Ming Campbell has started to reshuffle his front bench, I gather. They're saying that there will be few changes. If Ming is being vicious expect Chris Huhne to be moved to a less prominent role.
UPDATE: Ming's new team has been announced. Click into the comments as someone has kindly posted them there. Demotion for Sarah Teather. Norman Baker returns. David Laws takes on schools. Er, that's about it.
He could sack himself. That would be a good start.
ReplyDeleteWhen you say reshuffle, has ming just got a new pair of slippers and its shuffling around with his hot chocolate looking for someone to talk to???
ReplyDeleteI almost cared about the Tory frontbench reshuffle...
ReplyDeletePresumably Ming has had his orders from the PM.
ReplyDeleteWhich Labour politicians are going to be offered a position?
ReplyDeleteI thought that moving bodies around in a cemetery was illegal?
ReplyDeleteI guess the term 'reshuffle' refers to what you do in the middle of a game of Racing Demon when everyone's got stuck.
ReplyDeleteWe ought to get the Oxford English Dictionary to enlighten us.
As in this case, all the players have got stuck, reshuffle and hope to get better cards.
Gordon Brown would shuffle the pack ponderously and with great concentration on every detail, checking the count at the beginning and the end but still somehow manage to lose the Ace of Spades.
Cameron would do it slickly in croupier style (as trained in Eton gambling dens), but would so quick no one would believe he'd done it properly.
Ming would drop the cards on the floor and slowly pick them up again , hoping others would do it all for him.
I suppose zimmer frame and shuffle go together nicely...
ReplyDeleteI believe the deckchairs on the titanic were also famously re-shuffled.
ReplyDeleteLay off Ming!!
ReplyDeleteAnyone think Charles "I don't have a drink problem" Kennedy wouldn't have been squeezed too?
Chris "I'm an arrogant f**khead" Huhne would charm the masses of floating voters.
Get real. Lib Dems would have been squeezed anyway.
Ming's just an easy target.
Reshuffle...and when the music stopped the old duffer found himself alone in his bathchair with a nurse in attendance
ReplyDeleteMing - for all the plaudits from Lib-dems - just doesn't cut it at Prime Minister's Questions.
ReplyDeleteSorry to be agesist but he should make way for somebody more-on-the-ball. Come back Charles!
Featherstone is to be moved to become Deputy Leader with respnsibility for supplying Dim Lebs with electical goods for their homes.
ReplyDeleteBring back 'Deoch an Doris' Kennedy, is he completely off the wagon then?
ReplyDeleteKeeping Huhne on as Environment spokesman is nastier than firing him. It means he is contiuously required to support the various LD lunacies which, as an inteligent human he must know is nonsense.
ReplyDeleteWere I in either opposing party I would be keeping a record of what Huhne has said in this role to repeat it to him if he gets the top job. It should be even more embarassing than reminding Dave of what he said back when he was Thatcherite.
FULL IST IS OUT:
ReplyDeleteLeader
The Rt Hon Sir Menzies Campbell, QC, MP
Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer and Deputy Leader
Vincent Cable MP
Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
Michael Moore MP
Shadow Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor
David Heath MP
Shadow Secretary of State for the Home Department
Nick Clegg MP
Shadow Secretary of State for Defence
Nick Harvey MP
Shadow Secretary of State for Health
Norman Lamb MP
Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Chris Huhne MP
Shadow Secretary of State for International Development
Lynne Featherstone MP
Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
Lembit Öpik MP
Shadow Leader of the House of Commons and Party President
Simon Hughes MP
Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
Danny Alexander MP
Shadow Secretary of State for Transport
Susan Kramer MP
Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
Andrew Stunell MP
Liberal Democrat Chief Whip
Paul Burstow MP
Shadow Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families
David Laws MP
Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office; and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
Norman Baker MP
Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport; and Olympics
Don Foster MP
Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and Scotland
Alistair Carmichael MP
Leader in the Lords
The Rt Hon Lord (Tom) McNally
Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury
Julia Goldsworthy MP
Shadow Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills
Sarah Teather MP
Shadow Secretary of State for Wales
Roger Williams MP
Also attending as members of the Shadow Cabinet
Lords Chief Whip
Lord (David) Shutt of of Greetland
Shadow Attorney General
Lord (Martin) Thomas of Gresford
Shadow Minister for Housing
Paul Holmes MP
Shadow Solicitor General
David Howarth MP
Chief of Staff and Chair of Campaigns and Communications
Edward Davey MP
Chair of the Manifesto Group
Steve Webb MP
Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Leader
Tim Farron MP
Chair of the Parliamentary Party
To be elected by the Parliamentary Party
anon 3.59
ReplyDeleteWhat a gloriously underwhelming list. Am I supposed to know whether any of these "shadow" ministers (who are they kidding?) have now changed jobs? Am I supposed to care?
Erm.. any Limpdim MPs NOT in the Shadow Cabaret?
ReplyDeleteSarah Teather should loose her job - she's just plain fucking awful!
ReplyDeleteLembit Opik should go to. It seems that his private life is more interesting than his political life, and when that happens it's not a good sign.
Also he's a total tosser!
Norman Baker, strikes me as being a lunatic and fantasist. Putting him in such a central role is wonderful providing you aren't a Lib Dem.
ReplyDelete"Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
ReplyDeleteMichael Moore MP"
I consider myself a reasonably close observer of the political scene and I can honestly say I have never heard of this man, appointed to (or already in) a top 4 role. Unless it's that American who writes anti-Bush books - in which case he might be a good choice.
Norman Baker, strikes me as being a lunatic and fantasist. Putting him in such a central role is wonderful providing you aren't a Lib Dem.
ReplyDeleteMore Baker madness here
Gosh is that a promotion for Lynne Featherstone ? And is Sarah Teather 'going down' ? Hmm..Don't mind if I do..
ReplyDeleteAw, poor Sarah! *chortle*
ReplyDeleteShuffling his ample deck of cards. Mostly jokers. Speaking with partner I wondered aloud and as a joke whether Ming had found a job for the miserable Hospital Hoaxer John Leech. Partner thought I said Hooch.
ReplyDeleteHe is a great dog, with broad shoulders, and a better bet than Mr Leech for a Mimicster post, but sadly the call never came.
Small revolution in minor political party; not many dead.
ReplyDeleteNorman Baker, Shadow Culture, Media & Sport and Olympics. What a stunning appointment given to someone who is obsessed by conspiracy theories and who loathes almost anything that is enjoyable !
ReplyDeleteAnon 7:08
ReplyDeleteSarah Teather doesn't have very far to go down ...
Alex B
Sarah Teather is not plain ****ing awful. She is awful in some very complicated, intelligent ways. She is very bright in person, but a really bad politician.