Ed Miliband, Unplugged
Ed Miliband's speech to the Labour party conference yesterday - was a rather odd affair.
The whole thing started off with Ed trying to show that he's not really a 'goofball' - and that he's very much in touch with his feminine side.
And the Labour leader was happy to share the evidence with his audience - since the last Labour conference he has got married to his significant other - Justine - and attended the birth of his second child.
Whereas the year before Ed was unamarried - and hadn't bothered to put his name on his first child's birth certificate.
So far so good - and it just goes to show that a week is a long time in politics.
Anyway, shortly after that things started to go downhill.
Ed told delegates that he was not Tony Blair - Labour's most successful leader ever - and the winner of three general elections on the trot.
Unsurprisingly this revelation drew boos from some parts of the hall and the Unite union boss - Len McCluskey - could be seen clapping enthusiastically in the background.
But instead of coming up with some intelligent or witty put-down - Ed just ploughed on with his pre-prepared script - and revealed that he wasn't Gordon Brown either.
I listened to the rest of the speech which seemd to me to be an attempt to re-write history - or at least the part in history played by Ed Miliband and Ed Balls.
Who were both ministers in the last Lbour government - and part of Gordon Brown's inner circle of course.
So when I heard that Labour - aka the two Eds - were now committed to any future Labour government 'living within its means' - I began to lose interest in what was being said.
Because this is exactly the opposite of what was really happening inside the last Labour government - according to the former chancellor - Alistair Darling - in his book 'Back from the Brink: 1,000 Days at Number 11'.
The rest of the speech was predictable and boring.
For example, I didn't hear a single word about 're-founding Labour' - a much-hyped project which now appears to have been shelved - since Britain's union bosses (the Bubs) won't play ball with their new leader.
At the end of the speech I thought to myself - 'What would I say to Ed Miliband if he walked into the room right now?'
And what I would have said was - 'Ed you're dead right - you're no Tony Blair'.
The whole thing started off with Ed trying to show that he's not really a 'goofball' - and that he's very much in touch with his feminine side.
And the Labour leader was happy to share the evidence with his audience - since the last Labour conference he has got married to his significant other - Justine - and attended the birth of his second child.
Whereas the year before Ed was unamarried - and hadn't bothered to put his name on his first child's birth certificate.
So far so good - and it just goes to show that a week is a long time in politics.
Anyway, shortly after that things started to go downhill.
Ed told delegates that he was not Tony Blair - Labour's most successful leader ever - and the winner of three general elections on the trot.
Unsurprisingly this revelation drew boos from some parts of the hall and the Unite union boss - Len McCluskey - could be seen clapping enthusiastically in the background.
But instead of coming up with some intelligent or witty put-down - Ed just ploughed on with his pre-prepared script - and revealed that he wasn't Gordon Brown either.
I listened to the rest of the speech which seemd to me to be an attempt to re-write history - or at least the part in history played by Ed Miliband and Ed Balls.
Who were both ministers in the last Lbour government - and part of Gordon Brown's inner circle of course.
So when I heard that Labour - aka the two Eds - were now committed to any future Labour government 'living within its means' - I began to lose interest in what was being said.
Because this is exactly the opposite of what was really happening inside the last Labour government - according to the former chancellor - Alistair Darling - in his book 'Back from the Brink: 1,000 Days at Number 11'.
The rest of the speech was predictable and boring.
For example, I didn't hear a single word about 're-founding Labour' - a much-hyped project which now appears to have been shelved - since Britain's union bosses (the Bubs) won't play ball with their new leader.
At the end of the speech I thought to myself - 'What would I say to Ed Miliband if he walked into the room right now?'
And what I would have said was - 'Ed you're dead right - you're no Tony Blair'.
