tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33451096.post6690660523618100347..comments2024-03-28T07:14:01.343+00:00Comments on donpaskini: Affirmative Action for Special Advisersdonpaskinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05963534291677598324noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33451096.post-73500930825221020482020-05-04T02:22:34.175+00:002020-05-04T02:22:34.175+00:00balenciaga
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Terrifyingly, the PLP is actually now fairly representative of the party membership in terms of gender. (Though not ethnicity, I think.) <br /><br />And for all that the progress on gender and race have been excruciatingly slow, we're actually now going backwards on class.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11941923462227797153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33451096.post-1430951104272412052010-06-04T09:15:31.870+00:002010-06-04T09:15:31.870+00:00The Old Politics - that's brilliant.
Daniel /...The Old Politics - that's brilliant.<br /><br />Daniel / Nick - fully agree that we could find 8-9 excellent female shadow cabinet ministers, but I don't think those are the most likely people to end up in the shadow cabinet. Agree on Jowell instead of Woolas, though!donpaskinihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05963534291677598324noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33451096.post-28324157746777272832010-06-04T09:03:04.501+00:002010-06-04T09:03:04.501+00:00Karen Buck is standing for Chair of the DWP Select...Karen Buck is standing for Chair of the DWP Select Committee, Dawn Primorolo will be Deputy Speaker. Not sure whether any new MPs like Margaret Curran or Cathy Jamieson would stand for Shadow Cabinet now, though both should in future.<br /><br />Yvette Cooper should be a cert for re-election under any system. <br /><br />Not sure if Joan Ruddock and Margaret Beckett might retire at the election - but I could be wrong and that shouldn't rule them out anyway - there's an important job to be done in opposition. <br /><br />On that note, one problem may be that the people who get in now will be the incumbents and then they might just stay, thus preventing some of the people you mention working their way up. <br /><br />I'd actually prefer a few to hang in there for a couple of years to give us time and space to develop the next generation. <br /><br />Also - Harman is proposing that we reduce the number of places elected to 16 to make it 8/8, not that half of the 22 have to be female. There are always some appointed places on top of the elected ones.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11941923462227797153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33451096.post-36555010916496988082010-06-03T20:44:18.813+00:002010-06-03T20:44:18.813+00:00i have a few suggestions for the shadow cabinet:
...i have a few suggestions for the shadow cabinet:<br /><br />joan ruddock, cathy jamieson, angela eagle, maria eagle, karen buck, margaret curran, margaret beckett, yvette cooper, dawn primarolo, rosie winterton.<br /><br />there will be some awful right wingers in the shadow cabinet anyway. give me tessa jowell over phil woolas any day.Daniel Blaneynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33451096.post-67047414975207092122010-06-03T19:01:06.592+00:002010-06-03T19:01:06.592+00:00We could just skip a generation.
http://theoldpol...We could just skip a generation.<br /><br />http://theoldpolitics.blogspot.com/2010/05/fantasy-cabinets.htmlOld Politicshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06477896294308974444noreply@blogger.com