Alan Johnson - Shadow Chancellor
Yvette Cooper - Shadow Foreign Secretary
Ed Balls - Shadow Home Secretary
Andy Burnham - Shadow Education Secretary
Sadiq Khan - Shadow Justice Secretary
Harriet Harman - Shadow International Development Secretary
Angela Eagle - Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury
Douglas Alexander - Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary
Jim Murphy - Shadow Defence Secretary
John Denham - Shadow Business Secretary
John Healey - Shadow Health Secretary
Caroline Flint - Shadow Communities Secretary
Rosie Winterton - Chief Whip
Meg Hillier - Shadow Energy Secretary
Maria Eagle - Shadow Transport Secretary
Hilary Benn - Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
Mary Creagh - Shadow Environment Secretary
Ivan Lewis - Shadow Culture, Media and Sports Secretary
Peter Hain - Shadow Welsh Secretary
Ann McKechin - Shadow Scottish Secretary
Shaun Woodward - Shadow Northern Ireland Secretary
Tessa Jowell - Shadow Olympics Minister
Liam Byrne - Shadow Cabinet Officer Minister
Wow, the power of the internet has just given me a fantastic payout...
ReplyDeleteThey still don't take defence seriously, do they?
ReplyDeleteSadiq Khan at justice made my foul myself.
ReplyDeleteWoodward and Hain stay. Dear God.
ReplyDeleteHa...Postman Pat is now running the savings bank after his friend Mr Broon ran it into the ground and eloped having spent all of Greendale Residents Savings on projects like huge pay rises for Doctor Gilbertson and PC Shelby and subsidies for the Greendale Rocket.
ReplyDeleteThere was also the unfortunate matter of the Compensation to be paid for the deaths in the Pencaster Flyer disaster and the sad loss of Postman Pat's only son fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Still with the help of loyal Jess no doubt Pat will ensure that the evil Mr Osbourne at Savings Bank Head Office is held to account..... oh yes Jess.
Ha ...Woodward is back to shadow Owen Paterson.
ReplyDeleteI am sure that Owen will find this terribly challenging. When the blessed Woodward was Secretary of State he was rarely seen near the place so I am sure he will be very active in opposition. But isn't it a shame that all his back-room work has come to this. Clearly his pal Gordon wouldn't even give him the Lords
Hardly NEW, most of the usual suspects present. Will they hang their heads in collective shame. No, they don't have a single conscience amongst them.
ReplyDeleteWell so much for the new generation eh.....A shed load of them voted for the Iraq war hope they all get asked if they agree with the views of the new boss then...Hypocrites the lot of em..
ReplyDeleteAlan Johnson as Shadow Chancellor?
ReplyDeleteHe hardly shone as a Minister did he - a very strange appointment.
I have been quite fed up this week, but at least this list would put a smile on anyone's face.
ReplyDeleteIt makes you realize hwat a cabal they are. It's a union team.
ReplyDeleteDon't mean to sound rude but i'm not sure what difference it makes. It would be beneficial if Labour were on top of their game because there's shed loads of crap to clear. At present, it looks like a team of has beens and opportunists - good.
Their unions believe they're off the leash because it's game on with both us & the Libs; fair play - can't argue with that logic. However, I think public disenchantment with their bleeting may be their cumuppence. Maybe not.
It's better to have the fight now anyway - couldn't give a monkeys if Warren Buffet was sat there. One has to ask, if Alan Johnson is sooo highly regarded, why no contende hombre? Why he no contend? He had time, he had ability and backing!
Anyway, am quite looking forward to their gibberish; keeps me giggling through winter.
I'm thoroughly confused. What happened to yesterdays welcome news that Hain and Woodward had failed to get elected to the Shadow Cabinet? How can they then be appointed the very next day? Can someone explain this to me?
ReplyDeleteThe expenses fiddling crook with heavy links to extremist islam Sadiq Khan as justice secretary ???
ReplyDeleteThats about ironic enough to cause irony to implode, collapse under it's own irony gravity and cause an irony black hole.
Just so long as they tick the muslim box and secure those muslim votes, thats all that matters.
Johnson was asked 'Isn't it a handicap not to have any economic experience when you are shadow chancellor'. NO came the answer 'look at Gordon Brown he did not have any economic experience either'. Never a truer word spoken.
ReplyDeleteNew generation my ass
ReplyDeleteThe peoples flag
ReplyDeleteIs deepest pink
Its not red, Ed
Wants you to think
He says his party
He'll renew
But bruvvers
In the unions shoe
So now for Chancellor
Its Postman Pat
With little more sense
Than his Cat
To shadow Hague,
Yvette will try
While Ed in Home
Plots his next try
And others scheme
And bend and twist
To avoid blame
For all of this
Oh yes, Red Ed
Will cry anew
This is a Labour
Team reviewed
But us voters
Looking at them see
Old faces, vacant
Ideas free
And when we come
Our X to mark
We'll send Red Ed
a note to hark
We've had enough
Its time to go
Its Cameron/ Clegg for us today
In coalition harmony
Let me get this straight Labour have appointed a man born is South Africa as Shadow Welsh Secretary. Have they come to this?
ReplyDeleteThe question is who is now going to run Labours economic policy? Johnson? Don't make me laugh. He is just the happy chappy front man and would be too old in 2015 anyway.
The other question is - will Johnson now list the cuts labour would implement to meet their £44 billion worth of budget cuts.
What a strange selection! I guess this a product of a trully bizarre process of electing a shadow cabinet and making MPs vote for at least six MPs.
ReplyDeleteCooper only topped the poll as she was the only trully credible and talented female candidate. MPs had to vote for six females out of only 14 females. Taking out Cooper, it leaves the other females with a 40% chance of getting a vote.
Why would Labour MPs want this system?! Talented people such as Stephen Twigg are looked over and instead they are left with the Eagle twins and Ann McKechin.
It is also interesting to see that Balls - although coming third - only had the backing of 70% of Labour MPs. Benn, Khan and Byrne (and five others) received the backing of less than 50% of MPs.