Straw Calls Shadow Cabinet Election “Barking Mad” and “Daft”
The Labour Party’s “greasy pole” was slammed on Radio 5 this morning by a self-proclaimed “climber of the greasy pole”, Jack Straw. It seems the old timer is getting grumpy on the way out and is less than impressed with the system of electing the Shadow Cabinet:
“… if you are in the shadow cabinet it is elected, I, from a position of complete neutrality, said to my colleagues, I survived and prospered under this system for ten years, but I just tell you, it is barking mad, for arithmetical reasons as well, it is a daft system, and what it means is that of the eighteen or nineteen people in shadow cabinet, probably a dozen capable of being in the Cabinet, half a dozen are not and if and when we have a Labour government some of those who thought this is a meal ticket in to the proper Cabinet will be sorely disappointed.”
The presenter Nicky Campbell interrupted to ask whether Straw would come back on Monday and let the public know who the half-dozen unsuitable members are. Funnily enough the answer was “errrr no”.
Low down the pecking order contest is getting vicious and the rules governing how many women are elected could hurt the likes of Bryant, Bradshaw and Harris. According to punters over at Smarkets at the top Burnham and Khan are vying for the Home Office. There is still no clear frontrunner for the FCO shadow, but Balls is still the favourite for Shadow Chancellor, just, his wife isn’t far behind. By this time tomorrow we shall know whether Labour are opening up yet another family drama narrative…
war monger
Clutching at Straws…
They’re jealous of a Cabinet of the caliber of me, Huhne, Oiky Gove, Fat Ken, even fatter Pickles, token woman Theresa, Gideon, Clegg and all the other giants of politics.
Me too. I gave you all jobs.
Caliber = Vauxhall Coupe of the 1990′s or US spelling of the word calibre
desperate anal twat = desperate anal twat
Labour Party activist = humourless
anal twats are always hilarious
they are the life and soul of the party, Hague’s bedroom buddy parties
As opposed to Mad Hat, TomTom Harris, Bouncy Balls, mini Cooper, Wrath of Khan, Droning Dromey, Intellectual Abbott, Brainy Burnham, Quitter Dave, Redemption Ed, Liam Burnt…
The list of labour’s political colossus is shorter than a hen night mini skirt
Collossi, sir.
You mean they are all a bunch of cocktrumpets ???
Dave and Ed and Nick’s best MPs are incompetent buffoons ???
That’s a fucking shocker if you’re a complete dickhead who hasn’t been paying any attention to British politics.
Quite.
Maybe Cyclops would have been more appropriate.
Straw’s mangling of English is almost on a par with Prescott and the awful grammar of the posts on this blog. Useless nark.
I want to know more about his ‘greasy pole’.
As long as we have the usual collection of lesbians, homosexuals, nose pickers, champagne socialists, blacks, yellows, in betweens and very rich I will be happy never to vote for them.
O/T but the best description of the Miliband Bros psychodrama: “A Geek Tragedy”.
Straw is a cock.
Wicker man.
UFO Plane abduction. This is more News Worthy than UK politics.
Its a bit like the Morality abduction that has just taken place. UK Government fails to denounce Fascist filth video No pressure because it has been swallowed up by a a passing QUANGOCRACY.
were all fucked
peace and love
So you’ve never seen a kestrel.
if that’s a kestrel i’m ghengis khan
and the earth is till flat.
More likely to be a perigrine actually Mr. Kahn.
sorry sockpuppet but the ufo is breaking the laws of physics the way it moves from being stationary to catching up with the plane. How many fucking kestrals have you seen that can move at those speeds and accelerate upwards from being stationary. use your brain.
and disapear into thin air in a cloudless sky.
Its not a UFO breaking the Laws of Physics at all you knob jockey. Its a flea on the lens of the camera. Fuck me no wonder some people vote Labour when they are as gullible as this !!!
More likely a peregrine or some other falcon – kestrels attack prey on the ground.
I was thinking more about mobbing behaviour. Although I must admit kestrels don’t mob very often.
That looks really realistic.
Not a little bit Ironic is a follower of a religion based around war, saying War-Monger.
Woman stoner!
Straw could say the same about postal voting in general elections but he keeps rather quiet about that …
The entire concept of the Labour Party and socialism is ‘Barking Mad’.
