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Hunt came to public prominence as a TV historian. He’s telegenic and, as you’d expect a good communicator. He was promoted to the shadow cabinet by Ed Miliband in the reshuffle two weeks ago to take on Michael Gove.
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Tristram's handy if Ed Miliband loses Labour's love
The Shadow Education Secretary has had such a good week that the party may have shifted on its axis
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/tristrams-handy-if-ed-miliband-loses-labours-love-8891653.html
And a dig at Ed:
"One Labour frontbencher told me that Ed Miliband had promoted the "telegenic" Hunt as a way of building up a rival to Chuka Umunna. If so, it worked about as well as making Stalin general secretary of the Communist Party as a counterbalance to Trotsky. "
That said, one good week does not a new leader make - and I wonder if Labour really want to put a Public school Oxbridge graduate up against a Public school Oxbridge graduate....
Even so, I doubt 33/1 will last long....
I can only think of one other in the Labour Party.
I put it all down to telegenetics.
I mean, I know the bar isn't very high and there must be a desperation to find someone not tainted with the Brown stuff but really?
I also remember Nigel Lawson in the late 1980s saying that unemployment was not an economic issue, in that the country could afford the benefits (those were the days), it was a moral issue. Was it acceptable that so many of our fellow citizens were being denied the fruits of work? He was right, as usual.
Doesn't stand a chance
BBC News - Brighton Green leader Kitcat blames 'ill-discipline' for poll slump bbc.in/1aySxKt
Still, there are usually excellent odds to be had on the person who becomes the next leader if you can identify them far enough out. Brown was a rare exception. Mike's right to have a punt on a possible. There's every possibility that Hunt may become another name on the long list of might-have-beens, but there's also the chance he won't and I do think he has value there.
"Tristram's handy if Ed Miliband loses Labour's love"
I suppose he's saving 'Love Labour's Lost' for a defection
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_United_Kingdom
Never stopped me.
25,000 jobs to be created through building of new nuclear power station at #hinkley say Govt
norman smith @BBCNormanS
Govt say #EDF will be responsible for decommissioning costs at #Hinkley Point and share of costs of waste management
Is Davey setting up the big Lib Dem policy success in energy come 2015.
I agree that there is a major talent shortage on the front bench, but talent for TV is not the only requirement.
chortle...!
What we know right now is that there is an assurance of base supply for large industrial users in the UK, that that will not be cheap energy but it may not be expensive either depending upon what happens in other markets over time, that we have another major infrastructure project up and running and that a decision that ought to have been made more than 10 years ago has finally been made.
The deal is clearly complex but does allow some clawback if costs undershoot (wouldn't bank on that George) and a reduction in the strike price if they agree to develop a second site: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/10392510/Hinkley-Point-good-for-Britain-says-Ed-Davey.html
As I say way too early to tell but at least we are getting on with it at last.
"I mean, I know the bar isn't very high and there must be a desperation to find someone not tainted with the Brown stuff but really?"
Actually you're being unfair. He has every quality needed to be a leader in the X Factor age. He's better looking than Dave. Cleverer than Dave. More articulate as Dave. Without the Bullingdon baggage of Dave. Not OTT plummy like Dave.
But most important he's Labour. He chose his own way. He didn't just get in line behind every Etonian toff before him into the Tory Party. The British have always preferred someone who zigs when then the rest of the herd zags. Something no one can suggest Dave has done
"BRITS WELCOME CHINESE WITH OPEN ARMS"
http://yougov.co.uk/news/2013/10/17/china-most-important-trade-partner/
As PFI deals go, it is a good one.
"Hunt is the son of Julian Hunt, a meteorologist and leader of the Labour Group on Cambridge City Council in 1972-3, who was created a Labour Life Peer on the recommendation of Tony Blair in 2000."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristram_Hunt
If he was the son of a Tory politician your argument might have more validity........
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7194864.stm
Whilst promising that Uk will buy Chinese consumer goods.
Pre Labour's bust mind you...
China has foreign exchange reserves of $3.5 trillion and averages around $20 billion dollars trade surplus a month.
The UK has foreign exchange reserves of $106 billion, around 3% of China's, and has run an average trade deficit of £1.2 billion per month for the past sixty years.
China has the technology, experience, financial resources and will to set up a nuclear power station in the UK?
Pray tell me, Sir, how Labour would finance such a project in lieu of direct Chinese investment.
It is my understanding that it would be difficult to generate nuclear power from a spare room on a housing benefit subsidy
"China tops the list of regions that the UK should forge closer trading partnerships with (53%), somewhat ahead of Europe (35%), Australia and New Zealand (34%) and North America (33%)."
If Hunt the Historian became leader of Labour, could we please have Dan Snow as leader of the Liberal Democrats and Niall Ferguson as leader of the Conservatives?
Political speeches could become more interesting with well-spoken history experts at the top.
