Alan Johnson quits...

[max_tranmere]

Shadow Chancellor Alan Johnson has resigned from Government because of personal reasons. He will get ?20,000 today for leaving and by the middle of next week will be earning a packet from lots of ridiculously paid private sector work he will pick up by cashing-in on contacts he made whilst in front-line politics. I wonder what these 'personal reasons' were. I always thought he would look perfect wearing a pork-pie hat playing the piano in an East End pub with a roll-up hanging from his bottom lip. lol. Will anyone miss him? I don't think I will, and I'm amazed how much coverage this has got on the news today, and will continue to get later tonight and tomorrow. From the amount of coverage you would think someone from the Government had quit.

[David Johnson]

Max,

"by the middle of next week will be earning a packet from lots of ridiculously paid private sector work he will pick up by cashing-in on contacts he made whilst in front-line politics.

You are off the pace, Maximilian. Your intrepid undercover of the night reporter, David DJ Johnson has broken this bit of news.

http://bgafd.co.uk/forum/read.php?f=3&i=241358&t=241353

"From the amount of coverage you would think someone from the Government had quit."

Well, there is a lot of confusion out there, amongst ministers never mind Joe Public.

Saw an interview between Andrew Neil and Alan Duncan, the Tory bloke who moaned about being forced to live on "rations" to an undercover reporter after the MP expense row broke. In that interview, Duncan, now Minister of State in the Department of International Development, corrected Neil when Neil referred to Labour's John Denham as Shadow Secretary of State for Business by telling Neil to take the "Shadow " out.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-12227632

It comes to something when the people in government can't remember they are in fucking government!!!!!

Cheers
D

[muswell]

Somebody had to say it!

[Arginald Valleywater]

And now we get Gordon Brown's chief tagnut remover as shadow chancellor, Harvard Educated like most Nu Labor millionaires....have they nobody better?

I actually liked Johnson, he came over as an honest bloke and if he has gone for genuine family reasons then I admire his values.

[number 6]

""like most new labour millionaires""...more bollocks. Take out the millions blair has made and mandelson ,who else in the last 13 years of labour has been a millionaire? Most labour MPs came from working class backgrounds and public sector jobs,they are not and were never milionaires.

[BeestonBoy]

number 6 wrote:

> ""like most new labour millionaires""...more bollocks. Take out
> the millions blair has made and mandelson ,who else in the last
> 13 years of labour has been a millionaire? Most labour MPs
> came from working class backgrounds and public sector jobs,they
> are not and were never milionaires.


Mohammad Sarwar?

An estimated 16 million pounds in cash and assets....

Discuss

[Alex L]

Oh....and Shaun Woodward

[David Johnson]

Or he would be in for a right slagging off on this forum.

http://bgafd.co.uk/forum/read.php?f=3&i=240734&t=240734

Cheers
D

[BeestonBoy]

David Johnson wrote:

> Or he would be in for a right slagging off on this forum.
>
> http://bgafd.co.uk/forum/read.php?f=3&i=240734&t=240734


Waiting for the great leap forward?