Kemi Badenoch Powell

Mmm Angela Rayner if Keir hits his head on his next flip flop .

 

The Yanks will know, when the orange man has well and truly Tango'ed them!.

 

*there*

 

How's my counting of the Labour ones going? Yep, recalibrated my count and it still seems to be 100% "gammon" demographic as the racists here like to call it.

 

`Starmer's more or less there. It'd be hard to imagine a bigger v@gina in parliament, even given Angela Rayner's part in the current tragedy.

 

What do you mean by racist here?

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...rustrated-at-lack-of-black-officials-in-no-10

At least it's being noticed. Let's see if Keir listens.

 

Kin ell, and after the last 14 years. The hurting Tories are still hurting

 

Pillock

 

Eshalomi and Lammy sent messages of congratulations to Badenoch after she became the first black leader of a UK party and first black woman to lead a major European party. However, the Labour MP Dawn Butler faced calls from some Tories to have the whip removed after she shared and then deleted a social media post accusing Badenoch of representing “white supremacy in blackface”. Labour sources noted the social media post was no longer present.

Dawn Butler saying "white supremacy in blackface". This country is mental??

 

Chuka Umunna would have romped leaders job way back if he hadn't have moved from politics.

 

Simon Jordan a while ago during the discussion of who should lead Yorkshire cricket club after the discrimination scandal responded to Monty Panesar's comment that the next chairman should be of colour. No, he said, it should be the best person for the job. I agree, If we could guarantee that was the way, indifferent of sex, colour, orientation or any of the other barriers different groups perceive are in place we'd have it cracked...

 

The state of that shadow cabinet!

 

I'm expecting Pol Pot as Shadow Education Minister

 

I did have to chuckle this morning when one of the new deputy chairs of the tory party declared how much talent there was in their party!

Then you see Chris Philp... perhaps the thirstiest neediest most desperate shape shifting grovelling boot licking chancer (and I know thats a big claim among their ranks!) you're likely to stumble upon... named as Shadow Home Secretary.

 

NOB in as Shadow Education Minister. Jesus Christ.

 

So the Leader of the Opposition admitted breaking the Computer Misuse Act 1990. The Shadow Foreign Secretary was sacked as foreign secretary for conducting talks with Israel behind the PMs back. And they've got a Shadow Education Secretary and a Shadow Education Minister. Is the job so difficult - or the talent pool so slim - that they need 2 to do one job?

 

Given there are supposedly 124 jobs to shadow and they only have 121 MPs... You'd think they had no leeway to have people sharing a role.

And don't forget a shadow Justice Secretary who wants to leave human rights conventions, waived through a development of a tory donor to save them £50m of tax and broke covid laws multiple times. Latterly pretending held driven from London to his family home in Shropshire to 'deliver medicine'.. Not to mention the various bullying claims of several of their cabinet.

But just look at this... The top four shadow positions.... Badenoch, Stride, Philp, Patel. Utterly frightening.

 

I'm a little bit torn on this, I feel that the "best person for the job" should be the guide, but then how do you measure "the best person for the job"? In the real world it often comes down to personality - do they fit in with the team/business culture? Does the person hiring them actually like them? Most people who get to an interview stage are likely qualified. Really, the cabinet should reflect the country in terms of BAME representation if at all possible, if there aren't enough BAME MPs then it goes back to why not? Is there an issue in the selection process? If there are plenty of BAME MPs, are they only just MPs this time? Its hard to give someone a top Cabinet post who's only been an MP for 4 months.

 

I agree best person for the job. However I don't think the best person to lead Labour for the last 124 years will have always been a white man.