Sadiq Khan 4 Shadow Foreign Secretary inshallah
What, an expense fiddler who wants to sell the defence of the Realm down the river? A very un-serious man.
25.4mmAllah, if you don’t mind. We went metric years ago.
SadiqKhan4HMP
Don’t you have a dead kiddy fiddler to worship or something?
Would that be DeadRedEd then?
Is this the new generation Ed Mili-tant promised. Hmmmm.
yes
Does it really matter? I can’t see any of them fit for government at the moment.
Fit as my boys and girl, cannot be any worse.
Straw, “I, from a position of complete neutrality”
When was that ever the case?
I think it was a typo he actually said ” from a position of complete stupidity”
didn’t want the historical record to be obsured.
We’re all fucked
peace and love
Claiming expenses?
Khan for the Home Office. Now that IS barking mad! Just highlights the lack of depth in quality within the Labour ranks these days. A spent party, with a spent ideology, and they spent all our money.
Just look at his leader
Are you joking! Look at mine.
Still claiming multiple council tax refunds because the forms are confusing? This talk of “greasy poles” and a “race to the bottom” sounds a bit iffy to me.
Sod off and soon.
On the contary Guido, Bryant and Bradshaw have a distinct advantage as they could be elected to the shadow cabinet as 2 of the 13 non-female or 2 of the 6 female contenders, what a gay day indeed!
In fact, how long will it be before the gayers scream discrimination at the 6 women rule and insist on 6 gays in the shadow cabinet.
Then there will be calls for 6 ethnic minorities on the grounds of racism, before we know it, there will only be 1 white straight English male in the Labour cabinet.
Better yet is when the women split into ethnic origin women / non ethnic origin women and transgender ethnic women.
What about us Roma people
When in Roma… do as the Romans… oh no… wrong country.
Gissa job
Be quiet Flint and get back to work, those pegs and bunches of lucky heather won’t sell themselves.
Gipsy Tart
Was Harman in the talentless, upper class, privately educated quota?
She would be more likely represent the Lesbian faction, on account that her partner won on an all female shortlist.
I have more then six.
Not been to Leicester recently then?
the majority of posters on this site are loooooooseers
Don’t mention the score.
Do you mean me?
Loo seers? Think you mean “Toilets” Maguire.
You said it.
What is Straw banging on about ” about 6 will not be fit for Government” Is this man stupid None one single howling barking mad member of the Labour party is fit for Government.
You’re all fucked
peace and love
I read that the McCann couple are unhappy that CEOPS is going to be part of the police. I wonder why that is?
You mean those caring socialist parents who went out to dinner with their trendy socialist friends and left their infant children alone in a holiday chalet
That’ll be them.
And drugged there kids up with sleeping tablets before they went out.
Look, how many times do I need to repeat that they were only dining with friends! Just as you or I might do any night of the week. They had a babysitter there for the younger two, the babysitter was many months older than her two charges.
The UK police thoroughly investigated the potential of brining charges including neglect but it was thought that as they were ‘dining’ and not simply eating they were beyond reproach.
Repeat after me – dining with friends!
Look, how many times do I need to repeat that they were only dining with friends! Just as you or I might do any night of the week. They had a b_aby sitter there for the younger two, the b_aby sitter was many months older than her two very young charges.
The UK plod thoroughly investigated the potential of bringing ch ar _ges including neg_ lect but it was thought that as they were ‘dining’ and not simply ‘eating’ they were beyond reproach.
Repeat after me – dining with friends!
Look, how many timës do I nëëd to rëpëat that thëy wërë only dining with friënds! Just as you or I might do any night of thë wëëk. Thëy had a babysittër thërë for thë youngër two, thë babysittër was many months oldër than hër two vëry young chargës.
Thë UK plod thoroughly invëstigatëd thë potëntial of bringing chargës including nëglëct but it was thought that as thëy wërë ‘dining’ and not simply ‘ëating’ as thë rëst of us do thëy wërë bëyond rëproach.
Rëpëat aftër më – dining with friënds!
(fucking moderation bollocks)
I couldn’t give a flying fuck what they think. Why do they prostitute themselves so much?
Cheap fuckers.
