Friday, June 07, 2013

Ed Miliband proposes "one nation"

UK Labour leader Ed Miliband has given a speech called, "A One Nation Plan for Social Security Reform" in which he repeatedly refers to "one nation". I can't get the echoes of Pauline Hanson out of my head but I don't suppose most poms would have heard of her.

James Bartholomew has summarised and commented on the speech here.

As always it's interesting to note the shared language and ideas between UK Labour and NZ Labour. For instance he talks about David Cameron's "dirty secret" -  a phrase I've heard Jacinda Ardern use against Paula Bennett.

But I don't think NZ Labour will be picking up on this particular term.

2 comments:

Heisenbug said...

Reminds me of that other famous socialist (ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer). Next he'll be doing the Maoist "Forward" thing. These scumbags never give up, do they?

Anonymous said...

Lindsay speaking of "one nation" what is your take on 1law4all ?