At Mrs Thatcher’s funeral
A few times this week I’ve listened to John Pienaar intone in reverent awe that ‘The Boy done good….he’s on a winner’.
Of course I paraphrase, but Pienaar likes to tell us that Miliband is coping admirably, showing strength and principled leadership as he battles the pervidious right wing rag that is the Daily Mail.
Now you could take a less charitable view and interpret the situation maybe more realistically…that Miliband is a ruthless political opportunist who will use any trick to gain political advantage, even going so far as to use his own father’s death as a prop in his campaign for election, his father’s coffin as a soapbox from which to spread his message.
Naturally you are not going to hear the BBC even take a step in that direction despite it telling us that Miliband is quite obviously going to benefit politically from this….but they avoid suggesting he is using his father’s death for his own advantage, suggesting instead that it is his ‘principled’ stand against the Mail that will make people connect with him.
Labour are old hands at using family tragedy to garner sympathy and votes….remember Gordon Brown just before the election coming onto television to do an interview and crying about his son?….utterly ruthless theatrics for an audience.
Miliband’s own ruthless streak stands in stark contrast to the cowardice of Cameron and many on the government side, Gove aside, who cower on the sidelines attacking the Mail rather than taking a deep breath and their own principled stand to denounce Ralph Miliband’s politics and beliefs.
And astonished the Mail doesn’t make use of Unite leader Len McCluskey (Miliband’s pay and puppet master) and his speech in which he said he would implement Ralph Miliband’s vision for Britain:
Whatever the upshot of electoral politics, working-class politics must grow and develop, based on the socialist education Ralph Miliband called for.
In the midst of an unending economic crisis, with what Ralph would have called a discredited ruling class at the helm, it is past time for the working class to step forward with its own vision and alternative.
Our values are eternal.
That speech backs up everything they said about Ralph Miliband and his dangerous influence on politics…note the ‘whatever the upshot of electoral politics’…..yeah, let’s just ignore the democratic process and use strikes and conflict to resolve things…or as Ralph Miliband said…’there is no Parliamentary road to Socialism.’
Here are some interesting reactions to the Mail article and the subsequent left wing barrage:
If George Osborne’s dad was as far to the right as Ralph Miliband was to the left, and this fact was reported (having read interviews with Osborne’s father, this might not be far from the truth), nobody would howl in anger that this was a smear, would they? The BBC and Channel 4 News would, instead, leap in and kick the living daylights out of Osborne Sr and think themselves entirely justified in so doing. Ralph Miliband may have been a lovely dad, but he was a damaging and unjustly revered influence. It should not be a crime to say as much.
How typically hypocritical of the Left, who danced on the grave of Mrs Thatcher, to be upset about debate over Red Ed’s Marxist father
The Guardian and Left-wing mass murderers: a love story
And of special interest after David’s last post Peter Oborne in the Telegraph about Campbell:
Alastair Campbell treated politics with more contempt than any Daily Mail journalist
This protestation that he treated politicians with respect is so completely contemptuous of the truth that I feel a kind of moral obligation to correct it. No political journalist in my lifetime has treated politicians with such utter, total and complete contempt as Alastair Campbell did during his career for the Daily Mirror and Today newspaper (and later as a government adviser inside Downing Street).
His personal conduct was far, far worse and more demeaning than any Daily Mail journalist.
I have an old documents file somewhere where at the time I kept details of these smear campaigns, who the victims were, and exactly how Campbell’s New Labour publicity machine put their slurs and lies into the public domain. I am going to look out that old file now, but it will take a few days to get the material together and in a fit state to print. I intend to publish it by the middle of next week.
And here, ending on a comedy note is Priyamvada Gopal in the Guardian:
The Daily Mail may not realise, but Marxists are patriots
[Hmmm of course they are…they just want to dismantle the nation state, erase national identities and abolish ‘races’ as well as the family]
The traducing of Ralph Miliband is a reminder of how far we now are from understanding socialism
Whatever their views of him, most decent people backed Ed Miliband this week as he defended his father against jingoist attacks on him by the Daily Mail. The Labour leader angrily described Ralph Miliband as a British patriot, and correctly noted that he does not share his father’s principled commitment to socialism.
And here is the top comment…note as chosen by the Guardian staff themselves…on that article by Gopal:
This comment has been chosen by Guardian staff because it contributes to the debate
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As a socialist for all of my adult life and a public servant of a quarter of a century I fully agree. Those who wrap themselves in the flag never understand that patriotism is love of people first and country second and monarchy and privilege never.
Ed and his labour cronies are no more socialist than Michael Gove or Danny Alexander. However, his dad was. A socialist, who served in the military, loved this country and educated it’s children.
What has Dacre done for his £500,000 a year?
Oh look…..Prescott, Campbell and friends giving out a Daily Mail journalists home details on Twitter, and talking amongst themselves of how they are going to “pay him a visit”..
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2S9BsO0eM68/Uk1wpXchE1I/AAAAAAAAD_w/cg04q5o7JwA/s1600/dacre.jpg
Obviously the BBC will have missed this somehow..
