The 2015 Popularity Contest (aka UK General Election )
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Whistlin' Dixie
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Random Anarchist? Hardly.
Bill Maloney's brother was nonced & murdered by some high-profile establishment people. I notice he hasn't been sued by anyone despite all his allegations. He was onto these paedophile rings in westminster (and elsewhere....max clifford for example) a long time before the MSM had the balls to cover them.
My hat goes off to the fella.
Just looked at the female "journos" Twitter feed - yet another person who doesn't believe in ANY party or the process whatsoever. I just don't take seriously anyone who is all about "change" but won't do it from the inside or with a coherent plan other than yelling and screaming at people.
Whistlin' Dixie
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No kudos for exposing the inherent corruption & establishment paedophilia then?
Toffeelover
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Ahem, Ed's family were millionaire Jewish marxists, so how does that fit? Plus ED has never had a real job and experienced any family problems.
Toffeelover
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In 2010, LD did indeed meet with Labour first, in fact it was ED2 but Labour would not agree on increasing the tax allowances for working folk which scuppered the deal.
Seanjd
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I don't believe that to be true. Clegg would not work with Brown regardless of policy.
Clint Planet
Utter Cad.
Ed's early life, according to Wiki:
"Born in University College Hospital in Fitzrovia, London, Miliband is the younger son of immigrant parents.[2][3] His mother,Marion Kozak, a human rights campaigner and early CND member, is a Polish Jew who survived the Holocaust thanks to being protected by Poles.[4] His father, Ralph Miliband, was a Belgian-born Polish Jewish Marxist academic who fled with his father to England during World War II.[5][6] The family lived on Edis Street in Primrose Hill, London. His elder brother,David Miliband, still owns the house today.[7]
Ralph Miliband left his academic post at the London School of Economics in 1972 to take up a chair at the University of Leeds as a Professor of Politics. His family moved to Leeds with him in 1973 after he suffered a heart attack, and Miliband attended Featherbank Infant School in Horsforth between 1974 and 1977, during which time he became a fan of Leeds United.[8]
Due to his father's later employment as a roving teacher, Miliband spent two spells living in Boston, Massachusetts, one year when he was seven and one middle school term when he was twelve.[9] Miliband remembered his time in the US as one of his happiest, during which he became a fan of American culture, watching Dallas[2] and following the Boston Red Sox[10] and the New England Patriots.[11]
Marxist, his father most certainly was; Jewish too, though I fail to see the relevance. Millionaires, though? Hmmm.
Ed's Dad yesterday, according to Conservative Central Office.
Toffeelover
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It was Mate.
Seanjd
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There is definitely a difference between a pair of immigrants who fled their fascist rules countries to seek asylum, who then went onto do very well for themselves in this country via academics, and a family of billionaire brokers who descent from royalty.
coollino
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http://www.voterpower.org.uk/south-holland-the-deepings
My hometown, no wonder i knew no different until i went to uni.
My hometown, no wonder i knew no different until i went to uni.
Not really - as they didn't do that. They just yelled at Nick Clegg for a bit.
It's worth noting that the investigation into pedophile rings in the establishment got going properly when a backbench MP brought it to national attention in Simon Danczuk, as a result of people bringing it up with him.
There's a proper way of doing things - then there's running around and screaming at people. And this is coming from someone who absolutely detests the Lib Dems.
Toffeelover
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Ed's early life, according to Wiki:
"Born in University College Hospital in Fitzrovia, London, Miliband is the younger son of immigrant parents.[2][3] His mother,Marion Kozak, a human rights campaigner and early CND member, is a Polish Jew who survived the Holocaust thanks to being protected by Poles.[4] His father, Ralph Miliband, was a Belgian-born Polish Jewish Marxist academic who fled with his father to England during World War II.[5][6] The family lived on Edis Street in Primrose Hill, London. His elder brother,David Miliband, still owns the house today.[7]
Ralph Miliband left his academic post at the London School of Economics in 1972 to take up a chair at the University of Leeds as a Professor of Politics. His family moved to Leeds with him in 1973 after he suffered a heart attack, and Miliband attended Featherbank Infant School in Horsforth between 1974 and 1977, during which time he became a fan of Leeds United.[8]
Due to his father's later employment as a roving teacher, Miliband spent two spells living in Boston, Massachusetts, one year when he was seven and one middle school term when he was twelve.[9] Miliband remembered his time in the US as one of his happiest, during which he became a fan of American culture, watching Dallas[2] and following the Boston Red Sox[10] and the New England Patriots.[11]
Marxist, his father most certainly was; Jewish too, though I fail to see the relevance. Millionaires, though? Hmmm.
