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Shad cabinet latest: @Keir_Starmer to shad Brexit, @jreynoldsMP to shad economic secretary. @helenlewis to live blog https://t.co/PMR5Yz1MRA
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Grrrr. Third like Ricci.
Fourth like Sebby.
Must be a parallel universe, only The PM is appointing people to 'Great Offices of State.
There appears to be a God, and (s)he isn't Ted's.
https://twitter.com/DPRK_News/status/784105917344284672
You really can tell why jezza only managed 2 Es at a-level.
....the good old days before PACE.....
I tend to agree with TSE that with Starmer against Davis we have finally got a match up between the shadow cabinet and the real cabinet that the shadow wins. I presumed that Davis was going to be the fall guy when something embarrassing happened in the Brexit negotiations but Fox is now so far in front for that role that Davis is likely to be around for a while. If only Labour had something to say.
Given that Labour's position appears to be that:-
1. We should be out of the Single Market; and
2. We should have free movement of people with no limits on immigration.
It's a point of view.
His time at the CPS was not covered in glory. Admittedly the CPS is filled with some real duffers as well as some good lawyers but my experience of them has been abysmal. And the CPS was criticized by the Commons during his time in charge as lacking consistency, leadership and vision.
He may be good on the Great Repeal Bill but as the person to sell Labour's Brexit policy to Labour voters I'm much less convinced. Forensic arguments in Parliament are not what will convince Labour voters.
Sure it will be incorporated as UK law on day 1 but that means parliament can repeal bits of it as it sees fit.
Even if we as a country go mad and vote for Corbyn we can throw him out again in five years and start afresh.
'The Tory Party consists of “shits, bloody shits and fucking shits.'
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/04/russell-brand-endorsed-labour-tories-should-be-worried
There are 4 great offices not 3. Hancock accepted the error but then included May (who was not one of the 3 offices Corbyn referenced).
*Approval for Hinckley Point;
*Approval for fracking;
*Explicitly said A50 by March 2017 with an end to freedom of movement;
Hardly a Labour agenda.
Building more houses and cancelling unnecessary medical testing of the chronically ill straddle both right wing Labour and working class Tory lines, which are barely distinguishable on many subjects.
In fact, they are common sense.
Ted Heath is surely turning in his grave. But poor old Cameron.....I cannot even begin to imagine the agony he's experiencing; Theresa May is inflicting upon him the worst kind of living torture. It's pure vitriol.....
Tyson
SeanT
Just like the old days.
https://youtu.be/lrShn8PeTz8
Blue - The loyal Tory MPs who would always vote with the government
Yellow - Loyal Tory MPs who would have a particular issue with that bill/vote, who would need persuading
Brown - For the shits who could be guaranteed to vote against the government no matter what. David Davis' colour was brown for the entirety of the last Parliament.
(Or so he says....)
Lewis kicked sideways.
Yeah - a brilliant lawyer and so committed to press freedom. Ideal for Labour then. [Sarcasm alert.]
And for JohnO's benefit......Trotsky is still sound and well....... I know you care....
Victory; is ours again
We are the scourge of the land and sea
Beastly Brexiters are we.
Delivering budget after budget that increases state spending and with it taxes is going to wear down her natural support base and she'll be relying on there being no opposition, weirdly, on the centre right or economically liberal wing.
What irks me is that after years of Labour delivering big government she didn't learn those lessons, which makes me think she's not very smart. Definitely not as clever as Boris or Osborne. I think she realises it too, which makes her dangerous.
Jez just doesn't care anymore
No one has the faintest idea who they are, and people have long given up caring. Only a few hundred thousand nuts take any notice.
If you want a half decent fight these days you have to pay attention to UKIP.
So another overrated lawyer with poor judgment and a disregard for individual rights and press freedom.
Being a good lawyer does not automatically make one a good MP. Grieve is a good lawyer and I think was good in his legal roles.
But to make the transition to an effective Minister or Shadow takes something more. I'm not sure Starmer has it. Apart from anything else, he always looks terrified or worried.
DC was often criticised by the left for being out-of-touch (for which read 'posh') - and I never really bought it; or at least never really saw it as important; Posh people can be perfectly in touch. But actually, it proved his undoing; he completely misunderstood how eurosceptic Britain really was. A leader who better understood his own nation would have had a much better idea of what sort of a deal the British electorate would accept.
I'm a Cameroon at heart (though maybe not as much as TSE) so I'm sceptical about TMay anyway, but so far her economic policies are basically Ed Miliband on steroids. Not exactly what I signed up and donate to the Tory party for.
On Dave's comment, it's one of those I can't get too worked up about. I sort of liked the fact that he went into politics on the basis that he'd be good at it rather than as part of some moral crusade as our current PM seems to be on. I want the leader to lead, not moralise.
Hur-hur-hur......
:-)