Afore I start painting ....... I never pay attention to appearance. Let's face it, if looks counted then Aiden Turner would be chancellor to my PM.
On the other hand if i was advising er, Red Ed (sic) I would tell him to grow a beard and go back to wearing glasses.
I agree with Lord Sugar in that history will be kind to Gordon Brown.

Furthermore we live in the 5th most important target constituency so I think it will be quite exciting.
I just pray that one of the two main parties gets an absolute majority. We can then plan and budget. Please Bog! No crisis of hegemony and no sniff of power for all the carp parties, especially the nationalists.

 

I have just seen a party political broadcast by the Labour party. Martin Freeman was the mouthpiece and I have to say he did more to convince me to vote Labour than any Labour politician so far.

 

Martin Freeman should be the Labour party leader.

 

I agree and of course there are quite a few left wing media peepil who would also do a decent job. However I suspect that MP salaries are peanuts in comparison but, and can only think of Glenda Jackson who went into politics.

 

I remember a local BBC Look North journalist who switched from TV to politics, but I can't remember his name and I think there was an ITV chap also, again I can't recall his name, but his face is familiar in my minds eye.

 

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Austin Mitchell - Journalist on Calendar 1969 to 1977.

 

I agree EC. I was impressed by his concise delivery. Within a few seconds I wanted to listen till the end.

 

Yes! Austin Mitchell was on the tellybox recently. He is packing in this time round and they are worried the forces of darkness may take advantage.
I doubt that he was on the same wages as Freeman like!

I saw that he was going to do that, but didn't see the broadcast.  I'll have to see if it's on catch up.

I have never liked Ed Milliband. I have thought all along his brother would have been a better man for the job...

Those of us at the Old Labour end of the spectrum regard David as a Blarite. That's why we voted for Ed. Hopefully he will turn out to be "red Ed" but I'm not holding my breath.

I'm at a loss as to why my phone came up with Blarite rather than Blairite!

How many times will we hear " Hard Working Families" ?? Do you think there is some kind of competition between them all ? Who ever says the most on one day , gets a lollipop 


I want to be clear on this ....

My dad used to call Tony Blair, blah blah Blair 

Having watched several Milliband speeches. I have to say I am not convinced. Not so much about the content but in the way he comes across. He seems so 'wooden', no passion or conviction