The Labour party on the whole has not been a very effective opposition since the election, partly because it spent months and months electing its new leader. I think the Labour party should, for one thing, stress much more that for most people in the past 13 years, the period was not one of collapse into chaos but actually one where the situation improved, and particularly in areas such as schools, hospitals and a variety of other cultural achievements—so the idea that somehow or other it all needs to be taken down and ground into the dust is not valid. I think we need to defend what most people think basically needs defending and that is the provision of some form of welfare from the cradle to the grave.

Eric J. Hobsbawm

Tags: schools culture leftism welfare hospitals 2010 1990s labour-party-uk welfare-state 2011 2000s 2010s ed-miliband uk-general-election-2010



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New Labour leader Ed Miliband announces plan to 'make this party slightly less unelectable by 2015'. He added: 'I am Ed, the Almighty One.'

Defeated brother David Miliband overheard muttering: 'Now I know how Wayne Christ felt after little Jesus came along.

Andy Zaltzman

Tags: jesus siblings twitter 2010 labour-party-uk ed-miliband 2015 david-miliband labour-leadership-election-2010



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Genghis Miliband roars up to the despatch box like a caged donkey.

Andy Zaltzman

Tags: similes twitter united-kingdom 2011 ed-miliband news-international-phone-hacking



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