Well, I had to laugh, and laugh, and laugh. So much so that my other half and Acrylic-Biff, the terrier with attitude, thought that I had gone strange and were on the point of phoning the funny farm to send a couple of blokes in white coats to...well you know how it goes. Anyway, the point of my unbridled mirth was an article which headed this afternoon's version of the Telegraph online...
Ed Miliband: I am not handicapped by my appearance - Telegraph
In which 'Wallace' Millipede insists that his appearance is not a handicap!
Some of the comments appended to the story are so bitingly funny I could not help laughing out loud. Thinking of Graham -I'm in love with Ed -Jones' gushing tribute just made it even funnier.
Try this for a sample...
Lewis Duckworth
Today 05:27 PM
OK, the film industry wants to do a film about a young left-wing politician who reaches the very top - PM, global figure, etc. etc.
So they're looking for an actor - someone who'll wow the cinema audiences .... do they choose anybody who looks and sounds remotely like Milliband?
or this..
billyrubin
11 minutes ago
"I am not handicapped by my appearance"
No... you are and also by that voice and your lack of charisma and having no credible policies and no decent politicians sitting next to you. You are also handicapped by being the leader of a discredited party more destructive than the worst of Thatcherism.
Anyway you're not supposed to say handicapped, that was replaced by disabled and then by differently-abled. But if we cannot agree on the exact nomenclature of your disadvantage - we can all at least agree that you really are completely bloody useless.
Looks like Graham and his chums are going to have to shake those pom-poms a lot harder.
