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Denzil_DC

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3. It's easy to forget how Ed Miliband was othered, even demonized,

Reply to T_i_B (Reply #2)

Wed Dec 4, 2019, 04:30 PM

Dec 2019

up to and during the 2015 general election.

The guy couldn't even eat a bacon sarnie in peace, the party was divided under him as "the wrong Miliband", and some in the media who are so keen to root out antisemitism nowadays were only too happy to indulge in its dogwhistles or worse, savaging his father's memory while labelling him "red Ed" etc.

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