The Daily Mail Tendency: Ed Miliand

Nothing like The Daily Mail to make me feel some sympathy for a political leader that I just plain don't like. Here's the headline from part of their coverage of the election of Ed Miliband to Labour leader:

Ed Miliband becomes first British political leader of a major party to be living with his family out of wedlock

Oh my, have we travelled back in time? Is this a headline in a newspaper in the year 2010, or the judgmental musings of a conservative parson in a Dickens' novel from over a century ago? Because I honestly can't tell the two apart. I particularly like the phrase "out of wedlock" - it isn't often that The Daily Mail couches its reactionary bigotry in such quaint terms.

It should go without saying that Ed Miliband's domestic arrangements are irrelevant to his potential to be a good leader. However, given the hugely conservative and mainstreams views of many of the fat-tongued, knuckle-dragging fucktards who read The Daily Hate, it is worth stressing that while there are many reasons to question whether Miliband Minor is fit to be Labour leader (let alone Prime Minister) his marital status is not one of them. Whatever the snide commentary of The Daily Mail might have you believe.