Look, how many times do I need to repeat that they were only dining with friends! Just as you or I might do any night of the week. They had a babysitter there for the younger two, the babysitter was many months older than her two charges.
The UK plod thoroughly investigated the potential of bringing ch*ar*ges including neglect but it was thought that as they were ‘dining’ and not simply eating they were beyond reproach.
Repeat after me – dining with friends!
Please let Balls be Chancellor.
“The only way to get out of debt is to spend your way out of it.”
Ed Balls is an adviser for ‘motion finance’.
Heard some labour fart Peer in a House of Lords debate proclaiming that reducing the number of civil servants and other public sector employees would reduce the States tax take and lead to a reduction in revenue, this is the level of thinking we are saddled with, hope NICE can get him some altzeimers pills, doddery old fuckers!
No, no, no he was saying pay them and then we can tax then instead of don’t pay them then we have to pay them (unemployment etc.) but don’t get the tax – simple. If you’re earning £100k/year as a civil servant then your tax will be £30k (plus NI) unemployment will be er…………£100k for the first year + housing allowance, retraining etc.. See the previous Government made sure that it was almost certainly better not to work why are all these public sector people moaning?
I had to see my bank manager today about my credit cards and loans not being paid off ! I told him that I wanted more money so that I could follow Gordon (I saved the worlds) advice and spend my way out of debt !
He said – fuck off and give me your credit cards now !
I think he was being most unreasonable !
Jack who ? I thught he had died ?
He has, but only from the neck up.
This is better than a system where you can put your friends in or stupid people in so that they don’t turn out be a threat to you. Look at Dave’s boys and girls in the cabinet.
The ‘New Generation!’
Full of err the Old Generation.
As Kinnock said ‘…we have got our party back!’ – well allright!!
Yes he’s got his party back all right, unelectable for at least 15 years just like the last time he poked his nose in.
Shaun Woodward will be looking to go back to the Conservatives when he doesn’t make it
I am honestly surprised that he has not defected to one of the coalition parties already.
Woodward is far too grand.Some of them are in trade.
Rats fighting in a sack. Irrelevant rats, at that.
I look forward to 21.00 when I will elect myself as the new Prime Minister along with my lovely wife Susan.
Why don’t we just have Susan?
There’s a debate coming up in the next 20mins on This Week with Polly Toy Bee and Fraser Nelson. The subject? Whether Labour’s record in office was disastrous or actually good!
Polly trying to say she is not biased
I predict it will be – very good, but Iraq was a mistake..and civil liberties… and not taxing bankers more..but on the whole 8.5/10
You forgot the nought percent increase, 8.5/100.
You mean there’s a doubt?
Sorry, meant to say The Daily Politics. This Week is tonight.
Is that a picture of Jack demonstrating to Hattie just how stiff and greasy his pole is?
Strange how some politicians only start speaking blindingly obvious truths when they become political has-beens.
The only way forward is more investment, more investment means more growth,increased tax revenue ,simple!!
You can’t cut your way out of recession.
The deficit isn’t a problem as long as we can get growth we can keep on paying for it. When I am chancellor these will be my policies!
You fucking deranged tossflap.
Cameron ” The people’s Hypocrite” doing what he does best talking out of his arse. This is the same man who endorsed those nice people at 10:10 who would like to see us all blown up! The same man who while claiming to endorse Unite against fascism will not denounce the 10:10 no pressure video. I am quite sure His Holiness can see right through this bag of shit!!!
We’re all fucked
peace and love
Anyone rushing to sign PFI/PPP deals before the Spending Review could end up with significant additional costs if contracts have to be amended post financial close, warns Guido Fawkes,political blogger
For once, Maritn, you might be right. But any decent company should have covered themselves in the contract.
Our advice is that we will actually be better off if the govt cancel our contract with them. It’s what expensive lawyers are for…..
Polly gives Labour 6 out of 10. Fraser gives 3.
She should be an Ofsted inspector.
3 is 3 too high.
Bit of a harsh mark from Polly.
Did she take marks off for spelling and handwriting?
Seems a bit unfair on Gordon if she did.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/mobile/business-11491015
Here comes the double dip recession.
It would take a climate change expert to make the chart say otherwise.
and this is before the cuts hit
So house prices are slowly becoming more affordable and this is a bad thing? Well maybe some people who were insane enough to listen to Brown and believe he had abolished boom and bust, and then think that property would increase in value forever so bought property after 2005.
