The nation is in ruins and the payroll and client base in the hall clap as Miliband refers to “You know there is no more important area of our common life than the United Kingdom itself” (speech 7300 words – words on Union 236) and “I care as much about a young person unemployed in Motherwell as I do about a young person unemployed here in Manchester. We have common bonds, we have deep bonds with each other.”

Not common or deep enough to have a common vote in Motherwell and Manchester.