Ed Miliband's speech to the Labour Party conference (of which there'll be more on this blog tomorrow), featured a cracking example of a super-long noun phrase for those of you who like that kind of thing.
Here we go... "Have you ever seen a more incompetent, hopeless, out-of-touch, U-turning,
pledge-breaking, make-it-up-as-we-go-along, back of the envelope miserable
shower than this prime minister and this government?".
For this week's Haribo prize, what's the head word in the highlighted noun phrase? First person to post the right answer in a comment gets the prize.
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