Shh - it's the Labour Party

Ed Milliband reckons our society is going through a 'quiet crisis'. Why should it be quiet I wonder?

Well, in 1998 Tony Blair promised to lead a quiet revolution (What do we want? Shh. When do we want it? Shh.). In the year 2000 he led a quiet mission to Africa. He was still being a quiet diplomat in 2011, and he was always the Quiet American.

The Labour party meanwhile underwent a quiet revolution in 2006, then again so did the city of Manchester in 2005. In 2009 Tony Blair said British attitudes toward homosexuality had undergone a quiet revolution too.

You've got to have sharp ears to be a Labour party member. Quiet down the back!

[Roobin's addition] Even Gordon Brown, in his short and troubled period at the top, got some time in for quiet revolutionising.