Miliband Must Be Stopped

David Miliband is a source of endless amusement to this blog, and his use of the Queen’s Flight at all, never mind more often than the Queen, has not exactly caused but little mirth here. It is good to see the Brown camp fighting back in style, planting both this story in the Mail on Sunday and Derek Simpson’s glorious interview in The Observer.

However, Milly is not just silly, although he is certainly that. He is also very, very nasty. As Ralph Miliband's son, he was always guaranteed first a safe and then a Cabinet seat, entirely regardless of his abilities, once he had finished his progress from a birthright place at an elite pseudo-comprehensive to a birthright place at Oxbridge. He chose Oxford, and would have got in anyway because of who is his father was. Yet he hedged a bet in no need of hedging by gaining admission through a special access scheme run by ILEA. In other words, he stole the place of someone with no other way in, even though he himself was in absolutely no danger of being rejected.

His use if this Flight is a shocking abuse of position, at the taxpayers’ expense. And he is now the point man for those who would introduce school vouchers while allowing previously state schools to charge far in excess of the value of those vouchers, who would make the NHS purely a commissioner with no role in service delivery, who would abolish local government pretty much entirely, and who would do all the other things that Blair never quite got round to, including waging war against Iran, Russia and who knows where else. He must be stopped.