I imagine most people will have gone and made a cup of tea when his name was mentioned appeared on the 10 O’Clock news.

The most amusing thing is that the Spectator’s senior journo’s seem to have bought this drivel. Labour hasn’t changed. Miliband is still a sad little Trot (and a Son Of Brown) whose Primrose Hill hypocrisy belies his disingenuous class rhetoric. Labour is still no more than the rotten self-serving middle class political arm of the Trade Unions. The corrupt corpse of a party murdered by Blair and Brown thats just waiting to be buried if the electorate wise up.

The thing is Labour has almost always positioned itself with the losers in life. With Blair they tried to stop that. He created the nearest you could to ‘One Nation’ Labour and then systematically he and Brown destroyed it. Miliband is a chip of the old (left-wing intellectual) Labour block. The new Michael Foot and like Foot he will represent the party for and of losers. If he gains power he will do untold damage to this country and potentially wipe the words prosperity and enterprise from our dictionaries for another generation.

That said the stupidity of Cameron, the Libdems and sufficient of the electorate will probably ensure he gains power. Will the last one to leave the country turn the lights out?

Labour have always been a bunch of losers and everytime they have gained power the country has lost out in the medium to long term!

Well I always thought he was potentially a better performer than portrayed in some parts. He still needs to work on his image – he probably needs glasses and a subtle hair-dye – and a few teeth removed! LOL

In terms of the wider politics, he may be more effective than the Tories but he is not addressing in any meaningful sense the serious and gathering problems the country is facing.

Mass immigration remains the number one issue. On the London News tonight there were numerous references to the crises being created by mass immigration. Housing is already deep in crisis with “sheds with beds” and illegally multiple occupation.

Jobs are another crisis, with well educated youngsters keen to begin working for a living but finding it impossible to get a job. I think it is really horrible to read of 18 year olds applying for 3000 jobs and only getting six interviews.

Schools, also – we need an extra 78,000 school spaces in one year!

Hospitals in the London area are also under intense pressure.

He’s really not getting to the heart of the problem – the 500,000 new people we are bringing into the UK each year (yes – EACH year), most of whom are settling in London and the South East. Large numbers of them have v. poor English and no interest in our culture. There is no way we can cope with that without degrading our per capita wealth and undermining our culture and constitution.

Dear me you village people just don’t get it. Ed is and looks like a sanctimonious prig. You see so much of him, that you become an insider in the political process. You forget that to the rest of us he does not look, act, speak, or has a history as a normal human.

I did like the frequent cuts to Mccluskey and his minder, as they sat with sneering mushes, ostentatiously refusing to join in with the applause.
It was as choreographed as the Republican shindig.

No wonder you think he made a good speech if you throw pompous phrases like tikkun olam around.
labour were in power for 13 years only 2 years ago, and suddenly Miliband is saying our world needs repairing?
The reality is that repairing labour’s mess is what the coalition are currently doing.

Miliband’s posturing is a load of hypocritical bollox.

Ed Miliband is a political construct. He is a painted-by-numbers politician surrounded by like-minded cohorts. Most people (I hope) can see through the charade. Today’s speech neatly fits this narrative. Indeed, the professional politician is the bane of our modern life.

Miliband, even funnier than Kinnock

“Mephistopheles: Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it.
Think’st thou that I, who saw the face of God
And tasted the eternal joys of heaven,
Am not tormented . . .”

What a load of hogwash, the article that is, slightly more interesting than the actual contents of the speech, people outside of politics do not care about a back story regardless of how interesting, what they want is clarity of purpose, clarity of action, the speech and this article are mindless drivel.
The message not the messenger is what should be of interest.