‘Personally I don’t know if I trust Ed Miliband one bit. This is a guy who ran for Labour leader against his own brother, and didn’t even tell him that he was doing it. If he can stab a member of his family in the back like that, what can he actually do for our country, if (when) Labour get back into power?’ A Labour voter.
The BBC has been spending a great deal of time trying to persuade us that Miliband isn’t the geeky nerd who will sell his soul to be in power and who is definitely not the love-child of Labour washouts Neil Kinnock and Michael Foot.
Today they investigated the issues surrounding the great outpouring of outraged sanctimonious left-wing warbling about this…
Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said Mr Miliband had “stabbed his own brother in the back” to lead Labour and was now “willing to stab the UK in the back” by doing a deal on Trident with the SNP “to become PM”.
Wasn’t so long ago that the Labour Party itself was trying to stab Miliband in the back…
The Tories must be rubbing their hands with glee. They are facing an existential threat and about to lose their second by-election in a row and suddenly we distract the media with our favourite party game, “stab the leader in the back”.
The BBC of course forget that Miliband has long based his election campaign almost fully on the basis that Cameron is a ‘poshboy’ who is ‘out of touch’ with the needs of ordinary people….
British opposition leader Ed Miliband will cast himself as a humble man of the people on Tuesday in a bid to underscore Prime Minister David Cameron’s image as a privileged ‘posh boy’ whose government is out of touch with voters.
Miliband only recently called Cameron a ‘coward‘….
Labour brands Cameron a coward for refusing head-to-head TV debate
But it is ‘personalising politics’ to say Miliband ‘stabbed his brother in the back‘….calling Cameron a poshboy and a coward isn’t then?
Labour are trying to spin Fallon’s comments by saying the backstabbing is unimportant…Ed’s character is unimportant…but even Ed, in a Guardian puff piece , admits that knifing David was going to cause trouble, and did….
“I knew it was a big decision at the time, but it was an even bigger decision. It had bigger ramifications for my family, and for my relationship with David, than I had anticipated.”
If Miliband is prepared to sacrifice his brother and tear the family apart in order to get into power what else will he be prepared to sacrifice in that ‘lust for power’? Fallon is right to question Miliband’s motivations.
The whole of the Guardian’s piece is about building up Miliband’s character and presenting him as fit for office…it’s even titled with that in mind…
‘Ed Miliband: don’t mistake my decency for weakness’
So Miliband’s character and personality and the judgments he makes are relevant as to whether he could be Prime Minister…and we know that Nicola Sturgeon thinks he wouldn’t be PM material.
Labour’s stab-proof spinning tells us that ‘personalising’ politics in this way brings the profession of politics into disrepute…or so says Margaret Hodge…lol….Oh yes….Margaret Hodge …
A senior Tory has accused Margaret Hodge, the Labour chair of the public accounts committee, of bringing parliament into disrepute by being “abusive and bullying” towards senior HSBC executives when they appeared before her panel.
“You maligned her reputation and suitability for her current role at the BBC and called on her to resign or be sacked. This is inexcusable. You were rude, abusive and bullying in a manner which brings your committee and the proceedings of the house into disrepute,” he told her.
So what would Margaret make of a leftwing news organisation that promotes this very personal video....
The rap cuts David Cameron’s party conference speeches to Eminem’s 2002 track Lose Yourself.
Cameron can be heard rhyming “I’m hardcore and I know the score” with “I am disgusted by the poor” followed by “I’ve made sure we’re ready for class war.”
David Cameron v Eminem Conservative conference rap: ‘I am disgusted by the poor’
The Labour Party has been relentless in carrying out a class war against Cameron suggesting he is unfit to govern as he is an ‘Eton Toff’, out of touch with the lives most people live and therefore unable to shape policies that are relevant to their lives….the Labour Party are always ready to use Cameron’s membership of the Bullingdon Club as a stick to beat him with...
The image of the Tory leader, which shows him in about 1986 dressed in the uniform of the elite Bullingdon Club, has appeared in several newspapers.
It is thought Labour was planning to use the picture on an election poster.
….and does membership of such a club tell us anything useful about Cameron? Peter Hitchens thought so….
‘I think it tells us something about David Cameron that he doesn’t much want us to know’
Perhaps there is something about Ed Miliband that he doesn’t want us to know that stabbing his brother in the back might reveal.
But, apparently, such personal attacks are now taboo….The Labour Party are furious that Fallon could accuse Miliband of backstabbing and Miliband says that Cameron “sends out his minions like Michael Fallon to engage in desperate smears.”
The BBC has been filling the airwaves with tributes to cricketer and commentator Richie Benaud and telling us he was so popular and good at his job because of his personality and character…..but now apparently Miliband, who would have his finger on the nuclear trigger, who would be running the NHS and schools, who would be off chatting to world leaders, shouldn’t have his character and personality asssessed for suitablity for the biggest job in the UK?
Even Labour supporters didn’t think that before the electioneering began…..
A Labour voter said..in 2010….
The big news this week – at least for me – was the result of the new Labour Party leader, which was announced yesterday. I was backing, and voted for, David Miliband, but it was his brother Ed who won and is now the leader of the Labour Party.
Personally I don’t know if I trust Ed Miliband one bit. This is a guy who ran for Labour leader against his own brother, and didn’t even tell him that he was doing it. If he can stab a member of his family in the back like that, what can he actually do for our country, if (when) Labour get back into power?
We’ll see how he does, but it doesn’t seem likely right now that I will be renewing my Labour membership next year.
Three weeks ago on BBC3 Ed Miliband was asked ‘Do you regret stabbing your brother in the back?’ by a young audience member…
Guess it’s not what you say but who says it that makes it taboo.
I assume they released the Flanders story to improve his image – not quite such a geek as we thought. But still just as untrustworthy.
oh the casanova backstabber red ed dated the rather posh bbc lass mrs flanders,no comflict of interest there at the bbc heh,here is another thing,radio 4 any questions tonight is a discrace,apart from the rancid screaming howling far left audience,where is the ukip spokesperson on the panel.they have 2 seats and the green party has 1,why is radio 4 and any questions shutting out ukip tonight.total bias.
Who else would Miliband stab in the back to achieve power?
Miliband says would recognise Palestine at right moment
Well that’s the whole of Israel.
Well, honestly! Here I am, a small-c conservative who’s never voted Labour in my life thinking that this “stabbed his brother in the back” line is absolute tosh and wondering who the hell takes it seriously.
Both Millibands ran in the same election.
As far as I’m aware, both of them were entitled to do so.
One of them got more votes.
Can it really be that there is nothing more important than this to concern the nation?
“One of them got more votes.”
And the other was appointed leader (führer) by the unions.
Technically correct but tell that to David. Very obvious big rift in family caused by Ed’s sudden desire to be leader. I’m betting big brother has no doubt he was stabbed in back by junior and if he thinks that then perfectly ok for Fallon to point out and, considering ed backstabbed the Syrians as well, link such character traits to how he will operate in government…untrustworthy!