article_snippet.sent: Boris Johnson today fire an extraordinary attack on the Labour party, claiming Ed Miliband wants to go back to the 'nasty, racist' era of the 1970s.
article_snippet.sent: the Labour leader also claimed Ukip wanted to turn the clock back to the 1950s while the Greens want a return to 'somewhere around the bronze age'.
article_snippet.sent: Ed Miliband also joked the Tories were the party of 'kitchen ownership' while Labour was the party of 'kitchen concealment'.
article_snippet.sent: In Boris Johnson speech, Boris Johnson repeatedly mocked Ed Miliband over the revelation Ed Miliband has two kitchens in Ed Miliband
article_snippet.sent: The 'main problem' with Miliband is not Miliband inability to eat a bacon sandwich, the mayor went on, or that Miliband sounds like a 'polytechnic sociology lecturer'.
article_snippet.sent: Nor is it that Miliband and Ed Balls drove the car 'so spectacularly off the cliff' the last time he and Ed Balls had the keys, Miliband added, calling he and Ed Balls the 'Thelma and Louise of British politics'.
article_snippet.sent: Miliband said: 'The main problem is not even that he and Ed Balls would be the playthings of the SNP and that Miliband would be peeking out of Alex Salmond's sporran like a baby kangaroo. '
article_snippet.sent: The main problem is that Miliband and the Labour Party are now more left-wing than Ed Miliband and the Labour Party have ever been at any time since Michael Foot. '
article_snippet.sent: Ed Miliband and the Labour Party literally want to take us back to the 1970s with an orgy of regulation and state socialism.'
article_snippet.sent: And by attacking wealth creation both in rhetoric and Miliband actions, Miliband would take this country backwards to those 1970s that I spoke of with an orgy of higher taxation and regulation.
article_snippet.sent: It was a nasty, grim, petty epoch of really foul racism, frankly, and a union-dominated economy,' Miliband told an event organised by the Legatum Institute think tank.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Johnson also joked that Ukip wanted to take the country back to the 1950s, the Greens to 'somewhere around the bronze age' and the Liberal Democrats to whatever would give the Liberal Democrats a boost in the polls.