'Ed Miliband looks like a Prime Minister in waiting' (From Bucks Free Press)

"ED Milliband looks like a Prime Minister in waiting"?


well lets hope he's "in waiting" a long long time.

Ed Milliband is one of the most annoying politicians ever! The man can only point the finger but has no clue as to how he would remedy anything and to make matters worse, the fool is pointing the finger at the people who are trying to resolve the mess his own party created in the first place!! boggles the mind!

IF it was his brother and IF the Tories don’t manage to improve the economy - then LABOUR would have a chance to get back into power - ironic though that they were the ones that helped bankrupt the Country…

Would Ed be the next PM - good God, I hope not (remembering that issue of the Sun where it read that if Kinnock got voted in, the last person leaving - pls turn off the lights..)

He is just another one of these political robots - that pretend to be caring and human - but aren’t even from the same planet as the rest of us!!

miccles wrote:
"ED Milliband looks like a Prime Minister in waiting"? well lets hope he's "in waiting" a long long time.

Well if he is long in waiting then there won't be much of the public services left and HS2 will be roaring through the chilterns as the the Tories fill their boots for themselves and their milliionaire old Etonian mates as the rest of us suffer!!

No bandwagon too small Councillor Victoria Groulef has said Ed Miliband is “Brave”, “incredible”, & “connects with and understand the troubles of the average person”?

For the record, “brave” is a member of the emergency or armed services, it is not brave for a politician to score cheap political points.

And yes, “Incredible”, Incredible someone with a personal responsibility in leaving this country bankrupt has the gall to seek public office again?

“connects with and understand the troubles of the average person”? He should do, he was part of the last government that caused most of the troubles in the first place.

If the new government weren’t so inept Ed Miliband wouldn’t have a snowball in hells chance of winning the next election.

wearywasp wrote:

miccles wrote:
"ED Milliband looks like a Prime Minister in waiting"? well lets hope he's "in waiting" a long long time.

Well if he is long in waiting then there won't be much of the public services left and HS2 will be roaring through the chilterns as the the Tories fill their boots for themselves and their milliionaire old Etonian mates as the rest of us suffer!!

You seem to be implying that Labour MP's are not millionaires and didn't got to top independent schools and Oxbridge.

the biggest gift that Labour have given the Conservatives since the last election was voting for Miliband Jr. over his brother.

as a dyed-in-the-wool conservative, I wouldn't vote for him, but at least David Miliband had an air of authority. If I put my mind to it, I can imagine him running the country, whereas Ed, I don't think I could imagine running an egg & spoon race...

I think the next general election is Cameron's to lose, but the alternative options terrify me.

Frankly, I'd rather see Howling ‘Laud’ Hope (OMRLP leader) as PM than any of the above. I bet if the BFP had included an "other" option in the poll, it would have won by a mile.

The guy looks so ungainly, wasn't he called Ed "The Head" Miliband at school?

Something wrong with his eyes too, he manages to look gormless, disinterested and implausible all in one go.

I have never once heard him speak publicly with any great originality or incisiveness.

He is simply the product of a dotty old man with a load of commie crap on the bookshelves.

wearywasp wrote:

miccles wrote:
"ED Milliband looks like a Prime Minister in waiting"? well lets hope he's "in waiting" a long long time.

Well if he is long in waiting then there won't be much of the public services left and HS2 will be roaring through the chilterns as the the Tories fill their boots for themselves and their milliionaire old Etonian mates as the rest of us suffer!!

From what I remember the Labour party members were riding the financial high just before they brought the country to its knees and all trying to feather their nests before the inevitable collapse happened. Dont try and make them out to be any different, if anything these so called socialists are far more despicable than any of the 'toffs' you mention. All millionaires when they have finished raping Britain! Socialists?!! More like criminals!!

wearywasp wrote:

miccles wrote:
"ED Milliband looks like a Prime Minister in waiting"? well lets hope he's "in waiting" a long long time.

Well if he is long in waiting then there won't be much of the public services left and HS2 will be roaring through the chilterns as the the Tories fill their boots for themselves and their milliionaire old Etonian mates as the rest of us suffer!!

Labour were the pioneers of HS2 and Labour started the demise of the national health service. Why is it small minded people seem to forget that?

tigeran wrote:

wearywasp wrote:

miccles wrote:
"ED Milliband looks like a Prime Minister in waiting"? well lets hope he's "in waiting" a long long time.

