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I too was looking on from abroad, the only things that reached me were that Miliband was a little bit goofy and that he wan't the favoured candidate by the Murd
by smcl 4y ago
I too was looking on from abroad, the only things that reached me were that Miliband was a little bit goofy and that he wan't the favoured candidate by the Murdoch papers (where he took an absolute hammering, I think we all saw the picture of him eating a bacon roll)
- jemmyw 4y agoBoth those things would endear the man to me.
- smcl 4y agoHonestly he was a good guy, and was one of the few MPs who didn't get caught up in the expenses scandal. Yeah I think unfortunately people were easily persuaded that this made him look incompetent (I didn't vote, would have voted SNP and my constituency comfortably elected an SNP MP anyway). Shame really, given what transpired in the eight years that followed. It wasn't the last time a left-leaning Labour leader got that treatment, Corbyn was similarly crucified in the press.