I am not a sheep, I have my own mind
I have had enough of being told what and how to think
Whilst we are still allowed the remnants of free speech, I will speak out.
I also reserve the right to discuss less controversial matters should I feel the urge.
The left ridiculed Gerald Ford as a man who couldn't walk and chew gum at the same time. Last night we discovered that Ed Miliband can't even walk straight when not chewing gum...
I was browsing through my blog looking for pieces about Ed Miliband, there's over 200, and I came across this one from 2008, entitled 'Democracy Gordon Brown style'. What's interesting is the appearance of both Ed Miliband and his brother David, both happy to toe the line that the Lisbon Treaty was not the same as the 'abandined' EU Constitution. Here's what I wrote at the time:
"Looking at the content, the result
is that the institutional proposals of the constitutional treaty….are
found complete in the Lisbon Treaty, only in a different order and
inserted in former treaties.." He made clear that the purpose of the
rewritten Treaty was to make people think the new version did not merit
being put to the people in referendums. "Above all, it is to avoid
having referendums thanks to the fact that the articles are spread out
and constitutional vocabulary has been removed," he added.
An Angela
Merkel quote that the Labour liars refer to less often comes from her
speech in June 2007 to the European Parliament and runs "The substance
of the Constitution is preserved, that is a fact". '
Note that Ed Miliband wouldn't answer whether he'd read the Treaty, I think it's pretty obvious why.
Also look from 1:55 and see how Ed Miliband truly is a rebel, he's put his jacket collar up: what a rebel? No, what a dork!
Also remember that when Labour Party members pine for David Miliband that he was as happy as his dork of a brother to give away British powers and diminish democracy.
Ed Miliband from 2011, sticking to a predetermined answer come what may.
Remember this video when the Labour Party and the BBC tell you how intelligent, capable and normal Ed Miliband is.
If the BBC wasn't happy to act as the media and propaganda arms of the Labour Party then this video would have featured strongly in BBC 'satirical' news programmes, but it didn't. Compare that with how often John Redwood's failure to know
the Welsh National (Mae Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau) anthem was played. As with the video of Gordon Brown picking his nose in
the Chanmber of the House of Commons, this piece of video will not be
mentioned on the News Quiz, played on Have I Got News For You or on any
of the BBC 5Live 'satirical' weekend shows. So as the BBC and their
Labour friends want this video to disappear, I think all bloggers should
keep posting it and get the word out about the massive dork who 'leads'
the Labour Party.
I found the ITV interviewer's reaction to this part of the interview, here is an extract:
'Ed Miliband thinks that the strikes are wrong at a time
when negotiations are still underway. The government has acted in a
reckless and provocative manner, but it is time for both sides to set
aside the rhetoric and get around the negotiating table and stop this
from happening again.
I know this because he told me six times. His PR must have known that
was what he was going to do. And yet he still went through a convincing
charade of pressing me on my line of interrogation, urging me to keep my
questions brief, and even – this was a macabre touch – placing a voice
recorder on the table beside me as a kind of warning not to try and
misquote his boss.
As it turned out, the first take was drowned out by a passing siren on
the Embankment, but seemed like a thoughtful and precise position for a
Labour leader to take. Clear in his condemnation, hopeful of a
negotiated settlement. Not partisan, but engaged. Detached, but not
aloof.
The second time it seemed like a less original statement. The strikes
are wrong… the rhetoric has gone too far… parents across the country…But
then, I’d heard it before and it was useful to have a clean version,
unspoiled by a siren.
The third time… the third time I was struggling a little bit. I’d asked
him how his opposition to the strikes fitted with his position as leader
of the Labour movement. I thought it was quite a clever question. Silly
me. The strikes were wrong at a time when negotiations were still
underway. The government had acted recklessly. It was time for rhetoric
to be set aside.
Some reporters like to have their questions written on a piece of paper,
and tick them off one by one as they are asked. It’s something I’ve
never done, but at this moment I wished fervently that I had a piece of
paper in my hand, just to give me something to look at, and scratch away
thoughtfully just buy some time.
I asked another question. Something about Francis Maude, and his tone of
conciliation. Not very good, I know, but the best I could manage. Get
him to say something about Francis Maude, I was thinking… his hairstyle,
his glasses, the way he peers over the top of them as he drones on,
anything, just stop already with the strikes are wrong while
negotiations are underway, and the rhetoric has got out of hand…
I’m not sure what I asked next. Frankly I was in danger of losing it. On
my own, with the eyes of Ed Miliband and his three handlers boring into
me but apparently oblivious of my presence, I was getting twinges of
what I can only describe as existential doubt. So I said some words. And
Ed told me that the strikes were wrong, and the rhetoric was out of
hand, and both sides needed to sit down…
That was the worst one, I think.
If news reporters and cameras are only there to be used by politicians
as recording devices for their scripted soundbites, at best that is a
professional discourtesy. At worst, if we are not allowed to explore and
examine a politician’s views, then politicians cease to be accountable
in the most obvious way. So the fact that the unedited interview has
found its way onto YouTube in all its absurdity, to be laughed at along
with all the clips of cats falling off sofas, is perfectly proper.
