#Ed Miliband

[incoherentbabblings]

It sure was... an evening... wasn't it...

#uk politics #politics #ed miliband #liz truss #britpol

[denimbex1986]

'As David Tennant bursts back onto screens for Doctor Who‘s 60th anniversary, he’s also made his solidarity with the LGBTQ+ community clearer than ever.

The 52-year-old star features alongside former co-star Catherine Tate as Donna Noble in the trio of Doctor Who specials from returning showrunner Russell T Davies. The cast also includes trans Heartstopper actress Yasmin Finney as Donna’s daughter, Rose.

Finney’s prominent role in Saturday’s (25 November) episode “The Star Beast” sparked fierce reaction with LGBTQ+ fans praising the inclusion and bigots (as usual) sharing their fury.

Tennant’s three-episode run – which has already involved a heartfelt conversation around correct pronouns – kicks off a new era of Doctor Who which promises major LGBTQ+ talent as Ncuti Gatwa takes over as 15th Doctor this Christmas.

From Drag Race icon Jinkx Monsoon to musical theatre star Jonathan Groff, there’s plenty in store for queer fans.

Throughout it all Tennant has remained a steadfast ally, so here’s five times the acclaimed actor has showed up for the LGBTQ+ community throughout his career.

David Tennant making waves with trans Tardis pin

In the lead up to the Doctor Who 60th anniversary, Tennant appeared on The One Show and The Last Leg earlier this month where the Scottish actor was spotted wearing a trans flag themed TARDIS badge as a small act of solidarity with the trans community.

Naturally, fan praised the actor for his initiative, but the wholesome saga doesn’t end there. The badge creator, Dr Jamie Gallagher, soon announced on Twitter that over £18,000 had been raised in badge sales and all proceeds would be going towards LGBTQ+ homeless charity AKT.

Humbly reacting to the joyous news, Tennant later said while he couldn’t take “any credit”, the badge perfectly “suits what Doctor Who is all about”.

It’s not the first time Tennant has showed his support through the medium of pin badges. Earlier this year eagle-eyed fans spotted him wearing a non-binary Pride badge on shows such Saturday Night Takeaway, The Graham Norton Show and This Morning.

Unapologetically standing up for trans children

In July this year, Tennant took his pro-trans message one step further during the press run for Good Omens season two.

In a viral image, fans caught a glimpse of him sporting a black t-shirt with a crystal clear pink hued slogan emblazoned on top. “Leave trans kids alone, you absolute freaks”. We love to see it.

The top, which comes from online store Crooked, caused a stir online with many fans flocking to social media to share their joy. Around a similar time the TV star was spotted wearing (yet another) badge with the pride colours and the words: “You are safe with me.”

The pin badge managed to rile up anti-trans activists Posie Parker and Graham Linehan who launched separate attacks on Tennant, insinuating he is a pedophile and “groomer”.

But this hasn’t deterred Tennant, who continues to stand up for trans rights.

Delivering an emotional speech during Pride month

During Pride month this year, Tennant appeared on the Ed Miliband’s Reasons To Be Cheerful podcast where he praised the importance and joy of Pride month in modern day Britain.

“Do you know what’s making me cheerful at the moment? It’s Pride month,” he told the podcast.

“The fact that Pride Month is existing and is flourishing and is something that’s happening at a time when the world seems to be getting in some corners worryingly intolerant and weirdly backward.”

As usual his words impacted LGBTQ+ fans who shared that his powerful statement moved them to tears.

“We can’t take our foot off the gas,” the actor continued. “We can’t expect that we will always travel in the right direction towards acceptance. We’ve all got to be fighting that fight every day.”

It’s a message echoed by his wife Georgia, who shared her solidarity with the trans community in October after an attack by prime minister Rishi Sunak. “To the trans community, I stand with you now and always. I, like you, am going nowhere,” she said in a post on X.

Spreading the message of inclusivity in his TV series Good Omens

Doctor Who is not the only sci-fi, fantasy world Tennant has inhabited this year. After four years, Prime Video finally dropped the second season of Good Omens which sees Tennant playing demon Crowley opposite Michael Sheen’s angel Aziraphale.

In a wild turn of events, after huge fan speculation, Crowley and Azirphale made their romantic tension explicit after sharing a dramatic kiss at the end of the season.

Although fans will have to wait until the (still to be confirmed) third season to find out if the loved up couple will finally get their acts together, Tennant has no doubt about the importance of inclusivity in the series, which he spoke about during an interview with the RadioTimes podcast.

During the interview, he explained that the show delivers a message for “this fractious moment” in society that earth can be “quite a nice place to live”.

“That’s why this show connected with a certain group of people,” he continued. “There is an inclusivity to the world view of Good Omens, there’s a joy in celebrating whoever you happen to be.

