By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982
UPDATE: David Miliband will not resign and does not agree with James Purnell's decision, he's said in a statement.
Rumours are spreading within the Party tonight that Andy Burnham, the Culture Secretary, is likely to resign from the cabinet over the next few days. He would be the sixth minister in as many days to step down after Work and Pensions Secretary James Purnell left the government tonight.
Meanwhile, Radio 5 and Sky News are both strongly hinting that David Miliband may also step down in the next few days.
Burnham and Miliband were both staunch Blairites during the 1990s.
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He didn't post again even though I begged him to :)
He did come on and change his original post though so I guess that's a tacit admission that it was racist to start with.
Maybe he's changed his name, have we had any 'new' Tories posting on here recently? I wonder :)
Perhaps there's a rota and it's shift change time.
Where's I Am The Resurrection gone? The Conservatives on LL always just disappear when they start looking daft, it's very annoying. Lighting the guns and running off home for their teas as ever!
PS I recall that Weller specifically wrote Eton Rifles about a group of Etonian schoolboys attacking people in a March for Jobs through Windsor in 1979 or 1980. Which was nice.
You have to feel a bit sorry for David Cameron this morning (October 8 2007).
Not only is the Conservative Party leader looking forward to at least two more years in opposition, but one of those pesky popular beat combos has made him look incredibly out of touch... again!
You would have thought “Daring Dave” would have learnt after his run in with Radiohead.
The Tory leader claimed that he wrote to the band ahead of a Friends Of The Earth concert and asked them to play ’Fake Plastic Trees’ for him and they duly obliged – cue the band strenuously denying any such dedication.
Then Cameron decided to have a pop at hoodies, blaming hip hop culture and earning himself a slap down in the process from Lethal Bizzle, who declared Britain’s would-be leader “a biscuit”.
Showing that he has in no way learnt from his past mistakes, today (October 8) The Sun’s political gossip column The Whip reports that he’s done it again, this time with The Jam.
The band’s bass player Bruce Foxton reveals: “I was just talking to David Cameron and he told me he was a fan of ’Eton Rifles’.”
Third time unlucky for the Tory leader.
You see, The Jam’s frontman Paul Weller wrote the song criticising the over-privileged who attend Eton School and then go on to dominate society all thanks to an accident of birth and the class system.
Fine, except an ex-pupil of that educational establishment just happens to be a certain David Cameron. D'oh!
Face it Dave - you and popular culture, it just ain’t going to happen dear.
Mixing pop and politics, he asked me what the use is,
I offered him embarrassment and my usual excuses.
Proper socialist that man :)
You know what Elizabeth My Dear is about don't you? Or did the meaning pass you by when you were listening to it aged 8.
Are you like Cameron - 'my favourite Smiths album is The Queen Is Dead, (hastily inserted) but I don't agree with the sentiment'.
Just so you know, you are allowed to be aware of bands that were around before you. Can I recommmend The Beatles as a good place to start.
I kind of guessed you were a Stone Roses fan but if you're going to express your devotion through your username (how sweet, have you got it on your pencil case as well) could I suggest you use capital letters otherwise it just reads like you've got delusions of grandeur.
I've lived in Leigh all my life, and Andy is the best MP we've ever had.
Pick up a copy of the Leigh Journal or the Leigh Reporter and read the letters pages if you don’t believe me.
Send them for a (show)trial in the highest court of the party apparatchik for the their blatant crimes against the party of the
wurkers.
Airbrush them from the history of the party. Condemn them to a life in exile if not the gulag. Class traitors and
crypto bourgeoisie repressors of the wurker..
(Although I think it would go a little too far to actually shoot them)
More than happy to take your word at constituency level, I also readily accept that doing "better than Jowell" isn't exactly impressive!
I realise that may sound very callous and cruel, but I don't mean it that way. I just think that with Hillsborough it isn't about money or blame, its about the families wanting to put this at rest in their own minds. And aweful as it may sound, if GB wants to grasp the issue to try and save his Premiership, then gladly. At least some good would come out of the recent political farce.
I thought we'd established I was a Stone Roses fan...never heard of Bye Bye Bad Man? Seriously...how apt??
Seems to me like Brown will be willing to hand out favours to anyone who'll be loyal right now.
As far as Andy is concerned though I think he genuinely went in there without a clue. I just wish he'd backed up his claims and forced the issue. Then I would have eaten my hat and apologised to friends and family for my past rantings about the man.
As for Andy Burnham: I can see his mascara running already...
You're a smart bloke though Bill, if no government minister turned up to the memorial service the criticism would have been they don't care etc etc.
The definition of a no win situation I think.
And if we're quoting song lyrics at each other try 'heavy words are so lightly thrown'.
Miliband wont though, he's a coward as proved by last year
I won't accept he's a coward without evidence though.
He knows Liverpool, would have well known that representing a government who refused a further inquiry into Hillsborough would get slaughtered at Anfield but still went when he could have ducked out.
He may be in-effective but I see no evidence to suggest he's a coward and unless posters on here have some, they shouldn't make the claim.
Why would I be on about Burnham? 1. We dont know what he'll do yet and 2. Seriously BURNHAM? Even his mum doesn't care!
And as for your other comments...I bear you no malice because...
I am the resurrection and I am the light
I couldn't ever bring myself to hate you as I'd like!!...Because you're not worth it my boy! Now go away and fiddle in the wilderness for a generation like a good boy!
Personally I would celebrate if he resigns his position. He shouldn't have the position in the first place as he hasn't earned the respect of the local people of his constituency. Let him posture for the sake of it and someone more deserving take the role.
This reinforces the 'correctness' of browns cuckoo activities in destroying any credible opposition for the past decade - it leaves the party with no one of ability, but also gives abbot (and other backbenchers) the cry 'but he is the best we have'.
I agree that he is the best that labour have - brown has made it so - but labours best is worthless.
He went to Anfield knowing he was going to get slaughtered by the Liverpool fans at the Hillsborough memorial and could have ducked out but he didn't.
Change your username you muppet, you're not the resurrection. You're not even the Second Coming and that's saying something.
There is simply no one left to govern the country. No one. Have some decency, Labour, and put Queen and country before your own narrow self-interest. Put yourself - and us - out of the misery of seeing our nation descend into political anarchy. Depose Gordon if you must, but whatever call an election now.