The BBC is giving Ed Miliband a massive platform to shape the public’s perception of him…he is to appear on Desert Island Discs.
No doubt we will have heart warming tales of his family life…in particular his father.
Any doubt that this is the BBC’s attempt to limit the damage that the Mail’s report about Ralph Miliband’s Marxism and the influence on his son may have had.
A Labour Party political broadcast? Having said that Cameron did appear on DID in 2006.
Shame the BBC ignore the real politics going on:
When Ed Miliband condemned Unite’s “machine politics” in Falkirk, did he forget his office had signed-off on their tactics?
So now we know: Ed Miliband struck a deal that allowed Unite to rig the Falkirk selection
Labour ‘approved’ Unite’s Falkirk skulduggery, says report. So much for Miliband’s ‘new politics’
As the Falkirk scandal spreads, Labour insiders are saying: you can’t trust Ed Miliband
The BBC has a look at claims that Balls is a ‘nightmare….but it is a shallow report with no analysis and fails to examine any deeper the ructions in the Labour Party as Dan Hodges reports:
“I just don’t trust Ed Miliband to have my back”.
It’s also reflected in the culture of his personal office. “It’s a vipers’ nest” said one veteran. “The worst environment I’ve ever worked in”, said another. It’s a culture that hasn’t grown up by accident. “He’s basically got a group of courtiers around him”, one shadow cabinet member told me. “No one trusts each other. But that comes from the top.”
or this:
INSIDE: Labour’s head office in “chaos” as Livermore begins his first day in charge
i can imagine Red Ed reminiscing about sea side holidays with his Dad. They would go the beach and while admiring the view, his dad would tell him, this is where the Red Armys T-55 tanks will roll off the landing craft. Then the soviet national anthem gets played, bringing tears to Red Ed’s eyes. awwwww
Yet again, on the Ed Balls “nightmare” story, the BBC leads with Labour’s defence, rather than the original story itself, thereby neutralising the impact Blatant partisan bias.
£10 pounds says…http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdOCWUgwiWs
No doubt fellow comrade Billy Bragg will appear in his list somewhere.
The Red Army Choir?
Or maybe the Wallace and Gromit theme?
Or perhaps “My Old Man’s a Dustman”…….
Although “My Old Man’s a Trotskyist Revolutionary” doesn’t quite have the same ring to it.
And Ed picks Disc 1
Philosophy of the World, by The Shaggs (1969)
The Shaggs, who had previously had minimal exposure to music, recorded this album at the behest of the band members’ father, Austin Wiggin;
Ah like father like son…….
My money is on this – very popular in his dad’s time. Followed by a few verses from the Red Flag.
But please, do not insist on equal representation for Call me Dave, as it will be the Muslim Call to Prayer, as a feature of good community relations.
Billy Bragg…Roger Waters…Elvis Costello…Paul Weller…some posturing preening from the Stones(Street Fighting Man)…Arctic Monkeys(as chosen by Brown)…but not “he aint heavy he`s my brother”.
What a shower of shite!…listening to Roger Daltrey today!
My money’s on the Velvet Underground’s ‘Stephanie Says’.
Rumour has it that it’s going to be Ed Balls’s choice too when he gets his invite (probably in a week’s time).
‘Cameron did appear on DID in 2006’
That was within a few months of him being elected Tory leader and about a year after the general election.
Miliband’s appearance will be in, what most accept to be, the run up to a General Election and at a time when his polling shows he has a desperate need to be seen as ‘normal’.
If the BBC would like him on, perhaps May 2016 would be more appropriate (if he has not been replaced by Mrs Balls).
Does it really matter?
Chances are he will make a prick of himself like they all do.
Massachusetts, by the Bee Gees:
“I will remember Massachusetts…”
And the lights all went out…
I presume we’ll be getting UB40’s “Red Ed Whine” and, following the Co-Op’s issues this week and Ed’s close relationship with the Crystal Methodist, The Neckbones’ “Crack Whore Blues”