Miliband says No 2 to EU referendum - As he thinks we're all stupid

 

Was nice, but rare, to see Ed Miliband open his mouth without wiping millions of the stock market. This time he was joining the debate about an EU referendum by confirming, what we all new in the first place, that Labour would not be interested in going to the polls.

It is an interesting position for the official party of opposition to take, before he spoke the parties stood roughly where The Conservatives would hold an Referendum and the Lib Dems will only hold a referendum if further powers were passed to Brussels. Now Labour have set the cat amongst the pigeons by lining up directly behind the Lib Dems. Hardly a decisive new policy.

But my scorn for Miliband's ability as a politician aside what I found most interesting about his statement is his complete mistrust of the British People, he clearly believes that the British people are so stupid that they can not make a simple decision (But then I guess most of the voters he meets are Labour voters so I'm not that surprised.:-) ) The reason I say this is that Miliband stated in his speech that there is an "overwhelming economic case" for EU membership. So if the argument is so overwhelming why not let the people know it and trust them to make the sensible decision. As I see it there can only be two possible reasons for this:

1) The reasons are not really overwhelming (In which case Miliband is clearly lying)

2) Miliband has such a low opinion of the British People that he thinks they can not handle a real decision.

As if his turning up to the debate 6 months too late wasn't a sure enough sign that Miliband is atrocious at picking the big issues of the day his claim that he was setting out a "Clear Lead" - By copying the Lib Dems policy - is perhaps the biggest sign yet of his ineptitude, although where Miliband is concerned there is a great deal of competition for this category.