Ed’s inbox – April 28th

By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk

If Ed Miliband could only read five blogposts each day, he’d read these ones…

Yes to AV campaign hand out “vote today” leaflets one week early – Political Scrapbook
By Political Scrapbook

The squeeze message might be effective for the Yes to AV campaign, especially in North London where this leaflet was being distributed. But it’s a bit of a gaffe to hand out your day of poll cards seven days early:

“In today’s referendum on a fairer voting system, whose side are you on? … VOTE YES. Today” – Read more.

The working-class and the left – jonesblog
By Owen Jones

It’s easy to write a post like this and invite a barrage of accusations of hypocrisy. I’ve always been open about my background. I’m middle-class, full-stop; when I was growing up, my mother lectured at Salford University, and my father worked in economic regeneration at Sheffield Council.

My family did go through “financial hardship” (for want of a better phrase) for a number of years when we were based in Sheffield; but I was too young to remember this, unlike my brothers who spent years having clothes bought from jumble sales. In any case, it was for very different reasons than the thousands of workers in that city thrown on the scrapheap by Thatcherism’s vandalism of British industry: my dad spent years as a full-time official of the Trotskyist Militant Tendency, and fomenting revolution doesn’t pay the bills. – Read more.

Who is the Most Deserving? – Diary of a Benefit Scrounger
By Sue Marsh

Nadeem is a dental nurse. She works full time and has two small children. She’s had MS for 8 years and slowly, it has got progressively worse. Her speech is now affected, her hands don’t always do what she needs them to do and the daily exhaustion of a long term, degenerative condition has become impossible to bear. She can no longer do her job. Her employer no longer wishes her to do her job. She can’t manage the housework or look after her children properly. Her condition will only get worse. – Read more.

Calm Down David and get your Insurance right – THE HONEYBALL BUZZ
By Mary Honeyball MEP

I was named at yesterday’s House of Commons Prime Minister’s QuestionTime in a question asked by Jonathan Evans fomer Tory MEP, now MP for Cardiff North’s as follows:

“The whole House will be aware that younger women drivers face a massive hike in their insurance premiums next year as a direct result of a European Court judgement.In that context, therefore, does my Right Honourable Friend share my disappointment that this judgement has been warmly welcomed by London’s Labour Euro MP Mary Honeyball, who has indicated that she considers it to be ‘admirable’ and ‘the price of equality’.” – Read more.

Royal wedding guest list is an embarrassment to the country – Left Foot Forward
By Dominic Browne

The Syrian ambassador’s invitation to the royal wedding has been withdrawn, following brutal crack-downs of anti-government protests in the country. The Foreign Office said his presence would be “unacceptable” and that Buckingham Palace “shared that view”.

The country’s ambassador, Royal wedding invitationDr Sami Khiyami, was summoned to the Foreign Office on Tuesday after Syrian security forces opened fire on protesters. BBC News 24 have reported 500 people have been killed so far. – Read more.

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