I’ve said it before and I’ll doubtless say it again, but it seems to be an eternally appropriate sentence.

Ed Miliband is a nob.

Just in case you had doubts.

Yet to a degree, what you actually ‘view’ of any political leader in reality goes way beyond the man himself. They don’t just spout the first rubbish that comes into their heads. Except Nigel Farage, of course. What the leader of any serious political party says, particularly in election year, is a distillation and analysis of views and information sifted, sorted and synthesised by his elaborate team of aides, researchers and cabinet colleagues.

So when Ed is in McDonalds and the Serbian behind the till asks him ‘if he wants fries with that’ (long as ‘that’ is not a bacon sandwich, of course), Ed will hold up a finger in gesture of ‘give me a second’, then he’ll phone his deputy leader to check on the viability of such an order, then Ed Balls, shadow chancellor, to ascertain whether such a purchase is within budget. The health people will have to decide whether the nation’s obesity problem may be worsened by adding chips to his meal, and his image consultants need to calculate whether Ed is in fact capable of eating them without looking like a total tosser. Again. Do proper socialists order more food than the bare minimum required to sustain them? Would a post-feminist eat such fattening fare or is it seen as somehow misogynistic to do so?

25 minutes later, with a queue behind him now stretching round the block, Ed says: ‘no thanks, pass on the chips; just the Big Mac and six kit-kat McFlurries, please’. Food for nobs.

The point being (point? sorry, you’re on the wrong blog if ya want ‘points’) that when Ed Miliband has spent the entire week in attack mode about the Tories and tax avoiders and has pointed the finger at every Conservative donor that has at any time been involved in any form of tax avoidance, however legal and above board, you’d think Ed’s rather extensive and certainly expensive team would have checked its own lists of donors first. Just, ya-know, just to, kind-a, just to see that all in Labour-land is totally squeaky clean on that specific subject. And it wouldn’t take very long, Labour don’t have many donors at all. A quick look would have sufficed. Just to avoid LOOKING LIKE A TOTAL FUCKING HYPOCRITE.

But no. Due diligence was apparently not performed and so out of the closet comes Sir David Garrard. Big Labour donor, hundreds of thousands given, this year alone, and not only is he a long-term tax exile, he also had funds in that now notorious Swiss HSBC Scoundrel Account.

Miliband is a nob.

Happy Sunday

A xxxx