Ajw71 wrote:
But it is justified to examine his father's opinions isn't it? Perhaps not in the way that the Daily Mail did but to some extent?
Ed often brings up his father's influence on his own political leanings, his father was a socialist, and Ed has said he is bringing back socialism.
There is no harm in examining his fathers opinions as long as you keep them in the context of their times, the world was a totally different place socially and politically when his father was a 17 year old, whole European countries were under the control of right wing dictators with no hope of just waiting around for five years and electing them out - in my own lifetime there have still been European countries ruled by right wing dictators and army colonels, I even went on holiday to one of them and they wouldn't let you pass through customs if they thought your hair was too long (Greece).
Keeping Milliband Senior's political beliefs in context is what the DM should have done, what they would have done if they had any serious journalistic purpose, but like most newspapers, they don't, they simply serve to feed a limited number of eager followers with more propaganda, left or right.
And I'll repeat, Ed Milliband could not sell his fathers version of Socialism to his own party let alone the country even if he sincerely believed it was the way forward, which I doubt.