Miliband Minor and Freedom

Over at The New Statesman, a wonderfully stupid comment about the illiberal voting record of Ed Miliband on the day he decided that he does kind of like civil liberties after all. It's from someone who (presumably ironically) is calling themselves Rebellionkid:

It's important not to take individual pieces of the voting record out of context. He was elected in 2005 so we only have one parliament to go on, and for most of that time he was in and around cabinet. He did not rebel on any vote and turned up to most of the more contentious ones. Almost all party members that senior or above will have an identical voting record including unambiguous support for the "anti-terror" disasters. It's important not to assume this reflects his opinion, simply how he had to vote to get on.

Right, so we're supposed to excuse Miliband Minor's poor choices when voting on legislation that affects every single person in this country because he needed to vote that way to get on. That seems fair enough, doesn't it? Britain was made a less free place in part through the votes of that Pob-faced cunt but we shouldn't worry about that, because it helped him get where he is today. That's fine, isn't it? No, of course it fucking isn't.

Don't believe me? Well, let's take a controversial piece of Tory legislation. Section 28 springs to mind. Now, in order to get ahead in the era of Section 28, a Tory politician would have to vote for that vile piece of policy. But, dontcha see, it's ok to back that homophobia, because it allowed them to make headway with their career. Same logic, see? There we have it - backing homophobia is ok, and Rebellionkid would have to agree. Except it isn't - never was, and never will be. Just like shitting all over civil liberties for careerist reasons really isn't ok.

Ultimately, we're left with two scenarios. Either Miliband Minor backed the attack on liberty in the last government against his better judgement for reasons of expediency, or he voted for the legislation because he believed in it and now is jacking in those beliefs to try to outflank the ConDems. Either way, Miliband Minor is no friend of freedom. Quite the opposite - he is the very definition of a Nu Labour politician, where cheap political gestures are far more important than real ideological commitments. Ed Miliband - fuck 'im, and his false claim to now be a champion of freedom.