General Election 2015 Page 16
Quote: Aaron @ 3rd May 2015, 4:44 PM BSTHe's taking the Jew thing a bit too far, IMO.
Jew thing?
What did I miss?
Quote: Aaron @ 3rd May 2015, 4:44 PM BSTHe's taking the Jew thing a bit too far, IMO.
Who Ed?
When does he ever mention his faith or rather lack of it?
Me thinks you're missing RCP.
Quote: Gussie Fink Nottle @ 3rd May 2015, 4:43 PM BSTWas I dreaming earlier? Or did Eddie Miliband really unveil a stone monument with his party's policies engraved on it?
And he wants to put it in the garden of Number 10 if he wins.
More than one commentator has pointed out it ressembles a grave stone.
Quote: sootyj @ 3rd May 2015, 4:49 PM BSTWho Ed?
When does he ever mention his faith or rather lack of it?
Well he now seems to think he's Moses, so...
Quote: Gussie Fink Nottle @ 3rd May 2015, 4:43 PM BSTWas I dreaming earlier? Or did Eddie Miliband really unveil a stone monument with his party's policies engraved on it?
And he wants to put it in the garden of Number 10 if he wins.Is it me, or does this just come across as a little surreal?
It's sort of parallel dimension stuff.Yes, I know the key phrase to look for is 'set in stone'.
But subtlety isn't his strong suit, is it?To me it looks like one of those concrete segments of the Berlin wall.
Some say it rather resembles an over-sized gravestone.Who knows, perhaps we've finally solved the riddle of Stonehenge.
The stones are previous manifesto stones with the writing worn away.Anyhow, I shall now lean back and wait for Nigel Farage to launch a ship named after his five main policies...
There could be a Glastonbury stone circle thing to it. As I said to Emily in my e-mail, I have very fond memories of Tony there as it linked in with nonconformist history and a broad hippy culture. Being a professional banker, she was quite unable to reply on that point and that was precisely why I made it.
But as Ed attempts to be the Half-Anti-Blair, he knows the appeal of it. Consequently he occasionally heads for a photo opportunity with colour-and-nostalgia. See the Durham Miners Gala as being just one example. The problem for him is that it doesn't mean anyone loves his policies or indeed anything much about modern politics. Plus that plinth is a very grey sort of white, if it is white at all. So it reeks of the authoritarian bureaucracy of Whitehall, the castle where he and all his cronies have always lived.
Quote: Aaron @ 3rd May 2015, 5:00 PM BSTWell he now seems to think he's Moses, so...
Yes, the penny just dropped and I came on here to apologise for not getting it.
But you beat me to it.
Yes, Prophet Ed.
Who knows, perhaps, if he wins, he'll cross the Thames by parting it. 
Quote: A Horseradish @ 3rd May 2015, 5:05 PM BSTThere could be a Glastonbury stone circle thing to it. As I said to Emily in my e-mail, I have very fond memories of Tony there as it linked in with nonconformist history and a broad hippy culture. Being a professional banker, she was quite unable to reply on that point and that was precisely why I made it.
But as Ed attempts to be the Half-Anti-Blair, he knows the appeal of it. Consequently he occasionally heads for a photo opportunity with colour-and-nostalgia. See the Durham Miners Gala as being just one example. The problem for him is that it doesn't mean anyone loves his policies or indeed anything much about modern politics. Plus that plinth is a very grey sort of white, if it is white at all. So it reeks of the authoritarian bureaucracy of Whitehall, the castle where he and all his cronies have always lived.
Well, Eddie poses as the anti-Blair. To my mind, he has much more of Blair about him than he would care to admit.
That said, unveiling monuments to your policies is pretty bizarre stuff.
We don't really build monuments to policies. Nobody does.
Monuments represent the historic. They commemorate great figures of the past, triumphs or atrocities.
Which is this? A monument to stupendous vanity?
Aaron is right. There are pretensions of the divine here.
Unveiling such a memorial to one's own work or edicts has a great deal of hubris about it.
Setting one's own words in stone is something one would expect the likes of Saddam Hussein to do. But a British party leader?
Aside from the question 'what does he think he's doing?' one can not help but wonder 'who does he think he is?'.
We may have reached the low point of the election.
Quote: Gussie Fink Nottle @ 3rd May 2015, 5:22 PM BSTWell, Eddie poses as the anti-Blair. To my mind, he has much more of Blair about him than he would care to admit.
