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Pro-Labour residents flock to Miliband's Q&A session

Michael Crick | 14:37 UK time, Friday, 25 March 2011

Ed Miliband's Question and Answer session in Nottingham this afternoon is meant to be with "local residents".

Labour seems to be up to its old tricks when it comes to such gatherings. No doubt the audience is made up of local residents, but they seem to be pretty pro-Labour local residents, judging from the first six questions.

One was from a CWU activist, another from a former councillor called Len, who admitted he'd actually been christened Lenin, and that his parents had called his brother Stalin.

Comments

  • Comment number 1.

    heard some of that speech and it was good, better than most of Ed's offerings but 5live cut back to the studio and we heard from some American war scenario wonk who went on about Libya and 'what could happen' big deal, 'what could happen' and there was Milliband giving a speech as to an alternative to what this 'coalition' is getting away with and we could be pffered 'another way' and Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ 5live cut away, this is the station where it 'happens' and it is instant 'coverage' but as soon as Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ spending cuts hits the fan it is all 'well we have to leave Ed Milliband there' pull the other one.....I do hope the coverage of tomorrow's march is not so 'diluted'....

  • Comment number 2.

    This is not the first time the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ have attacked people for what their parents called them. I'm sure that Len (and I presume Stan) didn't have much input into his name! I remember a couple of years ago a Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ interviewer accusing Keir Starmer, the Director of Public Prosecutions, of being biased towards the Labour movement because he was named after the first Leader of the Labour Party!

  • Comment number 3.

    Rediculous, outrageous - pro-labour residents turn out to a labour event.

    Cant imagine why they would be interested in attending.

    What next - Chelsea supporters make up majority attending Stamford bridge, Christians outnumber non-christians in Church?

    Where will it end

  • Comment number 4.

    It doesn't appear as if they invited any "normal" people then. Maybe an Elvis Presley impersonator will appear to lighten the mood as he did for Gordon during his Corby General Election gig. Memorable.

  • Comment number 5.

    Packing the audience in this way shows Labour's lack of confidence. Ed Miliband is good when speaking to his own people but take him out of that comfort zone and he comes across as a lightweight. Labour has a habit of backing the wrong horse. At a time when the government should be vulnerable Labour is actually losing the argument a situation I find amazing. This situation has been made only worse by Ed Balls whose persona and baggage make him an even easier target than John Prescott. A combination of David Miliband and Yvette Cooper would have been much more formidable. I bet conservative central office can't believe their luck.

  • Comment number 6.

    I heard some of that speech, but rather stalled at the bit where the bloke who was part of the goat-herd who created most of the mess we're trying to excavate from decided to whip up divisions left, left and left of centre by focussing on niche targets and then.... accusing the Coalition policies of being 'divisive'.

    If he and his glee clubs in certain quarters keep up with this, the thing he weasly-mouthed claimed to be worried about will indeed come to pass, and there may well need to be questions answered.

    And not in a 'lessons have been learned' way.

  • Comment number 7.

    My wife was one of those invited but who did not attend. I was surprised to hear an anti-coalition rant from one of those who attended that was dutifully broadcast to the world by Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ News 24, that then, as usual, afforded no opportunity for the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's alleged principle of political neutrality to be upheld.

    Given the extremely critical position of our economy so soon after a party that even left a glib note to say 'THERE IS NO MONEY,' I have to say I was so surprised that the TUC, who have so effectively infiltrated the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ News were being so triumphalist about this event, when it was nothing more than a rather pathetic exercise in in self-stimulation (rampant rabbitry) given that I believe 1 million were quoted on the Today programme not so long ago as the number that the TUC were hoping would dutifully attend.

    My step-son (a serving officer in the Metropolitan Police) is OK thankfully. But I am again incensed that the police force is used as a obligatory prop for the TUC incited anarchist loony lefties. Why should the TUC's and their creation Labour's self serving parasitism of working people, sustained through the propagation of the lie that without them working people would be over exploited by their employers be allowed to put my step-son in intensive care?

    My disdain and disgust for the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ, Labour, and the TUC has grown even more exponential in the last 24 hours. Believe me, there is a point where you realise that at Β£125 million PER DAY it's time the honest, decent , hardworking people took back our destiny from a rabble of the most ignorant (because the Labour state education system was useless), and unhealthy (because the Labour state health provider was the third biggest employer in the world next to the Chinese Army and the Indian Railway system and still left adult people crying in the night as they were forced to urinate and defaecate in their beds).

    More than anything else I utterly despise the people who live in a such a sick idealistic militant dream-world that they are forever committed to shutting their eyes to the need for us to heed the dictates of those, their idiocy, has once again forced us to be dependant on.

    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ- for goodness sake if you want to survive try to be more politically objective. Your current policy seems to rely on people in a bankrupt, left behind country, who have no, and will never have, jobs paying you a licence fee with imaginary money! Wake up!!!

    I am really upset at the scenes that will no doubt risk our credit rating to be revised such that the Β£125 million per day which we currently in interest alone, in parity (miraculously IMHO) with Germany, rocket upwards to Β£200 million and who knows more!

    My inescapable conclusion is that despite the outcome of the last election, which to all neutral observers could not have been more unambiguous, there are undemocratic forces among us that, because their policy is nothing more or less than to be careerist party politicians in government until the end of time, are prepared to quite frankly prostitute themselves by insulting the intelligence of their electorate. By advocating an incredible alternative that they are expediently unwilling to describe, they render themselves unfit to govern a picnic let alone the future of an unbalanced modern democracy with an insane Labour tradition of dreaming economic growth into existence.

    We really need to stop thinking emotionally but start to think rationally and independently, as if it was really possible, despite the massive array of persuasion we are under, we were actually thinking for ourselves and arriving at our own conclusions.

    Given what I have seen on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ News 24 this evening I have to say that the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ want our reactions to be emotional and not rational. My reactions are certainly emotional right now. In all my life I have never felt such total and utter despair for the country I was brought up to love. Soon comes the anger and then, for some who care more than me, perhaps the backlash.

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