Leekbrookgull
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Alan Johnson,Chancellor. Ed Balls,Home Office. Yvette Cooper,Foreign Office. Cameron & Clegg, must be thinking does it get any better than this ?
I personally would have put Yvette Cooper up against Osborne as a woman with kids would have been a good foil against him. However, Alan Johnson is a good solid politician who is good at learning his brief and does connect with the British people really well. A sound former postman who is not tainted by the left. I think the landed and moneyed Osborne may be in for a shock in future debates.
I also think Cooper up against Hague will be interesting especially as hague's faith in politics is already rattled and Teresa May will be no match for Ed Balls.
With his lacklustre speech at the Tory Conference David Cameron still failed to let people know who he is and what he is hoping to achieve. A lot of it was a re-run of what he said during the election and most of the electorate did not get it then, which is why he did not get a majority. Big Society is still a hollow message and voters are still suspicious that David Cameron and George Osborn are focused on ideology rather than sensible economic strategy.
The OTT attacks on Labour for the so called economic mess do not go down well with most voters because many remember the woeful public services that Labour inherited in 1997 after 18 years of Conservative rule and they know too well the many improvements which had taken place by 2010.
After a Labour victory in 2015 Ed Miliband can choose his own cabinet, so the make up of the shadow cabinet is simply academic.
With his lacklustre speech at the Tory Conference David Cameron still failed to let people know who he is and what he is hoping to achieve. A lot of it was a re-run of what he said during the election and most of the electorate did not get it then, which is why he did not get a majority. Big Society is still a hollow message and voters are still suspicious that David Cameron and George Osborn are focused on ideology rather than sensible economic strategy.
The OTT attacks on Labour for the so called economic mess do not go down well with most voters because many remember the woeful public services that Labour inherited in 1997 after 18 years of Conservative rule and they know too well the many improvements which had taken place by 2010.
After a Labour victory in 2015 Ed Miliband can choose his own cabinet, so the make up of the shadow cabinet is simply academic.
So all Labour has to do is sit back relax and they'll be in power in 5 years?
Johnson was only picked because both Balls and Cooper are both solidly anti cuts, even more anticut than Labour as a party. He's good enough I suppose but hardly a new generation.
Balls is probably the most disliked Labour politician at the moment. Cooper I'm not sure about, but the Mekon isn't to be messed with.
the so called economic mess
Stable: ie no riots in the streets, YET