"toff Ed" Will Cost Votes

[lindapalmara]

Comment from Simon Danczuk on Ed Milliband being North Londn elite who have nothing in common with ordinary Labour Votes.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/generalelection/voters-view-ed-miliband-as-a-toff-says-labour-mp-simon-danczuk-10128922.html

[douglas9401]

The hierarchy have never, in living memory, had much in common with the herd. That's why they're leaders.
Voters who nevah 'ave nuffink to do wiv politics will vote as their tabloid of choice tells them regardless of the clown on the poster.

[ToraToraTora]

There is an element of that Linda but oop north they are brainwashed from and early age. " eh oop lad never vort fort tut tories!" - There may be some who can shake off that programming but basically they'll vote for whatever the red rosette is pinned to.

[naomi24]

If Labour and its supporters stopped banging on about class they’d have a chance of abandoning their 1930s style blinkers and moving on into the 21st Century. Times have changed. The cloth cap and the tin lunch box went out of fashion years ago – along with the tin bath hanging on a nail in the back yard. Today education is not solely the domain of the wealthy and neither is home ownership. The working man can, and does, enjoy the trappings of a comfortable lifestyle. “Ordinary Labour votes” come from people who, regardless of the outcome, remain stubbornly loyal to the outdated politics of their forebears. Labour is stuck in the past, it is determined to remain there, and this constant ‘class war’ it wages is a sure way of doing that.

Ed will cost Labour votes – but not because he’s perceived as a toff by the Labour faithful, but because he’s recognised by the rest of the electorate as being unfit for office.

[Gromit]

Danczuk is correct Miliband is considered a toff. But the same was true of past Labour leaders. It has never really mattered in the Labour Party because no matter who the leader was, the Party supported the poor and the dosadvantaged.
The problem for Miliband and Labour is that the public no longer believes that. They will still get a lot of votes, but only on the basis of they are not quite as bad as the Tories.
While Blair could swan about and pretend he was a man of the people, Miliband is awkward and uncomfortable and cannot convincingly do it.

[shoota]

Moribund said on TV the other night about Cameron (re the TV debate palaver) "Why won't he debate me?"

Perhaps he should master 'debate' himself before he opens his mouth.

;-)