decided they cant win it. His political abilities are utterly irrelevant, he comes across as the tw*t to top all tw*ts and he will not be leading Labour into any election the party thinks it can win. Cross reference Michael Foot, possibly the best leader Labour ever had but nobody remembers anything except his donkey jacket. Ed Miliband will go down in history as that guy with a lisp who snatched the leadership from his brother. cameron was ridiculed when he came out green ,liberal and hug a hoody type so i would not rule out any result at the next election. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angelman Posted 12 January, 2011 Share Posted 12 January, 2011 Get a ****ing job FFS! Or, start a thread about the disgraceful, disgusting and outrageous banker bonuses from banks such as Lloyds! On the one hand he has returned Lloyds to profitability, although as a customer I am getting severely raped by them although I doubt that their profit comes from the likes of me and my small business. On the other hand, as a customer and a share holder (not via the government bailout), I would like a bonus for staying with them, either in the form of some interest or a dividend. (With Lloyds, I think that you should ask why they got into trouble. Certainly it helped Gordon Brown out of a huge hole, but at the cost to us shareholders. HTF can you do any sort of due diligence and not find a £10bn hole in the accounts. That is accounting of the Pompey type). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BadgerBadger Posted 12 January, 2011 Share Posted 12 January, 2011 Ed = pleb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintandy666 Posted 12 January, 2011 Share Posted 12 January, 2011 In a few years time as the election looms Cameron and his chums will sell the banks for billions. We will suddenly have an influx of 'unexpected money'. The ideological shrinking of the state will be complete and he will offer tax cuts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special K Posted 13 January, 2011 Share Posted 13 January, 2011 Miliband may well turn out to be a decent politician, but he's too young to be a party leader. None of the young'uns have the respect and gravitas of someone like Paddy Ashdown for instance, who atm (and imho), would be a very good party leader. Also when image and projection are as integral a part of modern politics as belief, he's hardly used his first few months to great effect. For the sake of the Labour Party, it's a shame Alan Johnson didn't want to be leader. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Verbal Posted 13 January, 2011 Share Posted 13 January, 2011 (edited) Ed = pleb He'll be happy to hear that. He's from a family of rather daunting intellectuals, and the idea that he has any plebeian - ie working class - qualities is miles from the truth. He will, though, win his first of many by-elections tonight against an enfeebled and unpopular coalition. Edited 13 January, 2011 by Verbal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special K Posted 13 January, 2011 Share Posted 13 January, 2011 He'll be happy to hear that. He's from a family of rather daunting intellectuals, and the idea that he has any plebeian - ie working class - qualities is miles from the truth. Which makes him the ideal man to lead a party that, apparenty, represents the ordinary/working class person. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dune Posted 13 January, 2011 Author Share Posted 13 January, 2011 I thought you supported UKIP? UKIP is, in my opinion, a natural right wing branch of the Conservative Party. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dune Posted 13 January, 2011 Author Share Posted 13 January, 2011 Every time Ed Milliband faces Cameroon across the dispatch box he makes Cameroon look like fumbling schoolboy who's just wet himself. By the time the Condem love fest falls apart Ed Milliband will be ready to wipe the floor with old bubblegum face. Dream on. David Cameron is a far better modern politician. We're living in an X_Factor society now what with the media coverage and despite Daves achiles heel (he's posh) he wins his duels with Red Ed every time. Dave is a confident man - therefore he's a leader, Ed is nerd - therefore he's not a leader. It's as simple as that. Couple this with the conservative plan to have the economy recovering in 2015 (a feel good factor) and I can see us being at the start of new era of Conservative rule. The thick people thought Maggie was going to lose in 1983. When people were polled they all said they wouldn't vote Tory. But that is because their is a stigma attached to voting Tory i.e it's a toffs party, but what happened in 1983 is that once people were in the ballot booth they put an X next to the Conservative candidate BECAUSE THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY IS THE PARTY THAT KNOWS HOW TO MANAGE THE ECONOMY AND A VOTE FOR THE TORIES IS A VOTE FOR YOUR OWN GOOD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thedelldays Posted 13 January, 2011 Share Posted 13 January, 2011 this milliband will never be PM of this country...for no other reason than that he sounds funny.. we are now in the age of prime time debates and he will miss out for that very factor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dune Posted 13 January, 2011 Author Share Posted 13 January, 2011 In a few years time as the election looms Cameron and his chums will sell the banks for billions. We will suddenly have an influx of 'unexpected money'. The ideological shrinking of the state will be complete and he will offer tax cuts. You have such a suspicious mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thedelldays Posted 13 January, 2011 Share Posted 13 January, 2011 In a few years time as the election looms Cameron and his chums will sell the banks for billions. We will suddenly have an influx of 'unexpected money'. The ideological shrinking of the state will be complete and he will offer tax cuts. why do you make that sound as if cameron "and his chums" would be the only people to do this.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dune Posted 13 January, 2011 Author Share Posted 13 January, 2011 (edited) this milliband will never be PM of this country...for no other reason than that he sounds funny.. we are now in the age of prime time debates and he will miss out for that very factor I wonder whether Labours spin doctors will book him in with a speech therapist to try to cure his lisp. They cured Gordon afterall... [video=youtube;MIXY-xrrsv0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIXY-xrrsv0 I'm detecting a correlation between Socialists and personality deficiencies. Baddgerx16 is about the only Socialist on here that has a sense of humour for example. Deppo tries, but fails miserably. Edited 13 January, 2011 by dune Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Verbal Posted 13 January, 2011 Share Posted 13 January, 2011 Which makes him the ideal man to lead a party that, apparenty, represents the ordinary/working class person. The party has a long history of that. And why not? Unless you somehow think it is simply impossible to think outside of your own class interests, which would be a truly odd idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dune Posted 13 January, 2011 Author Share Posted 13 January, 2011 The party has a long history of that. And why not? Unless you somehow think it is simply impossible to think outside of your own class interests, which would be a truly odd idea. In your opion what are the classes in this country? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Verbal Posted 13 January, 2011 Share Posted 13 January, 2011 In your opion what are the classes in this country? They are divided into those who can spell and those who can't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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