ABSTRACT
The truth, as many commentators have pointed out, is that it is more likely that Ralph Miliband would turn in his grave if he knew the nature of the socialism his son is promoting. This time, however, Ed Miliband has thrown the egg back, accusing the Daily Mail of publishing “an appalling lie” about his father. The Daily Mail threw a rotten egg at Miliband’s socialist father, Ralph. In his article, “The Man Who Hated Britain”, Geoffrey Levy portrayed Miliband senior as fundamentally anti-British, suggesting his Marxist views were “fuelled by a giant-size social chip on his shoulder as he lived in his adoptive country”. Levy tarnished Miliband Jnr for paying homage to his father’s Marxism by pledging to bring back socialism. By the time of Ralph Miliband’s death in 1994, on the cusp of Tony Blair’s takeover of the Labour Party, both David and Ed had embarked on political careers aligning themselves with what was to become New Labour.
