Heheheheh!

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.

 

I have switched off from politics since they voted him leader of labour. he has no va va voom.

It would have been better for Labour and the whole country if David Milliband had won.  Instead we're stuck with Gordon Brown v.2 for our main opposition party.  Shame.  Still, at least the unions are happy.

Politico photofit.

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.

David Miliband was up to his neck in the Iraq war and strongly connected to disgraced MP Phil Woolas.  While I agree David Miliband is a more adept public speaker, Labour definately made the right decision in choosing Ed over David.  David was also the Blairite wing's leader of choice.  Even more reason why Ed was the right choice.

Those of us who had votes, two in my case, carefully examined the addresses and attitudes and decided he was the best candidate from those standing. That's how it works.

I still find Ed Miliband a lightweight.
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 want to twist his thumbs every time I see him on telly 

I must admit to being disappointed by him, but hope he grows into the role!

Most of us in the party were surprised when AJ was given that job. I was unable to vote for Balls because of his unwarranted and vindictive behaviour towards that Shoesmith woman. However I look forward to him getting stuck into the Tories.

I can't wait! Just what's needed at this time.

Still have misgivings but still feel he was the one of the best choices for the job. 

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.

I cannot take the Millibands seriously, as they both look like their faces have been made by Nick Park, and have come straight from "Creature comforts." Its the way the mouth moves over and around the teeth. 

We had smoothie talking Nick Clegg everyone was hailing his pre-election speeches along with Cameron look how they have turned out with their broken promises so far,it is about how they run the country not how they look/speak or any of their mannerisims for me,in other words I dont judge a book soley by its cover,my only critisism would be  so far is I wish he was a bit more heavy weight with Cameron but he has time to grow into that role ..it is his policies that will matter..

I'm with Demantoid

Two good looking smooth charmers are now going to take this country down, i dont give one jot about looks etc, but a good man or woman in opposition, could maybe give them a run for their money, Miliband wont, he has no passion IMO. As for the Scottish Elections, not a hope in hell , of Libdems. or Tories getting any votes, let alone getting any power . Mrs Sheridan for First Minister !  (kidding)

I'm wondering what the personal reasons were. I really, really hope it doesn't turn out that he's been having an affair with his secretary or something - I'd feel so let down as I really liked him. I do think he's rather attractive too (how shallow) 

Soozy, if you are referring to the Alan Johnson resignation, it has been alleged that it was his wife who has been unfaithful, with his former police protection officer.

How very odd that he should feel the need to resign. He could have moved the protection officer into the marital home, copped off with some other woman, and carried on regardless. See what I did there?

In the style of Hattie.

There seems to be a large number of delusional people on this thread.

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!

REF: Flossie   although of course Labour NEVER said exactly where the cuts would fall because of the political cost )
 

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

The coalition never had a manifesto.

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 £10000, 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.

As I normally point out at this juncture, there is nothing that Thatcher or Cameron would have done differently. The Tories also believe that one can't buck the market. If the (so-called) Labour party were guilty of anything it was that they allowed Thatcherism to flourish rather than killing it stone dead.

How very convenient 

A mandate to do whatever they like in other words!

This is true.
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.