Ed at the Fabian Society

[jains15]

I know it's hilarious isn't it? what a lightweight

That stuff about what he would do if he could run the noughties again, love seeing him squirm...

[M3333]

I have never really liked Marr but have to say nearly had a coffee on Keyboard moment when he asked 'which one are you?, wallace or grommit?, i can never remember!'

[peterbredde]

The speach starts with this: "I want to start by paying tribute to someone to whom we owe an enormous debt. As Harriet Harman said at Cabinet after he resigned, there are millions of people up and down this country and across the world whose lives have been changed for the better because of his commitment to social justice and we all owe him a debt of gratitude. That person is, of course, Gordon Brown and I think we will all want to thank him for what he did."

This must be the most clueless display of PR I have encountered in many, many years. I am quite stunned.

[The real Apache]

M3333 said:

I have never really liked Marr but have to say nearly had a coffee on Keyboard moment when he asked 'which one are you?, wallace or grommit?, i can never remember!'

What?! Labour Luvvie Marr? surely not

[turbobloke]

The real Apache said:

M3333 said:

I have never really liked Marr but have to say nearly had a coffee on Keyboard moment when he asked 'which one are you?, wallace or grommit?, i can never remember!'

What?! Labour Luvvie Marr? surely not

Isn't it a veneer of political indepedence that he owns the patent on? Like asking Clown about medication or whatever. At the very best/worst in both of those cases it's recognising a liability and doing it 'for the good of the party, comrade'.

[The real Apache]

turbobloke said:

The real Apache said:

M3333 said:

I have never really liked Marr but have to say nearly had a coffee on Keyboard moment when he asked 'which one are you?, wallace or grommit?, i can never remember!'

What?! Labour Luvvie Marr? surely not

Isn't it a veneer of political indepedence that he owns the patent on? Like asking Clown about medication or whatever. At the very best/worst in both of those cases it's recognising a liability and doing it 'for the good of the party, comrade'.

Possibly, I remember him interviewing a pre PM Brown and noticing his almost fawning and obsequious attitude compared to his aggresive stance with any other variety of Political Parasite

[groucho]

Tsippy said:

Was it Ed who claimed that he wanted to remove all CO2 from the atmosphere? Or was it someone else? For some reason I think it was him......apologies if wrong

The actual quote was on JV's radio 2 show. He was asked how much of the CO2 in the atmosphere was due to mankind; he replied "all of it"

[Tsippy]

groucho said:

Tsippy said:

Was it Ed who claimed that he wanted to remove all CO2 from the atmosphere? Or was it someone else? For some reason I think it was him......apologies if wrong

The actual quote was on JV's radio 2 show. He was asked how much of the CO2 in the atmosphere was due to mankind; he replied "all of it"

That's the one! I knew that he had come out with something stupid

[groucho]

It's a disgrace he was allowed to get away with it.

[NoNeed]

andy43 said:

NoNeed said:

This is the speach, but no video.

http://www.fabians.org.uk/events/transcripts/ed-mi...

Nope, that's not it.
Looked on Sky website again now - and there's a short excerpt of video only, combined with the political pensioners reporters comments. No screwups are shown.
What they had on this morning was the full speech, televised live. Someone at Sky dropped the ball there I think.
Really needs to be seen to be believed. He can't do humour, he can't do speechs, christ he couldn't even find his glass of water, fumbling under the lectern for what seemed like an age.
Mumbling about being 6 years old during the winter of discontent, contradicting himself time and time again. Horrific. There wasn't a murmour from the audience for most of it, either they were asleep or just stunned at the car-crash-embarassment of his public speaking ability.
Cameron must be wetting himself.

How about this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwbBwR8YQEM

[Ozzie Osmond]

I saw a bit of Ed on Marr. Thought it might have been Tiny Blur sneaking back into the limelight wearing a cunning disguise!