Afterwards, I was overcome with a feeling of shame. I couldn’t look him in the eye.
But before I dried up completely, and had to be led out of Westminster
with my mouth opening and shutting, I had an opportunity to ask one last
question. I had an urge to say something so stupid, so flippant that he
would either have to answer it, or get up and leave. `What is the
world’s fastest fish?’ `Can your dog do tricks?’ `Which is your
favourite dinosaur?’ But, of course, this was a pool interview, and I
had no wish to feed out the end of my television career to Sky and the
BBC.
I realise now, of course, the perfect question to ask, to embarrass him
and to keep my job. I should have asked was whether the strikes were
wrong, whether the rhetoric had got out of hand, and whether it was time
for both sides to get round the negotiating table before it happened
again.
Because that was the only answer I ever got.'
It sounds as though Damon Green has had an epiphany about Ed Miliband.
As an aside, I bet David Miliband has this piece of video downloaded and is playing it to everyone he knows...
As an aside you can get a great effect watching this video if you
want. Watch it to the end then replay it. Now try pressing and holding
the number 3 on your keyboard down..... great isn't it? Ed Miliband is Ed 'Blinky' Balls reincarnated!
I'd feel sorry for Ed Miliband but he really does deserve every piss-take that comes his way.
And as for Ed Balls sitting next to him with that idiotic pretend shocked expression on his face, how he has the nerve to look at himself in the mirror after all that he's done to the UK economy, I just don't know.
When George Osborne can take the piss out of a Labour politician that easily then you know it's just to easy.
If this had been a Conservative leader the BBC would show parts of this again and again, as they still do occasionally with John Redwood's singing of the Welsh natioal anthem. But as it's the Labour leader, shhhhhh
The Telegraph reports that Ed Miliband seems incapable of counting to 8.
' Labour leader Ed Miliband failed a challenge to come up with an eight-word election slogan, even after using his fingers.
...
The slogan the Labour leader chose "a country that works for you, not the privileged few" ran to 10 words, exceeding his budget by a quarter.
...
Asked for a one-line message to put on a billboard in Piccadilly Circus by Andrew Morley, the chief executive of advertising firm Clear Channel, Mr Miliband responded "how many words do I have?"
Mr Morley told him: "Let's say eight."
The Labour leader said "eight?", then counted on his fingers before deciding: "What I would say is 'a country that works for you, not the privileged few'."'
If this had been a Conservative or UKIP politician then the BBC would be all over this story and the BBC's tame satirists would be revving up their quips.
However as this is the leader of the Labour Party I confidently predict there will be not a word about this on the Labour Party supporting BBC.
I'd say it was unbelievable but it;'s really just par for the course for Ed Miliband and his band of undergraduate level debaters. Maybe they should have thought about it for just a little longer before tweeting #LabourNo at 01:48, maybe a little over-tired?
Well on the plus side, @ed_miliband will be trending soon, albeit as people ridicule him. Mind you, I suppose he must be used to that by now.
Ed Miliband on BBC Radio Swindon showing how well briefed he is and repeating himself as usual...
Ed Miliband showing how out of touch he is on Good Morning Britain...
If this had been a Conservative, UKIP or maybe even a Lib Dem senior politician then the BBC would be all over these stories and the BBC's tame satirical comedians would be revving up the lazy jokes to garner easy laughts. However as this was the Labour leader (no really, he is) the silence will be deafening.
Remember Ed Miliband has form with these brain freeze moments, here he is stuck on repeat in 2011...
Does anyone not think this is one of the most embarrassing political interviews ever? Yet for the BBC it's been forgotten, did it even appear on Have I Got News For You?
To be fair, Ed Miliband has embarrassed himself on other TV networks as well, here he is on Channel 4 last year
That's Ed 'Fatty' Balls and Ed 'bucktoothed fool' Miliband - Our next Chancellor of the Exchequer and Prime Minister? That is a seriously scary prospect.
'The Labour candidate in the crucial Eastleigh by-election said he wished Margaret Thatcher had been murdered in the IRA attack on Brighton's Grand Hotel.
Left-winger John O'Farrell felt a 'surge of excitement' when he heard of the attempted assassination in 1984 and was 'disappointed' the terrorists failed.
He asked himself repeatedly: 'Why did she have to leave the bathroom two minutes earlier?' The bathroom of Lady Thatcher's suite was wrecked in the explosion. She had been in it shortly before the bomb went off.'
I have John O'Farrell's book. It's quite well written but reeks of student lefty thought. I expect Ed Miliband's autobiography will read similarly. Except Ed Miliband he was happy to pose smiling next to this pleasant chap in this offensive t-shirt.
Bob Holness of Blockbusters fame died yesterday, which was sad for someone of my "Give me a P please Bob" generation. Ed Miliband tried to join the zeitgeist and failed with the above Tweet.
What's the excuse?
A typo? You can't get much further away on a QWERTY keyboard than the letters o and a but maybe Ed's a seriously crap typist.
Or maybe Ed's a little preoccupied with Diane Abbott's racist comment...
