Sack the speechwriter  

Watching the BBC Ten O’Clock News, I catch Ed Miliband  earnestly assuring us that the AV referendum offers “the chance to choose hope over fear”. No, it doesn’t.  It offers an opportunity to express an opinion as to which electoral system is fairer.  Nothing else.  Hope and fear don’t enter the equation.  It’s a really silly, hackneyed, unoriginal thing to say. Every time I hear Miliband speak, I wonder why he persists in employing a speechwriter of such stunningly platitudinous banality.   Doesn’t he want to be Prime Minister? Filed under: Politics Tagged: Ed Miliband, United Kingdom Alternative Vote referendum 2011 ...