{"id":4182,"date":"2015-04-04T21:19:06","date_gmt":"2015-04-04T21:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=4182"},"modified":"2015-04-04T21:19:06","modified_gmt":"2015-04-04T21:19:06","slug":"actor-richard-wilson-joins-tulip-siddiq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/actor-richard-wilson-joins-tulip-siddiq\/","title":{"rendered":"Actor Richard Wilson joins Tulip Siddiq"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Richard<\/a>LABOUR\u2019S general election team have printed new posters with the slogan \u201cProud to be a Hampstead socialist\u201d after Conservative leader David Cameron used the term as a slight against his rivals.
\nTV\u2019s best-loved curmudgeon Richard Wilson posed with one of the new placards alongside Tulip Siddiq, the party\u2019s candidate in Hampstead and Kilburn constituency, yesterday (Wednesday) and declared that campaigners had nothing to fear from the label.
\nThe Labour-supporting actor told the New Journal: \u201cI don\u2019t mind being called a socialist. I\u2019m happy to be called a socialist.
\n\u201cOne of the problems with the party at one time was that the Labour Party went too far to the right, as far as I\u2019m concerned, and that\u2019s why I voted for Ed [Miliband] and not David [Miliband]. I thought Ed was more leaning to the left and that\u2019s what I wanted. I think he is steering the party in that direction, and I think that’s a good.\u201d
\nAsked how he thought Hampstead was being characterised by Mr Cameron\u2019s comments, Mr Wilson, famous for playing the enduringly grumpy Victor Meldrew in One Foot In The Grave, added: \u201cI think Hampstead gets a lot of stick, mainly because there are so many actors living there. They are always calling us posh Hampsteadites, but when I first came to London I worked in the NHS for 10 years and I lived in Hampstead because it was close to Paddington general hospital.
\n\u201cI didn\u2019t realise it was the posh part of London, but it was, it is, and I think there are a lot of good Hampstead socialists and I\u2019m proud to be one of them.”
\nEd Miliband has been saddled with caricatures about his north London life since using a conference speech to outline the hardships people face in the UK by recounting conversations he had with members of the public while walking on Hampstead Heath.
\nMr Cameron seemed to be referring back to former Labour leader Michael Foot, who was famously on the left of the party but teased for living in one of London\u2019s most expensive postcodes, in his speech on Sunday. He said Mr Miliband was the \u201csame old condescending, bossy, interfering, we-know-best attitude of the Hampstead socialist down the ages\u201d.
\nOliver Cooper, the Conservative candidate in the Hampstead by-election, set to be held on the same day as the national ballot, said: \u201cDavid Cameron is correct to say that Labour have a condescending \u2018we know best\u2019 attitude, and look down on people owning their home. But that isn\u2019t the attitude of Hampstead residents, which is why so many will be voting Conservative on May 7.\u201d<\/p>\n

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