Four Month Shadow Cabinet Reshuffle

[Titanic]

Here is a full list of Labour's shadow cabinet, following party leader Jeremy Corbyn's reshuffle.
Leader of the Opposition - Jeremy Corbyn
Deputy leader, party chair and shadow Cabinet Office minister - Tom Watson
Shadow first secretary of state, shadow business, innovation and skills secretary - Angela Eagle
Shadow chancellor - John McDonnell
Shadow chief Treasury secretary - Seema Malhotra
Shadow home secretary - Andy Burnham
Shadow foreign secretary - Hilary Benn
Opposition chief whip - Rosie Winterton
Shadow health secretary - Heidi Alexander
Shadow education secretary - Lucy Powell
Shadow work and pensions secretary - Owen Smith
Shadow defence secretary - Emily Thornberry
Shadow lord chancellor, shadow justice secretary - Lord Falconer of Thoroton
Shadow communities and local government secretary - Jon Trickett
Shadow energy and climate change secretary - Lisa Nandy
Shadow Commons leader - Chris Bryant
Shadow transport secretary - Lilian Greenwood
Shadow Northern Ireland secretary - Vernon Coaker
Shadow international development secretary - Diane Abbott
Shadow Scotland secretary - Ian Murray
Shadow Wales secretary - Nia Griffith
Shadow environment, food and rural affairs secretary - Kerry McCarthy
Shadow women and equalities minister - Kate Green
Shadow culture, media and sport secretary - Maria Eagle
Shadow young people and voter registration minister - Gloria De Piero
Shadow mental health minister - Luciana Berger
Shadow Lords leader - Baroness Smith of Basildon
Lords chief whip - Lord Bassam of Brighton
Shadow attorney general - Catherine McKinnell
Shadow minister without portfolio - Jonathan Ashworth
Shadow housing and planning minister - John Healey

 

[Titanic]

Reshuffle over... and the resignations begin...

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[JC Footy Genius]

Former Labour shadow chancellor Chris Leslie has warned that the "hard left" is trying to take over the Labour Party, as he criticised leader Jeremy Corbyn's shadow cabinet reshuffle.
The MP told the Daily Politics there was a "natural impetus among the hard left who want to tighten their control" and to "sideline moderate voices when they have the chance to do so".
He also criticised the sacking of former shadow culture secretary Michael Dugher, suggesting it was because Mr Dugher "dared to have different views" from the leadership.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-35224833

Reminds me of a slow motion car crash.

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

Someone needs to turf this Corbyn goon out.

 

[Soulman]

Sacked Shadow Europe minister Pat McFadden says Corbyn told him he was being fired “because of questions I asked about terrorism… following the Paris terrorist attacks”. This is the question McFadden asked:

“Can I ask the Prime Minister to reject the view that sees terrorist acts as always being a response or a reaction to what we in the West do? Does he agree with me that such an approach risks infantilising the terrorists and treating them as children when the truth is they are adults entirely responsible for what they do. No one forces them to kill innocent people in Paris or Beirut and unless we are clear about that we will fail even to be able to understand the threat we face let alone confront it and ultimately overcome it.”

So, according to McFadden at least, he lost his job because he made a point of refusing to blame the Paris attacks on the West. Corbyn’s people say it was because he was disloyal, which to be fair is not mutually exclusive

 

[Don Quixote]

It wasn't really much of a reshuffle was it? However, Cameron is letting ministers campaign to leave the EU. Cameron is losing control.

 

[Titanic]

Blimey... this really is getting 'interesting'!

http://order-order.com/2016/01/06/shadow-defence-secretary-took-cash-from-law-firm/

"The new Shadow Defence Secretary is going to have difficulty explaining why she accepted thousands of pounds in donations from a law firm which was condemned over false legal claims made against British soldiers. In December 2014, Thornberry took £14,500 from Leigh Day & Co. The firm was blasted by the inquiry into allegations of torture against UK troops, which found the claims were “wholly and entirely without merit” and based on “deliberate and calculated lies”. Last night it emerged Leigh Day is now facing a disciplinary inquiry and the prospect of its lawyers being struck off. "

