Posted on 05/06/2015 1:40:52 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
He has put a campaign against excessive rent rises at the centre of his election campaign.
And as this newly unearthed footage shows, Ed Miliband has form when it comes to protests against private landlords...
Labour leader Ed Miliband -- who called himself 'Ted' at university -- led a 'rent strike' when he was a student 24 years ago, archive footage revealed today
The clip, from the Spring of 1991, went undiscovered in the archives of ITV Meridian because of Mr Miliband's name change.
He is interviewed in his grey jumper and sports a pudding bowl haircut, but the nasal drawl and stuttering delivery is unmistakeable...
'I was a Ted, I was a Ted, it feels like a long time ago, that's probably because it was a long time ago.'
He also claimed the protesters 'made progress' as a result of the strike. But according to his biographer, the campaign was unsuccessful.
In the last Labour party political broadcast, Mr Miliband reflected on what his Marxist father Ralph (pictured) had taught him about the power of politics...
He went to Corpus Christi College in 1989 to study Politics, Philosophy and Economics, and has described the dispute as 'my best four weeks at university'...
A contemporary, Marc Stears, one of Mr Miliband's oldest friends, has said the modern Miliband is 'exactly the same person he was as a 19-year-old.'
'Even then he knew that there was a worry he could be dubbed "Red Ed" -- except then it would have to have been "Red Ted", because that's what he was known as.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Meet 'Red TED': Footage emerges of young Labour leader (with a pudding bowl haircut) leading rent strike for Oxford students
SNP suspends members of separatist mob who confronted Jim Murphy and Eddie Izzard sparking violent ruckus as ringleader is pictured with Nicola Sturgeon
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3069032/SNP-suspends-ringleaders-separatist-mob-confronted-Jim-Murphy-Eddie-Izzard-sparking-violent-ruckus.html
Recent pictures of Miliband show he’s not that much older looking than that picture.
Just think, the British admitted his family as refugees from the Nazis.
And this is how they were repaid: the freak starts protests, riots, and proposes to criminalize speech against the Muslim Religious Fascists that the British also let in.
Real gratitude, huh?
Openly atheist. Openly Marxist. That’s mainstream British politics for you these days.
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