Originally Posted by clitheroe1:
“This simply isn't true! Ed Milliband is opposed to a second vote on EU withdrawal and accepts the result of the referendum. To say "he has ignored the democratic will" is wrong. He never wanted to be an EU Commissioner and always said he wanted to continue to serve his Doncaster constituents. What is the source of your outrageous claims?”
Since his monumental defeat Milliband is a political irrelevancy, however If he is supporting Brexit, then I've not seen or heard him say as much.
Reported on 16th October 2016
“Yesterday it emerged that former Labour leader Ed Miliband has held secret talks with Remain-supporting Tories to force a Commons vote that could veto any move to quit the single market.
The cross-party alliance of proBrussels MPs being put together by Mr Miliband also includes former Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg and a number of Scottish Nationalist politicians.”
Milliband is fully aware that remaining in the single market means allowing free movement of EU citizens and making financial contributions to the EU..........that's about as far from Brexit as you can get.
You state that he has no desire for an EU role, a friend of my husbands who works at the Palace of Westminster says otherwise.
Might I remind you of another former senior labour MP who stated that he wasn't interested in a role.........and then grabbed it with both of his grubby hands.
John Prescott of Kingston-upon-Hull, despite previously saying he was opposed to becoming a peer, did in fact become Baron Prescott of Kingston upon Hull.
Before being sworn into the House of Lords, the former deputy prime minister rejected the charge of hypocrisy, and wrote on Twitter that he would use the position to hold the government to account, and as a platform to campaign for issues he believes in.
Prescott denied reports that he did not want the "flunkery and titles" of the House of Lords, despite saying as much in an interview with the Scotsman two years previously
I take the view that MP’s earn trust as a consequence of their actions…..and not their empty promises.