You’d expect us to say that Ed Miliband “shrinks from showing pride in Labour’s links with the unions. He treats them as if they are embarrassing relations from an earlier generation. He knows he owes them a lot, but takes care not (to) be seen very often with them in public, and hates it when unkind people point out that he still relies on them for financial support.” That is, unfortunately, the way it appears to us.

When Cameron mocked Ed again and again over Unite’s alleged influence in the party and the (almost entirely manufactured) Falkirk crisis, it was disappointing though not wholly surprising, that Ed chose “to distance himself from the unions, while becoming closer to union members.” This is what we would have preferred him to say: Continue reading →