The Mail on Sunday agrees with you, Sam...
Ed's everyday error
The Labour leader, Ed Miliband, speaks of ?everyday people?. What an odd expression this is, better suited to a brand of teabags than to human beings.
He probably devised the expression while trying to avoid using the patronising phrase ?ordinary people?. In his luckless way, he came up with something even worse.
All politicians try to hide the fact that they just aren?t normal. If they were, they wouldn?t be politicians. Mr Miliband?s misfortune is that he actually looks as if he enjoys reading policy documents in bed.
His more successful rivals manage to appear to like beach holidays, or fast food ? while secretly yearning to be closeted with a White Paper.
He who can fake sincerity can win ? for a while at least ? the love of the people. This is the everyday truth.
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Milliband
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Sam Slater
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Not a low blow, number 6, just an observation.
I didn't get the outrage and complaints that it was only 2p, we all know politicians don't go walking round with bags of money, but to not look a homeless person in the face? This is a man that says he wants to change Britain (at least for the poorest). That's why I think it's not something trivial.
Whether he's a nice bloke, I don't know. I do know that he stabbed his own brother in the back to grab power. And because of that, he of all people knows politics is a cut-throat business and that comments like mine aren't really 'low blows' but just part of the job.
I think Ed is intelligent and would be good in some cabinet position, but leader and future PM? Jury is still out and he doesn't convince me.
I didn't get the outrage and complaints that it was only 2p, we all know politicians don't go walking round with bags of money, but to not look a homeless person in the face? This is a man that says he wants to change Britain (at least for the poorest). That's why I think it's not something trivial.
Whether he's a nice bloke, I don't know. I do know that he stabbed his own brother in the back to grab power. And because of that, he of all people knows politics is a cut-throat business and that comments like mine aren't really 'low blows' but just part of the job.
I think Ed is intelligent and would be good in some cabinet position, but leader and future PM? Jury is still out and he doesn't convince me.
[i]I used to spend a lot of time criticizing Islam on here in the noughties - but things are much better now.[/i]
Re: Milliband
It wasn't 2p, it was apparently 60p to 70p. Still as you say politicians don't walk around carrying bags of money, not even socialist millionaires.
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Sam Slater
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Re: Milliband
I read 2p somewhere. It's not important. Looking the person in the face just to acknowledge they exist, is.
[i]I used to spend a lot of time criticizing Islam on here in the noughties - but things are much better now.[/i]
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The original reports (taken from Guido Fawkes) said 2p.