I've just heard on Sky News Mr Miliband, scratching around trying to find something relevant to say, that Lord Freud was proposing a £2 an hour wage for the disabled, which from the man who PRODUCED the recording on his conversation, is disingenuous at best.
Lord Freud answering a question relating to the disabled with learning difficulties etc that society has found for a while now, employers have even been overlooking the ABLE bodied UK workforce for staff, never mind disabled.
So practically, employers were unlikely to pay the current Minimum Wage for some disabled workers who would socially (as well as financially) benefit from finding work - so was 'kicking around' ideas on what employers MIGHT pay e.g £2 an hour, subsidized somehow, by the government.
It was still a stupid thing for Lord Freud to say, but you have scored your political points Mr Miliband, misrepresenting a quote we have all now heard as likely government policy, for those additional points, should be beneath our next PM.