Ed's Dad yesterday, according to Conservative Central Office.
The wealth came via his Mother.
Clint Planet
Utter Cad.
From Wiki:
Special Adviser
In 1992, after graduating from the University of Oxford, Miliband began his working career in the media as a researcher to co-presenter Andrew Rawnsley in the Channel 4 show A Week in Politics.[14] In 1993, Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury Harriet Harman approached Rawnsley to recruit Miliband as her policy researcher and speechwriter.[15] At the time, Yvette Cooper also worked for Harman as part of Labour's Shadow Treasury team.
In 1994, when Harriet Harman was moved by the newly elected Labour Leader Tony Blair to become Shadow Secretary of State for Employment, Miliband stayed on in the Shadow Treasury team and was promoted to work for Shadow ChancellorGordon Brown.[16] In 1995, with encouragement from Gordon Brown, Miliband took time out from his job to study at the London School of Economics, where he obtained a Masters in Economics.[12] After Labour's 1997 landslide victory, Miliband was appointed as a special adviser to Chancellor Gordon Brown from 1997 to 2002.[17]
In early 1999, Gordon Brown gave Miliband the task of working with Scottish Labour's Election Co-ordinator Douglas Alexander to help overturn the Scottish National Party's opinion poll lead in the run-up to the first devolved Scottish Parliament election.[18] He was intimately involved in the process of building Labour's election manifesto, initially doing so in an informal capacity,[19] until he was spotted leaving the Scottish Labour Party's headquarters on the night that a key policy meeting was held, involving the Scottish Secretary Donald Dewar and senior party officials, to consider the party's election strategy and details of Labour's manifesto. To avoid any perceived conflict of interest, Miliband temporarily resigned from his post as a Special Adviser at the Treasury to work on the Scottish election campaign full-time.[20] It was reported that also part of Miliband's Scottish election role was to take charge of Labour's media rebuttal operation. Labour went on to become the largest party in the Scottish Parliament following the election.[21]
Harvard
On 25 July 2002, it was announced that Miliband would take a 12-month unpaid sabbatical from HM Treasury to be a visiting scholar at the Center for European Studies of Harvard University for two semesters.[22] He spent his time at Harvard teaching economics,[23] and stayed there after September 2003 for an additional semester teaching a course titled "What's Left? The Politics of Social Justice".[24] During this time, he was granted "access" to Senator John Kerry and reported to Brown on the Presidential hopeful's progress.[25] After Miliband returned to the UK in January 2004 Gordon Brown appointed him Chairman of HM Treasury's Council of Economic Advisers as a replacement for Ed Balls, with specific responsibility for directing the UK's long-term economic planning.[26]
Parliament
In early 2005, Miliband resigned his advisory role to HM Treasury to stand for election. Kevin Hughes, then the Labour MP for Doncaster North, announced in February of that year that he would be standing down at the next election due to being diagnosed with motor neurone disease. Miliband applied for selection to be the candidate in the safe Labour seat and won, beating off a close challenge from Michael Dugher, then a SPAD to Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon.[27] Dugher would later become an MP in 2010.
Gordon Brown visited Doncaster North during the general election campaign to support his former adviser.[28] Miliband was elected to Parliament on 5 May 2005, with over 50% of the vote and a majority of 12,656. He made his maiden speech in the House of Commons on 23 May, responding to comments made by future SpeakerJohn Bercow.[29] In Tony Blair's cabinet reshuffle in May 2006, he was made the Parliamentary Secretary to the Cabinet Office, as Minister for the Third Sector, with responsibility for voluntary and charity organisations.[30][31]
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