(not satire – I think)
After Ed Miliband sprung into action yesterday to save a damsel in distress, a lot of people were surprised by the female cyclist’s description of him as ‘suave’ and ‘attractive’.
I’ve actually heard a lot of women describe him as attractive and – whatever you might think of Ed Miliband as a politician – I’ve always been mystified by the attacks on him for looking like Wallace from Wallace and Gromit.
Which of course – as he himself has admitted – he does.
Not sure why that’s supposed to be a bad thing.
Wallace is a likeable working class eccentric who loves English cheese, Lancashire hotpot and a cup of tea. He loves his dog and is a loyal friend. He has a kindly nature, has a good heart and always means well.
His creator, Nick Park said the character is based on his own dad:
He’s a very self-contained figure. A very homely sort who doesn’t mind the odd adventure.
And the icons project had this to say about Wallace and Gromit:
They have done more to improve the image of the English world-wide than any officially appointed ambassadors.
Can’t see much wrong with any of that, can you?
Or maybe some would prefer Flashman?
A notorious public school bully who is finally expelled for drunkenness, an antihero who runs from danger or hides cowering in fear, betrays or abandons acquaintances at the slightest incentive, bullies and beats servants with gusto, beds every available woman, carries off any loot he can grab, and gambles and boozes enthusiastically.
Sound familiar?
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actually ed milband reminds me more of adrain mole.
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Don’t know about the ‘beats servants’ or ‘beds any available women’, but can certainly see some of the other character traits in Cameron’s persona, particularly the ‘runs from danger or hides cowering in fear’ if his hysteria over the nutjobs from UKIP is anything to judge.
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he,s still in love with blair jeff3
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Who would you prefer as PM? Wallace or flashman? is this a survey? if so then i think i would prefer Brand X
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I’m an old ‘lefty’, I haven’t always voted Labour and I’ve hardly ever actually liked or trusted any politicians but I genuinely do like Ed Miliband (so far). However, the media blurb (which some swallow without giving it much thought) that he is too ‘geeky’ to be PM and ‘looks like Wallace’ etc does have an impact on people who prefer their politics in bite-sized chunks. I think Ed’s much better looking than Dave as it happens but it is indeed irrelevant – or should be. Cameron has all the smug, oily charm of a snake oil spiv and it’s always surprised me that this is deemed an appropriate persona for the leader of our country. So Ed is ‘geeky’: what does that even mean? Yeah he taught at Harvard and perhaps that teachery side of him alienates people but he does well in the live Q&A sessions and he’s actually surprisingly witty at times with a good delivery of the scripted ‘quips’ at PMQs. Perhaps he needs to get his message out more forcefuly and with more details. On the other hand, his tactics so far have worked in uniting the Labour Party after the fall-out from ghastly New Labour. In this he is way more successful than Cameron, who’s barely managing to keep hold of his own party. In fact, one of Miliband’s best jokes was to sarcastically quote Baroness Warsi claiming ‘The Prime Minister has the support of large parts of the Conservative party’. It’s depressing that my Twitter time line is full of other lefties doing little but complain about Miliband. Someone very silly wrote, ‘Ralph Miliband must be spinning in his grave’. I doubt Ralph, as a Marxist, ever expected to be elected PM of the UK. Much as we on the left might like to live in a socialist state, that’s not going to happen any time soon. It’s either give Ed a chance, support him and criticise from a supportive ppsition and vote Labour with hope or go all purist (‘Labour’s not left enough for me so I won’t vote for them’) and get another 5 years of Flashman. I know who I’ll be voting for. It’s a straight choice. People who whine about Labour not being left enough have to accept that most of the country don’t think like us and a potential PM has to get many undecided voters onside, not just die-hard Labour voters but floating, borderline voters. It’ll be a clear choice at the GE 2015 between Labour or Conservative. Let’s hope 2015 will see the back of Flashman and Gideon once and for all.
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actually ed milband reminds me more of adrain mole. They all remind me of money grubbing inhumane wastes of oxygen. That goed for every party.
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Sian
How has Ed milliband pulled his party together when he has Liam byrne in his ranks?
Labour has some good MP’s but a hell of a lot of bad ones too. I would like to see the good ones stand as independents for the left which labour is not and is why I would not vote for them and it’s cronyism and hierarchy.
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But as we all know the honest rarely make it to the top.
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Well it’s about time they did make it to the top!
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Guy,
Ok, but we’ll get a Tory govt again if people on the left choose to vote for Independents of not at all . That’s, unfortunately, the choice you’re making there. Labour’s not perfect, nor is Miliband, but there is 2 party system in the UK. Another 5 years of Tory rule is a terrifying prospect. People make it to the top by compromising to some extent. It’s hard to take but that’s the way it works.
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Sian
5 years of Tory rule is an equally terrifying prospect.
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That should be 5 years of labour rule is an equally terrifying prospect.
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he’s got no fire in his belly!
