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Miliband's week gets a little worse

Labour leader mourns host of "Blackbusters" on Twitter.

By George Eaton Published 06 January 2012 15:28

As a coda to what must rank as one of Ed Miliband's worst weeks ever, here's a screengrab of his (now deleted) tweet from a few minutes ago. It never rains but it pours.

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Fri, 2012-01-06 16:40 — Acamar (not verified)

Labour is 2 points ahead of the Tories, in a YouGov poll, if NS has not noticed.

Fri, 2012-01-06 16:42 — matthew fox (not verified)

Labour with a poll lead, no we can't have that, it undermines the Miliband narrative.

So much of Cameron playing a blinder.

Fri, 2012-01-06 17:13 — Chris Harrison (not verified)

Poor guy. Poor sod. Very ver poor leader.

Fri, 2012-01-06 17:57 — Archibald (not verified)

I wonder if he's been given a stern dressing down by Diane yet?

Sat, 2012-01-07 16:44 — JimmyD (not verified)

I like Ed, and voted for him in the leadership election. Lets not get too overexcited by this but the letters 'a' and 'o' are at opposite sides of the keyboard so any typo excuses are a bit far fetched. Oh well, there's always next week.

Sat, 2012-01-07 18:15 — matthew fox (not verified)

Inastew, your a bigger muppet then Fozzy Bear.

The ABI joined Ed Miliband months ago in condemning the " Business as usual " culture.

Poor Cameron is playing catch up yet ago.

Since Inastew loves basing his opinion on one political poll, I see Cameron's blinder has faded, the conservatives dropping yet again.

http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/blog/archives/4593

Fri, 2012-01-06 19:57 — Indu Pendent (not verified)

What a muppet Milibandwagon is.

It shows he is trying to use Twitter to try to get bandwagons rolling.

Rather than waiting for event to happen and riding the crest of the wave for votes, why doesnt he start setting out his principles, values and strategy framework?

Fri, 2012-01-06 20:16 — Robert Taggart

Blackbusters ?...
Red 'stupid boy' Ed must have had Dianne Abbott on his mind still !

Fri, 2012-01-06 20:38 — Eddy S (not verified)

throw the towel ed, don't carry on like brown you'll make it worse. let david come in with chuka as shadow chancellor.

Sat, 2012-01-07 21:56 — Chris (not verified)

Why are so many Labour MPs so obsessed with Twitter? Please spend more time in real world with real people who have real problems and most of whom have no idea what Twitter rubbish is or care less.