How can Ed Miliband represent Labour?
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How can Ed Miliband represent Labour?Excuse my ignorance, but seriously how can this guy represent Labour? He's hardly your classic worker like Dennis Skinner. He graduated from Corpus Christi Oxford and LSE, and isn't on par with the general public. Why have parties intertwined so much, shouldn't Labour leaders be representative of the general public?!
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Re: How can Ed Miliband represent Labour?Labour represents the unions, and the unions voted for Ed. No political party or individual is meant to represent the general public as a whole.(Original post by multiplexing-gamer)
Excuse my ignorance, but seriously how can this guy represent Labour? He's hardly your classic worker like Dennis Skinner. He graduated from Corpus Christi Oxford and LSE, and isn't on par with the general public. Why have parties intertwined so much, shouldn't Labour leaders be representative of the general public?! -
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Re: How can Ed Miliband represent Labour?Ed can theoretically represent the interests in sections of society to which he does not belong. Traditionally, Labour sympathies have been with the unions and workers; whilst it is a shadow of its former self, New Labour still adheres loosely to this.
Socially he is unrepresentative, but as are the majority of politicians. -
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Re: How can Ed Miliband represent Labour?It's hardly new - Blair is cut from the same cloth, so is Tony Benn. A sizeable section of Labour voters are middle class, they support labour through an intellectual thought process that leads them to the left/centre left.(Original post by multiplexing-gamer)
Excuse my ignorance, but seriously how can this guy represent Labour? He's hardly your classic worker like Dennis Skinner. He graduated from Corpus Christi Oxford and LSE, and isn't on par with the general public. Why have parties intertwined so much, shouldn't Labour leaders be representative of the general public?! -
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Re: How can Ed Miliband represent Labour?Welcome to politics, where middle-class Oxbridge- educated white people pick their team and play the game of life with everyone else as pieces. Labour's slightly less subject to this than the Tories and Lib Dems but on the whole it's one big misrepresentation party
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Re: How can Ed Miliband represent Labour?Personally I'd find it quite reassuring that the leader of my party managed to make it from an inner city comprehensive to two of the finest uni's the world has to offer. That they're the son of a socialist intellectual from a decidedly working class background.
I think the Labour Party would have trouble finding a leader with a better background than Ed Miliband (excluding his brother, of course). -
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Re: How can Ed Miliband represent Labour?Was not aware he was working class(Original post by BaconFTW)
Personally I'd find it quite reassuring that the leader of my party managed to make it from an inner city comprehensive to two of the finest uni's the world has to offer. That they're the son of a socialist intellectual from a decidedly working class background.
I think the Labour Party would have trouble finding a leader with a better background than Ed Miliband (excluding his brother, of course).
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Re: How can Ed Miliband represent Labour?I do like the suggestion of Skinner though, if only because I love the way he and Cameron interact. Skinner says or does something inappropriate, eg. heckling during the state opening, Cameron calls him a dinosaur, because he is basically the one man remnant of the militant tendancy, and front bench Labour get to bitch about ageism while Skinner and Cameron both continue to not care. PMQs would be hilarious with Skinner vs Cameron.
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Re: How can Ed Miliband represent Labour?It makes sense to have well educated people running the country. The general public don't have any idea how to run a country, they just repeat what is written in whatever paper they happen to read. Even if a person from a working class family had the same education I still dont see how having less money when you were yound affects your ability to manage a country.
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Re: How can Ed Miliband represent Labour?That is just a lie.(Original post by Martyn*)
Red Ed. After all, he is a Communist Jew. The Fabians probably helped to elect him. -
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Re: How can Ed Miliband represent Labour?Maybe. But you never know what happens behind closed doors.(Original post by ras90)
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Re: How can Ed Miliband represent Labour?haha surely that just shows he's well educated and intelligent! He is meant to represent the people, but in their values and priorities. I wouldn't like to think he should be of the same intelligence of the average person in the street.
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Re: How can Ed Miliband represent Labour?It would be an improvement to see politicians come from all social groups, but there should be nothing wrong with a disproportionate number of our politicians come from Britain's best educational establishments. In fact we should welcome the fact that our politicians are well-educated.
Contrary to some ignorant popular beliefs, attending Oxford or Cambridge says nothing about a person's background. It is a concern that public schools are considerably overrepresented at these institutions, but simply attending one of them does not disconnect a person from the rest of society. -
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Re: How can Ed Miliband represent Labour?I'm sure he's capable of being a great leader but unfortunately i can't take him seriously as whenever I think of him I think back to a cartoon of him in a newspaper bearing the resemblance of Wallace from Wallace and Gromit......
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Re: How can Ed Miliband represent Labour?Wow, the Millband Brothers, Joe Cole, and N-Dubz. Haverstock School has a lot to answer for.(Original post by BaconFTW)
Personally I'd find it quite reassuring that the leader of my party managed to make it from an inner city comprehensive to two of the finest uni's the world has to offer. That they're the son of a socialist intellectual from a decidedly working class background.
I think the Labour Party would have trouble finding a leader with a better background than Ed Miliband (excluding his brother, of course).
