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Tuesday 25 May 2010

How's the Labour leadership nominations going? (Update 25.05.10 pm)

Movement!

As of 17:30 update today:
Diane Abbott - 0 (no change) - will anyone nominate Diane or are they waiting for Harriet Harman to pluck up the courage to stand instead?
Ed Balls - 14 (up 7)
Andy Burnham - 8 (up 5)
John McDonnell - 0 (no change) - Not looking good for poor John
David Miliband - 37 (up 1)
Ed Miliband - 41 (up 2)

So let's have a look at the nominating MPs again. Who has plumped for Ed Balls today?
He's nominated himself! Ed Balls is so desperate for some momentum that he has nominated himself; excellent. And he's managed to persuade his wife to do the decent thing and nominate him too, I wonder what he's had to promise her in return for that?

Also:
Jim Cunningham - Former PPS to Harriet Harman and Mike O'Brien, not much else of note

Mike Dugher - the man with the Ray Reardon haircut - New MP but prior to his election was the Chief Political Spokesman for the Prime Minister Gordon Brown

Helen Jones - Ex government whip under Gordon Brown and latterly promoted to Vice-Chamberlain of the Household

Diana Johnson - Another former government whip under Gordon Brown and someone with an even smaller majority than Ed Balls

Kerry McCarthy - Another former government whip under Gordon Brown and currently under police investigation for revealing on Twitter the number of postal votes cast for each party before the election day

So today seven more people nominated Ed Balls: himself, his wife, three former whips under Gordon Brown, Gordon Brown's former Chief Political Spokesman and one other MP. Can you feel the distancing form the old regime? Can you believe in the momentum?

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