The New Statesman article primarily seems to speculate about what sort of Prime Minister Miliband might be, should he find his way to No. 10 Downing St. Would he be a pragmatic "New Labour" type or a fiery, Internationale-belting "red Ed"? So maybe "an extreme Milibandist" is radically indefinable in some way, and that's where we'll find the comedy potential of this comp?
Obviously, there are nuances in the article that this Yank reader was unequipped to appreciate. For example, I wouldn't be able to parse the distinctions between Blairites and Brownites, and I'm minimally informed about specific public policy issues that have given Miliband the chance to display one facet or another of his political persona. I'm not pointing to deep left field and predicting that I'll knock this one out of the park. But if I read Miliband's Wikipedia biography and maybe look him up in a few online Times, Telegraph, and Guardian articles, I should be able to find enough material that I'll have to blame a loss on my own shortcomings, not on some inherent flaw in the competition.
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