Even the po-faced Associated Press (video above) couldn’t but describe as ‘toe-curling’ Ed Miliband’s encounter with a homeless hijabi. Pundits agree that Ed appeared ‘terrified’ of the beggar in Manchester.
Mr S was there, however – on unrelated business, of course – and can confirm that the opposition leader really did only have 2p in his pocket at the time. (Why on earth would he carry more?)
Your correspondent was otherwise engaged, however (in discussion with my equine consultant) in the moment this photo was snapped:
Manchester, 31 October 2014 (Photo: Nigel Roddis/Getty)
What could have been on his mind? Or that of shadow transport secretery Mary Creagh, for that matter, as they headed into the Manchester town hall?
The new Scottish Labour polls made for a grim Halloween around Camp Miliband. One bedraggled Labour aid, on the phone from a supposed party, trembled that she’d ‘begun seeing Alex Salmond’s face in every Halloween jack’o’lantern.’ Horrors.
But perhaps it was something else entirely – Movember-related affairs, maybe, or the troubling implications of homelessness for the well-meaning socialists who reside in Primrose Hill.
Failing my usual sources, I put it to you – friends, readers, comments section, let’s do speculate: caption Ed Miliband, please.
Mr S will check back next week to post favorites and, in the meantime – never much for All Saints’ Day – will get started on the horticultural consults for next year’s All Hallows’ Eve decor at casa de Steerpike: an over-sized turnip carved with the visage of a Scottish Nationalist. Anything to scare the children.
(Photo: Getty)
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