From an entertainment point of view I wish they would televise the PLP meetings.
Jeremy Corbyn - Not Not Labour Party(?), not a Communist (BBC)
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Hi Jez get out here with your sensible and good ideas.
It's a little bit ridiculous though, we already have PMQ's and no one really gives a shit. An annual version might get more viewers with some promotion, but why not just promote PMQ's?
If quantity is truth, the number of articles speculating upon such an eventuality bode ill for Been's future job security. The last time i heard Thornberry speak, which was during a BBC debate shortly after Corbyn's election to leader, there didn't appear to be much present in the way of substance or originality.
Replacing Benn would be a risky move unless he shifts him to another high-ranking post, the issue is whether Benn would accept it or simply escape to the backbenches in defiance.
I'm not sure it's that risky as the PLP will kick up a fuss periodically with or without much ammunition. It'd be a mistake if he allowed the pressure to dissuade him for doing what every leader does and put key figures in positions that align to the party's vision.
I think he would probably reject anything he viewed as a demotion... So unless he is made chancellor (very unlikely but in truth probably more helpful from a voter perspective than chairman mcdonnell) Then I assume he will move to the backbenches and start building a bit of a following for the inevitable leadership challenge
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/pol...ve.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Corbyn has commenced his reshuffle:
Corbyn has commenced his reshuffle:
Wasn't it a free vote?
And all those MP's were voted in on a pro Trident manifesto
It just looks like a petty purge of anyone who does not agree with uncle jez
At this rate the first person to stop clapping him at the conference will be thrown in the corbynista gulag for re-education
If the reporting is accurate Benn has been in a meeting with Corbyn for nearly forty-five minutes.
Barry Gardiner is the latest MP to head to Jeremy Corbyn's office.
He is currently Shadow Minister for Energy and Climate Change.
There is some speculation that he could become the next Shadow Secretary of State for the Environment and Climate Change if Lisa Nandy moves from that position to Shadow Defence Secretary in order to replace pro-Trident Maria Eagle.
Harry Cole, The Sun's Westminster Correspondent, reports that Mr Gardiner "doesn't deny he's been promoted" and that left Mr Corbyn's office with a "smile on his face"
Labour have Climate Change well covered. The Shadow Minister for Defence and Climate Change is backing the green tank.
He is currently Shadow Minister for Energy and Climate Change.
There is some speculation that he could become the next Shadow Secretary of State for the Environment and Climate Change if Lisa Nandy moves from that position to Shadow Defence Secretary in order to replace pro-Trident Maria Eagle.
Harry Cole, The Sun's Westminster Correspondent, reports that Mr Gardiner "doesn't deny he's been promoted" and that left Mr Corbyn's office with a "smile on his face"
Labour have Climate Change well covered. The Shadow Minister for Defence and Climate Change is backing the green tank.
I'd love to see a transcript of that meeting
Corbyn: So hilary I'm going to move you from the shadow foreign secretary job... Any job you fancy?
Benn: yours
What are the odds that nothing happens to Benn but this will be painted as a climb-down by a "Senior Labour Figure" even though Corbyn hasn't actually said he's going to do anything?
Fixed.
Go on Corbyn. Get them out.
Labour reshuffle: Jeremy Corbyn sacks Michael Dugher
http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknew...gher/ar-AAgnrZJ?li=AA9SkIr&ocid=mailsignoutmd
Labour reshuffle: Jeremy Corbyn sacks Michael Dugher
http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknew...gher/ar-AAgnrZJ?li=AA9SkIr&ocid=mailsignoutmd
The reshuffle has been going on for 24 hours now. One person has moved.
Seems reasonable.
Seems reasonable.
Michael Dugher's Twitter bio:
In other developments:
In other developments:
He must be running out of options
In other developments:
Must be anti Trident
Preferably a woman
Preferably someone who voted against Syria
Dianne Abbot?
Michael Dugher's Twitter bio:
In other developments:
Straight talking politics? This the same politician who called the idea of a Palestinian state 'catastrophic' because he didn't want to upset his Israeli friends. Yeah good riddance. Considering his twitter bio its evident he doesn't have the maturity for a shadow cabinet post either.
Exactly the sort of person who should be reshuffled.
The parallels are so striking.
Michael Dugher's Twitter bio:
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That's almost unbelievably immature.
Curry is really nice to be fair.
I think we can safely say this isn't a purge. They at least have the impression of decisiveness and urgency.
Michael Dugher's Twitter bio:
Judging by his bio, he's going for the 'man of the people' angle; must be hard to disguise yourself as a man of the people when you boost your wife's pay from £19,999 to £34,999 at tax-payers' expense...
That would seem to be a fairly large misrepresentation of what he said.
What part of it was misrepresented?
Ah yes, that's the thing that differentiates it from purge. Not literally everything else.
He didn't call the idea of a Palestinian state catastrophic, he said the way Labour handled that vote was catastrophic.
Unless he said it somewhere else that I haven't seen, I'm going off stuff he said here - http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/1...ael-says-shadow-cabinet-member-michael-dugher
He's an officer of the Labour friends of Israel who pretty much begged the party to allow him to abstain from the vote. I'd guess that might have had something to do with his apprehensions.
No idea, just saying that it was a misquote.
Something like £170,000 in expenses in a year too, I read somewhere...
Hmm.
So Thornberry gets Defence, whilst Maria Eagle is demoted to Culture. Although some have speculated that Corbyn would have removed Eagle outright, if not for the fear that her sister might have resigned as an act of solidarity.
Three resignations from the Shadow Cabinet today, including one live on TV.
The circumstances behind the sacking of Pat McFadden, combined with the appointment of Emily Thornberry, would seem to have caused a sympathetic response from fellow members of the shadow cabinet.
The circumstances behind the sacking of Pat McFadden, combined with the appointment of Emily Thornberry, would seem to have caused a sympathetic response from fellow members of the shadow cabinet.
Looks like some are jumping ship before being nudged.
"It's really sad, the number of lies and unfortunate statements that are coming out of the leader's office"
But Benn eludes them still. Unclear how the Trident vote will now unfold, though.
Trident will go badly
The unions wouldnt even let the policy be debated at the last conference
All MPs voted in on a manifesto supporting Trident - majority of MPs have previously backed nuclear weapons and polls show a majority of the public back keeping nuclear weapons.
The sensible thing would be to allow a free vote but I think he will try and change policy and it will be this that either ends his leadership or damages the party to the point of mass resignations / defections / splits