UK Labour Leader "Egged" On The Campaign Trail

[Left Leanings]

Politics as foul as rotten eggs, sometimes gets the 'egging' treatment:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/ed-miliband/9246691/Local-elections-2012-Labour-leader-Ed-Miliband-egged-on-campaign-trail-in-Southampton.html

Ed Miliband, the UK Labour leader, got an egg smashed on his shoulder, whilst out talking bollocks, on the campaign trail.

Another Labour MP, former Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott, once acted quite differently when egged. He threw a punch :laugh:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XTiI1e-wVc

[Offbeat]

Not Comrade Milliband! (He describes himself as a socialist whilst advocating "responsible capitalism" :rolleyes:)

I felt a bit sorry for him in this video actually.

[Hit The North]

Fooking hell, even the tradition of egging politicians has fallen on hard times. I remember when we used to proper throw those ovoid bombs of protest like Australian fast-bowlers.

Bless 'ickle Ed for his fortitude, though.

[Bronco]

Prescott's reaction was much better

[Hit The North]

Prescott's reaction was much better

yeah, a shame the fat social democrat didn't throw any punches in government though.

[Left Leanings]

Prescott's reaction was much better

Prescott's politics might have been a load of reformist shite. But one thing I always liked about him, was that he never put on airs and graces. His background was in the merchant navy, and the trade union movement.

He got the piss ripped out of him by the toffee-nosed, posh-arsed Tory press and Conservative MPs. He was never one to try and 'talk posh' and emulate the cut-glass vowels of Tories, like some Labour nobheads do.

[Vyacheslav Brolotov]

Aren't conservatives and other reactionaries the ones who protest Labour?

Because I am of the mindset that revolutionary leftists think that social democrats are too pathetic to mess with. I really don't agree with reactionaries throwing eggs at anything, because they are stupid, but if it was revolutionary leftists, it's a different story.

[Left Leanings]

Aren't conservatives and other reactionaries the ones who protest Labour?

Because I am of the mindset that revolutionary leftists think that social democrats are too pathetic to mess with. I really don't agree with reactionaries throwing eggs at anything, because they are stupid, but if it was revolutionary leftists, it's a different story.

The video doesn't give any information on the nature or motivations of the egger lol. It could have been someone who holds reactionary views, someone who is rather more leftist, someone pissed off with politicians in general, or even some nobhead just fucking about for the sheer hell of it.

Those who vote for Miliband and have illusions in his reformist shite, end up with 'egg on their chin', so to speak. So an egging for him seems funny and apt enough lol.

[Vyacheslav Brolotov]

In America, nobody eggs politicians. All that happens with American politicians is that they don't do anything, talk about God all day long, and have sex with the interns at cheap motels.

[names_r_hard]

In America, nobody eggs politicians. All that happens with American politicians is that they don't do anything, talk about God all day long, and have sex with the interns at cheap motels.

You do have a proud tradition of glitter bombing bigots though, so it's not all bad :)

[Left Leanings]

In America, nobody eggs politicians. All that happens with American politicians is that they don't do anything, talk about God all day long, and have sex with the interns at cheap motels.

Plenty of British politicians do exactly the same. The Tory benches are riddled with god-botherers. And Labour MP and former Prime Minister Tony Blair, was always banging on about his religious beliefs and 'god'.

And quite a few have been caught shagging around as well. Like former leader of the Liberal Democrats, Paddy Ashdown - famously dubbed Paddy Pantsdown lol :)

[LeftAtheist]

And quite a few have been caught shagging around as well. :)

Not to mention John Major when he was actually Prime-Minister, though he was never actually caught at the time. Off the top of my head, I can also think of John Profumo and David Blunkett.

[Hit The North]

In America, nobody eggs politicians.

But you've got to admit that some of you folks do like shooting at them.

[Manic Impressive]

In America, nobody eggs politicians. All that happens with American politicians is that they don't do anything, talk about God all day long, and have sex with the interns at cheap motels.
If you egged a politician in America you'd probably be shot by the SS

[Left Leanings]

If you egged a politician in America you'd probably be shot by the SS

Yeah lol.

Plenty of police cars would turn up at any rate, and the egger would get some sort of 'tough justice' sentence handed down by the courts.

