Whoop dee do I look forward to that annoying, “if I blink more it means I’m right” look she employs… bleugh….

In today’s news:

Property prices drop £6,000 in a month
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/8047902/Property-prices-drop-6000-in-a-month.html

This was the headline in the Financial Times on 28 June 2006 – a year before the financial crisis broke:

“Fears over surge in high risk mortgages”
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e8f9d3b2-060e-11db-9dde-0000779e2340.html

Nearly two years further on, this was the headline on 8 April 2008 when the financial crisis was already well underway:

“Lenders withdraw no-deposit mortgages”
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/dd76f4f2-04d6-11dd-a2f0-000077b07658.html

Yvette Cooper was the minister responsible for housing 2005-2008 in John Prescott’s department.

How depressing that so many names are recognisable from the bad days under Brown. I guess the choice was pretty limited to start with and I suppose part of the renewal process is to have a couple of years of the old, rubbish MPs before others start to make their faces known.

Personally, I found Cooper to be intensely patronising, a trait she shares with many other politicians (because, of course, they know best) but I didn’t mind her husband so much!

Sounds like she’ll be bring a softer and pinker approach to the nastly old male-dominated political sphere! On a serious note, I like the look of this list in general.

Shadow cab official results just in:

Yvette Cooper: 232 votes

John Healey: 192 votes

Ed Balls: 179 votes

Andy Burnham: 165 votes

Angela Eagle: 165 votes

Alan Johnson: 165 votes

Douglas Alexander: 160 votes

Jim Murphy: 160 votes

Tessa Jowell: 152 votes

Caroline Flint: 139 votes

John Denham: 129 votes

Hilary Benn: 128 votes

Sadiq Khan: 128 votes

Mary Creagh: 119 votes

Ann McKechin: 117 votes

Maria Eagle: 107 votes

Meg Hillier: 106 votes

Ivan Lewis: 104 votes

Liam Byrne: 100 votes

from: http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2010/10/john-healey-balls-votes-cooper

Cooper is hugely popular, it would seem.

I don’t know much about this process. Where’s Harman?

@6

Guaranteed a place because she’s deputy leader and that position wasn’t being contested.

This to me says that those who vote on lefty blog polls are not representative of the Labour party. Which isn’t a huge shock, but still.

It also says that no one likes Ben Bradshaw, mind.

I’m greatly saddened to see that Diane Abbott didn’t make it to the shadow cabinet.

“Guaranteed a place because she’s deputy leader and that position wasn’t being contested.”

Personally, I would be really disappointed to be denied the opportunity to not vote for Harman.