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@NewStatesman @Will___lloyd Symbolically bad

A CERTAIN IDEA OF ED MILIBAND by @Will___lloyd The story of the post-Blair Labour party, if it can be contained in one individual, is the story of Ed Miliband. This is not a story about backstabbing brothers, back room deals with “union paymasters”, election promises printed on tomb stones, questionable slogans on mugs, bacon sandwiches, or double kitchens; nor anything as vulgar as retail policies aimed at marginal constituencies. Miliband’s story is really about the exhilaration of ideas: where they come from, why some of us fall in love with them, and what propels those ideas from the fringes of the debate to the fulcrum of an era. This is not an argument about whether those ideas and the policies they eventually become are right or wrong. It’s a story about the long-term political power that commanding those ideas allows an individual to wield. It is about the years of Edward Samuel Miliband - and Milibandism - which might be seen as the latest, or perhaps even the last, attempt to restore a social democratic political economy in Britain. Since July 2024, when Labour returned to government, it has been hard to work out precisely the point of this administration: to spend a bit more here and there, but leave an abject economic settlement largely intact; or to be much more than that, to fundamentally reshape Britain? For the last 20 months, Miliband has stood distinctly apart from those growing doubts. Even his enemies admit that the Minister for Energy Security and Net Zero knows what he is doing. That, in large part, is why he is so hated by his opponents. Miliband is getting social democratic things done at scale: during an era of uncontrollable global conflict, which began with the Ukraine war and is spiralling in Iran, when the direction of energy policy has become the most fiercely disputed issue in British politics. Miliband and his ideas have become a lightning rod for opponents of this government. (“Eco-zealot”; “madman”; “hysterical eco-obsessive”; “muddled climate zealot”; “demented fantasies”; these are Fleet Street editorials’ relentless tribute to his perceived threat.) And yet, as one of those critics, a source who had worked with Miliband during his leadership of the Labour Party between 2010 and 2015, grudgingly admitted: “There is something about Ed that is significant. He is a symbolic figure… the last flickering of social democracy.” Cover art by Mona Eing and Michael Meißner

@BenjaminOCall It’s alright though - Ed’s Starmer’s lackey and will produce another inane Tik Tok to bolster support

0 seats. incredibly incredibly worrying

@EdwardJDavey You literally took payments from a Chinese spy, is that why you are brown nosing Starmer? The same bosses

Farage hasn’t learnt a thing from the Nathan Gill Russian bribery scandal. Reform accepting untraceable, anonymous crypto from across the globe is a direct threat to our national security. He must return the cash or admit he’s happy to let foreign money poison British politics.

@FurkanGozukara What nonsense

Keir Starmer delivers a brutal final verdict on the opposition. He exposes their terrifying agenda: trying to drag the UK into a massive war, opposing energy security, and fighting against cutting household bills. They get every single major decision completely wrong.

@FayeBrownSky Dale Vince - god help us - more tax payer money thrown away

NEW: Ed Miliband has told Labour MPs he is committed to looking at decoupling electricity from gas prices, saying it is "complicated but possible". He is said to be looking at a report by Dale Vince, which warns govt's clean energy drive won't bring down bills while gas effectively sets the price of the wholesale market... news.sky.com/story/ed-milib…

@ClareTa97789912 Or he is an unprincipled lying corrupt hypocrite

The right wing media want Starmer out because he will not bend to their will as the Tories did. He doesn’t invite them to cosy drinks parties at Chequers and he played a big part in the phone hacking prosecutions The country needs to keep Starmer in place he is working for us.

@DanW400 @iainmartin1 It’s in his bio, not rocket science

@iainmartin1 Dale Vince is a successful businessman in the energy sector. Who the fuck are you?

“Said to be looking at a report by Dale Vince…”

@iainmartin1 In which he implores the government to give him more subsidies

@PippaCrerar Only the ones they didn’t want exposed

EXCL: Cabinet Office is understood to hold number of text and email exchanges between Peter Mandelson and Morgan McSweeney, despite theft of former chief of staff’s phone in October last year. The whereabouts of McSweeney’s messages with Mandelson has been under intense scrutiny since it was reported his work device was stolen shortly after Mandelson was sacked as US ambassador. McSweeney did not disclose he was Keir Starmer’s chief of staff when he reported the theft, according to a transcript released in highly unorthodox move by Met Police, which said it wanted to correct misreporting of the incident. But not all of the correspondence has been lost - and a tranche is expected to be publicly released as part of Mandelson files in coming weeks. I’ll talk about this more on @itvpeston tonight.

@EdwardJDavey Must be time for the grown up to make another inane Tik Tok

Thank you Deborah - always been my favourite dragon!

@itvpeston @SteveReedMP @Peston I am amazed the liar Steve Reed has been caught lying

“I don’t have any particular insights into what goes on with other people’s phones” @SteveReedMP is pressed by @Peston on the timeline of Morgan McSweeney’s stolen phone, after he previously said it was taken ‘maybe even over a year’ before the Mandelson scandal #Peston

@FurkanGozukara What?

Absolute bombshell. Keir Starmer refuses to let the US dictate British foreign policy or let Russia and Iran control UK energy prices. He completely dismantles the opposition's strategy of outsourcing national security and declares true energy independence.

@paulbowler60 @johnandi Yes, worrying isn’t it

@rightviewuk @johnandi A few more than two champ 👍

James O'Brien quote this morning; 'Farage is so far up Trump's fundament, that when Trump passes wind, Farage whistles'. Priceless.

@RogerLee1969 @johnandi Unlikely

@rightviewuk @johnandi Two more than GB News🤣🤣🤣🤣

@Adh80 @PeterStefanovi2 You don’t like facts?

@rightviewuk @PeterStefanovi2

“The leader of the oppositions approach is to out source our foreign policy and let the U.S decide when we go to war, to out source our energy policy to Russia and Iran and let them set the price of energy. I will never do that because it’s not in the British national interest” Keir Starmer #PMQs

@paulbowler60 @johnandi Amazing how many people listen to a conspiracy theorist

@rightviewuk @johnandi 😂😂😂😂

@Channel4News Better to have Labour or Lib Dem Chinese backed corruption

Ed Davey: Reform and Conservatives want ‘Trump-style divisive politics’ channel4.com/news/ed-davey-…

@Ihatesugar3 @Keir_Starmer I wouldn’t mind finding out what plan A was supposed to be

Who else wants to know what @Keir_Starmer’s PLAN B is?

@louderry @Keir_Starmer No it wasn’t- it was in response to him not answering another question

This was in response to @Keir_Starmer pointing out the councils they run had hiked council tax by 9%.

@markofagenius Wow, must be strange in this alternative reality

Sam Coates didn’t think PMQ’s was very memorable today. Reason, Kemi and Nigel were more to look stupid by Keir. Sorted.