That Ed Miliband has compared himself with previous historical civil liberties campaigners is rather ill-judged:
"We come in the traditions that have marched in peaceful but powerful protest for justice, fairness and political change," he said.
"The suffragettes who fought for votes for women and won. The civil rights movement in America that fought against racism and won. The anti-apartheid movement that fought the horror of that system and won."
The difference is that Labour lost a democratic election. All of those that Miliband compares himself and Labour with, never had that option. Therefore Miliband is, in effect, trying to dismiss the views of an electorate who threw his party out of power by pretending that our country didn't have a choice.