Contact Alistair Campbell -http://www.alastaircampbell.org/contact/
Or John Prescott –
http://www.choosemypcc.org.uk/candidates/john-prescott/
Or Andy Wightman –
http://www.andywightman.com/?page_id=1135
The Campbells have always been loathed with fervent hatred in the Highlands where the very name is treated with contempt.
they have always been known as backstabbing lying treacherous b@stards especially after the massacre at Glencoe and siding with the Butcher at Culloden.
At least he’s keeping his ancestors reputation alive.
Funny, but I took Mr. Prescott’s comment to Mr. Campbell – ‘if you fancy a bit if rambling’ – quite a different way to the one possibly intended.
Given the calibre of their thought processes and writing, I see no reason to change this impression.
I think what Prescott is saying is he fancies a bit of dogging and wants to go with a mate ?
He`ll do well to find a croquet lawn up there on Glen Dochart…let alone be able to get his sons to place a desk level enough to screw his current secretary.
Prescott sums up all that is wrong with this country…maybe even the world!
Any chance of an online fatwa recommendation?
new labour,red ed and co are just typical of the middle class lefties who live in there ivory towers and cuddle up to the likes of john i love tony blair pienarr on radio 5 live,this spat about red eds dad has brought out the nasty side of the labour party out in there droves to fire vicious insults towards those who they would like to shup up and not expose them for the nasty vile marxists they are,prime example is the never off radio 5 live plugging his book and ex drunk who still admits he still has the odd tipple after his hard days work appearing on radio 5 live to attack and insult anybody that offends his mateys in new labour the vile and odious alastair campbell,are you like me sick and tired of hearing this man on radio 5 live and other media outlets.
Couldn’t have done Al Beebs reputation among the ordinary punters any good though.
Even the thickest beeboid must be wondering just what the hell is this witch hunt we’re hearing day in day out is all about.
Another nail in the coffin……Allah be praised.
The other Saturday we were off to Italy from Gatwick , & Pienarr was sitting near us on the train , off to Brighton for the meeting of his `Comrades in Arms` & Millipeed love in . He spent all the time texting or twittering ,must of been getting instructions , direct from the Millipeeds Bunker on what to say about the “Great Leader” or “Supreme Being” during the conference .
I do not believe this will do Milliband any good at all. The liberal left are outraged. Nobody else is. Nobody normal has any time for Campbell and the faux BBC outrage is just laughable.
Question Time? Long past it’s sell by date and just a left wing stoogefest.
In the shires Millibands past and present are unloved. City based leftwingers with no real understanding of England. Mind you this applies to the entire liberal media class. Ignorant of the English and mired in unreality.
Just who really cares about this Mail article?
Not heard it mentioned in my part of the world and I doubt it will be.
Grow up liberal lefties. This is just one more example of your petulance and inability to take criticism.
Milliband’s father wanted a very different England to the one I want. So does his son. Both of them are on the other side in the culture war.
Evidence?
Well in the latest poll I saw, last night, the Labour lead was “down” to 3 points. I emphasise “down” because alledgedly he got a post-conference bounce to 11 or so points.
I don’t think people outside the Westminster village actually care one jot. They may take an interest, but do they care? Methinks not, after all they hold politicians in such low esteem, why should they?
Dave, the problem is that the Biased BBC rant on and on about it until politicians take action, like happened with Murdoch, like Mitchell vs the policeman. They have a unique capability to make a story run and run, on every TV, Radio and web page, for weeks, until the mindless lemmings end up believing they really do care.
Contrast that with the censorship they utilise so heavily, and you have genuinely uninformed people making the wrong decision every time.
For a topical examples of BBC censorship, Google “Nairobi torture” or, even more shocking “Beslan torture”.
This is why the BBC is a propaganda organisation, not a ‘news’ organisation, because half the news doesn’t fit the agenda, so they leave it out, while having a go at a rival – the DM.
There’s no doubt in my mind that Miliband Jr has sabotaged the whole event for his own selfish gains. And the worst thing abut the whole ordeal (if it can even be considered that) is the BBC’s incessant support of the acrid socialists. We’ve come to expect the worst from the Beeb when it comes to impartiality, but this just takes it to a whole new level. It’s a scandal!
“exactly how Campbell’s New Labour publicity machine put their slurs and lies into the public domain”
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Sounds like factual substance worth hearing.
It will be interesting to see if Mr. Campbell insists (he might; he seems of a ‘no such thing as bad publicity’ bent) on a right of reply everywhere, and whether Newsnight grants it with Oborne or suddenly gets fascinated in Mongolian throat warbling again as all the senior staff bail for anywhere but here as they did when McAlpine backfired.
Maybe Mr. Gove & Mr. Miliband too, to exchange live debating points on political rough-housing outside the control of Guardian editorial or QT audience selection?
That quote selected by the Guardian:
“As a socialist for all of my adult life and a public servant . . . ”
Ah, ‘public servant’. That means he was dependent on the largess of the State. I think it fair to say this man had ‘skin in the game’ so no surprise that he holds such views.
As for his views on patriotism, I’ll leave that to the experts:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/patriotism
And as for Dacre and his £500K. That is for working for a private concern, unlike Ed’s little brother who earns a mere £100K working for a ‘charity’ for the poor. You couldn’t make it up !