 

[Moshe Gariani]

Blimey... this really is getting 'interesting'!

http://order-order.com/2016/01/06/shadow-defence-secretary-took-cash-from-law-firm/

"The new Shadow Defence Secretary is going to have difficulty explaining why she accepted thousands of pounds in donations from a law firm which was condemned over false legal claims made against British soldiers. In December 2014, Thornberry took £14,500 from Leigh Day & Co. The firm was blasted by the inquiry into allegations of torture against UK troops, which found the claims were “wholly and entirely without merit” and based on “deliberate and calculated lies”. Last night it emerged Leigh Day is now facing a disciplinary inquiry and the prospect of its lawyers being struck off. "

Tomorrow's fish and chips wrapping...

It would be far more "interesting" if there was ever a left wing politician identified about whom the Tory press were unable to dredge up some sort of terribly shocking smear...

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

Blimey... this really is getting 'interesting'!

http://order-order.com/2016/01/06/shadow-defence-secretary-took-cash-from-law-firm/

"The new Shadow Defence Secretary is going to have difficulty explaining why she accepted thousands of pounds in donations from a law firm which was condemned over false legal claims made against British soldiers. In December 2014, Thornberry took £14,500 from Leigh Day & Co. The firm was blasted by the inquiry into allegations of torture against UK troops, which found the claims were “wholly and entirely without merit” and based on “deliberate and calculated lies”. Last night it emerged Leigh Day is now facing a disciplinary inquiry and the prospect of its lawyers being struck off. "

Has to resign over this, surely.

 

[Titanic]

Another one gone, Stephen Doughty.. this time live on the BBC Daily Politics...

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[Soulman]

Tomorrow's fish and chips wrapping...

It would be far more "interesting" if there was ever a left wing politician identified about whom the Tory press were unable to dredge up some sort of terribly shocking smear...

Looking good. This woman as shadow defence, the deputy IRA sympathiser, the shadow Agriculture Minister a vegan...........what next Johnny Vegas as Food and Health minister

 

[Moshe Gariani]

Lively PMQs

Edit: Not really... JC persistent on Tory cuts to flood defences and CMD being his usual oily smugness in response

 

[Titanic]

Lively PMQs

Edit: Not really... JC persistent on Tory cuts to flood defences and CMD being his usual oily smugness in response

I hope you enjoyed the Shakespeare gags

 

[Moshe Gariani]

I hope you enjoyed the Shakespeare gags

Not really what the Prime Minister should be focused on but genuinely HILARIOUS.

 

[Titanic]

and a 3rd one has gone... Kevan Jones...

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[Soulman]

and a 3rd one has gone... Kevan Jones...

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You certainly have the right username............. the ship is rudderless.

 

[Hastings gull]

Tomorrow's fish and chips wrapping...

It would be far more "interesting" if there was ever a left wing politician identified about whom the Tory press were unable to dredge up some sort of terribly shocking smear...

Had you though that it might just not be a smear?

 

[Titanic]

Kevan Jones resignation letter...

 

[Ernest]

Don't let the door hit you on the way out, none of them will resign as MP's though, got to keep their SNOUTS in the TROUGH

 

[Diego Napier]

a shadow cabinet reshuffle is quite a big deal politically........always has been

would you prefer the thread was called NHS strike please dont mention the reshuffle?

So let's see then, on the one hand there's:

a) the rather scruffy bearded man who leads the opposition by a record mandate is reshuffling his shadow cabinet after 4 months as they are providing too much resistance to his attempts to implement a new approach to the game called politics

and on the other:-

b) the pig's head f*cking toff who is our prime minister and, in spite of his unequivocal assurances to the contrary last year, has now announced that, running scared of cabinet resignations and revolt, there will be a free EU referendum vote for all MPs.

Hmm, which is by far and away the most significant political event and therefore clearly more important to start a thread about?

Well, we know what you've chosen; I suppose it must have been exciting to hear the occasional, misfiring cerebral synapse echoing around your cranial cavern as you arrived at your decision, even though it was always obviously, in your case, a no-brainer.