More LibDems Added to the SpAd List
The list includes a few more LibDem names, forinstance Giles Wilkes is tipped to move from the Centre Forum think tank to Vince Cable’s office.
Guido has had a few complaints that people on the list are not strictly speaking Special Advisers. Guido is using the term loosely, basically the people on this list are political appointments of various kinds doing the bag carrying for Ministers, some are not your usual wonky, spinning, greasy pole-climbing SpAds – clearly Sir Peter Ricketts heading up the National Security Council for Hague is not a teenage bag carrier. Nic Boles for example is an MP but glides in out of the Cabinet Office helping the Implentation Unit in some unspecified and presumably unpaid way. One way or another they’re on Guido’s list…
SpAd, spayed or spade ??
Spam,spam,spam,spam…..
At last, something that makes sense.
More spastics pissing away money.
Just what we need.
Blame Blair.
David Cameron owns the Vietnam, I mean, the Afghanistan debacle now, CRMM.
Do keep up.
I don’t think that three out of 4 troops in Afghanistan come home in pieces. If you’d spent 30 mins watching the Defence Debate yesterday, you could add something coherent – unlike your title.
Nominations for Ed Balls
Ed balls
Yvette Cooper
Ian Austin
Kevin Brennan
Jim Dobbin
Sharon Hodgson
Helen Jones
Kerry McCarthy
Vernon Coaker
Jim Cunningham
Mike Dugher
Diana Johnson
Chris Leslie
John Robertson
14 in all, a pair of Balls and 12 unknowns.
http://www2.labour.org.uk/leadership-candidates/3/Ed_Balls
Vernon Coaker is a Geldling apparently.
Aaah! I get it.
Misreading the town name “Gedling”, I thought i was being a geographically ignorant git for not knowing where it is. This is made worse by the fact that I’ve been there, many, many times.
Why no nominations for Diane Abbott, I thought she ticked all the right boxes? Lefty, anti Iraq war, female, black, takes the piss out of Keith Vaz, untainted by the two Bs and is on the telly every week.
http://www2.labour.org.uk/leadership-2010
I agree. Very Sound Woman. Firm believer in parental choice in a child’s education.
Kerry McCarthy – not exactly unknown to the boys in blue. Has she had her collar felt yet?
She runs a blog entitled “Shot At By Both Sides” hasn’t anybody told her that the victim culture is soooooooo ’90′s
I can give these Spads a run for our money.
Stop taxing me to bail out the feckless who went on a credit / borrowing binge, including the government.
There, that was great advice, please deposit £100, 000 into my bank account for that advice. Cameron did after all want everyone to be part of the government, well, I am claiming my cut.
Iain Duncan Smith announced as the new Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
sorry, thought you said SpUD list – oops
Well done Mr. Fawkes. No one else seems to be keeping a tally of the number of these “advisers” the public are paying for.
Remind me again; if their average salary is around £30k, the £1.4 million cost per year benefits the country in what way?
reduces unemployment figures…????
keeps them occupied……?
provides ‘cover’ for beleagured and incompetent MPs …..?
probably to keep febrile brains like you in their cups big D
Not fevered nor drunk.
A raised eyebrow at the continuing robbery of the British public by the new intake at Westminster.
Do Ministers spend much time talking to people who actually understand stuff?
Very good point, very well put, deserves a response
What, like their mummies?
Where’s Gordon?
Who gives a fuck ???
HEEEELLLPP !!!!!
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