When I first heard him speak I thought Ed Miliband sounded like Daffy Duck, now the more I see of him the more I think he looks like him too. In fact I am wondering if he has in fact escaped from Warner Brothers!
I know this is silly but wondered if I was on my on with this? or has anyone else noticed this resemblance?
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Spot on Sadie.
BTW; have you seen this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZtVm8wtyFI
this is an interview from last week in which he gave an identical answer six times to six different questions from an interviewer (who thought he had stepped into the Twilight Zone) - it really is so bizarre, it will leave you speechless. A bit like our Ed!
Charlie Brooker's take on it:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jul/03/charlie-brooker-stop-ed-miliband?INTCMP=SRCH
And the blog of the poor interviewer is quite entertaining too:
http://www.twitlonger.com/show/bfensm
Politics really has become a parody of itself!
Never thought of the Daffy look before - he's always been Mr Bean for me
Same as myself(anti tory) but couldn't and havn't voted for them(labour) for the last two elections
Yeah, they do all do it. There's a clip of George Osborne doing exactly the same thing (in the days he actually did TV interviews rather than getting Danny Alexander to take all the flack for him) doing the rounds. The trouble is, the whole point of the interview was basically "get a quick response to the strikes to stick in the piece on the news for balance", so they were only ever going to use a 20second answer, and he'd decided in advance what he wanted that answer to be. If you try to have a nuanced discussion in that sort of scenario, then you're at risk of the media taking the 20seconds that are most sensational rather than those that best reflect your opinion, and then getting a kicking for it. A bit like Ken Clarke did a few weeks ago.
There's a good blog on the subject from Krishnan Guru-Murthy from Channel4 news here:
http://blogs.channel4.com/gurublog/changing-the-rules-of-the-tv-interview/1472
What impressed me about Ed was the way he won the Labour leadership election, not by going head to head with his brother and out debating him, but by concentrating on this strengths - the trade unionists and making sure that he hoovered up the votes there. That gave him just enough to win. Bear in mind these people are the rank and file Labour voters - he appeals to them. He has a good brain for strategy.
In PMQs he has regularly scored points off Cameron, but then that's not saying much.
On the downside he needs to connect a little with the British public, I'm not sure that he'll win over enough independents and floating voters to make himself PM.
I don't know why, but this reminds me of (what I think, at least) is one of the funniest sketches ever:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Bq_dkPkQUU
'I don't like it, but I'm going to have to go along with it'
(translated from the original German; 'ich nichten lichten', of course)