MADAM - In the months leading up to the election next May, the Conservative party, with their supporting newspapers, will increasingly try to portray Ed Miliband as “weird” and not qualified to be prime minister after the election.
I think back to 1945 when Churchill said of Attlee, who became one of Britain’s great prime ministers, “a modest man, who has much to be modest about” and “a sheep in sheep’s clothing”.
Ed Miliband is not weird.
Ian Duncan Smith is weird because of his appalling treatment of the poor, the vulnerable and those with disabilities.
David Cameron, Nick Clegg and Jeremy Hunt, not to mention Andrew Lansley are weird, because of their destruction of the NHS, considered to be one of the best health systems in the world and of which David Cameron said there would be no top down re-organisation.
Michael Gove is weird because of his highly idealistic meddling in education, causing most of the teaching profession to despair and for many of them to leave the teaching profession.
What I wish for is that Ed Miliband does become the prime minister and then brings in some radical policies which transform this country for the better.
Policies like the reversal of the privatisation of the NHS, the taking under state control of the rail industry as each franchise reaches its end date, a sensible and compassionate benefits system which cares for the poor, the vulnerable and the disabled, and an educational system which allows local oversight by the county council and the abolition of free schools and privately-owned academies.
Brian Oosthuysen
Stroud