Change UK: Chuka Umunna resigns from Labour party and launches Independent Group

[tim]

Chukka thought he might have been the new Nick Clegg, leading a centrist party.

Now he hopes to be the new Sir Nick Clegg working for Facebook.

I'd rather he became the new Clegg by getting himself convicted for a pointless act of arson, preferably in the Royal Dockyards.

 

[TopCat]

I can only name two of the cunts now. I can picture another but the name won't come.

 

[TopCat]

When they romped down the road together.
Oh my

 

[Dom Traynor]

Mike Gapes

 

[agricola]

There was a one year on, whither article earlier on in 2020:

A year on, did Change UK change anything?

The breakaway party of MPs who formed Change UK reveal why they failed

www.theguardian.com

that last sentence from Shuker has aged well

 

[DaveCinzano]

that last sentence from Shuker has aged well

Innit just!

A definite case of this, but change the bottom.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Mike Gapes

I remember him for his porn name and the vitriol for which he lambasted Corbyn fir apologising for Iraq.

 

[DaveCinzano]

I know we are all a bit despondent these days, but this Twitter thread may raise your spirits



(Clicken to embiggen - there are treats for all tastes)

 

[Jeff Robinson]

Barbarian shithole Saudi Arabia is hiring Edelman to spin its new 'Megacity' development. This development requires the dispossession of 20,000 people, including members of a local Bedouin tribe. Chuka Ununna is an Executive Director at Edelman and Luciana Berger is a Managing Director. Remember kids, mature centrist politics involves representing a regime that dismembers dissidents, chops peoples heads off, treats women as subhuman and is committing genocide in Yemen! Really sensible stuff.

Saudi Arabia Hires Edelman To Handle Global PR For Megacity

Saudi Arabia has struck a three-month deal with Edelman under which the agency will provide US and international PR support.

www.provokemedia.com

 

[Pickman's model]

Barbarian shithole Saudi Arabia is hiring Edelman to spin its new 'Megacity' development. This development requires the dispossession of 20,000 people, including members of a local Bedouin tribe. Chuka Ununna is an Executive Director at Edelman and Luciana Berger is a Managing Director. Remember kids, mature centrist politics involves representing a regime that dismembers dissidents, chops peoples heads off, treats women as subhuman and is committing genocide in Yemen! Really sensible stuff.

Saudi Arabia Hires Edelman To Handle Global PR For Megacity

Saudi Arabia has struck a three-month deal with Edelman under which the agency will provide US and international PR support.

www.provokemedia.com

perhaps they made umunna an offer he couldn't refuse - one he'd have had to be off his head to refuse

 

[killer b]

I know we are all a bit despondent these days, but this Twitter thread may raise your spirits



(Clicken to embiggen - there are treats for all tastes)

this classic is a fine rebuke to those who think insane conspiracy theories are unique to the right

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

perhaps they made umunna an offer he couldn't refuse - one he'd have had to be off his head to refuse

Jamal Khashoggi sliced right down the middle.

 

[NoXion]

this classic is a fine rebuke to those who think insane conspiracy theories are unique to the right

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But libs are right wing.

 

[Pickman's model]

Jamal Khashoggi sliced right down the middle.

that was damien hirst's plan anyway

 

[Flavour]

He's joined JPMorgan.

Former Labour MP Chuka Umunna joins JP Morgan

Umunna, who left politics in 2019, will take up the newly created role of head of ESG in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa at JP Morgan.

finance.yahoo.com

Change indeed!

 

[Argonia]

What a fucking surprise.

 

[agricola]

He's joined JPMorgan.

Former Labour MP Chuka Umunna joins JP Morgan

Umunna, who left politics in 2019, will take up the newly created role of head of ESG in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa at JP Morgan.

finance.yahoo.com

Change indeed!

Do people even check what other people tell them on their CV any more?

He has more than 20 years of private and public sector experience in managing ESG issues at a senior level and was recently named one of the top five ESG influencers in the UK

Chuka Umunna is 42, and his first job after university started (according to Wikipedia) in 2005.

 

[Dogsauce]

Maybe he was involved with this lot?

 

[billy_bob]

Finally found somewhere that suits his 'politics'...

 

[SpookyFrank]

He probably thinks waiting this long before getting himself latched on to the finance sector teat makes him classy or something.

Love the corporate whitewash job title as well.

 

[agricola]

He probably thinks waiting this long before getting himself latched on to the finance sector teat makes him classy or something.

Love the corporate whitewash job title as well.

TBF he left his previous employer for a better deal after only being with them nine months, which probably qualifies as being prime ministerial nowadays.

 

[MickiQ]

Second hand politicians rarly end up wondering how their going to support themselves when their career is over. It is probably a little bit easier for Tories than Labour but not much, there is enough in the trough for everyone.

 

[hitmouse]

If his golden track record is anything to go by, I look forward to JP Morgan announcing that it's gone out of business in about June.

 

[DaveCinzano]

If his golden track record is anything to go by, I look forward to JP Morgan announcing that it's gone out of business in about June.

More likely demerger into J, P and Morgan

 

[nogojones]

Second hand politicians rarly end up wondering how their going to support themselves when their career is over. It is probably a little bit easier for Tories than Labour but not much, there is enough in the trough for everyone.

It depends on what their positions were. I can't see HSBC running after Corbyn. He might get a gig advertising organic muesli, but I don't expect lofty hights in the finance sector

 

[tim]

Second hand politicians rarly end up wondering how their going to support themselves when their career is over. It is probably a little bit easier for Tories than Labour but not much, there is enough in the trough for everyone.

Easier for Chuka than most Tories as he's from a posher background than most of the parvenu shits on the current government benches. His grandfather Sir Helenus "Buster" Milmo was in M.I.6, served as a Nurenburg prosecutor and ended up as a High Court Judge. At one point he investigated Kim Philby but was considered too much of a gentleman to be able to break him. A keen fox-hunter, he called hunt saboteurs disorderly rabble and compared them to apes and baboons.

 

[killer b]

It depends on what their positions were. I can't see HSBC running after Corbyn. He might get a gig advertising organic muesli, but I don't expect lofty hights in the finance sector

Labour politicians who cant get jobs in the corporate world can usually find safe harbour in unions or NGOs

 

[ska invita]

I can't see HSBC running after Corbyn. He might get a gig advertising organic muesli, but I don't expect lofty hights in the finance sector

he's still got his job

 

[MickiQ]

Easier for Chuka than most Tories as he's from a posher background than most of the parvenu shits on the current government benches. His grandfather Sir Helenus "Buster" Milmo was in M.I.6, served as a Nurenburg prosecutor and ended up as a High Court Judge. At one point he investigated Kim Philby but was considered too much of a gentleman to be able to break him. A keen fox-hunter, he called hunt saboteurs disorderly rabble and compared them to apes and baboons.

You don't say, and there was me thinking his Man of the People routine was totally genuine

 

[kabbes]

Which of the topics of Environmental Risks, Social policies or corporate governance is Chukka claiming to be an expert in, exactly? What in his career as a failed politician is supposedly giving him this experience?