The Tories did this in 2015 when they only had one Scottish mp, as soon as they had more than 1 in 17 Corbyn replaced Murray with the newly-elected Lesley Laird.
― extremely Dutch coughing sound (gyac), Monday, 6 April 2020 13:43 (four years ago) link
Said Andy Mcdonald would be in there the other day. He's quite impressive tbf
― calzino, Monday, 6 April 2020 13:45 (four years ago) link
No Dawn Butler!
But good to see de Cordova in there.
― santa clause four (suzy), Monday, 6 April 2020 13:49 (four years ago) link
Cat Smith is very good and a Corbyn protegé
― extremely Dutch coughing sound (gyac), Monday, 6 April 2020 13:49 (four years ago) link
Jess Phillips still waiting for her close-up, LOL
― santa clause four (suzy), Monday, 6 April 2020 13:50 (four years ago) link
Wales and Scotland seem fucked forever.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 6 April 2020 13:53 (four years ago) link
Dawn Butler really the biggest omission here.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 6 April 2020 13:54 (four years ago) link
No Yvette Cooper. Also lol no Jess Phillips what a surprise.
― Matt DC, Monday, 6 April 2020 13:55 (four years ago) link
No Hilary Benn either thank god.
― Matt DC, Monday, 6 April 2020 13:56 (four years ago) link
lol if chuka had held on for 8 months he probably could've been shadow chancellor
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 6 April 2020 14:00 (four years ago) link
The melt WhatsApp group will be having a mini meltdown over some of these omissions perhaps
― calzino, Monday, 6 April 2020 14:00 (four years ago) link
I'm just trying to imagine what it's like being in a group chat where the consensus is Starmer is too much of a lefty.
― calzino, Monday, 6 April 2020 14:04 (four years ago) link
Be like the us politics threads I guess
― Kier today, Dom tomorrow (Noodle Vague), Monday, 6 April 2020 14:09 (four years ago) link
Lol yep!
― calzino, Monday, 6 April 2020 14:11 (four years ago) link
butler def a poor omission but folks admit you were slightly blindsided by this cabinet lol
the proof of the broad church approach is yet to come (and i know it's not ideal) but for all of starmer's weak rhetoric and collaborationist demeanour there's enough for me to keep a shaky faith for now
― ban laggy jazzer (imago), Monday, 6 April 2020 14:21 (four years ago) link
nice to see phillips, benn et al punished for being essentially snakes
― ban laggy jazzer (imago), Monday, 6 April 2020 14:22 (four years ago) link
NEW: Sir Keir Starmer's new communications director is reportedly to be from a private healthcare lobbying corporation set up in 2013 by Bill Morgan, ex-special adviser to Tory Health Secretary Andrew Lansley, architect of most recent rounds of NHS privatisation. #coronavirus pic.twitter.com/uvnCLtzNQf— Afshin Rattansi (@afshinrattansi) April 6, 2020
― calzino, Monday, 6 April 2020 14:29 (four years ago) link
all PR people are amoral shysters tbf
― Kier today, Dom tomorrow (Noodle Vague), Monday, 6 April 2020 14:30 (four years ago) link
crankish account as well like, but that Nunn seems extraordinarily awful and I wasn't a Milne fan either tbh but at least he wasn't from a private healthcare lobby background
― calzino, Monday, 6 April 2020 14:33 (four years ago) link
now more than ever we need the influence of private healthcare in politics
― bam! Free bees! (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 6 April 2020 14:34 (four years ago) link
a lot of shit stuck to milne alas, i guess the thought here is to hire someone utterly beige, but that background is odious if accurate, yeah
― ban laggy jazzer (imago), Monday, 6 April 2020 14:35 (four years ago) link
a sexy PR campaign isn't why a party sells. You tell me - Get Brexit Done? What was that? There was nothing in that goddamn manifesto.
Excuse me. We'll talk about this after.
― Kier today, Dom tomorrow (Noodle Vague), Monday, 6 April 2020 14:40 (four years ago) link
Shadow chancellor is actual work though, Chuka was probably holding out for shadow culture or shadow defence.
― extremely Dutch coughing sound (gyac), Monday, 6 April 2020 14:51 (four years ago) link
butler def a poor omission but folks admit you were /slightly/ blindsided by this cabinet lolthe proof of the broad church approach is yet to come (and i know it's not ideal) but for all of starmer's weak rhetoric and collaborationist demeanour there's enough for me to keep a shaky faith for now
― extremely Dutch coughing sound (gyac), Monday, 6 April 2020 14:52 (four years ago) link
xxp Sometimes it's the lies you don't tell.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 6 April 2020 14:52 (four years ago) link
INCISIVE HEALTH's logo reminds me of the excellent 70s board game AMOEBA (my sister has our edn of this with her in hastings i imagine)
https://www.picclickimg.com/d/l400/pict/183520314107_/Vintage-1960-70s-amoeba-Board-Game-by-Marx.jpg
― mark s, Monday, 6 April 2020 14:58 (four years ago) link
― ban laggy jazzer (imago), Monday, 6 April 2020 14:21 (thirty-four minutes ago) link
Lol stop pretending this isn't your politics it's embarrassing.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 6 April 2020 14:58 (four years ago) link
butler def a poor omission but folks admit you were /slightly/ blindsided by this cabinet lol
It's pretty representative of what i've always thought Starmer's base to be, tbh - a bunch of soft-left technocratic people bookended with a smattering of unreconstructed Blairites and optimistic leftists. It seems pretty clear that the Labour right was briefing the sympathetic press on what they wanted to happen, not what they knew was going to happen.
