Ed Miliband wrapped up his speech at the New Statesman Christmas party last night with his best attempt at lifting the spirits of the Labour faithful in attendance:
“Polls are not a forecast, they are a snapshot… if polls were a forecast, I would be currently celebrating my tenth year as Prime Minister. For those of you paying attention, that didn’t happen. I was 15 points ahead of David Cameron… I say this to the Labour people in the room: fatalism, pessimism, never lifted a single child out of poverty, never created a single job, never won a single vote for the Labour Party. We are 18 months into a government. I think Reform are incredibly vulnerable and totally beatable…”
He never quite got over that 2015 drubbing, did he…
