Let joy be unconfined.
He should have been sacked, anyway. Sacked for being on the fiddle. Sacked for publicly accepting the public offer of his job in a Cameron Cabinet. Sacked for persecuting the poor, the sick and the disabled. Sacked for being James Purnell.
George Osborne called his resignation “devastating news”. Devastating for whom, George? And why?
John Hutton, next in line to quit as part of this campaign being co-ordinated from beyond the grave by Tony Blair, has instead been sacked, told not to bother trying to contest the next Election, and even subjected to the indignity of being put on television to say that he had been planning for months to stand down. Well done the Browns, Gordon and Nick.
Not only should Purnell not be permitted to contest the Election as a Labour candidate, but he should be expelled from the Labour Party. As should Blair. In the very unlikely event that Blair is still a member of it anyway, having hated it all his life, having only ever joined it on the instruction of his Oxford IMG mentor in order to destroy it, and having pretty much done so.
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will purnell still be tyory welfare minister?
ReplyDeleteA Tory Welfare Minister is a contradiction in terms.
ReplyDeleteI would have assumed that expulsion from the Labour Party was a matter for Labour Party members and hardly the business of people in other Parties.
Purnells behaviour was despicable. He lacked common courtesy by negotiating with newspapers (Murdochs of course) who had his "embargo" resignation several hours before the Prime Minister.
I also understand from my usual and totally unreliable sources that Sky News Newsroom also had the story long before 10pm.
Purnell has done himself no favours. A new Labour (and very short term Labour PM) would not have him in Cabinet. Which may or may not mean that he is offered a job by Cameron.
But the good folks of Stalybridge might not like that prospect.
Hutton? A B Liar creature of course but ultimately incompetent. Minister of Defence during a losing War, he was either going to have to stay there or go. No way was promotion a prospect.
"Minister of Defence during a losing War"
ReplyDeleteThere have been rather a lot of them of late.
As for Purnell, Cameron will have to give him a peerage, because even if his CLP will still put up with him, and even if Labour's NEC will, the voters won't.
You are only half right on the Stalybridge/peerage route to a Cameron cabinet.
ReplyDeleteIf Stalybridge reject him at the polls...as I trust they will......then hes damaged goods .....and no good to Cameron.
If on the other hand, he states he wont stand again...and is not defeated.....then he can get his peerage (although obviously not in Browns resignation honours) and the route is open to a Cameron cabinet.
This is a very powerful indictment of Blairism. Why isn't national or international newspaper publishing these revelations?
ReplyDeleteWhat do you mean? That Blair is behind these developments? People said it on several BBC programmes last night and weren't picked up on it. It is a glaringly obvious fact.
ReplyDeleteIf you mean New Labour's Hard Left roots, including Blair's politicisation (he was completely indifferent before then) by the IMG's Geoff Gallop at Oxford, then that has been in the public domain for as long as there has been a New Labour. If people choose to pay no attention, then that is their own fault. But they can't say that they were never told.