Appointed 17 women and 15 men to make up his first Shadow Cabinet. Good to see Lisa Nandy as Shadow Foreign Secretary and he's brought back Ed Milliband as Shadow Business Secretary and appointed Rebecca Long Bailey as Shadow Education Secretary. Labour: Ed Miliband returns to Labour shadow cabinet https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-52187354
Good appointments imo , definitely trying to unite the party whilst also using very talented people . Might get back into watching politics programmes if we gonna see more of Lisa [ahem]
It’s a bit like Kinnock getting himself photographed with Tony Benn , a stunt to get votes . His first shadow cabinet says everything about him , light blue Labour not a radical bone in his body .
Nandy was my choice but tbh I was for Rebecca long as regards ideals and policies but realised it wouldn’t unite the party . I like keir Starmer and I don’t think he’s a Blairite I think he a bit more left than that but his appointments up to now seem to want to reconcile imo .
Yes, RLB solid on policy, but I'm not sure she comes over well to people who are not on the left. At election time it's a popularity contest to some degree & I thought Starmer was the most erudite, although Nandy is great, her time may well come later.
The same as in peer pressure. noun a member of the class of peers who has the right to sit in the House of Lords.
I was responding after someone had spelled it pier the clue would be in the fact I spelled it correctly
you mean as in Jetty of the Realm Must admit I was picturing a long structure going out to sea when I read the original
Has acknowledged antisemitism and commits to root out the poison as he puts it. At last someone who will admit its a problem and has committed to dealing with it. Early days but so far post Corbyn labour may be worth a look again.
thought labour had finally got a half decent leader and then what is first thing he does, is criticise the government, the plonker, in times like these we should all be pulling together, regardless of politics, religion or colour
yet currently they have voted for an extreme right wing govt which wears racism and poor bashing as a badge of honour.
The job of the opposition is to criticise the government. The key is being constructive. If it was a government of national unity it would be a different matter, but opposition parties have not been consulted in the approach taken & often there are different possible approaches, offering different outcomes. As Parliament is not sitting there isn't the usual PMQs & committee work going on, so the only available outlet was in the press.
