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

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

I haven't read the original Mail article, but I read the BBC article about it.

I noticed that Milliband refuses to say whether he thinks the free market economy is a good thing -- and apparently this makes him as evil as his father! Personally I have lots of reservations about the free market economy, but that doesn't mean I hate Britain. One does not follow from the other.

[veronica-milvus.livejournal.com]

A free market is a great thing - if it is properly regulated to prevent abuse by companies / shareholders. People don't generally realise that a "free market" is a technical economic term (as is "public good") and doesn't mean "everybody do what ever you like".

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I think it's pretty feeble of him not to be able to give an account of his economic philosophy. He's had long enough to come up with one.

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

I find Milliband pretty feeble as a politician and extremely so as any sort of socialist but that's still no excuse for the Fail to be doing what its doing- it looks awfully like some of its pro Nazi Communist baiting propaganda from the thirties!

Fight the man on his policies (or lack of them) by all means, but personal attacks of this sort are not impressive.