Fancy helping Ed Miliband at PMQs - £66,000 job on offer
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The appointments come amid disquiet from Labour MPs about Ed Miliband's performance as their leader. Some of his performances at PMQs have come under particular fire.
So I thought it was interesting to note that one of the key responsibilities for the new job is:
Here are the other specific responsibilities:
Provide strategic leadership and management to all policy functions with the party,
including Leader's Office policy team, HQ policy team, and for the policy work of political
advisors and related functions.
Work closely with the Director of Communications and other senior leadership positions in the Labour Party to ensure the Party's policy and message is consistent with the direction set by the Leader and Shadow Cabinet and in line with the Party's values and policy making process.
Ensure delivery of effective Labour Party systems to respond rapidly to the Government's policy agenda.
Establish a rapid rebuttal function to allow the Party to respond quickly and effectively to
claims made about the Party's policy positions.
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First thing to do would be to phone up one of the vulture ambulance chasing legal firms and put in a claim against whoever treated Ed for his nasal vocal quality. If that story was true then he has a prima facie case for negligence!
On the face of it there would seem to be huge opportunities for point scoring, especially at PMQs, seeing as the opposite benches are filled with a hastily cobbled together coalition made up of people with supposedly hardly any common values. Driving divisions into that should be child’s play to any competent politician.
Maybe the real problem is the current penchant for electing career politicians who have never really had proper jobs like the rest of us and so have little understanding of what we find important or not. Preferring a sound bite to a sound principle has resulted in ineffectual leadership throughout and because of that they need to offer jobs such as this.
This stuff should be coming out of the soul not some spin doctors annotations.