People have been calling him "Red Ed" because he was put in place by the union
October 21, 2010 9:01 AM
Pauline Allen, Brislington East Ward said "I read with interest the new Labour leader, Ed Miliband's letter to the Post. I would first like to congratulate Ed on his new job. As a Liberal Democrat I welcome the election of some who has quickly junked most of Labour's policies of the last decade in favour of Lib Dem policies.
People have been calling him "Red Ed" because he was put in place by the unions. However, he seems much more like "Yellow Ed" in that he has taken the Lib Dem position on nearly everything. So much so in fact that I am going to send him a Lib Dem membership form, because it's perfectly clear that he would now be much more at home in my party.
As long as he is in the Labour Party he will have to explain why he voted against an inquiry into the Iraq war no less than 10 times, even though he now says he thought the war was wrong. He will also have to explain why he voted to detain people for 90 days in prison without trial even though he now supports civil liberties; why he voted to block cleaning up Parliamentary expenses and party funding, even though he now supports it; why he now thinks Labour's economic policy was wrong and did indeed make the recession worse, even though he was an economic advisor to Gordon Brown before he became an MP.
And for this reason I say to Ed: if you have really suddenly turned your back on everything Labour believed and did over the last decade, then go the whole hog and join the Liberal Democrats."
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