That said, unveiling monuments to your policies is pretty bizarre stuff.
We don't really build monuments to policies. Nobody does.
Monuments represent the historic. They commemorate great figures of the past, triumphs or atrocities.Which is this? A monument to stupendous vanity?
Aaron is right. There are pretensions of the divine here.
Unveiling such a memorial to one's own work or edicts has a great deal of hubris about it.Setting one's own words in stone is something one would expect the likes of Saddam Hussein to do. But a British party leader?
Aside from the question 'what does he think he's doing?' one can not help but wonder 'who does he think he is?'.
We may have reached the low point of the election.
The low point of the election? Come now. It isn't as bad as that is it. Look at Cameron's brain fades again and try to admire the depths. OK. That's impossible but you can gauge them. I think you are joshing on this point. You, Lassie my biscuit making friend, know very well that there was a carving of maps at Pavlov, in the Spanish Navarre and in southern Italy, not to mention Çatalhöyük in Anatolia even if I have just mentioned it. That wasn't about history even though it is history now. No? Yes?
Quote: A Horseradish @ 3rd May 2015, 5:33 PM BSTThe low point of the election? Come now. It isn't as bad as that is it. Look at Cameron's brain fades again and try to admire the depths. OK. That's impossible but you can gauge them. I think you are joshing on this point. You, Lassie my biscuit making friend, know very well that there was a carving of maps at Pavlov, in the Spanish Navarre and in southern Italy, not to mention Çatalhöyük in Anatolia even if I have just mentioned it. That wasn't about history even though it is history now. No? Yes?
No, I think this is the bottom so far.
Previously I might have pointed to Farage and his HIV foreigners.
But the more I think of it, the party building a monument to itself does seem to be the lowest point so far.
Who knows, the election ain't over yet.
Perhaps tomorrow Cameron will parade down the Mall standing in an open top Mercedes - with Theresa May and other members of the Home Office goose stepping in his wake.
But yes, right now St Ed unveiling his stone tablet does seem to be the most crass moment of them all.
Quote: Gussie Fink Nottle @ 3rd May 2015, 5:43 PM BSTNo, I think this is the bottom so far.
Previously I might have pointed to Farage and his HIV foreigners.
But the more I think of it, the party building a monument to itself does seem to be the lowest point so far.Who knows, the election ain't over yet.
Perhaps tomorrow Cameron will parade down the Mall standing in an open top Mercedes - with Theresa May and other members of the Home Office goose stepping in his wake.
But yes, right now St Ed unveiling his stone tablet does seem to be the most crass moment of them all.
It is unlikely he could risk doing a Kennedy.
Re the entourage you so vividly describe, Madam May has probably got the thigh length boots for it.
Quote: A Horseradish @ 3rd May 2015, 5:57 PM BSTIt is unlikely he could risk doing a Kennedy.
Re the entourage you so vividly describe, Madam May has probably got the thigh length boots for it.
Nah, Kennedy sat in his Cadillac.
It was someone else who liked standing in an open top Mercedes in a pique cap, saluting the masses.
As for Madam May, I would not at all be surprised if I were to learn that she practices goose stepping regularly.
Quote: Aaron @ 3rd May 2015, 5:00 PM BSTWell he now seems to think he's Moses, so...
Well I got it, anyway. Worthy of a 
at any rate.
Cameron doesn't have to face any real debate and he doesn't.
The whole energy is on Miliband and how can he keep the little parties happy.
He reminds me of Brian the Robot and his squeeky little toy robots who follow him everywhere.
And the Lord spoketh unto Ed Miliband.
'And thou shalleth go forth and make vague statements on the NHS.
Thine shall be a pledge of sorts to reduce borrowing without any reduction in spending.
Moreover I charge thee with not being a Tory.
Go forth and carve my will with thine own hands into stone.
Go and bring light to the world.
Just go!'
Hampstead and Kilburn - Three Way Marginal
Last election - Lab 33%, Con 33%, Lib Dem 31%
Glenda Jackson, the MP, has stepped down.
Here is Lib Dem candidate, Maajid Nawaz, the Co-founder and Chairman of Quilliam, a counter-extremism think tank - and a former member of the Islamist revolutionary group Hizb ut-Tahrir.