Ed gets another kicking

Who let Ed Miliband out again? You’d have thought that Labour HQ would have learnt from the #AskEdM debacle but apparently not. Ed popped up on Radio 5 Live today following his Made in Britain speech to answer questions from voters.

It’s hard to work out whether the callers were CCHQ staffers in disguise or ordinary members of the public, thanks to the extreme vitriol thrown at Ed. He had little of interest to say on the EU (he wouldn’t have signed the treaty), child benefit (he can’t promise to reverse the cuts) and Labour’s attitude towards business (he’s pro-, apparently). Instead, the callers took the opportunity to attack him personally. As Dot Commons reports: 

‘They ranged from the biting… “You’re not going to be the Prime Minister of this country, by any stretch of the imagination and I’d put my life on that, that is not going to happen and if Labour are going to win an election it’ll need to be somebody else like Peter Hain or somebody like that.”