The big story is Rachel Reeves' promotion to Shadow Chancellor. Based on her past form, this is a decisive shift to the right. It significantly increases the probability that Labour will be fiscally more conservative than the Tories at the next election. At which point, you could hardly blame voters for asking what's the point voting for them.Looks like a pretty minor reshuffle. He didn't sack all the Northerners, after all. Did he chicken out or was there pushback?
70-year-old Chief Whip sacked and/or stepped down by agreement is about the highlight. I'm sure McDonnell hoped for way more controversy than that, but he's making the most of what little he got https://twitter.com/johnmcdonnellMP/status/1391494173140865029
I won't bang on about it any more for now but the reason I insist on this point is not out of some misguided loyalty to Corbyn. It is because I believe that if we accept the relentless and systematic delegitimisation of the leader of the opposition with nothing more than a shrug ("same as it ever was") it opens the door to many other horrors. We are living through some of them right now.
The big story is Rachel Reeves' promotion to Shadow Chancellor. Based on her past form, this is a decisive shift to the right. It significantly increases the probability that Labour will be fiscally more conservative than the Tories at the next election. At which point, you could hardly blame voters for asking what's the point voting for them.
Surely you cannot defend leopard print?Anyway... back to the Angela Rayner story, it appears that woodface was right after all:
https://www.theguardian.com/politic...o-a-seismic-event-with-angela-rayners-sacking
Either clothes are really important in the Labour Party or this is just tittle-tattle. Who can say?
Some info about the reshuffle now coming through... first to go is Nick Brown, the Chief Whip.
I reckon it's more likely that she got the gig cos she is a qualified and former economist. I imagine very slim pickings among Labour MPs to find someone like that.
New Conservative?The party name "Labour" needs to go. Never has sounded very modern or progressive but these days just harks backwards imo.
Where Labour has done well it's predominantly where the 'left' is in control - funny that.
New Conservative?
The party name "Labour" needs to go. Never has sounded very modern or progressive but these days just harks backwards imo.
The Sensible Party?
Or
The Grown Ups
Middle Management Onward!
Change UK
How about Not The Tories?You could try "Socialist Party" and see how well that goes.