Well if he is long in waiting then there won't be much of the public services left and HS2 will be roaring through the chilterns as the the Tories fill their boots for themselves and their milliionaire old Etonian mates as the rest of us suffer!!

From what I remember the Labour party members were riding the financial high just before they brought the country to its knees and all trying to feather their nests before the inevitable collapse happened. Dont try and make them out to be any different, if anything these so called socialists are far more despicable than any of the 'toffs' you mention. All millionaires when they have finished raping Britain! Socialists?!! More like criminals!!

Wasn't it the Labour Party that started the HS2 planning I'm sure it was!

There's one option, which would (should) be the outright winner, missing from that list "None of the above."

Oh Bless! Judging by the comments of the faithful BFP readers, with anything like luck Ed. will remain the bridesmaid and not the bride! He doesn't appear to have too many supporters around here as a future PM.

Bring back Tony Blair, the best PM this country ever had

tigeran wrote:

wearywasp wrote:

miccles wrote: "ED Milliband looks like a Prime Minister in waiting"? well lets hope he's "in waiting" a long long time.

Well if he is long in waiting then there won't be much of the public services left and HS2 will be roaring through the chilterns as the the Tories fill their boots for themselves and their milliionaire old Etonian mates as the rest of us suffer!!

Labour were the pioneers of HS2 and Labour started the demise of the national health service. Why is it small minded people seem to forget that?

Oh well keep on returning a Tory MP. I am sure things will turn out fine.......well for certain sections of the population

Gonketta wrote:
Bring back Tony Blair, the best PM this country ever had

LOL!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! Well at least you have a sense of humour! Thanks for that, brightened my day up!

wearywasp wrote:

tigeran wrote:

wearywasp wrote:

miccles wrote: "ED Milliband looks like a Prime Minister in waiting"? well lets hope he's "in waiting" a long long time.

Well if he is long in waiting then there won't be much of the public services left and HS2 will be roaring through the chilterns as the the Tories fill their boots for themselves and their milliionaire old Etonian mates as the rest of us suffer!!

Labour were the pioneers of HS2 and Labour started the demise of the national health service. Why is it small minded people seem to forget that?

Oh well keep on returning a Tory MP. I am sure things will turn out fine.......well for certain sections of the population

Yes, the the section that deserves it.

Does Victoria not mean that Ed Balls is in waiting to stab the other Ed in the back? If Labour had not been so busy stabbing Gordon they could have been in Government now! Watch out Victoria, it could be you next!

tigeran wrote:

wearywasp wrote:

tigeran wrote:

wearywasp wrote:

miccles wrote: "ED Milliband looks like a Prime Minister in waiting"? well lets hope he's "in waiting" a long long time.

Well if he is long in waiting then there won't be much of the public services left and HS2 will be roaring through the chilterns as the the Tories fill their boots for themselves and their milliionaire old Etonian mates as the rest of us suffer!!

Labour were the pioneers of HS2 and Labour started the demise of the national health service. Why is it small minded people seem to forget that?

Oh well keep on returning a Tory MP. I am sure things will turn out fine.......well for certain sections of the population

Yes, the the section that deserves it.

Tell that to the cancer patients who have to turn up to Atos to demonstrate that they are not fit for work.
Tigeran you and I do agree that the feckless do not deserve help but the trouble is that it will not be them who suffer - it will be the thousands of ordinary folk who will face poverty and worse.
There are no words to say how much I detest this government - they are scum and no better than the scroungers who they say they are protecting us against.
All of us - public and private sector workers are watching our money go out to pay increases in fuel, gas; electricity and food - and we do not get any more money in.
So who is the section that deserve things to turn out fine?
One thing for sure - in the world of the tories and their bum licking Lib dem chums, it is not the ordinary person.

Interesting how Nigel Farage has 44% of the vote but no comments on support for him? ..... on the other hand, I'll give the PM role a bash, I mean, could I do any worse? Surely, all we want is someone who will stand up for us, protect our way of life, put our interests first and drag us out of this mess that the likes of Milliband and his cronies have got us into. It can't be that hard?

interesting how all of farage's votes came in over a very short time frame too... even the handful of labour supporters in south bucks haven't been that petty!

since when was ukip anything other than a single-issue party anyway?

