Ed Milliband's speech to Labour conference yesterday was a demonstration that politics can be about ideas as well as budgets and policies. It was refreshing to hear a speech that talked more about how he thinks rather than what he wants to do. If he ever has the power to act, those actions will be informed by how he thinks and feels. He is a passionate and reasonable man. His unfortunate appearance should not be a barrier to his effectiveness as a politician but I wish he was right about Cameron being the last gasp of the old order, but I'm rather afraid he is being overoptimistic. As long as the greedy, upper middle class continue to manufacture new members through the totally out of touch independent school sector they will continue to disadvantage those classes of people, working, immigrant, poor, who they feel clutter their pristine world of smug self congratulation.
Gray Dourman
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