What a bad year it is to be a political satirist. First there was the problem of the minister who met the Prime Minster, intending to resign – yet somehow the conversation ended without the PM noticing that a resignation was on offer. Hard for a satirist to top that.
And now we have the bizarre case of the Labour Party confiscating its own party leader’s mobile phone, as reported by Sky:
The Labour leader disclosed earlier this month that he had been secretly wooing the Liberal Democrat Business Secretary with text messages.
His admission infuriated Labour left-wingers and veterans Dennis Skinner and Ken Livingstone protested angrily at a meeting of the party’s national executive committee on Tuesday.
But according to one member of the party’s ruling body, the Labour leader stunned NEC members by responding: “They’ve taken my phone away.”
One NEC member told Sky News: “They’ve changed his mobile phone. He now has a different phone with a different number. Someone else now has his number. When I tried to text Ed, someone else replied.”
You can just imagine the Labour message at the next election: Trust Miliband to run the country! (But don’t trust him with a phone.)
But I’m off to write notes of condolence to political satirists. Sorry folks; reality has stuffed you good and proper.
* Mark Pack is Party President and is the editor of Liberal Democrat Newswire.
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7 Comments
Old Labour, old danger 🙂
Please let El Dennis have taken it over.
Nanny Labour liking to control everything…..
bit much if you can’t even trust your party leader with a phone………
A perfect attack poster would be “Labour don’t trust Ed with a phone, why should you trust him with the country?” 🙂
@Paul R
A simple poster strap under Ed with ‘phone?………’I’d Rather Use Cable .’
So now Miliband knows how it feels to have your mobile phone taken away and another given in its place. This is exactly what happens to the prisoners in Yarls Wood IRC. Did he get his SIM card back so he could speak to his nearest and dearest? They don’t in Yarls Wood (and I assume other IRCs). No-one at Westmoinster seems too worried about this situation but Lib Dems 4 Seekers of Sanctuary , Citizens UK and Movement for Justice are campaigning on it. Please support us.