Steve Richards (Independent newspaper) said on the Today programme this morning that Ed Miliband was the most experienced Opposition leader of the post-war period.
Much as I like Ed Miliband I am bound to ask experienced at what?
Experienced at helping to run the country into the rocks financially? Experienced at helping to spend all the money raised during the boomtime, and then helping to borrow even more? Experienced at helping to promulgate a "no more boom and bust" policy that led to the biggest bust in history? Experienced in helping to run a covert open door immigration policy that has shocked everyone who has considered the implications of what Labour has done? Experienced at facilitating the unilateral signing of the Lisbon Treaty without the democratic endorsement of the referendum promised in the Labour manifesto? Experienced at looking the other way and pretending not to notice while Damian McBride intimidated, persecuted and bullied colleagues in a farcical reprise of the career of Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria?
Ed Miliband is good news for the Labour party in terms of the intellectual reinvention of socialism, but this will not be ready for 2015. To rush things now will risk the whole of the Miliband project falling into désuétude. His value now is to make his party realise that they are at year zero and must forget all that went before in the diastrous Blair/Brown era.
Much as I like Ed Miliband I am bound to ask experienced at what?
Experienced at helping to run the country into the rocks financially? Experienced at helping to spend all the money raised during the boomtime, and then helping to borrow even more? Experienced at helping to promulgate a "no more boom and bust" policy that led to the biggest bust in history? Experienced in helping to run a covert open door immigration policy that has shocked everyone who has considered the implications of what Labour has done? Experienced at facilitating the unilateral signing of the Lisbon Treaty without the democratic endorsement of the referendum promised in the Labour manifesto? Experienced at looking the other way and pretending not to notice while Damian McBride intimidated, persecuted and bullied colleagues in a farcical reprise of the career of Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria?
Ed Miliband is good news for the Labour party in terms of the intellectual reinvention of socialism, but this will not be ready for 2015. To rush things now will risk the whole of the Miliband project falling into désuétude. His value now is to make his party realise that they are at year zero and must forget all that went before in the diastrous Blair/Brown era.
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