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You’re hanging on in there for ‘the revolution’ are you Guy? The one where all the good, independent folk arise (having not been corrupted on the way up) and rule the land? It’s not going to happen Guy. Anyway, I haven’t got time to discuss anymore but all the best.
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New Labour did an immense amount of harm to the Labour party as older supporters understood it to be, and although I would concede that Ed Milliband isn’t doing as bad a job or leading Labour as one might suppose, he isn’t really convincing voters that the spectre of Blair’s New Labour (Tory Lite) has gone for good because he doesn’t come across as a conviction politician in the media.
Cameron looks unprincipled and stands a chance of being ditched by the Tories before the next general election unless he can pull something spectacular out of the bag with regard to the EU.
He is no more liked by the right than Milliband is liked by the left, but the right have more power and influence amongst Tories than the left do amongst Labour.
Both sides seem not to understand that the voting public as I see it doesn’t really want blandly similar centre ground parties, they prefer a choice.
It’s all well and good for the left to go on calling UKIP supporters names and dismissing them as ‘racist nut jobs’ but so far the left haven’t come up with any counter argument which would convince the electorate that continued EU membership is beneficial in every respect to Britain.
Neither have they tried to convince the electorate that an idealistic internationalist agenda which favours open door unrestricted immigration and asylum to this country in the current economic climate is in our best interests, in fact their complete lack of argument, convincing or otherwise, has now created a political and ideological vacuum which UKIP are more than happy to fill.
The ‘real left’, who are not really represented by Labour, appear not to want to debate the immigration issue at all, and they have shot themselves in the foot by this approach because the public have now become so hardened to being labelled and called ‘racist’ that it no longer has any impact.
A grown up debate on immigration is however long overdue, this is why a substantial number of those who voted supported UKIP in local elections.
This support was not because they particularly favour all UKIP policies, many of which are yet to be revealed, but because the electorate’s opinions and points of view for good or ill have been suppressed and ignored by both sides and by the media for far too long and now it’s kickass time.
Witness the Tories recent scrabbling around to appear ‘tough on immigration’ and Labours ‘mea culpa’ repositioning but with scarcely a mention from Milliband about the elephant in the room, the EU which has often been seen and portrayed as the author of our misfortunes.
If support for UKIP continues or increases, a not entirely unrealistic supposition given the positive media spin / coverage so far, then the entire political landscape will be shifted to the right by default, no matter who is elected in 2015.
To stand any chance of succeeding in the next election Labour needs to firm up their policies and, most importantly, to address the immigration issue honestly and fairly and to get their message across, this doesn’t seem to be happening so far.
The general perception seems to be that Labour will say one thing but do another if elected, especially on immigration, so the trust has gone and Milliband has yet to rebuild it.
I’m no lover of the Tories, but UKIP seems to be setting the agenda and Tory MP’s could and probably would form an alliance with UKIP to beat Labour, who seem to think that they will be safe from voters wrath which has so far affected the Tories more than themselves.
The perception of the man in the pub is that UKIP will deliver on getting out of the EU and stopping the unrestricted mass immigration that has never been given a mandate by the majority of voters who were never asked about it.
We live in interesting times………..
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Sian
If you can act as PR for the labour partty, I think those who are fed up of the two party system can promote an alternative and if enough people vote in an independent it could dent the two parties and ukip. You think you have got it stitched up keeping your narrow minded two party state – I know things could be different.
First they fight you – then they laugh at you – then you win.
Mahatma gandhi.
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Vote for Tesco
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HIya chewie – where have you been? Johnnie’s been missing you.
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Guy I very much doubt that I think he’s glad to see the back of me. Anyway I’ve been causing trouble elsewhere only to nasty fekwits though
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chewie…hi, you see things so, clearly,..i felt moved to say this, just to let you know…
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Donkey sometimes I think the world has gone mad. Someone went trawling on me and found a picture of a tree I took. Why no one can figure it out. Either its meant to imply something about me or its suggests their stupid
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it suggests they have to much time on there hands.
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Like me LOL
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chewie..my passion is trees..i have many tree photos…i know lots about food, wine, beer, whiskey…but gave it all up, ‘cept food, no money..no photos of…
i drink tea, but no photos of…it makes me human being…i have photos to prove it…cave of lascaux in france…full of human imagery, humans love art….art is part of human definition…check out art of charles bronson hmp…
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I have already said I’m a lefty so the ‘you’ve got it stitched up with your two party state’ remark is just a silly insult. I’m merely being pragmatic as the situation won’t be resolved by banal slogans and wild hopes. The British people are not inclined towards any kind of radicalism unfortunately. The occasional period of unrest here is trumpeted as if it had changed the system. But we still exist in a monarchy, led by Tories. That’s the choice of the people of the UK which I hate as much as you probably do.
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Private Eye have it about right with their ‘Ed Millibean’ cartoon.
Mr Bean or Flashman? Well, at least Mr Bean doesn’t mean anyone any harm.
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