Imagine a Republican getting egged in Texas :)

[Vyacheslav Brolotov]

British people..... have a scary vision of America.

We are not that crazy...at least not yet. But of course, in school we will always be taught that once George Washington, with his magically laser vision, killed all those pesky redcoats, we become the freest country in da world!!!!1!!11!1!1!!!!1!

[thriller]

In America, nobody eggs politicians. All that happens with American politicians is that they don't do anything, talk about God all day long, and have sex with the interns at cheap motels.

Beer was dumped on Wisconsin Republican Senators during the protests here. It happens, but not on the national level I would say.

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

Prescott's politics might have been a load of reformist shite. But one thing I always liked about him, was that he never put on airs and graces. His background was in the merchant navy, and the trade union movement.

He got the piss ripped out of him by the toffee-nosed, posh-arsed Tory press and Conservative MPs. He was never one to try and 'talk posh' and emulate the cut-glass vowels of Tories, like some Labour nobheads do.

Have you not seen where he lives/his two jaguars etc.?

He once did a documentary where he went to live in an inner city council estate. Showed how even old 'working class' Prescott is completely out of touch with reality.

[Left Leanings]

Prescott's politics might have been a load of reformist shite. But one thing I always liked about him, was that he never put on airs and graces. His background was in the merchant navy, and the trade union movement.

He got the piss ripped out of him by the toffee-nosed, posh-arsed Tory press and Conservative MPs. He was never one to try and 'talk posh' and emulate the cut-glass vowels of Tories, like some Labour nobheads do.


Have you not seen where he lives/his two jaguars etc.?

He once did a documentary where he went to live in an inner city council estate. Showed how even old 'working class' Prescott is completely out of touch with reality.

Yeah I did see the documentary. He lives in a rather fine house, and does indeed have two jags. In fact, one of his nicknames is 'two jags', I think lol. And his wife is quite unlike him. She does put on airs and graces, and tries to emulate the cut-glass vowels of the typical Tory toff. And franky, she sounds fucking ridiculous.

Prescott enjoyed all the trappings of 'power', and the rewards that capital hands out to its reformists lackeys. He was a safe pair of hands for them, without a fucking doubt.

Contrast this with the likes of Dave Nellist, former MP for Coventry, and supporter of Militant (now the SP). He took only the equivalent of the average working wage, not the full Parliamentary salary he was entilted to. And "comrade" Kinnock (former Labour leader) expelled him, in the witch hunt/purges.

The point I was making about Prescott, is that although he was on the make (like all Labour toadies for capital), he didn't put on airs and graces. And the Tories and the right-wing media ripped into him for it - out of class prejudice and abject snobbery.

[Agathor]

Fairly well handled by his standards. I expected him to break down in tears.

[Agathor]

Prescott's politics might have been a load of reformist shite. But one thing I always liked about him, was that he never put on airs and graces. His background was in the merchant navy, and the trade union movement.

He got the piss ripped out of him by the toffee-nosed, posh-arsed Tory press and Conservative MPs. He was never one to try and 'talk posh' and emulate the cut-glass vowels of Tories, like some Labour nobheads do.

To be fair, Hague is from the same area and hasn't tried to southernize his accent.

Whats more, the poshest politician on TV these days is Tony Benn.

[SHORAS]

tom bradby
If you think Ed Miliband is not up to much, you should watch the egging. He's pretty calm and his response is going to win him some votes.

Objectively an inside job.

It's funny how the man was allowed to run away freely, no one knows who he is or what he looks like.

[Left Leanings]

To be fair, Hague is from the same area and hasn't tried to southernize his accent.

Whats more, the poshest politician on TV these days is Tony Benn.

It's been a long time since I heard Hague speak on TV, so I can't quite recall his accent.

As for Benn. Well, yeaaaah. He is pretty posh, to say the least. He was known as The Rt Hon Anthony Wedgwood Benn. And he gave away his family money in an act of proletarian solidarity - to his wife hahaha.

Of cos, Labour is just a tool of capital. The politics of the Labour Party are, frankly, a load of fucking shit.

[The Guy]

tom bradby
If you think Ed Miliband is not up to much, you should watch the egging. He's pretty calm and his response is going to win him some votes.

Objectively an inside job.

It's funny how the man was allowed to run away freely, no one knows who he is or what he looks like.

