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Labour MPs have criticised their leader for associating himself with the paper, which has long been criticised for its reporting of the Hillsborough disaster.
Mr Miliband said he "understood the anger" felt on Merseyside about it."
So nobody is allowed to have any association with The Sun without upsetting the whole of Merseyside. Bullshit.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-27829958 
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Another bad move by Milliband. He won't get any votes out of this and will just piss some of his base off. He also looks a bit mad in the photo.
This is the same Liverpool that got the arse ache when Juventus didn't accept their apology.
Offended by everything , ashamed of nothing.
Very sensible of Murdoch to exclude Liverpool from the 22 million homes to which they distributed their free sheet. To the credit of the people of Liverpool, the Sun hasn't sold a copy there for a couple of decades. A copy came through our letterbox and found its way into the recycling box even faster than the Richmond & Twickenham Times (which is quite something).
I presume Miliband's PR people thought this was ok so is the apology really sincere.
What is the real shock here ? The sun has a readership of 5 million which equates to 8 % of the electorate. What politician is not looking to court favour with them. I don't see any reason why Ed should have apologised. The Sun now has a completely different staff and has repeatedly apologised to Liverpool.
Storm in a teacup.
'Get rid of the Tory gov.-the sooner the better' where were you for the fifteen years of Labour crap. They bought the country to the verge of bankruptsy ffs. and now the gov.has to do things labourites don't like to put it right they squell 'it's Camerons fault lets kick 'em out'. I don't know how anybody could ever vote for them again after that lot. I despise them with a passion for what they,ve done to the country. They even robbed the healthiest pension scheme in Europe and then told us there is not enough money in the pot so we have to work longer to pay for it. Total and utter wankers the lot of them.
played the racism card every milli second----playing the class card till it back fired caused by their deliberate mass immigration----devolution for all except the poor feckers paying for it----2 wars----Planned REGIONALISATION of England
13 years ---yes lets have the scum bags back to finish off what they have started.
As for the scousers, I really can't see the point of their constant crying about the rag. Yeah, they printed a load of shit which upset them. Boycott the paper by all means, but move on FFS..............
If Ed M wants to have his picture taken with the Sun, and say that the paper has apologised and as leader of the opposition he has to engage with everyone, then that's fine.
If Ed M wants to say that until the phone hacking jury has come back with its verdicts and whilst the Hillsboro Inquiry is still sitting he thinks it's best not to engage, then fine.
What's rubbish is having the picture taken, then apologising when people complain. It shows a total lack of leadership. Very poor.
Whoever advised Miliband to be photographed with the paper should be sacked. It is not as if this could not have been foreseen.
Depressingly along with Baconsandwichgate and not knowing about the political control of Swindon Council it is not the only error his minders have made .They have made him look unprofessional . Still he could go for a pint with Cable and Clegg as a photo op and then lock out interested journos from coming in to the Pub.
(For all the budding Labourites lurking CL this is all said tongue in cheek of course, smiley winky thingy...)