The Man Who Hated Britain

[poliphilo]

You knew Ed Miliband's father Ralph was a Marxist, right? Well you would have done if you took any interest in these matters. It wasn't exactly a secret. He published books. He wrote articles.

BUT

Hold onto your hats because the Mail is now able to reveal that- you're not going to believe this- Ralph Miliband was a Marxist!

And apparently being a Marxist is the same as "hating Britain". Well, here's the evidence: he thought the class system was wicked and that people got into power through the old boy's network of the public schools and Oxbridge. What a vicious twisting of the truth!  I mean it's obvious that people like Cameron (and Ralph's two sons) get to the top by intrinsic merit and sheer hard graft.  O the humanity!

Dig him up and burn what's left and throw the ashes in the Thames.

Comments

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

Well, I'll go to the foot of our stairs! Fancy that! A Marxist. Quelle horreur!

My grandad was also a Marxist, a collier and good union man and his granddaughter is a historian, a left Socialist and good union woman of whom, I hope, he'd have approved.

My grandad, Arthur Seymour Snape was being that in the hard times while the Daily Mail was supporting Hitler and the Nazis- something for which they outright refuse to apologise.....................

Give me an honest Marxist any day of the week!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I don't know if you've read the original article- but it's weird. It lists all these things that are to Miliband Sr's credit- like hating injustice, and fighting the Nazis and refusing to condone the Stalinist invasion of Hungary- all under the heading "the man who hated Britain". It left me wondering whether the journalist was taking the piss out of his editor. Anyone who read the article- as opposed to just the headline- would be likely to conclude that Miliband Sr was actually a pretty decent and principled bloke.

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

Unlike the Mail- I haven't forgotten how they drove a trans woman to her death a few months ago.

http://cmcmck.livejournal.com/294715.html

Something else they haven't apologised for.

That rag is a disgrace to decency and humanity and the fact that anyone reads it leaves me pretty depressed as to some people's attitudes towards society as a whole.