Punters Reckon Straw Backs Gordon for the Vacancy
Betfair punters now reckon Jack Straw is the favourite to succeed Gordon as Chancellor when the position becomes vacant. Which has a certain logic to it, but did Gordon actually make Straw an offer he couldn't refuse? If Gordon "I don't bear grudges" Brown asks you to run his campaign, what are you going to do? Learn to swim with the fishes? Alastair Darling won't be pleased, but what can he do? Has Gordon calculated that another Scot at the Treasury will be too much?
The question is why hasn't Gordon asked Miliband to be his deputy campaign manager? Seems awfully uncharacteristically brave to leave Blair's chosen successor at a loose end...
Jack Straw is obviously going to need to top up Gordon's male dominated team with some women to give it a more inclusive feel. Why not people he has some experience with? Gisela Stuart, the Labour MP who sat on the EU convention's 13-strong presidium has experience, and Oona King has a younger funkier appeal with the bonus of ethnicity thrown in. She also charmed Gordon at the Fabian conference recently with the improbable (pre-Kylie) claim that "If you want celebrity and glitz, Gordon is not your man." No harm in boosting Gordon's campaign with some female talent...
The question is why hasn't Gordon asked Miliband to be his deputy campaign manager? Seems awfully uncharacteristically brave to leave Blair's chosen successor at a loose end...
Jack Straw is obviously going to need to top up Gordon's male dominated team with some women to give it a more inclusive feel. Why not people he has some experience with? Gisela Stuart, the Labour MP who sat on the EU convention's 13-strong presidium has experience, and Oona King has a younger funkier appeal with the bonus of ethnicity thrown in. She also charmed Gordon at the Fabian conference recently with the improbable (pre-Kylie) claim that "If you want celebrity and glitz, Gordon is not your man." No harm in boosting Gordon's campaign with some female talent...
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So much for my bet that Jack Straw would be leader then.
It's a bit too late for Fiona Jones, alas
> Seems awfully uncharacteristically brave to leave Blair's chosen successor at a lose end...
Freudian typo?
I still reckon that if he is as smart as he would like to think he is then Mili's best bet is to sit it out while New Labour's equivalent of Hague/IDS/Howard work through the system and render the party to him in an electable position...
Guppy Brown has decided what the next 3 budgets are going to be anyway (almost none of his announced changes occur this April)
So what the fuck's the point of becoming Chancellor after him?
Being on the watch during the 3rd Oil Shock doesn't have much of an appeal.
Better to have someone who knows his way round the Labour Party running your campaign than a youngster who might well make a mess of it.
What are you saying Fawkes you LIAR! Spit it out man. Or are your balls separated from your sad sack of a duplicitous body and sizzling on a hot platter before your very eyes you creep.
Worth looking for the sad facts.
Yeah... don't click on that link...
Mr Militwat is chuckling to himself as he settles down to enjoy the twenty four month road crash that will be Brown's premiership. He looks forward to the remnants of Brown's defeated cabinet begging him to lead the party. Militwat will himself be ousted by Michael Foot's corpse as Old Labour rises Lazarus like from the ashes of three election defeats. The Tories greatest legacy will be the privatisation of NHS.
Re: The question is why hasn't Gordon asked Miliband to be his deputy campaign manager?
Brown will give Miliband top job in return for a clear run
The prospect of Straw and Brown trying to keep the post-bliar ship on course is laughable. Straw is one of no value whatsoever. If he continues in the style he currently employs as leader of the house it will be a disaster. He simply stands up, sneers, lies and then moves on. I cannot see the same strategy working as the enormous holes open up in Browns accounts.
Taste the irony.
Chris Paul - Labour of love!!!
Guido, you numpty, the fragrant Oona is no longer an MP. Now if what you really mean is that the Bogey man should put the holder of her seat in his cabinet, now we are talking. Galloway for foreign sec anybody
The only sad fact is *you* Chris Paul.
You and your sad little bunch of tossers who constitute the governments remaining supporters.
The only Balls I want to see sizzling on a hot plate is the MP for Normanton, or yours.
Now run along and play with David's Millipenis.
Guido,
Women - some experience 'with' or 'of'?
In Gordon's case unlikely and in Straw's case highly likely - allegedly.
Either way, what woman in her right mind would wish to be associated with either of these two disfunctionals? (No, not New Labour women - none of them is in her right mind.)
OT but...
More Opik insanity - skip first half of it
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http://preview.tinyurl.com/2jtwrn
Shame he blocks comments!
Today's chapter from Piers Moron's new book reprinted in the Daily Mail is humourously indicative of why his own mother probably doesn't trust the straw man.
September 28
Question Time in Manchester. I was waiting in the green room. The door swung open and there was Jack Straw.
Jack Straw
'I hope John Reid will take on Gordon, said Straw'
"Hi, Piers," he said, offering me a handshake and beaming grin. It was a masterclass in how to greet someone you secretly want to kill.
For the next five minutes he had an animated discussion with the show's production team about where he should sit on the panel. He's completely deaf in his right ear, and wanted to be sure that he would be sitting where he could best hear things.
It's funny to think that if he ends up as Gordon Brown's deputy, as he desperately wants to be, then we could end up with a leadership duo with one good ear and one good eye.