Whilst there are coups planned all over the world by CIA agents, the Labour party is employing secret "eggers" to gain a few swinging voters.

Ingenious!

[Agathor]

If the Labour PR team believes that the problem with Ed is that he hasn't been humiliated enough they should all be fired.

[Stalin Ate My Homework]

Left Leanings: I might be wrong, but didn't the popularity of Prescott increase after the punch? Lol

[Left Leanings]

Left Leanings: I might be wrong, but didn't the popularity of Prescott increase after the punch? Lol

Haha, I'm not sure to be honest. It was a two-minute wonder, and made for good media coverage. That he chinned someone for throwing an egg at him, probably struck a chord with many people: I'd have smacked the fucker too, kinda thing.

Then again, he got some criticism, for being too rough and ready, and not exercising restraint blah blah blah. And I don't think he was any less criticized for his proletarian origins by the posh-arsed Tories lol

[MustCrushCapitalism]

British people..... have a scary vision of America.

They're just jealous of our 'freedom'.

[Vyacheslav Brolotov]

They're just jealous of our 'freedom'.

Yeah!

British people, you jelly?

[brigadista]

tony benn is a quaker

[ed miliband]

the spgb best described benn as something like "a nineteenth century radical liberal fighting long forgotten battles against disraeli" haha

when you actually read or watch interviews with him he really has atrocious politics

[Left Leanings]

tony benn is a quaker

And also vegetarian, teetotal, and a pipe smoker (tobacco, not weed) lol

[Sea]

And also vegetarian, teetotal, and a pipe smoker (tobacco, not weed) lol
So in other words he's not as hypocritical as the average politician? :D

[Left Leanings]

So in other words he's not as hypocritical as the average politician? :D

I wouldn't go that far lol.

Like all 'left' Labourites, he had a leftist face and was full of the usual reformist shite, that leads workers down a dead end :) :star:

[Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant']

Poor Ed..I saw a clip of him yesterday where a journailst said
'Two years in the job, surely people should know which brother you are by now?'
and Ed's face fell harder than a funny metaphor about something heavy falling...looked really upset.
He's never gonna see the inside of Downing Street :laugh:

[ed miliband]

http://assets.vice.com/content-images/article/photo-dump-vol-67/e843c85fa36c3af38bafb9c4147094bf_vice_670.jpg

[Crux]

That might have been an unwise move. I mean being stoned might make it seem like a great idea but posing with Ed Miliband like that...

[Left Leanings]

I always refer to him as Ed Milibland...

Just as bland as all the rest of the boring bastards, clones and drones, whether Labour or Tory :star:

[Sperm-Doll Setsuna]

I wouldn't go that far lol.

Like all 'left' Labourites, he had a leftist face and was full of the usual reformist shite, that leads workers down a dead end :) :star:

I'm not sure how much of a "Left" face Benn can be thought of as having... To some extent he uses that kind of rhetoric, but anyone that has the most fleeting glance at his politics in practice (his involvement in the Government sanctioned deindustrialisation of the 70's, where the government actively supported venture-capitalist schemes in order to, as they said, 'strengthen British industry') will see that his politic is rotten to the core and thoroughly capitalist and anti-worker.

[Left Leanings]

I'm not sure how much of a "Left" face Benn can be thought of as having... To some extent he uses that kind of rhetoric, but anyone that has the most fleeting glance at his politics in practice (his involvement in the Government sanctioned deindustrialisation of the 70's, where the government actively supported venture-capitalist schemes in order to, as they said, 'strengthen British industry') will see that his politic is rotten to the core and thoroughly capitalist and anti-worker.

That's exactly the point I was making. His rhetoric is left. He was always pushing against the 'right' of the Labour Party, and was a member of the Campaign Group of Labour MPs. But his actions betrayed him :):star:

[ed miliband]

benn is probably amongst the biggest hypocrites in british political history.

his time in government saw him use troops against strikers and close down mines, he didn't resign from the cabinet when the callaghan gov made their monetarist turn, paving the way for thatcher; out of government and in opposition benn was suddenly the most staunch critic of what amounted to a continuation of his own work.

now you perhaps could forgive all that if benn's politics fundamentally changed following his "left turn" but he remains utterly committed to the very institutions that put him in such a position to attack the working class.