He is too lightweight in my opinion, but I also find him irritating.
Perhaps trivial but I am irritated by his black eyes, his speaking which contains plenty of saliva, and his tediously repetitive soft fist which punctuates so much of what he says.
He looks a tad intimidated sitting on that opposition front bench, and many of his gestures towards the government benches look juvenile and impatient.
I don't think he is a weighty politician.
E Milliband, in certain lights, looks like someone or something that I cannot put my finger on. But when I do I shall draw a cartoon picking up the salient points of the resemblance and then sufficient ordure will then be heaped upon him to ensure that in future he has to wear a bag on his head whenever he goes out.
The departure of Alan Johnson may cause some people to question his judgment.
Johnson's replacement Ed Balls makes me cringe. I feel he is a bit of a bully, and I don't trust him. At all. Graceless.
But this thread is about Ed Miliband, and I am not impressed.
I can't wait! Just what's needed at this time.
I'm happy Alan Johnson's gone as he wasn't up to the role. Ed Balls has the technical and academic experience to wipe the floor with clueless Osborne.
In the style of Hattie.
Ed Miliband played a key role in getting this country into its current financial catastrophe where one pound in four spent by this government has to be borrowed by the treasury from the international money markets. As the outgoing Labour Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Liam Byrne, said in a note to his successor, "There is no money left". We are paying more in interest every year on the national debt that Labour racked up than we are on education and defence combined. Ed Miliband, Ed Balls and Gordon Brown, as the key members of the treasury, were responsible for creating the deficit and they did so while the country was booming BEFORE the financial crisis. Ed Miliband is still in denial of the measures needed to sort out the mess, and Ed Balls disparages any deficit reduction plan. MOST of the cuts planned to be implemented by the Coalition government would have happened under Labour's deficit reduction plan authored by Alistair Darling ( although of course Labour NEVER said exactly where the cuts would fall because of the political cost )
Some people on this thread need to understand that this country is not paying its way, and had it not been for the deficit reduction currently in place we would have had the IMF telling us what to cut instead of deciding for ourselves, just as has happened in Greece and Ireland and will probably happen to Portugal and Spain. Our deficit is proportionally bigger than that of Greece, Portugal, Spain and Italy, and yet some of them are having public sector pay CUTS, as well as massive spending cuts. We are getting off lightly at the moment.
The last Labour government seemed to have been intent on proving the old adage that Socialist governments only stop spending when they have not only run out of the country's money but when they run out of people prepared to lend them money, and at the end of the Labour government the international money markets were charging the UK a higher rate of interest on borrowing than they were charging Portugal and Italy.
Wake up people!
condems have already broken promises in their manifesto,I think we are all aware cuts are needed but the speed in which the condems are doing it and unfairly targeting the most vulnerable is not to be applauded
Both parties had to abandon various pre-election commitments as part of forming a coalition, that is how coalitions work as no one won the election, the politicians have to agree a programme between them that does not involve the voters. The Libdems got there removal of income tax on people earning less than ÂĢ10000, and the pupil premium business etc etc.
There are no broken promises because no party was able to implement their manifesto because no party won the election. I presume you somehow expected the Libdems to implement their party manifesto as though they had won the election. News just in, they came third.
And given the removal of child benefit for the middle classes and above, and the retention of the 50% tax on the rich, the rich have taken far more of the burden even in percentage terms. If you are getting excited about EMA then that was effectively paying 40% or so of all 16-18 year old students to attend college, which was utterly ridiculous.
There is no money, 20% of public spending is currently being borrowed from the international money markets, the situation couldn't go on, and MOST of the cuts that have been made would have been made under Labour, but they never detailed where they would fall, which was utterly deceitful.
How very convenient
A mandate to do whatever they like in other words!
It amazes me that so many in the labour party are still doing their best to refer to "the coalition" as one party.
They either do it to tease and try to score points, or they really still do not understand, (in which case, it's time they learnt.)
Politicians should know how a coalition works. I suspect most of them do really, and what they are doing is showing ho angry they are.