Ed’s Lack of Shadow Cabinet Authority
Ed is having a relatively good week, with more amusement and less despair. Labour staffers however are decrying that the Shadow Cabinet is out of control and rudderless. Douglas Alexander’s “Labour must do more to be credible on economy” Observer interview last Sunday came at as surprise. Jim Murphy going rogue had to be patched up as “part of the strategy”, while it’s accepted that Liam Byrne is spending his days briefing the Telegraph. Peter Hain even had time to write his memoirs while supposedly preparing to form a government.
This lack of authority in Shadow Cabinet is trickling down to the backbenchers, not least the most important Labour backbencher of them all – David Miliband. There is growing frustration amongst Labour whips that David is simply ignoring direct orders on voting. He’s said he will not be dictated to, and he will decide when he is needed. Take today for example; instead of being in Westminster David is peacocking at the Cambridge Union; and the voting data from Public Whip is very telling. Since the election David has voted in just 186 votes out of a possible 444. Less than half and well below average.
The insubordination is spreading. Labour sources indicate that the likes of Ben Bradshaw and Shaun Woodward are particularly good at not hanging around for late votes or simply not bothering to turn up. Junkets are up, and attendance is down. The mood among the old guard can be summed up as “if the brother can ‘eff off to China, why can’t we?”
Am I first?
There is a smell of Sh-t coming from the putrid political system, Blaming Bankers for the State of the economy wont save the Political class from the Starving masses. EU Set aside policies, ha ha ha.
It gets worse. Liam Byrne vents outrage today about housing benefit, and how private landlords are filling their boots.
But no-one in the media seems to think it reasonable to point out to him that this problem escalated during the thirteen years his party were in power and it didn’t seem to bother them then. Just so long as the benefit recipients keep voting Labour, who care’s about where the money comes from…..
Yeah, like we were all happy subsidising Somalians living in the West End to the tune of £12,000 a month. Duplicitous fuckers.
You have to remember that these immigrants have made me, my ‘boys’ and some council officers in Portsmouth, very rich. Government grants for taking them in and housing them, huge development by my ‘boys’ to house, them, then collect their rents, and my little tickle for providing the planning permissions. Off to my villa in Spain. Jahbulon.
He could lose votes. A fair proportion of these landlords are buy to let who work in the public sector, ie the BBC. They flourished under Labour.
Liam Byrne is the labour party’s answer to Darling from Blackadder.
And the bizarre thing is that the landlords have been able to line their pockets with outrageous rents because Labour’s benefits system allowed them to do just that. Just watch those rents come tumbling down once there has been a cap on the obscene amount that feckless scroungers can claim.
Not true.
Ed is a strong assured leader.
i luv this duema stuff – it is on my twitter picture and shold be on yours
You would, you fucking simpleton.
When he came out with his supposed funny line yesterday I wondered if his Shadow Cabinet were laughing with him or at him…
errrm WHAT……………….???
Wondered why I spotted David Miliband sitting in the Adjournment Restaurant during a vote last night… it now all makes sense.
‘Since the election David has voted in just 186 votes out of a possible 444. Less than half and well below average.’
Finally he comes out as a Brownite. Idle, but takes his wages.
if i only showed up for 186 of 444 shifts then the depot wold not function and i wold be fired
In the light of Mr. Brown “MP[?]” ‘s failure to attend at all, Dave M’s roughly 30% attendance rate seems high for a former Minister who could make a ton of dosh with all sorts of outside interests. Maybe his attendance rate means he’s in a class with the proverbial hind-leg-walking dog and woman-preacher– that fact that he does it, in the first place, is what is remarkable!
So, David’s not quite as Brown as Brown. More of a light tan colour.
More a “baby diarrhoea” sort of colour.
What do you expect from a bunch of over-paid, under-worked, talentless thievings twats ?
The Scots accent is strongly associated with hard work, success and reliability in the workplace, according to a poll of business executives
Company chairman Professor Khalid Aziz said: “The Scottish accent is well liked, with many positive associations.”
Kirsty Young and Gordon Brown scored high on a list of individuals’ voices….
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As nobody has heard much of Brown’s voice in the house lately…
He had a VERY limited vocabulary.
He could say words and short phrases like
prudent
hard working families
no more boom and bust
investment
But he could never say the words
public expenditure
lower taxation
value for money
Wonderful man, he had a lovely smile that some consultant taught him to use at the age of 56.
All this despite the massive effort made by the BBC over the past few weeks. As the voice of the left they seem to be failing.
Pilgrim MPs, anyone?
Temporarily seconded to “union duties” in their spare time, tirelessly working to improve the lot of the hard working families in China, Cuba, Angola – in fact anywhere but here.
I will be amazing at today’s pmqs. Just you wait and see.
Ha hahahahhahahahahahahaha, good one Ed.
I look forward to seeing how much longer your nose has grown since last week.
