Ed Moves Some Deckchairs
A minor Labour reshuffle today, with little of note. Miliband seems to have promoted some people Guido has never heard of, to jobs that nobody will listen to. Yvonne Fovargue and Lilian Greenwood go to the Shadow Transport team. Chi Onwurah MP moves from Shadow BIS to Shadow Cabinet Office. Alison McGovern joins the Whips Office having been promoted from the strenuous job of Gordon’s PPS. As does Karl Turner, replacing Chris Ruane. Which is good, as he really likes shouting.
And now you know.
Karl Turner? The man who tweeted *Tory Bastard Scum* , very one nation.
Be fair. Tautology is hardly a hanging offence.
No, but one wonders whether he take what he dishes out. *Incompetent two-faced lefty scum* is, after all, from the same mould.
Wimped out on the Balls demotion I see – no surprise there!!
aah I remember him……
Health turnover of staff it is called, which should be happening in the Treasury, if Dave Cee had any sense, but he hasn’t, of course.
Healthy turn over of staff even, without cronyism and schooltieism.
Invented a word there, by the way – schooltieism…
We will nor Forv Argue!
Chi Onwurah is slithering through the ranks very smoothly. She has a sister she doesn’t talk about, Ngozi. “If I had to choose…if someone says to me, choose…if there was a war between black people and white people and someone says choose who you are going to shoot, obviously I’d go over to the black side.” She is mixed-race, like her MP sister, so I’m not sure what is ‘obvious’ about her choice. Link to quote: http://www.mixedracestudies.org/wordpress/?tag=ngozi-onwurah
“Chi Onwurah”
I don’t even know where to start with that one.
You’ll manage somehow.
We have now distanced ourselves far away enough from Jimmy somebody or other. Now back to our normal business, triple pay-off anyone?
Is he(?) one of the Berkshire Onwurahs?
He is a she!
He’s a she, she’s a hem it’s a what, merit it is called. Couldn’t give a toss if the PM is a squirrel, as long as he can do the job properly.
True meritocracy it is called.
She is a formidably bright female engineer. In China she would be on the fast track to first female member of the politbureau. Here she is stuck behind the dross of PPE graduates, lawyers. PR consultants et al
Back to China with her then.
She can’t be that bright if she is in the Labour Party.
She was never an engineer. She served on politically slanted committees that occasionally looked at engineery things. She has the degree, but she hasn’t done any useful work.
Chi Onwurah is the final aria sung by Edwardo Milbando in the comic opera Il Fratelli. He sings of his triumph over his older brother David, in a fierce battle to win his party leadership. Of stage a chorus (You are shit, and you know you are) sung by Condemned reminds him that he doomed to defeat at the hands of the electorate five years later.
I believe the name is Sioux of Cheyenne. Definitely not one of the Norfolk Obwurahs that much I know.
Well done Ed, that’s the first thing you have done in two and a half years. I’m sure we all agree that’s a great achievement.
Justs nods head slowly and smiles
It’s all Ed is allowed to do
I wonder if he had permission from his union minders .
One does wonder about McClunkyfistClusky’s true views about Palestine / Israel. Odd article in the Iwish Chronicle this week!
Excuse Mon Francaise – mais JE suis tres fatigue.
Never mind that trivia. I’ve just see a news item about mobile phones soon being capable of translating languages. Damn phones are bl**dy babel fish, now.
Now I know I’m a reactionary luddite, but what happened to phones being phones, cameras being cameras, internet access being on computer, and foreign languages just being unintelligable babble? What next, matter transportation?
*stomps off back to workshop, muttering darkly*
Burn the phone factories.
What tyler?
Get your spanner out, you have a screw loose.
I’d need a screwdriver for that, wouldn’t I?
Good job I stomped to the workshop…
I’d need a screw d r i v e r for that wouldn’t I?
Good job I stomped to the workshop….
No, a screw has the thread up to the head. A bolt is part threaded.
Therefore a screw or bolt can be hexagon headed or allen headed.
BSW is British Standard Whitworth, old fashioned I know as most screws or bolts are now metric.
Wood screws can be cross headed for a screw driver or posi drive.
How on earth can this be modded. Beyond belief.
If it has a hex. head or hexagon socket head it’s a ‘setscrew’, not a screw. A ‘screw’ in engineering terms (more correctly ‘machine screw’ to differentiate frm ‘woodscrew’) has a cheesehead, panhead, countersunk head – or no head at all if it’s a grubscrew.
On threads, don’t forget British Standard Fine, Unified Coarse and Fine, BA, BSP, BSPT, NPT, Acme, Square, ME, BSB, BSC, several constant pitch series and lord knows how many specials.
If you really want to know more, try Machinery’s Handbook or Machinery’s Screw Thread Book, or look up the relevant British Standards.
Agreed
Rumour has it that the new iphone will have an app which allows users to key in a series of numbers and talk to other device users in real time.
My God! They’ll be putting a curly cord on it and attaching it to a landline, next.
Where can I get one of these miraculous machine? Is there a variety that say “Number please, dear”?
I just can’t tripe properly after 8 pm
Did your hero ever try throwing them or was it only Nokias?
Lilian mouth almighty Greenwood raise hackles every time she speaks and of course McGovern Mc Dooms PPS says it all,allowed the crocodile tears to flow over the Hillsborough statement Labour will never win the next election with this lot of shyte.
the last lot of Labour shite will prevent that.
This lot – last lot? Quoi de neuf?
Yet more nobodies, elevated to potential power over industries they have barely heard of, encouraged to declare diktats over business they have never so much as experienced, never mind built and ran.
We are overdue a fucking plague, we really are.
If you look at the single mum stats, it would seem we already have one of those…
All useless.
What a bunch of useless Hunts. Typical Socialist thinking when it comes to rewarding failure. They don’t take responsibility for their fucking failures. What a bunch of irresponsible arrogant Hunts.
Typical, spineless idiots who are pawns in Labour’s hidden agenda. Intellectually crippled; every single one of them. Unapologetic about their failures.
Have they deliberately omitted to name a Shadow Minister for Reclaiming all the Subsidies paid out to windmill owners?
What next? The slobbering Fat cut Tom Watson as Shadow Health Minister?
Bet he he can run a mile faster than you in your lardarse club.
Ooooh! Plimsolls at dawn…
two lard buckets having a race – should be good for a laugh before brekkers.
Fovargue
Promoted to transport,good move RED ED seeing that she has spent most of her time in citizens advice and was parachuted into a safe LIEBOUR seat as was her colleague Nandy.
Then again I suppose if she drives a car she would be ok in transport as would be millions more in this land.
Mostly female appointees smacks of box ticking.This will unravel during election time when ed will need hard hitters and will have to deal with his cabinet appointees naively
Blair with his babes put nitro in it, when the time was right, with guffaws by the tories then, but now Labour promote by merit now, since those humps have been overcome, with Labour at least.
And Marge Beckett is a goddess, not a Dame.
How very droll! The Beckett comment gave you away.
Labour promote according to their Union paymasters instructions of course.
Chi Onwurah ???!!!
Is that Yoruba for
Chuck us yer Womga ??
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