I WAS reminded the other day that I and my teenage friends would occasionally run after a bus, which was on the move, and jump on the platform.

If we missed we would either end up on the road (more dangerous now with so many cars on the road) or being dragged along behind the bus.

The above was brought to mind by Ed Miliband who has been jumping on any passing bandwagon of late.

Not wishing to be out done by the Prime Minister’s “big society”, Ed has come up with his own “one nation” strategy.

Both are totally untrue since while the workers are having their social benefits cut, others are walking away with millions.

Then came the vote in Parliament on the EU budget (Echo, Nov 1).

Seeing a chance to defeat the Government, Ed got his troops to march with the Tory right wing a move which he may well come to regret in the not too distant future.

The question of a “living wage” was too good to leave to others so on jumped Ed.

The last Labour Government introduced the “minimum wage”

which many thought was a “living wage” when it was only a subsistence payment.

John Antill, Darlington.