One of the most powerful sections of Ed Miliband's speech came when, with remarkable fluency, he declared of the government: "Have you ever seen a more incompetent, hopeless, out of touch, U-turning, pledge breaking, make it up as you go along, back-of-the-envelope, miserable shower?"
Everything about the reporting of British electoral politics these days is banal and empty and asinine. It's the era where "yeah but would you want to go for a pint with him" is seen as a valid criticism of a political candidate and where everything is subservient to the arbitrary construction of characters and narratives in the press. How many people before the last election would parrot that Gordon Brown was a "weak leader" without actually being able to tell you anything that he'd done that displayed weak leadership? It all just makes it easier for the press to run things, because they don't even have to come up with a one sided account of the worst bits someone's policies to shaft them any more, they just have to arbitrarily label them as "a bit creepy."It's so fucking banal and empty and asinine.
There's a huge wasteland with an enormous gale blowing through it out there and it's called industry and manafacturing. Coal mines and steel works and ship yards to be revived.
ive been interested by the guardian's obesquieous cheerleading.