Stand Up For England, you have observed that a politician can win an election, albeit a cheesy one in the local rag, and not a single person with anything positive to say of him.

Not one MP should walk into Parliament with that kind of mandate. If the system could be shaken at local and national level such that this does not happen, democracy would benefit greatly.

There are two polls above. On asking if Ed Milliband would make a good Prime Minister, the other asks which of five candidates you would prefer to be running the country right now.

As I write this comment, 85% of the vote says that Ed Milliband would not make a good Prime Minister. Where are the Labour supporters backing him up?

The second poll shows Nigel Farage in the lead with 46% and David Cameron on 33%. Given that there are no other options, such as the suggestion by others here for ’None of the above’, then frankly I can understand the voting for the leader of what is now the third political party in this country.

Both Labour and Conservatives, along with help and support from the Liberals, are rapidly destroying this country, and we, the taxpayers, are paying through the nose for them to do this.

UKIP may have started as a ‘Single-Issue’ Party, but that has changed, and they now have a full manifesto dealing with every topic that a party in power has to deal with.

The other three parties have proved themselves to be unable to represent the wishes of the electorate. Maybe now is the time to change the tri-party system.

demoness the second wrote:

tigeran wrote:

wearywasp wrote:

tigeran wrote:

wearywasp wrote:

miccles wrote: "ED Milliband looks like a Prime Minister in waiting"? well lets hope he's "in waiting" a long long time.

Well if he is long in waiting then there won't be much of the public services left and HS2 will be roaring through the chilterns as the the Tories fill their boots for themselves and their milliionaire old Etonian mates as the rest of us suffer!!

Labour were the pioneers of HS2 and Labour started the demise of the national health service. Why is it small minded people seem to forget that?

Oh well keep on returning a Tory MP. I am sure things will turn out fine.......well for certain sections of the population

Yes, the the section that deserves it.

Tell that to the cancer patients who have to turn up to Atos to demonstrate that they are not fit for work.
Tigeran you and I do agree that the feckless do not deserve help but the trouble is that it will not be them who suffer - it will be the thousands of ordinary folk who will face poverty and worse.
There are no words to say how much I detest this government - they are scum and no better than the scroungers who they say they are protecting us against.
All of us - public and private sector workers are watching our money go out to pay increases in fuel, gas; electricity and food - and we do not get any more money in.
So who is the section that deserve things to turn out fine?
One thing for sure - in the world of the tories and their bum licking Lib dem chums, it is not the ordinary person.

I agree and would love to think like you say, the feckless would also be affected but I doubt it.
Now I dont particularly like this government but I would much rather have them than Labour and my reply above was a flipent answer to someone who as usual seems to be blind to the fact that the mess we are in was started by someone else who dropped it into someone elses lap then started pointing the finger!
I do agree with you Demoness, the wrong people are always the ones to suffer.

KentP wrote:
interesting how all of farage's votes came in over a very short time frame too... even the handful of labour supporters in south bucks haven't been that petty!

since when was ukip anything other than a single-issue party anyway?

Nigel Farage is probably the only politician that speaks the truth.

Unlike every other political leader, he always answers questions directly and honestly.

Nigel brings a fresh air of honesty to politics, and is probably the only leader who is willing to listen to the people.

Average Bloke

That bloke Griffin of the BNP tells it as it is too, and George Galloway likes to hand out tasty servings of truth pie to the public as well. For that matter, I've never seen a Green Party member get off her bike, dump it in the back of a 4.6L range rover and drive off either.

What do all these minority parties and independents have in common? Never came to power and nothing to hide.

You put one of them in No10 and they'll be knee deep in murky dealings and telling you all you want to hear before you can blink.

Stalemate,

Griffin is just an out-an-out racist, and Galloway is just a tad crazy. And yes, they are minority parties.

According to many recent polls, UKIP is now the third political party. They have a well thought out mandate to eradicate many of the problems that have been created by the Conservatives with their Liberal puppets, and the previous Labour Government.

Con, Dem Labour politicians are all proven liars, and are all in it for themselves. Why would you want any of them back in power? Why would you give them the power to continue with the destruction of this country?

Average Bloke

You are intimating that UKIP are rising phoenix-like from obscurity on the back of some astute policy-making and charismatic leadership.

