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Don’t Chop His Ed Off!

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Back me: Miliband’s plea to plotters”. “Miliband fights for his political life”. “Miliband bid to disarm his party critics”. “Miliband fights off Labour coup”. “Bonfire Night Plot To Oust Ed”. “Secret plan for end of Miliband”. These are the delightful headlines this morning. Delightful to a point.  For whilst it is a source of hilarity to find Ed Miliband has become more unpopular than the maligned Nicholas Clegg, we do actually need him as leader of the Labour Party. For Odd Miliband is one of our greatest electoral assets.  Many people in the country are aware that him and Balls … Continued

Margaret Miliband

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You have to give it to Miliband, he does put a rabbit out of his hat at every big conference speech. Credit where credit is due, he is pretty good at this. Last year he led the political weather by promising a crazily dumb policy on freezing energy prices, with the potential to lead to early price hikes for consumers and supply issues – as if the total mismanagement of energy supply under the 13 years of Labour government hadn’t done enough to damage the energy market. Hilariously ironic that he raised this as an issue given that Ed Miliband … Continued

Socialism & Energy Prices

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So Ed Miliband has confirmed that he does want a return to socialism. He intends on bringing in price controls for energy bills, to freeze prices for the first 20 months of a Labour re-election. This is not very clever, except in terms of populist politics in which case it is very clever.  Let me explain both parts. Overall consumers are very unlikely to notice any difference to their total energy bills from now to 2020 whatever government is in charge and whatever policy they may or may not threaten/implement.  If this policy of price controls is implemented (or it … Continued

Ed Miliband’s One Nation Bull

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So did anyone watch Ed Miliband’s Labour conference speech? No, thought not. Neither did I. But I did put myself through the highlights, and most notable was that he used the phrase “One Nation” 44 times apparently. I didn’t count but plenty of political observers did. One Nation. From the Labour Party. Oh please. Shut the fuck up. Now I am not a deluded Tory who thinks Cameron & Osborne will ever get the votes of the unions or more than a handful of public sector workers. Certain sectors of society will never vote Conservative. But, wow, Mr Miliband must … Continued