Ed Milliband really is a numpty...

Isn't this both very old and we've had this thread before. Didn't he also repeat himself in precisely the same way over and over again on multiple shows, also that was just the interview he gave, where he gave the same words in different orders for every question. It wasn't edited, just purely him being a donkey.

Ultimately most politicians come across pretty stupid in interviews but with Miliband, well this Miliband at least it seems like his PR team realise he can't remember more than one line at a time so only give him one line to repeat over and over. He's been doing it for ages, wasn't that interview even possibly as far back as the election?


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-13971770

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18291250&highlight=miliband+interview

Yeah, this is ages old, very real, not misrepresented in any way and goes to show how hideously awful he is.

EDIT:- watching a bit of the Andrew Marr interview and lol at interviewing himself, certainly is. Miliband's entire policy is to mention every /puts on stupid posh voice and bit of a lisp "issue", but at no stage ever say how he'll fix it.

"we'll strengthen minimum wage"
"how"
"by making it better"
"how"
"ONE NATION"
"what"
"issue, issue, issue"
"have you had a stroke as well"
"I think the strikes are wrong, reckless and provocative, rhetoric, reckless, wrong, provocative, rhetoric, rhetoric...... systems failure"
 
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Theophany said:
I ****ing hate that phrase. And when they start every answer with "look." :mad:
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edd's conference speech break down
http://www.theguardian.com/news/dat...miliband-conference-speech-buzzword-breakdown

Most used 5 word phrases
Phrase

Frequency (times used)
win the race to the 9
the race to the top 9
a race to the bottom 8
can do better than this 7
we are better than this 5
britain we are better than 5
britain can do better than 5
not under my government 5
Miliband tended to use both in repeated succession to emphasise that the Tories wanted a race to the bottom and Labour wanted a race to the top. As you can see below:
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Now, to make Britain better we have got to win a race to the top, not a race to the bottom. A race to the top which means that other countries will buy our goods the companies will come and invest here and that will create the wealth and jobs we need for the future but we are not going to be able to do it easily.
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That's what we will do: the next Labour government will strengthen the minimum wage to make work pay for millions in our country. That's how we win the race to the top. And to win that race to the top we've got to call a halt to the race to the bottom, between workers already here and workers coming here.
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what is this the "can do" "race" party?

I don't understand how labour think he will get people voting for him
 
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Jono8 said:
Any other examples of a leader of a major political party behaving the exact same way then? As in, like a hilarious broken record/robot who repeats the same answer for every different question? Find many more examples and i might agree that it is was a well thought out tactic.

I think you people are trying to find a reason that isnt there.

He is just an inarticulate buffoon.
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What, like this you mean?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11627261

I have no political leanings either way, Osborne and Miliband are both idiots. I just think this will go on a lot a lot because the media are more interested in distilling politics into 30 second clips.

Edit: it must be said that some politicians are a bit more subtle than the above though!
 
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arknor said:
edd's conference speech break down
http://www.theguardian.com/news/dat...miliband-conference-speech-buzzword-breakdown

Most used 5 word phrases
Phrase

Frequency (times used)
win the race to the 9
the race to the top 9
a race to the bottom 8
can do better than this 7
we are better than this 5
britain we are better than 5
britain can do better than 5
not under my government 5





what is this the "can do" "race" party?

I don't understand how labour think he will get people voting for him
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I suppose to a certain extent they're reliant on the voters who will always vote for party x because their father voted for party x and their grandfather voted for party x, blah blah. What will be interesting, will be whether or not they retain their traditional support from the unions, because I honestly cannot see the middle classes voting for them like they did in 97, 01 and 05. They currently have neither a compelling proposition or (and somewhat more importantly, sadly) a compelling leader.

Shallow as it is, Ed Milliband's voice and mannerisms really irritate me and as a result I feel more repulsed than usual by the party's policies. That and the fact that their front bench is filled with a bunch of odious, moronic hangers on that do nothing but remind me of the incompetence of the final throes of the previous Labour governments (Ed Balls, Yvette Cooper, Harriet Harman, Douglas Alexander etc etc).

Hopefully they'll take such a royal hammering in the 2015 elections that they'll have a proper purge of these cartoons and bring through some people true to the Labour party's original values.
 
I think the guy doesn't come across as someone you would want running your country, but I prefer to vote based on policy so I would still Vote Labour over Conservative despite Cameron being better at public speaking etc.
 
It's kind of sad that he's going to lose an election against a government which is almost universally despised. That takes some doing. :p
 
You can thank Ed when the energy prices spike ahead of the next election on the off chance this twit is put in a position of power.
 
Absolute weasel. He's only leader because he bent over for the unions. I think Labour will see sense soon enough and oust him.
 
starfighter said:
I think the guy doesn't come across as someone you would want running your country, but I prefer to vote based on policy so I would still Vote Labour over Conservative despite Cameron being better at public speaking etc.
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You do realise Labour's "policy" is promising everything being great and delivering huge debt, and that is the good Labour leaders. Miliband doesn't have policies at all.

He wants to raise taxes, but can't say on who, or by how much, he wants to raise the minimum wage, but won't say who, by how much, he wants to fix rigged Labour voting controlled by union leaders, but won't say how. He wants to do lots of things, refuses to say how they'll pay for them or how they'll do it.

That isn't policy, it's checking the daily mail and repeating all the headlines "minimum wage, union voting, higher taxes on rich, mansion tax" and that's it. There is nothing behind those words, and nothing behind his eyes, he's an empty headed buffoon. It's funny that he goes on and on and on about Tories being the rich protecting the rich and nothing else, when Miliband is the result of how utter idiots can get into positions of power they aren't remotely qualified for purely because of their cash and who they know. He himself is the "rich protecting the rich", who avoids tax, helps his party avoid tax and takes his queue from rich union's who will HAPPILY screw the poor for higher wages for people who don't deserve them. He's everything he complains about the Tory party being.
 
yea he seems to be making the impression we will instantly go into a boom with labour and everything will be well again.
likely we would just end up with a massive amount of debt on top of what we already have.

I honestly thought the public were more clued up and educated and not gullible naive morons especially after the majority wanted us to not get involved with syria... but I guess we have to see how many people vote labour.....
 
He is a truly awful politician and a terrible leader. Labour is a joke anyway, but having a labour government led by this man would be a travesty.

Jack straw would make a good leader of the opposition, but he has stated that he has no desire to be PM
 
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Come back David M. I'll probably still vote for David C, but come back anyway.
 
AndyT said:
He is a truly awful politician and a terrible leader. Labour is a joke anyway, but having a labour government led by this man would be a travesty.

Jack straw would make a good leader of the opposition, but he has stated that he has no desire to be PM
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TBH I can't imagine him doing any job I get the impression he is socially awkward and would rather be improving his post count on the ocuk forums than running the country.

I'd probably do a better job and you guys must know by now sometimes I have very strange views on things most likely due to my autism.

I just don't see him as a normal person it's almost like he was grown in a lab and plonked in front of the camera. He's just like an empty shell of a man.

George bush was an idiot! but when he was a texas governor or whatever it was he made some awesome speeches like his IQ had declined over the years and by time he was president he was going senile.

has edd miliband ever done anything of note or anything at all that suggests he would make a good leader? all I see is him making a fool of himself in interview after interview
 
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