UKIP would only be considered the third political party in this land by some obscure statistical measure that has no basis in fact or actuality.

Stalemate

You sound worried by UKIP's rise in popularity.

What have we as a nation got to worry about? At worse, they'll continue to destroy the country just like the current rabble. At best, they'll change the fortunes of this country and make life much better for all of us.

It's most certainly worth a try. After all, we've tried the others, and look at the state this once proud country is in now...

Average Bloke wrote:
Stalemate

You sound worried by UKIP's rise in popularity.

What have we as a nation got to worry about? At worse, they'll continue to destroy the country just like the current rabble. At best, they'll change the fortunes of this country and make life much better for all of us.

It's most certainly worth a try. After all, we've tried the others, and look at the state this once proud country is in now...

"At best, they'll change the fortunes of this country and make life much better for all of us."

That wont happen for years. 13 years of Labour rule means we are all in the mire now.

I assume you have all noticed it is possible to vote on your preferred prime minister multiple times? Someone from UKIP certainly has.

Tigeran,

So should we reward the people who are guilty of all this 'mire', by voting them all in again?

Let them all have another go at it, just in case they might get it right next time?

Average Bloke wrote:
Stalemate

You sound worried by UKIP's rise in popularity.

What have we as a nation got to worry about? At worse, they'll continue to destroy the country just like the current rabble. At best, they'll change the fortunes of this country and make life much better for all of us.

It's most certainly worth a try. After all, we've tried the others, and look at the state this once proud country is in now...

I'd be worried by their popularity - the only person I know who is an active advocate of UKIP is almost a carbon copy of Al Murray's Pub Landlord (a satirical character, hilariously appropriated by the very people he set out to send up)

thankfully, I suspect their popularity is a myth, and this poll does nothing to prove otherwise - it would have been nice if the results of the poll hadn't been so obviously stacked by (I am guessing, but would be willing to bet money on) one or two individuals.

I think Ed Miliband has more chance of becoming a Lady in Waiting...

A precis of this thread for Councillor Groulef, who is busy:

Ed's a c@ck!

Milliband is yet another example of a Labour politician who has never done a proper days work in his life. Straight from Oxford University and into Labour Party politics.

The son of a marxist intellectual who praised the Soviet take-over of Eastern Europe after WW2 - and said nothing about the building of the Berlin Wall...and yet lived in expensive Primose Hill, London - rather than sharing his wealth with the poor folks of the UK.

No, Millipede is another champagne socialist who's motto is "don't do as I do, do as I tell you".

Perhaps Councillor Groulef could tell us why the party still uses the old-fashioned name "Labour", when virtually no-one in that party has ever laboured in their life? Tony Blair tried to modernise the party and as soon as he went, it reverted to its old socialist ways.

banknote wrote:
Milliband is yet another example of a Labour politician who has never done a proper days work in his life. Straight from Oxford University and into Labour Party politics.

The son of a marxist intellectual who praised the Soviet take-over of Eastern Europe after WW2 - and said nothing about the building of the Berlin Wall...and yet lived in expensive Primose Hill, London - rather than sharing his wealth with the poor folks of the UK.

No, Millipede is another champagne socialist who's motto is "don't do as I do, do as I tell you".

Perhaps Councillor Groulef could tell us why the party still uses the old-fashioned name "Labour", when virtually no-one in that party has ever laboured in their life? Tony Blair tried to modernise the party and as soon as he went, it reverted to its old socialist ways.

What a load of rot, “proper job”, I love that what is a proper job? Some categories of paid work now are not proper jobs? Dedicating your life to improving the lot of your fellow human being is now to be considered as not working?
Secondly long before the Soviet invasion of Hungary Ralph Miliband had moved away from uncritical enthusiasms for the USSR. It was quite possible to hold Marxist beliefs and not condone the USSR dictatorship.

I have never understood this argument that socialist have to be poor or are not to be wealth creators. We live in a capitalist country. Ralph Miliband was an academic and author at a prestigious university and subsequently paid the going rate for that work. Far better than say the current Prime Minister who was born into a wealthy family, went to private school, then Oxford and then Conservative politics (no “proper job” in between you might argue) and now is dedicated to removing the ladders of opportunity for others (doubling tuition fees, cutting education funding, closing Sure Starts etc etc). Socialism is about a more equitable distribution of power wealth and opportunity.