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David Miliband comes out as “anti-zombie”

Amusing exchange in a wide-ranging Labour Uncut interview.

By James Macintyre Published 13 July 2010 11:51

There is an interesting and wide-ranging interview with David Miliband, the bookies' favourite to be next leader of the Labour Party, on the Labour Uncut website. He talks about why Labour lost, constitutional reform and the police, among other matters.

On a lighter note, however, one passage catches the eye:

Q. Do you know anything about the film Shaun of the Dead?

A. A small amount. I'm not a zombie!

Q. Tell me what you know about the film.

A. I know it's got a lot of zombies in it.

Q. It's about killing zombies.

A. We don't like zombies. We're anti-zombie.

Tags: Labour leadership

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2 comments

Tue, 2010-07-13 12:52 — Dave C (not verified)

You missed the best bit out:

Q. In one of the scenes in the film, Shaun must use his record collection as his only weapon to kill zombies. What would be the first couple of records you’d throw, your least valuable ones?

A. The most killer record we’ve got is Wagner. Wagner’s opera will kill zombies at twenty paces.

Anyway, it's good to know that David Miliband is anti-Tory.

Tue, 2010-07-13 15:02 — Mik (not verified)

I have to didagree with Dave C, it has to be the Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster, if zombies (aka Bill Nighy) are forced to turn the band's wondrous noise off on the stereo imagine what it would be like in physical form, one 12 inch could destroy an army methinks