This is a healthy realignment of property values and should be welcomed as a part of creating a more balanced economy.
He only abolished Boom and then majored on Bust.
3.6% in a month is not slow, healthy, or a re-alignment.
Absolute declines in property cause falls in output elsewhere. They don’t increase demand or volume. They scare people off and associated negative equity stops people from selling.
House prices are one of the best indicators of confidence.
House prices going down. fancy that. It was amazing it didnt happen before.
Fraser ripping Polly to shreds who quickly changed subject.
“when we have a Labour government”.
Er, jumping the gun a bit there aren’t you Straw?
Odd that the New Labour boys didn’t abolish this rule when they were killing of clause 4 and then later abolishing on of the PMQs .
Anyone would have thought they believed they would never lose office – or perhaps those involved knew their careers would be dead then and as selfish socialists ( the only sort) they didn’t care.
Brillo just revealed Tory membership has fallen by a third since 2005. Toy Bee will make great hay out of this.
Get used to this folks. As predicted, the story of the entire 10′s regarding liebour will be nothing but splits and infighting, as if they needed anything else to make them unelectable.
Notice this current wrangle has nothing to do with the elephant in the room of a man at the top being forced in against the rank and files will.
This return to liebours comedy Foot and Kinnock era would be much funnier if it hadn’t cost the country so much.
The First Ministers of Scotland,Wales & Northern Ireland team up to condemn the speed and depth of the cuts.Now why am I NOT surprised at that……..?????
As First Ministers they should know these are not cuts but reductions in spending, so when there is possibility of a double dip recession these reductions are reversed to return to increase expenditure.
I wonder if the authorities cut the ex-MP pension to Iris Robinson after she resigned in disgrace…or is she receiving the full whack.
Maybe First Minister of NI, Peter Robinson, could let us all know.
here are the shadow cabinet results …..
and shadow barking mad minister is …….Jack ‘warmonger in chief’ Straw
they are all truly baring mad though aren’t they?
here are the shadow cabinet results …..
and shadow barking mad minister is …….Jack ‘warmonger in chief’ Straw
they are all truly barking mad though aren’t they?
Where is Norman Beresford Tebbit gone? Is he still a member of Dave’s conservative party?
Since when did Dave have a conservative party ?
Thought “Call me Dave” is the leader of conservative party.
No c*st ir*n Dave is the leader of the NuConned us party,the Conservative party died years ago when it found that the only way back was to behave as a Liarboor sh*te party ,it’s members comitted suicide or comitted suicide threw away all their scruples and joined wavy Davey in his bid for power,note: this was for power NOT public service.
Seconded !
Where’s my carer? The one they all keep calling my wife. Sharon I think her name is. Tell her to bring my fizzy orange.
Hoping to see you next week Gordon perhaps we can discuss our plans for further ‘investments’ to save the country from these deficit cutters! Give my regards to Sarah if you see her.
we work in harmony
If I don’t get the Home Office shadow, I’ll use my favourite card.
Tesco’s club card?
Do you get double points
I watched Mr Cameron’s speech yesterday. It made me so angry, I did a jobby in my underwear. The men in white here weren’t happy about that. I had to sit on the naughty step for a few hours. Bigots.
It’s Howlin’ Mad Jack.
Five months ago in May 2010, a cracked political unit were sent into opposition by a military court for crimes they certainly did commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Westminster underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as politicians of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire… The B-Team.
Sir Billy,you appear to be a very optimistic person,”The B Team”, no, more like the ZZZZZZZZZZZ Team even then I wouldn’t be calling for help from them,calling them,lieing,thieving gits yes.
What you talking about , FOOL !
If I had any input into the shadow cabinet debate, it would be to hand each of them a knife.
moderated again ,I give up.
Welcome to the world view, Jack. Nice on the outside, eh? Quite crystal clear in clarity. However you forgot to add ‘bunch of Hoons’.
Ever the opportunist, Jack Straw would sell his granny if he saw political advantage for himself. An odious unprincipled creep of a man.
Why are you defending a Paedo ? You protest to much I think.
Is it just me or is Jack demonstrating his technique for knocking off a Hand Shandy in the pic for this item ?