Mr Weirdo Is Unelectable

by Guest Sat May 24, 2014 9:44 am

24th May 2014

Can we say BigAndy9 was right again?

Or shall i wait until next year?

This should have been one of the best weeks of Ed Miliband’s career. In fact, it has been by far the worst. Disaster followed disaster.

Having made the ‘cost of living crisis’ the centrepiece of his local and Euro election campaign, the hapless Miliband suggested that his family’s weekly shop cost around £70 or £80 — a figure most commentators agreed was a woeful underestimate, suggesting that he didn’t really know what he was talking about.

Then the man who lives in a London house worth £2.5 million announced rather coyly that he is only ‘relatively comfortably off’.

lsewhere, he floundered in a cringe-making radio interview in Swindon, unable either to remember the name of the borough’s Labour leader, or identify that the Tories ran the council.

Worst of all were those pictures of him clumsily scoffing a bacon-and-ketchup sandwich in a desperate attempt to look like a man of the people. Those images, above all, will remain in the public’s minds.

To cap it all, yesterday — a day when he might have expected to be celebrating victory in the local elections and telling his troops to ‘prepare for Government’ — Mr Miliband found that Labour had turned in a shockingly poor performance.

What’s more, he found himself at the centre of a highly embarrassing whispering campaign from colleagues amid the sound of knives being sharpened.
He was denounced for having complacently assumed that Ukip was only a threat to the Tories, when, in truth Nigel Farage’s party badly eroded Labour support, especially in the North.

While one anonymous senior party figure was quoted as saying that Miliband ‘looks weird, sounds weird, is weird’, Labour MP Graham Stringer openly attacked his ‘unforgivably unprofessional’ campaign.

After results from the council elections that are at best mediocre, and facing worse to come with the Euro results on Sunday, many of the party faithful are openly questioning whether Mr Miliband has, this week, made himself utterly unelectable.

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