He was much older than me, of course, 'cause he’s Ed’s father, and Ed’s, well, more of my generation.”The 83-year-old detective author, who became a Labour peer in 1997, adds: “I don’t care for people who are given peerages who have paid for them. Mehdi Hasan shreds the Daily Mail over the Ralph Miliband debacle Andrew Piper. He loved how the navy brought together people from all classes and all backgrounds. Having been born in Belgium he didn't start from a belief in the inferiority of other countries, but he loved Britain for the security it offered his family and the gentle decency of our nation. On Saturday, the Daily Mail columnist Geoffrey Levy wrote that Ed Miliband's father, Ralph, hated Britain and that his son was determined to bring back socialism in homage to his father. "Amid Levy's scathing critique of Miliband, the only mention of his service is a fleeting reference to him having "served three years in the Royal Navy". Levy 's article says Ralph Miliband "made plain his disdain for the Establishment", including Eton and Harrow, Oxford and Cambridge, "the great clubs", the church, the army and the House of Lords, suggesting this is evidence of his hatred for Britain.Ed Miliband defined his father's love for his country in different terms: "Whatever else is said about my dad's political views, Britain was a source of hope and comfort for him, not hatred.

'"The quote that appears to provide the basis for the headline on the Mail article, "The man who hated Britain", comes from Ralph Miliband's diary as a teenager. "Ed Miliband accused the Mail of a smear against his father: "Fierce debate about politics does not justify character assassination of my father, questioning the patriotism of a man who risked his life for our country in World War II, or publishing a picture of his gravestone with a tasteless pun about him being a 'grave socialist'.Ed Miliband responded: "Saturday's article referred to a single diary entry by my father, written as a 17-year-old, describing the suspicion he found of the continent and the French when he arrived here. "Ed Miliband wrote that his father's refugee status explained why he was a patriot: "His story will make you understand why he loved Britain. He was fighting for Britain … The Daily Mail's article on Saturday used just a few words to brush over the years my father spent fighting for his adopted country in World War II. You didn’t have to be Jewish, to adapt an old phrase, to feel queasy at the Daily Mail’s attack on Ralph Miliband.

After one quote illustrating his Marxism, Levy writes: "This was the immigrant boy …" In another section designed to show Miliband's alleged hatred of Britain, Levy writes: "As for the country that gave him and his family protection …" He also writes: "This adolescent distaste for the British character certainly didn't stop him availing himself of the fine education that was on offer in this country, or spending the rest of his life here. ""There was a time when politicians stayed silent if this kind of thing happened, in the hope that it wouldn't happen again.

He was a man with a great sense of humour, so the idea of me being part of some 'sinister' Marxist plot would have amused him and disappointed him in equal measure and for the same reason – he would have known it was ludicrously untrue. I want to make capitalism work for working people, not destroy it.

But it played a bigger part in his life than that.

Levy wrote: "As for the country that gave him and his family protection, the 17-year-old wrote in his diary: 'The Englishman is a rabid nationalist. It was hard for him as a newcomer in the navy. They have the greatest contempt for the continent … To lose their empire would be the worst possible humiliation.

Britain saved him from the Nazis".Levy wrote that Miliband Sr's Marxist beliefs were "uncompromising" and claimed: "Ed is now determined to bring about that vision. Ralph married Polish-born Marion Kozak in September 1961. "Levy refers to this in a way that suggests Miliband was ungrateful despite being afforded shelter from the Nazis. How proud Ralph would have been to hear him responding the other day to a man in the street who asked when he was 'going to bring back socialism' with the words: 'That's what we are doing, sir. Doubtless, Miliband is miffed that his conference was overshadowed by the revelations of his former friend, the spin doctor Damian McBride, pictured, serialised in the Daily Mail They made a home in Primrose Hill, and later in Bolton Gardens, South Kensington, and had two sons, David in 1965 and Edward in 1969. '"Ed Miliband responded: "He was determined to be part of the fight against the Nazis and to help his family hidden in Belgium.

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