"Hunt looks like a blond Mitt Romney. Rather ridiculous and plastic"
It's buy one get one free at Specsavers this week.
The government is absolutely right to see the enormous opportunities there are in trading with Chia, but it does seem to be very wide eyed about it, as opposed to open eyed. I think we were very badly stung by Dave's meeting with the Dalai Lama. That really pissed the Chinese off and so now to get back in the good books we have had to make more compromises than would otherwise have been the case.
He's got the Hugh Grant open-necked shirt look quite comfortably though. That won't do him any harm among the all-important 45-65 female demographic.
If we can buy oil from Saudi Arabia and gas from Russia, why on earth should we not be buying nuclear energy generation capability from China?
It's a funny old world, tim's-world......
Moderately amused and entirely unsurprised that a evil Tory toff!!! chap with a privileged background is seen as good because he's in Labour, whereas if he were in the Conservatives he'd be seen in quite a different light.
Done most of the early discussion piece for India, and I'll try and get that up fairly shortly.
It's pretty embarrassing that we can have a huge frenzy of excitement about making a quick profit on the sale of Royal Mail shares, but we can't find the money to fund investment in our energy infrastructure. Instead we will be sending money overseas for decades.
Councillor Jobsworth will be seconded from the Lib Dems to supervise installation once he has completed his training and been awarded a suitable qualification.
His first round of media interviews on appointment were promising but his HoC Emergency Question last week was a mare. Barely half an hour long, badly attended by the Labour benches and comfortably bested by David Laws.
Fortunately for the good Dr Hunt the Coalition has thrown him a juicy bone with their dissent over free schools.
Perhaps he'll be a lucky general.
I would put money on Kwasi Kwarteng to be the first of my university set to make it to either the cabinet or the leadership of a political party.
And forgive me if I remain a sceptic of Will Hutton's analysis:
"If only Britain had joined the euro
If Gordon Brown had chosen to join the single currency 10 years ago, both the European Union and Britain would be stronger now"
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jun/13/if-britain-had-joined-the-euro
"It doesn't matter whether it's a white cat or a black, I think; a cat that catches mice is a good cat."
It's quite funny to see some of the people who praised Boris Johnson's article last night showing low level xenophobia this morning.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-24605864
I think you have found the chink in SO's arbour.
Hunt = Blair.
Note that Britain long ago fell out with Blair clones as prospective PMs and is seeking an older, wiser, more experienced-outside-politics person who (preferably) has a science/engineering degree.
In his favour, he was not, AFAIK, a SPAD and his degree is not an Oxford PPE one.
So why, pray, is he not addressed as 'Doctor Hunt' by interviewers? The choice is not his to make............
"Co-op Bank is also expected to announce later today that its provisions for the costs of compensating customers for mis-selling PPI insurance or for flaws in lending documentation, inter alia, will be around £100m greater than it expected."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-24605864
I wonder if holders of big over drafts at the COOP should worry about regime change?
Or are you indicating that only Labour should be economically rimming the Gulf states ??
what exactly is it about the Chinese that you don't like, tim?
You remind me of the 2012 Republicans.
Two EPR reactors are currently under construction in Europe (one at Flamanville in France, the other in Finland). Both have blown out their budgets (current cost estimates of $11bn, against a budget of around $4bn a piece), and are massively late (in service dates of 2015/16 against plans of 2008). I hope the contract we have is such that we - the taxpayers - will not be paying if these reactors are late and/or over-budget.
'1972: UK unemployment tops one million
The number of people out of work and claiming benefit has risen above one million for the first time since the 1930s.
There were angry demonstrations in the House of Commons when the jobless total was confirmed as 1,023,583.'
http://tinyurl.com/y8r77tf
Makes Brown's PFI look clever and a bargain.
As for those snide comments about those beloved communists, well he might as well be channeling Mitt.
It's good to see some new stations will be built shortly [in relative terms].
It'd be nice if we increased gas reserves so we could last longer than a week if supplies were cut off, though...
Taxpayers are always on the hook for nuclear in the end, esp wrt decommissioning. On the other hand, that underwriting may well be necessary to keep the lights on
Dr, Dr, Dr The Right Honourable, Right Honourable, Honourable Tristram Hunt
"But he is called Tristram. It's a ruddy awful name, even leaving aside the class overtones, because the second "r" makes it absurdly difficult to pronounce for a first name."
It's the ultimate test for the electorate. Can they get their tongue round 'Tristram' or as antifrank suggests must they be fed a diet of Nick Dave Ed and Colin?
You can hardly present yourself as principled if you think that David Cameron shouldn't have met the Dalai Lama because it might upset the Chinese government.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2467597/You-chateau-bottled-nuclear-powered----Tory-grandee-Soames-launches-astonishing-tea-room-broadside-EU-referendum-rebel-Afriyie.html