Saturday, 27 October 2007

The Non-Jobbing Enemy Class Part 2

Following on my previous post on Non Jobbing Enemy Class, I thought that another , shorter, more succint post might aid in revealing the non-job nature of our political class.

Currently in Her Majesty's Cabinet we have:

A TV journalist with a Phd in politics as Prime Minister.
A leftist student radical, lawyer and TV researcher in charge of Justice.
A lawyer in charge of the Treasury
A policy wonk in charge of Foreign policy.
A teacher in charge of anti-terrorism.
Civil Liberties legal officer and career MP in charge of Wimmin and Equality.
A university law lecturer in charge of business regulation.
A journalist and policy wonk in charge of schools.
A lawyer in charge of the military.
An IPPR policy wonk in charge of sport.
A policy wonk and career MP in charge of rural matters and farming.
A Tesco shelf stacker, postman and trade unionist in charge of health.
Friends of the Earth, Christian Aid, Oxfam campaigner in charge of universities, skills and innovation.
A policy wonk in charge of international development.
Tory turncoat with a butler in charge of Northern Ireland.
Economics Masters degree holder and journalist in charge of transport.
Anti-Nazi League campaigner in charge of pensions and Wales.
Journalist, speech writer and policy wonk in charge of the Cabinet office.
A trade unionist with an MA in English working at the Treasury.
A lawyer, and decade long MEP also working at the Treasury.
Economics graduate and policy wonk in charge of housing.
A social worker in charge of the Olympics.


8 comments:

Blognor Regis said...

Hey, there's nowt wrong with the shelf stackers.

John Trenchard said...

indeed no there isn't. salt of the earth and all that.

Anonymous said...

Milibands special adviser Sarah Schaeffer (ex independent,ex Director of the "Europe Program" of the Foreign Policy Center in London,worked for enis MacShane 2002-05 married to Mathew d'Ancona -Sunday Telegraph.

It's a funnly ole world.

Mark Wadsworth said...

Excellent stuff! (here via Vindico) I shall link to this.

Mark Wadsworth said...

... only it's "Her Majesty's" BTW.

dearieme said...

Well done. Mind you, some of them might have absorbed something about business life by growing up in a business family. I'd guess that probably, say, none of them did.

Thomas Gordon said...

Shocking John!

But what else do you expect from Za Nu Lab

John Trenchard said...

"... only it's "Her Majesty's" BTW"

oops. thanks. corrected that.

worst one for me is that social worker in charge of the Olympics.

yeah. that's really going to come in on budget and on time.... NOT.