A Shadow Chancellor who once stood against Ken Livingstone for Leader of the GLC. From the Left. That's right. He thought that Ken was too right-wing. Tonight, he is Shadow Chancellor.
Now, let's bring in Paul Krugman and Joseph Stiglitz as advisers, challenging Cameron and Osborne to produce their Nobel laureates.
As for blather about the lack of women shadowing "the Great Offices of State", who decided that it was these, and not the Health and Education to which women have been appointed, that were "the Great Offices"? Or the Communities and Local Government, or the Work and Pensions, that at the time of writing have yet to be announced?
Only one is of any real antiquity. It, the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer, may be conceded its greatness, as of course may that of Prime Minister. But the Home Office was cut in half eight years ago, and the Foreign Office is nothing like the power that it once was.
Apparently, providing services to the plebs doesn't count. What matters is being a job to which the less deep-thinking 14-year-old public schoolboys might aspire, or of which they can even so much as see the point.
Well, those days are gone.
I'm a little disappointed. A Shadow Foreign Secretary who is "a Benn, not a Bennite". A pro-trident Defence Spokeswoman, after a member of the Henry Jackson Society Political Council turned it down. John not to shadow Osborne as First Secretary of State, so not to deputise for Jeremy at PMQs. Not what we voted for.
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DeleteNothing for Pat Glass, Chi Onwurah, Helen Goodman, Roberta Blackman-Woods, Ian Lavery, Ian Mearns, Grahame Morris, Ronnie Campbell. One very young and moderately rightish North East MP given anything, and that's our lot.
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