THROUGHOUT THE ELECTION the polls were consistently showing
the Tories and Labour running neck and neck; and no sane and dispassionate
person could understand what was going on. How Ed Miliband, whose policies were
designed to resurrect that darkest period in the nations post-war history –
that terrible gloom of the 1970s; could be running neck and neck with anyone
except Satan himself, was beyond all comprehension.
Nigel
Farage made what was to become the most prescient comment of the campaign when at
one point he said there was a 'lot of voodoo polling going on'. One batch on
the same day for instance, included two polls that gave Farage's party achieving
a margin of 10%. One had his party on seven per cent while the other gave it
17%.
Then
came the exit poll which left everybody scratching their heads in disbelief;
all, that is, with the exception of the Tories whose own more professional and
detailed polls called the result correctly two weeks before the result itself[1].
The pollsters were not just wrong,
but deserved Farage's description of their efforts. If I were an editor of one
of those newspapers that solicited the help of such polling organisations at
great financial expense, I would bring a court action against them. The
pollsters harvested (because of the fixed five year parliament; polling began
shortly into the New Year) hundreds of thousands of pounds from the press, and
got it spectacularly wrong.
HAVE OFTEN WRITTEN about Ed Miliband, in not very
flattering terms. This is because there was something about him that disturbed
me: the Miliband name sat at the forefront of 1960's/70's student revolutionary
culture and Ed Miliband's father Ralf (Adolphe) was a prominent Marxist
intellectual author of great standing among the so called New Left in 60s/70s.
He lectured at the London School of Economics (where else) and was a founding
father of the New Left; and his contribution to student protest was measured by
his self-belief in overcoming the very social system that adopted him as one of
their own (he was a Belgian born Britain soon to be under the yolk of Nazism)
only to fight for its replacement with the Marxist alternative.
All sociologists should be warned
before studying their subject, that they may be taken out at any time to be
shot once they graduate in this field of learning; for sociology is often been contaminated
by political ideology.
Ralph's
first born; I have written, sat at his father's knee and absorbed his father's
beliefs without question - because he really
and truly believed in them. His
father and mother prized him as a future leader of the Labour Party and a
future prime minister. They instilled him with their Marxist faith as the first
born heir to a Miliband Marxist dynasty that would eventually lead to a
Miliband tenancy of Number 10.
IN THIS WEEKS Spectator,
Dan Hodges, in a great piece meant to enlighten us into why Miliband's
Labour Party fell foul of political reality and lost the general election has
hit the nail on the head. He has managed
through his Labour contacts during the general election to assemble the true
state of mind of Ed Miliband during the campaign and on the final day when
voters registered, what would turn out to be their antipathy toward the Labour
Party under Ed Miliband's leadership.
Dan
Hodge's piece for the Spectator is
full of telling quotes from the Labour backroom boys during the election. Only
Hodge, as a Blairite, could be trusted by his sources. And he delivered a
withering collection of comments from party insiders about Miliband and his
leadership such as it was.
From
Hodge's informants we have gained much knowledge of what the Ed Miliband election
circus comprised of. Hodge provides quote after quote in his Spectator piece from Labour Party
associates surrounding Ed Miliband.
According
to Miliband's speech writer Greg Beales who was working on Ed's victory speech
when the now infamous exit poll was announced, ‘they stopped,
and someone came in and said, “Don’t worry, that poll’s wrong.” … So they
carried on writing'. Another aid
reflected that he had '…
never worked in a place with a more
poisonous atmosphere, ’and yet
another reflection on the state of Ed's leadership of the party was summed up
thus. ‘I want to gut them. I want to gut
them all,’ a shadow cabinet aide told me [Hodges] in reference to
‘colleagues’ in Team Miliband'. His view is not an isolated one.
It is obvious that the Labour Party were not brothers
in arms throughout this election, but were merely awaiting the outcome before
engineering their next step after Ed Miliband had lost the election
From the very beginning Ed Miliband was a physically
cruel parody of an elected leader of a country. His brother however, could have
led the Labour Party to victory. David Miliband was Blair's true successor, who
would have carried the New Labour project forward – which thankfully, through
his brother's elevation to the leadership of the Labour Party, he failed to do.
THE LABOUR PARTY is now on its knees. Ed Miliband reduced
the party to such a status because of his familiarly Marxism which his brother
never shared. The Labour Party is no longer the party of labour; Tony Blair put
paid to this by signing up to open European borders before it was necessary to
do so; and by doing so hoping to replace the British white working class with
European migrants of his wife's Catholic faith.
New
Labour, new voters. This was Blair's intent. To replace the British white
working class with a new constituency of migrant workers from the EU.
Particularly from Catholic Eastern Europe who would fit neatly into his wife's
Catholic belief – but this has to be for another piece.
[1]
See this week's Spectator and read Sebastian Payne's piece on the Tory pollster
Jim Messina and Lynton Crosby.
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