Sunday, 27 January 2013

How shit at Twitter is Ed Miliband?


“Holocaust Memorial Day is a time to reflect on the horrors of the Holocaust and remember the victims of genocide @HolocaustUK

This is an actual tweet today by Labour leader Ed Miliband, or at least it was attributed to him.

It seems inconsequential enough, so how am I going to write a blog post about such a non-event?

Well, because it’s so fucking bland; bland to the point where it’s offensive to the survivors of the atrocities. For the leading voice in left-wing UK politics to be communicating a message in such a useless way is so worrying, especially for left-wing people.

If there was a Wikipedia page for Holocaust Memorial Day (there probably is, but I have no reason to check), this would easily satisfy being the first line. Thanks Ed for telling us that Holocaust Memorial Day is exactly what the name suggests. Would you like to show any emotion about one of the most shameful events in human history? Nope? Okay then.

On this day in 1955 Alain Resnais released Nuit et Brouillard, one of the most moving pieces of film ever made, because he feared the disgraces of what happened were being forgotten. Fifty-eight years later, Ed Miliband weighs in with this. This.

I’ve officially put a million times more effort into this blog post about the tweet than he put into the original tweet.

In fairness to Ed, he took to his Mac or BB or whatever an hour later to tweet about the Australian Open final with the exact same amount of pathos as he put into his holocaust tweet, saying:

Great achievement for Murray to reach the @AustralianOpen Final. Congratulations to Djokovic on his victory.

I just want to know how anyone could vote for somebody with this little charisma, this little emotion and this much bore. Maybe I’m just gutted he’s not David.

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