Archive for Ed Miliband
The big question about Ed Miliband
All hail the big data analysis that is Google's autocomplete function when asked about Ed Miliband.
How Labour is taking to mobile
From LabourList: Ed Miliband’s campaign were the first to realise the potential power that mobile could play in member mobilisation. Partnering with specialists Mass1 was a pivotal decision, as they conducted the largest voter ID operation in Labour’s history adding over 4,300 volunteers to his campaign, with over 89% of those following though and taking [...]
Eastleigh byelection and mansion tax – the Guardian Politics Weekly podcast
I was back at The Guardian this week to take part in the latest Politics Weekly podcast. As the blurb says: Joining Tom Clark this week: the Guardian’s data journalist and polling expert James Ball, our political correspondent Juliette Jowit and Lib Dem Voice editor Mark Pack. We also hear from Peter Kellner, the president [...]
2 leaders, 2 countries, 2 big political speeches, 1 theme
Two speeches, and what have we learnt? Ed Miliband wants to lift the Liberal Democrat policy of a mansion tax whilst Barack Obama wants to lift the Liberal Democrat achievement of taxing luxury jets sensibly. I’m sure there’s a lesson in there…
Oh well, there goes Labour on civil liberties
After the last general election, Ed Miliband started making some promising noises about changing Labour’s approach (aka frequent disregard for) civil liberties: Activists cheered as he said Labour had appeared “casual” about civil liberties and said he would not let the Tories or Lib Dems “take ownership of the British tradition of liberty”. Where’s that [...]
An ironic gift to Miliband from some of his opponents
Amongst the political obstacles between Ed Miliband and No. 10 Downing Street are a closely entwined pair related to deficits: how much control over him is wielded by the trade union bosses* and does he have a credible alternative to the government’s economic policies? Labour has often been very coy about quite what it would cut and [...]
It’s not Vince you should be texting Ed
Ed Miliband’s text messages to Vince Cable may have got him in trouble with his own political party and even resulted in party officials taking away his mobile phone. They also have been text messages sent to the wrong person if Ed Miliband’s serious about preparing the ground for future Labour-Liberal Democrat cooperation. That’s not [...]
Labour health policy descends into mess on first day of conference
At a Q&A session, Labour leader Ed Miliband said: I think what would be not sensible is for us to come along and say, ‘well, Andrew Lansley, now Jeremy Hunt, they’re changing all the arrangements, have these new clinical commissioning groups and so on, and we’re just going to reverse it all back and spend [...]
Miliband: Labour took my mobile phone away
What a bad year it is to be a political satirist. First there was the problem of the minister who met the Prime Minster, intending to resign – yet somehow the conversation ended without the PM noticing that a resignation was on offer. Hard for a satirist to top that. And now we have the [...]
The strange Conservative strategy
Imagine you’re a slightly excitable aide to Ed Miliband and plotting how he can be Prime Minister by Christmas, with you getting a new nice job in 10 Downing Street as a result. What would your plan be? Knowing that we now have fixed-term Parliaments, what you would want to plot is a falling out [...]
