Many people's first exposure to political debate was not watching question time according newspaper report about the house of commons or the U.s congress
It was at the dinner table or in the family from room ,with a parent cursing conservatives or mothering darkly about socialist
Labour leader Ed milli-brand 's upbringing fitted this pattern better than most his father Ralph was a left -wing academic progressive cause
On Saturdays,the daily mail ran a people of Ralph malli-band under the headlines ''the man who hated Britian after offering his son The right of reply ,the paper repeated the original article and ran a leader describing the deceased lectures legacy as ''evil ,now this family history has become the focus of a bitter media spat.
The paper justified the attacked by arguing that Ralph milliband political views has been passed down the generations
Its leader says ,''but when a son with prime ministerial ambition swallows his teachings as the younger milliband appears to have done ,the case is different''we do not maintain ,like the jealous God of Deuteronomy that the iniquity of the father should be visited on the sons.
The labour had rated furiously,
He insisted his politics were markedly different from those his maxi-st father ''he also said he was ''by the mails character assassination of a man who had served in the royal navy during world war ii after escaping Nazi persecution.
The dispute raises the question of extent to which people politics shaped by the influence of their families .
Many of those who have backed milliband in the row have followed the marl's logic by pointing out that the first viscount rather more ,great grand father of its present owner, metittiler and wrote an article tittle hurray for the black shirts in 1934 which praised Oswald Masleys fascists
There are plenty of political dynasties even in countries that have long shaken off the shackles of aristocracy the bush family ,for instant ,who have arrogated for two of the four U.s presidents,or the gond his in India.
In the U.k the Cecil family have been involved in conservative parliamentary politics for more than two countries ,while four generations of the Liberians in the house of commons .
But there is no shortage of examples of politicians who have rejected the views of their forefathers.
Famously the father of former conservative cabinet member Micheal portillo who escaped his home land during the civil war and he was a left-wing Spanish republican labor prime minister clement at-lee and tony Blair both grow up in tony households
(Atlee grand son , earl at-lee , now takes the conservative whip in the house of lords ).
If nothing else the process of youthful rebellion required adopting contrary views -teenager in the tony shires long having irritated their mums and dad by joining the announcing their sympathy for the anarchist cause.
The comedian Alexei sayle understand well in it's process, he grew in a communist party household in Liverpool where the only way to appear more radical than his parent was to declare himself a Maoist.
However , while retaining left wing principles sayle lost his illusions about virtually of the regimes his family supported .as a result , he feel ambivalent about the environment in which he acquired his value and moral code.
There were reality decent people ''their parent had a genuine hatred of injustice ,on the other hands that wish for a better world led them to turn a blind eye to the two greatest mass murders of the 20th century , namely Stalin and Mao ''he says that ''but i will always value the fact that they taught me to look sceptically at the news, to question society and people motives''Margaret thatcher often spoke of the formative influencing of her father a grocer and Methodist lay preacher who instilled her faith in the virtues of hard working and thrift.
Of course, many children of politicians and the politically engaged grow up to have no interest what soever in parties and ideologies
Other say they become active despite not because of their parent interests.
Rachel Johnson father was Stanley who was a conservative mep while her brothers Boris and Jo serve as major of London and head of the number to policy unit respectively and Rachel Johnson was one of those that belong to one of the most notable political families in the U.k.
But she was about growing up when politics was rarely discussed ,not least because her parent affiliations were split -her mother Charlotte was a labor voter .
We didn't have politicized household '',
Johnson,herself a conservative party member until recently says ''the only things i remember was canvassing for my father for the European parliament. but we did that not because he was a tony but because he was my father''
Arguably the political success of millibar family is proof that polities are not simply handed down from father to son,
Its difficult to reconcile the maxi-st dialectics of Ralph with the views of his blarite son Davids who served as foreign secretary from 2007 to 2010 and was defeated by his brother for labor leadership
Though Ed has often spoken warmly of ''the values i grew up with '' he rose to the top of the party in def lance of his father's long standing belief that labor could never achieve socialist transformation.
Unite general secretary len mrocluskey once joked that Ralph millibar ''spent his life trying to convince our movement that there was no possibility of a parliamentary road to socialism , while his sons have been loyally putting theory into practice and proving Ralph right ''
Situation can arise when children depart from their parents political paths delicate.
Sir Nicholas Scott, the conservative disability minister ,left office in 1994 after coming under criticism after the government Scarpered a bill that would have banned discrimination against disable people.
One of his sternest critics was his daughter Victoria, a labor party member who at the time worked for a disability pressure group .
Memorably on one occasion she took the today programmed to sternly criticize him.
Sir Nicholas Scott and Victoria,Scott clashed publicly
Victoria says the affair did create tensions even in a family where she had encourage to think independent (sir Nicholas later told interviews he was pound she had stood up for herself),
My dad had a good sense of humor and love arguments, she say'' he d rather i was totally uninterested
People in my family really felt i had betrayed my fathers, even if he didn't feel that himself ,because we weren't prepared for the emotional and personal falling which was quite phenomenal.
According to Elias Dinas, lecturer in politics at the university of Nottingham, who has researched the impact of parental influence on opinions forming because her experience be far from uncommon,
''There's a volume of literature that says the more politicized your parents are the more likely you are to become a politically engaged adult -but you 're also more likely to abandon your parent views,he adds.
If true , implies the best way to pass on your political opinions to your offspring is to keep quite about them ,in the millibar household ,this evidently wasn't option.
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