“And that’s something [creator Neil Gaiman] is very keen to communicate: a message of kindness and openness. That is why the tone of Good Omens is positive, open, joyful and fun.”

Once an ally, always an ally

Tennant’s allyship hasn’t just started over the past year.

As far back as 2008, during his stint as the 10th Doctor, he hit back against the idea that dressing flamboyantly and being called “gay” is an insult during an interview with The Telegraph.

A few years later, in 2012, he showed his support for a Diversity Role Models campaign tackling homophobic bullying.

“It is essential that young people have the opportunity to meet role models from the LGBT community to help break down the stereotypes and prejudice that lead to bullying,” he said at the time.

A decade later, it’s no surprise David Tennant has consistently proven himself as an LGBTQ+ ally, through and through.'

#David Tennant #Georgia Tennant #LBGTQ+ #Doctor Who #Good Omens #Crowley #Aziraphale #Neil Gaiman #This Morning #The One Show #Reasons to be Cheerful #Ed Miliband #The Last Leg #Dr. Jamie Gallagher #Tardis pin #Russell T. Davies #Catherine Tate #Donna Noble #Yasmin Finney #Rose Noble #Ncuti Gatwa #Jinkx Monsoon #Jonathan Groff #The Graham Norton Show #Saturday Night Takeaway #The Star Beast

[msscribe-stan]

I don't feel right calling myself an 'ed miliband fan account' seeing that he did not vote for calling a ceasefire in Palestine. I still respect him in other policy areas but as a politican he has a responsibility to do what is moral - and just allowing people to be slaughtered is not that. I knew this was coming, but I am still deeply disappointed in him.

#uk politics #ed miliband #uk labour party #honestly fuck kier starmer

[misspeppermint2003]

Coloured drawings of World Politicians 1

I made coloured drawings of the politicians around the world. There are eleven politicians from the United Kingdom:

1st left: Former Prime Minister Tony Blair

1st middle: First Secretary of State Peter Mandelson

1st right: Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown

2nd left: David and Ed Miliband

2nd middle: Suella Braverman

2nd right: Rachel and Ellie Reeves

3rd left: Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson

3rd middle: Former Prime Minister Liz Truss

3rd right: Prime Minister Rishi Sunak

#rishi sunak #boris johnson #liz truss #suella braverman #david miliband #ed miliband #rachel reeves #ellie reeves #tony blair #peter mandelson #gordon brown #politicians #politics #lolitics #british politics #uk conservative party #uk labour party #world leaders #colouring pencil paintings #colouring pencil drawings #drawings #paintings

[thewuzzy]

how many more times will I have to update this before we get a Labour government

#Uk Politics #🦀 #Liz truss #Tories #ed miliband #uk labour party

[edmilibum]

#ed miliband #lolitics

[morganaspendragonss]

#it’s time……milifandom rise #jokes but also not #ed miliband #uk politics

[asexplainedbyttoi]

Ed Miliband wins the internet.

#british politics #uk politics #ed miliband #david cameron #theresa may #boris johnson #liz truss #kwasi kwarteng #jeremy hunt #Twitter #tweet #funny tweets

[scottishsocialpolitics]

What does Keir Starmer stand for?

Does anyone know? I certainly don't. I doubt even his own wife knows. Even more worryingly, I'm not even sure he knows!

Here is a man who was named after Labour's founder and first parliamentary leader, the great Keir Hardie. To be named after such a pioneering man goes to show what kind of politics Starmer must have been brought up with. What belief his parents must have had for the rights and welfare of working class families to name their son after the man responsible for making working class politics mainstream. Perhaps these ideological views had been thrust upon him. Perhaps he believed that he believed in the rights of working class people and the importance of trade unions. But it’s becoming excruciatingly clear and apparent that he does not. Or is it?

Again who knows? He says one thing then does another. He is a man of so many contradictions that I'm not even sure when I look at him I see the figure of a man. What I see instead is the impressionist brushstrokes of a man. Who are any of us if not our views and opinions. It is what keeps us ticking. It's what makes us who we are. But again who the hell is Keir Starmer? He may be named after Keir Hardie but his recent political run is abhorrently different to that of the father of Labour. The reason Hardie became a member of the Scottish Labour party was because he had become disenfranchised by the Liberal party. He concluded that Liberals would not advocate for the interest of the working class nor would they instil the radical reform needed but wanted the workers' votes. Starmers recent course reversal into the right of Labour politics, the Blairite politics, the third way thinking of neoliberals is the exact reason the Labour party was founded! The neoLiberals guise of being for the people is a myth and always has been. The further right Starmer pulls the Labour party, the less they advocate for progressive change for the ordinary people of the country.