Well tbh you haven’t been up until now SO…whats the plan?
Rather than pay the little fuckers a fancy salary why not just pay them a daily allowance for attending debates and voting.
Aren’t I the silly one.
I see this as a collegiate moment, many Labour folk want their say.
The main thing is that they keep Ed in place. That wait 2015 will rhyme with CON GAIN.
Dennis Skinner is the most gutless sack of shit in British politics. The twat thinks he’s brave and audacious with his aggressive questions to whoever the Tory PM happens to be but he kept his mouth shut for 13 years of Labour even when they were pushing through legislation he vehemently opposed. Not once, not a single time in those 13 years, did he ask Blair or Brown anything confrontational.
He has an undeserved reputation for being funny and abrasive when in fact he’s an obedient Labour stooge who does as he’s told by the party. And while he likes to portray himself as a working class hero, let’s not forget the time he was caught with a mistress in a posh 5 star hotel suite.
Not only that he has the most terrible halitosis.
Obviously not enough lasagne then.
Perfect Old Labour stooge. The fact it that his electorate would vote for a pig’s swizzle if it were the Labour candidate.
The people of Bolsover should ask themselves if their lives have improved during his time as their elected member, and then ask Mr Skinner just what he’s got out of it.
The other place awaits the Noble Lord…
He passed his sell-by date years ago. But he’s the type of Labour MP who much prefers opposition so that he can parade his “working class conscience” in public to his heart’s content without the nuisance of dealing with the real world.
How can anyone claim to be working class on a hundred thou a year?
My farts are strong and assured.
What Ed needs is a good thrashing with wet twigs courtesy of a 25 year old banya boy.
Stop stealing my ideas!
Wacky races! Wacky races! Penelope Pitstop is a bigoted woman!
“Ed is doing tremendously well and is on a high. He was better than Cameron yesterday”, says BBC loony Nick Robinson. Nick the Fantacist has a reputation for always seeing the best in Ed Miliprat and will continue this theme for the rest of the day regardless what happens. New BBC Motto: “Making Things Up Is Us”.
Just give up on the BBC, it’s a lost cause and needs to be smashed, end of story.
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What happened to the Recall Bill? If he was my MP, I’d want to know what the fuck he does for me – never mind swanning off to some poncy lecture, raking in cash (probably via some charitable trust set up to manage the office of ..etc avoiding the very tax they moan about others not paying!)
Anyone else cringe when Miliband labelled the Tory front bench as a bunch of millionaires?
Hypocrisy (sorry, can’t use that word) at its best.
Miliband said the govt are all millionaires. Not very wise of Ed to point fingers when the entire Labour shadow frontbench are millionaires.
Marvellous innit, voted in by the voters. Then skiving off for any freebie going. Now pay the bastards extra bonuses based on turning up and actually VOTING in the house, might bring a wee bit of interest in the proceedings. Perhaps it is time to re-define the MP’s job descriptions.
I love the United Britains! I comes here from my country and I get seven bedrooms housing for frees and money not to works. Thankings to Labours councils and The Guardians I can do my culture traditions like honour kills, female circumcisionings and arranged marrying daughters to first cousin. I much enjoy free benefit money to buy the jihad DVD to show my childrens how to killings the J ew and kafir. Allahu crapbar!
Oh yes I do not even have to live in the country. I have been claiming incapacity benefit now for 20 years and I can now live like a prince in my own country. Thank you British people.
Death to Twix and Wispa bars!
Liking the sexy secretary glasses look that Priti Patel has today.
” …. the most important Labour backbencher of them all – David Miliband …”
Ach so, silly mich
AND there was Moi thimking that the most important Back=Bencher was Mrs Dianne Abbott
Cameron at PMQs: “Where is Baldemort? He’s not in the house today”.
A great many of our supporters are creaming the housing benefit system. If we are to retain their votes we must oppose these savage Tory cuts.
I think it’s fair to say Miliband was given a good thrashing at PMQs today.
a good thrashing? … bring it on!
I don’t think sovereignty in Ed’s own home is something we should be striving for.
Holy shit, how fucking large is Labour’s Rosie Cooper? She looks about 30 stone!
“Ed had Cameron on the back foot”, says BBC loony Nick Robinson.
£6000 for a pensioner per year whos paid tax and NI for years while working and
£29000 for immigrants /work shy says it all in the UK at the moment
I hope you are keeping the pitchfork clean and sharp.
Ed Miliband’s authority. WHAT AUTHORITY?
They can’t be bovvered with politics. They’re on their knees praying to get on This Week!
What the fuck are you all talking about?
God bless America!
Ah yes, David Miliband he’s the one lining his pockets with oodles of cash a bit like Blair. In fact he’s very much like Blair, a self-serving, grinning hypocrite who will do anything as a ‘socialist’ to progress his career no matter who he treads on. The devious sod.