Ed Miliband interview

TMP Mon Oct 08, 2007 at 12:53:58 AM GMT Print-friendly version Facebook

Shortly before Gordon Brown’s announcement that there will be no general election in the near future, TMP editor, Chuka Umunna, caught up with Minister for the Cabinet Office and the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Ed Miliband MP.



In the interview, this cabinet "young turk" talks about Labour's committment to end child poverty, the challenges the government still has to meet and how the government intends to spend the £670 million that the Prime Minister announced will be pumped into youth provision.  To read the interview, click here.



tags: , , , , , , (all tags)

Display: Sort:
Ed Miliband interview | 3 comments (3 topical)

Re: Ed Miliband interview (#1)

by Real Labour on Mon Oct 08, 2007 at 05:35:20 PM GMT

The Truth about Modern Politics in the UK

The recent on/off election soap opera shows how disconnected the media and the political class is with the interests of citizens.  Much like the speculation about when Blair would leave, the media and the political class has concentrated on and speculated about an unimportant sideshow within the political process rather than discuss and debate matters which actually matter.  

What people are worried about is the implications and causes of the credit crunch, and finding alternatives to the casino capitalism which rules all our lives; the rising and unsustainable amount of personal debt in this country; the lack of council housing or affordable housing; the UK's transition toward becoming a police state; actual policies for tackling climate change; the repression of trade unionism; the US-UK alliance’s imperial misadventures in the middle east; the lack of a decent minimum wage; the low level of tax paid by the super-rich; the fact that political parties are funded by the super-rich and so represent the interests of the super-rich; the growing privatization of the NHS and education system; and the fact that in this British 'democracy' the political parties are only concerned with carrying the favour of a few swing voters in marginal constituencies in middle-England.

Neither Labour nor the Tories or those in the media will discuss or debate these matters, because both parties are now run by careerist politicians with no discernable values or beliefs who both want power for power's sake; and so the media and the political class control debate within bland narrow parameters which uphold the interests of the bourgeoisie. 

People want control of their own lives, both politically and in the workplace. 

But we won't hear this discussed because the media and the political class have there head so far stuck up their own. . .


 


Re: Ed Miliband interview (#2)

by Parishpumpspin on Mon Oct 08, 2007 at 06:22:46 PM GMT

Can "Real labour" explain what "the political classes" are and what you have to do to qualify, for example does the fact that in the last 10 years i have only worked for MP's, Labour Groups, in lobbying/Public Affairs mean I'm one or does my 12 years 0f unemployment since 1980(including the last 3 months) exclude me? I'm intreged.


[ Parent ]

Re: Ed Miliband interview (#3)

by Parishpumpspin on Wed Oct 10, 2007 at 02:24:29 PM GMT

In your own time Real Labour...


[ Parent ]

Ed Miliband interview | 3 comments (3 topical)