He’s a man who said he would not oust Jeremy Corbyn because ‘he’s a colleague, he’s a friend’ then he goes on LBC and says no he’s not a friend and he ‘hasn’t spoken to him for two and a half years.’ What one is it Keir? He said ‘we have to make the case for the benefits of migration, the benefits of free movement’ then he goes on the Sunday show and says ‘we don't want open borders.’ What one is it Keir? He was on the picket lines with the striking McDonalds workers. Then he tells his front bench not to cross the picket lines in the RMT rail strikes. What one is it Keir? There are countless more instances of these complete contradictions, not only contradictions of what he’s said but that of the very essence of what it means to be Labour. He was elected Labour leader on the basis of nationalizing the six major energy companies and the water network. Are you even surprised that he’s now said no, actually I'm not going to do that? So he’s elected leader on progressive left policies and then when he’s in power he gets everyone on the left of the party ousted from any semblance of power within the party and then goes on a media campaign of neoliberalism. 

Back in august Open Democracy ran a piece in which it entails the amount of ‘free’ tickets Starmer had accepted since being Labour leader. The monetary value of these tickets at that time was estimated to be in the region of £30,000 and the number is twenty eight. That’s more than all Labour leaders combined since records began in 1997! Jeremy Corbyn who was Labour leader for 5 years accepted one free ticket which was to Glastonbury. Where he spoke on stage to memorable chants of ‘ohhhhhhh Jeremey Corbyn.’ Ed Miliband accepted tickets to the Olympics and Paralympics in London. Gordon Brown accepted none. Even Tony Blair, Keir Starmer's Daddy who was prime minister from 1997 to 2007 accepted less gifts than Starmer has already! Blair would usually donate the monetary value of the tickets to a relevant charity. Starmer does not. He whores himself out to corporations in hopes of funding. With Corbyn as leader the membership of Labour soared as did its coffers. In the wake of Starmer attempting to eradicate any left leaning thoughts from the party the membership and coffers have significantly declined. So how does Starmer get money to pay for his upcoming election campaign ? He allows corporations to essentially and directly lobby him. He accepted a gift of a free meal worth £380 from Google in January. Seems quite innocuous right? Well by June he dropped the policy of a digital tax on big corps like Google which was estimated to bring in three billion pounds worth of tax revenue.

There’s a consensus that you cannot be elected in this country unless you are endorsed by the most powerful politician there has ever been in the Uk. The end game boss. That’s right, Mr I own basically all of the news press Rupert Murdoch. The notoriously right wing media mogul. Well I don't think you’re going to be surprised that Declassified UK reported that Starmer has accepted more hospitality from Rupert Murdoch owned newspapers than the rest of the British press combined. 

So back to the question: what does Keir Starmer stand for? I honestly have no idea. I think he’s a political chameleon. He’s inherently dishonest. He will say whatever he needs to gain power. There’s a hope that his flip flopping will work back in the favour of the left of the party once he inevitably gets elected. I’m not so hopeful. I think we have to take him at what he’s showing. He is not progressive. He is essentially an imitation of his Daddy Tony Blair. Although he’s never going to be his Dads favourite son. That is firmly French president and centrist Emmanuel Macron.

JCF.

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#politics #opinion #labour party #keir starmer #political commentary #uk politics #liberals #centrist #socialism #labour #leadership #liberalism #neoliberalism #tony blair #jeremy corbyn #ed miliband #gordon brown #emmanuel macron

[hunnybeez]

Breaking News

Larry the Cat has announced that he has had enough of the shit show that is UK politics and will be stepping in as Prime Minister

#uk politics #liz truss #larry the cat #general elections #conservative party #jacob rees mogg #labour party #jeremy corbyn #keir starmer #ed miliband #jeremy hunt

[gwynever]

love that Ed Miliband posted this then tabled the fracking motion that finally brought down Truss.

playing the longest of long games and winning.

#liz truss #uk politics #vote lettuce #ed miliband

[bunger-royale]

Starmer is so profoundly awful that millions are now dreaming fondly of Ed Miliband

#ed miliband #keir starmer #labour #labour party #uk politics

[unit-teamaker]

Ed Miliband is in my phone and he's talking about not only Doctor Who, and interviewing David Tennant, but also about BBC Ghosts and Horrible Histories. I have never been so overwhelmed in my life dude. This is like the 3 things I care about in life colliding. This is my endgame

#doctor who #david tennant #10th doctor #60th anniversary #bbc ghosts #horrible histories #14th doctor #ed miliband #geoff lloyd

[misspeppermint2003]

⭐ Friday Vote Battle (Round 47) ⭐

#fandom #fandom questions #character quiz #quizzes #politicians #politics #lolitics #world leaders #david cameron #ed miliband #uk labour party #british politics #uk conservative party #rounds

[thewuzzy]

times like this got me reminiscing

#ed miliband #milifandom #uk politics #boris johnson #bojo #uk shitposting

[changing-my-username]

So if milli means thousand, is there 1000 Ed Bands in 1 Ed Miliband?

#politics #uk politics #ed miliband