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Ed Miliband today declares that Labour will be on the side of capitalists who want to get rich, provided they work hard for their money.
In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, the Labour leader pays tribute to Baroness Thatcher for creating an era of aspiration in the 1980s.
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You can't have your cake and eat it without someone else filling in the gaps...
You can't have your cake and eat it without someone else filling in the gaps...
Asked whether it is good to be rich, he replies: “Yes, if you make it the hard way. It’s not for me to pass moral judgment.”
Mr Miliband has sought to shed the “Red Ed” caricature which his opponents invented after he beat his brother David to the Labour leadership in 2010 with votes of the trade unions.
His father, Ralph, was a leading thinker of the Marxist Left who made capitalism his enemy, but Mr Miliband insists he does not subscribe to the same doctrine.[/quote]
looks like standard politiking to me... he's trying to distance himself from unelectable sentiments.
Asked whether it is good to be rich, he replies: “Yes, if you make it the hard way. It’s not for me to pass moral judgment.”
Mr Miliband has sought to shed the “Red Ed” caricature which his opponents invented after he beat his brother David to the Labour leadership in 2010 with votes of the trade unions.
His father, Ralph, was a leading thinker of the Marxist Left who made capitalism his enemy, but Mr Miliband insists he does not subscribe to the same doctrine.
looks like standard politiking to me... he's trying to distance himself from unelectable sentiments.