joke of the day
“Phoned the Liberal Democrats office the other day and asked for a copy of their manifesto. They said they’d sold out. I said ‘I know, but can I have a copy of the manifesto?’ ”
Boom. Boom. But at least they’re in the news. Exactly where is the Labour party? Yeah, I know Ed Miliband has been off on paternity leave but when’s he due back? Oh, four weeks ago. In the months since ‘Red Ed’ (never has such a strong moniker been less deserved – ed.) was elected Labour’s leader, he has done precious little to bring himself into the public’s consciousness, let alone, God forbid, establish the politically-essential ‘Mili-Brand’. In fact he’s proved to be so invisible both the media and competitive administrations have dubbed him ‘Mili-Bland and it looks like it’s going to stick.
Poor Ed has visibly struggled to define the very group whose interests he purports to be defending ie the ‘squeezed middle’, caused consternation by insisting the 50p top tax band should, for somewhat vague social justice reasons, remain indefinitely, and when asked why he hadn’t joined the tuition-fee protests stammered something along the lines of “I think I was doing something else at the time, actually.” Really. What exactly?
There’s no arguing the fact that if he wishes to remain leader he has to sharpen up his act. I for one do want to know what this career politician is really about and though I know I’m in the minority welcomed his admission the other week that he was a Socialist. At least it told me something of the man…even though as far as the ‘squeezed middle’ are concerned makes him completely unelectable! I can’t help but think they picked the wrong brother and that whilst it will be a Miliband that leads the Labour party into the next election, it ain’t going to be the current incumbent.
Have you heard the one about what Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband have in common? They are the only two leaders who fail to get any mention on WikiLeaks. Boom. Boom.