We all had a rather entertaining chat about politics, in particular Cherie's "He's a liar" outburst about Brown during his Labour Party Conference speech this week.
"I think spouses should stay in the background," said Ken Clarke firmly.
"Yes, quite agree," said Straw. "So do I," I concurred. Straw turned to me. "Yes, unless you're putting mine all over your front page, of course, you bastard!"
I smiled. There was no point getting into all that again.
Straw's face suddenly popped up on the television set in the room, saying something about John Prescott's farewell speech to conference, which we couldn't hear because the sound was turned down.
"Were you saying what a great guy Prezza is?" I asked. Straw raised his eyebrows to the ceiling. "Yes, something like that. Duty calls, etc."
Next on the news was John Reid, who'd made a typically combative speech. "He's good, isn't he?" I said.
"Yes, he is," replied Straw with just the whiff of a conspiratorial look on his face.
"Think he will stand as leader against Gordon?"
He paused. "I hope so, yes." Extraordinary people, politicians. Straw's been publicly backing Brown, but clearly wants to hedge his bets with Reid. They all go where they smell power.
Why should anyone believe what Piers Morgan has to say about anything, especially in his edited-after-the-fact diaries?
A Labour MP turning a deaf ear………..I’m shocked I tell you!
Once Jack Straw's finished preening and looking at himself in the mirror there isn't much time left for doing anything much.
And all those foreign office posts he filled with relatives and dodgy Labour benefactors will surely come back to haunt him.
Well we are into recycling: Now Tone is on about 'crime and its causes' yet again - with, more interstingly, Reid being an airing on the media. Tone trying to bolster Reid in the 'Anybody but Gordon stakes' (to be run at Chepsow)? 10 years not enough Tone - not to do anything until now?
I reckon Tone's spin team were watching the Daily Politics viewer vote last Friday - hence the Reid scramble.
Anon at 10:07 said
interstingly, Reid being an airing on the media.
Oops, typo alert. Should have been
interestingly, Reid being given an airing on the media.
Why do you keep deleting my fairly innocuous comments about Oona King, Guido.
Do you have the hots for her or have you suddenly come over all politically correct??
Can we expect to see a burqa in the team line-up? Eminently practical wear given the Don's personal habits and his consigliere's wandering eye.
re Snotlikely's now deleted post on Oona
Legit immigrants are often among the most opposed to further immigration. Those I know could challenge any Daily Mail reader for indignation over perceived abuse of the system.
I'm still amazed how Straw managed to avoid more fallout over the death of Fiona Jones.
Was he forcefeeding her turps or something?
Why doesn't Guido just print his allegations (if they're true) instead of indulging in this cowardly smearing?
Punters? Betting?
Fat Chance!
Jack's Webcast from No 10, due this morning has been postponed as , according to Tony's mouthpiece, (Jack) "HAS BEEN CALLED AWAY ON URGENT BUSINESS"....IS he being fired????? Anybody know? Anybody care???
I fingered a black bird called Oona. I wonder.... ?
Hand attracted cats for weeks later though.
anon 10:58
Why doesn't Guido just print his allegations (if they're true) instead of indulging in this cowardly smearing?
Simple you dolt , its far more entertaining this way.
So if I started a post on my blog on, oooh, say "Guido Fawkes' ENTIRELY healthy interest in underage girls..." that would be okay then?
"Simple you dolt , its far more entertaining this way."
Or he's got f-all evidence and is just making it up...
When he publishes, I'll believe it.
Why should anyone believe what Piers Morgan has to say about anything, especially in his edited-after-the-fact diaries?
I'd hate to be in the position of defending Mr Morgan's probity, but in this case, you do have to ask cui bono?
I wouldn't believe him on much, but i'd believe him on that.
Living in hope that gay Gordon goes long.
Just imagine if he catches us with our panties down?
It will be smacked bottoms all round!
....and please can we stop saying that fucking silly 'stealth' thingy - its soooo 1998! Surely we've thought of something new!
"Legit immigrants are often among the most opposed to further immigration. Those I know could challenge any Daily Mail reader for indignation over perceived abuse of the system."
I'm glad to see that black people are at last recognizing that immigration to white countries is a complete waste of time...
Thanks be to the Lord God Almighty that my lifetime's work was not in vain.
sorry
above comment refers to
cassandra 10:31am
marcus garvey
are you the chubby rugby player?
what makes you think that all the immigrants I know are black?
As GB has already firmed up most of the budget for 2008-09, the next Chancellor will have to be a nonentity yes-sayer happy to do whatever his current master bids. That means...
er, Jack Straw-in-the-Wind.
cassandra 2:02
Sorry, my mistake.
Do you fancy a scrum and a roll in the mud followed by a rub-down in the communal bath?
It is the one of the big beast jobs he has not had. Deputy L and DPM is less good for him. reckon Betfair are right myself ...
Nice one Prague Tory ... outed at last. But I do hope you're keeping to your promise not to darken our door ever again.
What I want to know is, did he shag Condolesbo?
Because she has a gap in her teeth and I bet she would scrape the smegma right off your helmet with a BJ.
Just wondering.
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