― ShariVari, Monday, 6 April 2020 15:03 (four years ago) link
One of the other founders of Incisive Health was an adviser to Jon Trickett and their client list is the usual mix of pharma companies plus the General Medical Council, health charities like Alzheimers Research UK and 38Degrees. They'll take anyone's money in the healthcare sector.
Not a hill anyone should be arsed to die on but it doesn't necesarily mean he'll be lobbying on behalf of private healthcare from within the leader's office, although I'd worry how many of them will have his phone number already. TBH I'd be OK if he stuck to what PR guys are supposed to do rather than the modern version which appears to be to control every aspect of policy despite being completely unelected.
I'd be more worried about the fact that he worked on Owen Smith's campaign and we know what a rousing success that was.
― Matt DC, Monday, 6 April 2020 15:06 (four years ago) link
Reckon we are still waiting for @wesstreeting and @jessphillips @stellacreasy What’s happening there ..?— emily m (@maitlis) April 6, 2020
― ShariVari, Monday, 6 April 2020 15:07 (four years ago) link
sad lol
― nashwan, Monday, 6 April 2020 15:09 (four years ago) link
Isn't Creasy on maternity leave in any case?
― Matt DC, Monday, 6 April 2020 15:10 (four years ago) link
The Queen wants the big names for the Emergency Cabinet.— Simon Hedges (@Orwell_Fan) April 6, 2020
― extremely Dutch coughing sound (gyac), Monday, 6 April 2020 15:10 (four years ago) link
100% the other two are sitting by the phone getting increasingly irate.
I wonder how well Starmer and the Right. Hon. Member for McDonalds get on, given the former's legal history.
― ShariVari, Monday, 6 April 2020 15:14 (four years ago) link
Yep, otherwise I reckon she'd be in. Although she didn't back Starmer - I think she went for Nandy.
― The Rampaging Goats of Llandudno (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Monday, 6 April 2020 15:18 (four years ago) link
🐦[Reckon we are still waiting for @wesstreeting🕸 and @jessphillips🕸 @stellacreasy🕸 What’s happening there ..?— emily m (@maitlis) April 6, 2020🕸]🐦
― bam! Free bees! (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 6 April 2020 15:22 (four years ago) link
jess phillips has demanded to speak to the manager of the labour party— ryan 🚩 (@ryxnf) April 6, 2020
― calzino, Monday, 6 April 2020 15:23 (four years ago) link
TBF she's done excellent work holding Pizza Hut to account.
― Matt DC, Monday, 6 April 2020 15:26 (four years ago) link
If Starmer's concerns are primarily presentation then why would he want either of those eejits within a thousand miles of an important job?
― Kier today, Dom tomorrow (Noodle Vague), Monday, 6 April 2020 15:38 (four years ago) link
in Wes's likes lmao pic.twitter.com/02nZU13DAO— Charlie (@vampiretraums) April 6, 2020
― extremely Dutch coughing sound (gyac), Monday, 6 April 2020 15:42 (four years ago) link
They're absolutely useless at the one thing their fans say they have going for them, wtf is wrong with people??
― Kier today, Dom tomorrow (Noodle Vague), Monday, 6 April 2020 15:47 (four years ago) link
!
If you fancy some light relief at home this evening, join in @IanMurrayMP’s pub quiz tonight. He does good questions, entertaining music and some gags that are even quite funny. Register here on Zoom: https://t.co/6pWy47sOSD pic.twitter.com/8sI5FhANSr— Wes Streeting MP (@wesstreeting) April 6, 2020
― extremely Dutch coughing sound (gyac), Monday, 6 April 2020 15:49 (four years ago) link
god forbid one should sign up and abuse the opportunity to interact directly with a political talent of the magnitude of ian murray
― bam! Free bees! (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 6 April 2020 15:52 (four years ago) link
Do these fucks never learn?
― Matt DC, Monday, 6 April 2020 15:56 (four years ago) link
Is it called Egghead?
― Kier today, Dom tomorrow (Noodle Vague), Monday, 6 April 2020 16:04 (four years ago) link
remove bookmark from this thread
― ogmor, Monday, 6 April 2020 16:31 (four years ago) link
The member from Birmingham yardley not going quietly
Canvassing opinion on the new shadow cabinet. Asked for thoughts, one Labour MP simply replies: "Would have been better with me in it". I mean, fair enough.— Sienna Rodgers (@siennamarla) April 6, 2020
― extremely Dutch coughing sound (gyac), Monday, 6 April 2020 17:00 (four years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/apr/06/hospital-admission-puts-new-focus-on-boris-johnsons-health
Purnell says the hospital admission will be difficult for Johnson who, like his father, rarely admits to illness or notices it in others. “When I worked with him as his deputy [in the Daily Telegraph’s Brussels bureau], he was certainly very, very intolerant of illness in others, and considered it as sort of a weakness.”
I mean of course he thinks like this, a lethal combination of blitheness and bullying.
― la légende d'beer (Matt #2), Monday, 6 April 2020 17:28 (four years ago) link
No real surprise that he's one of *those* bosses.
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 6 April 2020 17:38 (four years ago) link