Labour leadership

[littlebabyjesus]

you think they've not been chasing him for a comment the last few days? They had to wheel out Charles Clark on Today this morning, they'd love Blair to break cover...

I guess so. But Blair got a full front page in The Observer last week. When he talks, his vainglory demands that kind of profile. Is he being offered that now?

 

[laptop]

him and mandleson are locked in a dark room

Which reminds me of a scurrilous rumour from 1997... who else was supposed to have been in that office, then?

 

[treelover]

Sky’s Darren McCaffrey doorstepped Jeremy Corbyn as Corbyn was leaving the House of Commons last night after working on his reshuffle. It was not a full-on, Gobby-style, ‘Are you going to resign?’ job, but it irritated Corbyn, who refused to engage with McCaffrey’s questions.

Benn says Labour ruling out backing an out vote in EU referendum - Politics live

Corbyn avoiding questions from journalists, he is going to be door-stepped a whole lot more, good job he has grown up children, etc.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Experience. Maybe Starmer said no, or he's saving him for Attorney General.

TBF, I suspect that Corbyn/his advisors took a look at Starmer's ambitions and his friends, and thought "nah, he'll turn on Corbyn as soon as he's got his feet under the table". A position where he can be controlled, fine. One where he can freewheel though, not fine. Falconer may be a Blairite, but he's also pragmatic and no longer ambitious for himself - a safer pair of hands than Starmer for the time being (he's held the shadow justice brief adequately), as well as signalling to the Progressites that Blairites won't be defenestrated, as long as they "get with the programme".

 

[killer b]

I guess so. But Blair got a full front page in The Observer last week. When he talks, his vainglory demands that kind of profile. Is he being offered that now?

Its tony Blair, he can whatever front page he wants ffs.

 

[ruffneck23]

Nick Ferrari was bitching that Jeremy Corbyn and Tom Watson wouldnt speak to him or the rest of lbc from what i can tell due to him applying and getting a vote ( which he pleaded he did not use ).

I say good luck to them

 

[ViolentPanda]

No women in the biggest appointments, that'll be held against him.

Well, a couple of the provenly able women had already ruled themselves out of serving in a Corbyn shadow cabinet, so what was he supposed to do,engage in tokenism?
I expect the media to milk it, though!

 

[treelover]

Caroline Flint now refuses to serve in J/C Cabinet, still going on about welfare to work, she is obsessed with hounding people.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Well, a couple of the provenly able women had already ruled themselves out of serving in a Corbyn shadow cabinet, so what was he supposed to do,engage in tokenism?
I expect the media to milk it, though!

A couple of provenly able women and Rachel Reeves.

 

[LDC]

International left distracted by shiny new object

 

[SpookyFrank]

Caroline Flint now refuses to serve in J/C Cabinet, still going on about welfare to work, she is obsessed with hounding people.

I expect he's delighted that he's under no obligation to give her a job. She's a nasty piece of work and a blatant careerist.

 

[SpookyFrank]

International left distracted by shiny new object

Libcom have managed to stop purging people for long enough to create some actual content I see.

A pity it's the sort of content Buzzfeed would reject as far too smug and completely lacking in originality or wit.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Its tony Blair, he can whatever front page he wants ffs.

Yesterday's man puffing impotently? Not that attractive as a paper-seller.

 

[DotCommunist]

International left distracted by shiny new object

when did lobon become a poor mans daily mash? thats just making the obvious syzira point in an unfunny way. Good photo of c-byn in the lenin hat tho

 

[teuchter]

Sad to see the headlines on the newspaper racks today. Smear, smear, smear.

I liked that JC told journalists off in his speech. I hope he continues to do so.

 

[killer b]

Yesterday's man puffing impotently? Not that attractive as a paper-seller.

Yeah, that's why he got the observer front page last week.

The media are hassling any old labour beast they can find for a negative comment - Blair remains the biggest. If he's silent (as, I note are Campbell, brown and mandelson, unless I've missed something) its because he's chosen not to, not because they aren't asking.

 

[ViolentPanda]

The commentariat are simultaneously pushing the idea that Corbyn now hates women and Jews on the basis of his appointments or non-appointments, they really are willing to say anything about him.

((((( frogwoman )))))

 

[Sprocket.]

I expect he's delighted that he's under no obligation to give her a job. She's a nasty piece of work and a blatant careerist.

And a Fabian as well as one of the 98 MPs who voted to keep their expenses secret.
It would be tedious having to see her and her entourage of camera carriers every time she attended a meeting too!

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Yeah, that's why he got the observer front page last week.

Yes, last week he got The Observer front page. This week, are they, or anyone else he'd accept, offering similar?

 

[billy_bob]

Caroline Flint now refuses to serve in J/C Cabinet, still going on about welfare to work, she is obsessed with hounding people.

That's a bit like Vinnie Jones ruling himself out of coaching your five-year-old child's school football team. Only a thorough-going cunt would be anything other than delighted.

 

[treelover]

I think Corbyn is taking his time over Works and Pensions Shadow, hopefully its because this is now one of the most important and strategic posts and affects millions.

 

[J Ed]

Benn says Labour ruling out backing an out vote in EU referendum - Politics live

The phone calls continued but defence seemed like it had been settled.

It had been offered to Chris Bryant.

“Jeremy was up for it,” Rosie said on the phone, but then it fell apart, after Bryant insisted on “a 30 minute conversation about what would happen if we had to invade Russia.”

That was a conversation Jeremy clearly wasn’t prepared to have. Bryant was out.

LOL... Britain invade Russia. On another fucking planet.

 

[JHE]

International left distracted by shiny new object

If it weren't for this distraction, the "international left" would be focused on... a bookfair in a London art college?

 

[cesare]

If it weren't for this distraction, the "international left" would be focused on... a bookfair in a London art college?

They've gone up market now to trendy KingsX

 

[J Ed]

Full list of shadow cabinet announced now, these are the latest announcements

Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

Owen Smith MP

Shadow Secretary of State for Defence

Maria Eagle MP

Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Shadow Minister for the Constitutional Convention

Jon Trickett MP

Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change

Lisa Nandy MP

Shadow Secretary of State for Transport

Lilian Greenwood MP

Shadow Secretary of State for Wales

Nia Griffith MP

Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Kerry McCarthy MP

Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities

Kate Green MP

Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport

Michael Dugher MP

Shadow Minister for Young People and Voter Registration

Gloria De Piero MP

Shadow Minister for Mental Health

Luciana Berger MP

Shadow Attorney General

Catherine McKinnell MP

Shadow Minister without Portfolio

Jonathan Ashworth MP

Shadow Minister for Housing and Planning

John Healey MP

 

[J Ed]

With a majority female shadow cabinet are they about to start claiming that he hates men now?

 

[SpookyFrank]

No Diane Abbot then?

e2a: She's been given international development.

 

[killer b]

Yes, last week he got The Observer front page. This week, are they, or anyone else he'd accept, offering similar?

If that's what he wanted, of course.

 

[J Ed]

Talk about projection

 

[cesare]

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