"I can't support Miliband as he is the wrong type of Jew" Maureen Lipman 2014
This is from The Guardian 2014 Actor Maureen Lipman has abandoned a lifetime’s support of Labour and announced she would vote for “almost any other” party at the general election, partly in protest at Ed Miliband’s support for recognising the Palestinian state. The star of stage and screen gave a dim assessment of the present shadow cabinet, telling Standpoint magazine: “The Chuka Harman Burnham Hunt Balls brigade? I can’t, in all seriousness, go into a booth and put my mark on any one of them.” “For the first time in five decades, I shall not be voting Labour because I can not support Palestine and because Miliband is the wrong kind of Jew.” But the prominent Jew reserved her most hostile comments for the Labour leader’s decision to back a symbolic Commons vote in favour of recognising the state of Palestine alongside Israel. And she said she had a “sneaking suspicion” that David Miliband – who was unexpectedly beaten to the leadership by his broth...