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The latest shadow cabinet rankings – Good news for Burnham, Cruddas and Benn

September 14, 2012 2:44 pm

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No reshuffle from Ed Miliband (so far), so the shadow cabinet remains as it was a month ago (with one exception), but there have been some changes in the shadow cabinet rankings, as voted for by LabourList readers. Andy Burnham continues his undisputed reign as darling of the party faithful at the top of the shadow cabinet tree, with Jon Cruddas close behind.

Hilary Benn is up into third this month – his best ever performance – and as she leaves the shadow cabinet Dame Tessa Jowell shoots up 4 places to depart as a top ten ranked shadow cabinet member. There has been some trading of places at the other end of the table, but the bottom eight remains much as it was last month. And Ivan Lewis and Liam Byrne continue their unwanted record of propping up the rest. They’ve been marooned at the bottom now as long as Burnham has been on top.

The full table is below, with changes since last month.

1	Andy Burnham	(-)
2	Jon Cruddas	(-)
3	Hilary Benn	(Up 3)
4	Yvette Cooper	(Up 1)
5	Chuka Umunna	(Down 1)
6	Tom Watson	(Down 3)
7	Ed Balls	(-)
8	Rachel Reeves	(-)
9	Harriet Harman	(Up 2)
10	Tessa Jowell	(Up 4)
11	Sadiq Khan	(Down 2)
12	Douglas Alexander	(Up 1)
13	Angela Eagle	(Down 3)
14	Maria Eagle	(Up 1)
15	Emily Thornberry	(Down 3)
16	Jim Murphy	(-)
17	Vernon Coaker	(Up 3)
18	Owen Smith	(Up 1)
19	Jon Trickett	(Down 2)
20	Liz Kendall	(Down 2)
21	Mary Creagh	(-)
22	Margaret Curran	(Up 1)
23	Michael Dugher	(Down 1)
24	Rosie Winterton	(-)
25	Stephen Twigg	(Up 1)
26	Caroline Flint	(Down 1)
27	Ivan Lewis	(-)
28	Liam Byrne	(-)

517 of you voted in this month’s survey – thanks to everyone who voted.

Serbitar

Liam Byrne is consistent.
Brumanuensis

Give Liam a wooden spoon. He’s earned it.

I see Dame Tessa has got an Olympic bounce to match Boris’s.
AlanGiles

Ivan Lewis fiddles while Liam Byrnes, once more.
- Brumanuensis
  
  I think you should be banned for that pun, Alan. There’s no call for that sort of thing.
http://twitter.com/redrenie24 Renie Anjeh

I think LabourList should follow Lib Dem Voice and use their polling for members only. Clearly we have people coming along on LabourList voting for irrelevance. Use of membership numbers would be a good idea.
- AlanGiles
  
  If you don’t like or approve of something it should be stopped?.
  
  The world doesn’t work like that. We have freedom of speech, so that means others have the right to say what they like, just as you so often do on here, Renie. If you don’t like it, you could always leave us.
  - http://twitter.com/redrenie24 Renie Anjeh
    
    And I have the right to voice my opinion that the poll should be restricted for party members.
    - Serbitar
      
      Vote early, vote often.
    - Alexwilliamz
      
      By extension perhaps you feel the site should be for members only. The purpose of this poll was to reflect what LL readers feel, actually including others even tory trolls might give us a wider idea on how the shadow cabinet is perceived. I’m pretty sure in the past that Mark often drills down to what the labour party members voted, I’m guessing he does that when there is a significant discrepancy, or else what is the point of me filling in the bit about which clp I am part of??
    - Serbitar
      
      You sound like an active member of the New Labour Taliban.
- Brumanuensis
  
  It’s not that hard to forge a Labour membership number, Renie, so I’m not sure that that can be implemented.
  - AlanGiles
    
    True. It is a very simple matter to fool the internet. It wouldn’t be impossible for people to post under more than one name. for example. Sadly there are a lot of jokers around.
    
    Anyway, in this instance, I doubt that every Tom, Dick or Harry is voting in the monthly poll just to embarrass some of the more mediocre members of the shadow cabinet.
  - http://twitter.com/redrenie24 Renie Anjeh
    
    Lib Dem Voice find a way of conducting their polls for members only. That should be the same for LabourList otherwise you will get trolls who will come up and vote for nonsense. I want a more an accurate poll and I think most readers do.
    - Brumanuensis
      
      But have we got any evidence that the poll is being skewed by non-Party members?
      - http://twitter.com/redrenie24 Renie Anjeh
        
        You know full well that many members do not vote on this poll but those don’t. Also, you do open the door to ‘skewing’.
      - Brumanuensis
        
        I’m sure some non-members vote on the poll, but in the absence of hard data, it’s difficult to know one way or the other.
      - Brumanuensis
        
        I’m sure some non-members vote on the poll, but in the absence of hard data, it’s difficult to know one way or the other.
    - rekrab
      
      Have they got any members left? ouch!!!!!!!
    - NT86
      
      What makes you think this poll wasn’t an accurate reflection of what the readers think? Just because someone you happen to like wasn’t ranked as high? You know, the entire world of Internet users don’t read this site so your protests are a bit exaggerated.
      - Brumanuensis
        
        They don’t? You mean I’m not famous?
      - Monkey_Bach
        
        Didn’t you used to be Brumanuensis? Eeek!
      - Brumanuensis
        
        They don’t? You mean I’m not famous?
    - Serbitar
      
      There’s less than a quarter of a million Labour Party members. To win a general election, as far as voting goes, it’s not Labour Party members that matter but non-Labour Party members. Hence the necessity of unbiased open polls. You certainly are a strange and pugnacious little fellow aren’t you? How many times did you vote for Liam Byrne yourself I wonder? Only to see him come bottom of the list yet again? C’est la vie.
    - http://twitter.com/waterwards dave stone
      
      “vote for nonsense.”
      
      Didn’t notice that option…
      - rekrab
        
        If I can dream!
        
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmM9miPLCEg
      - rekrab
        
        If I can dream!
        
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmM9miPLCEg
      - rekrab
        
        If I can dream!
        
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmM9miPLCEg
Peter Carabine

As Education enters a critical stage this Autumn in terms of Gove’s reduced opportunities for 6th formers ( with AS Levels & all Unit exam resits likely to be abolished) ; we need a politician who can re-assure schools and parents and teenagers that Labour will not lightly take this return to a 1960s elitist A level model & the the end to the meritocracy which has evolved over some 40 years. Its quiet at the moment but parents will get angry when these proposals sink in.
markfergusonuk

If the party gave us access to members data then that might happen. At present it’s a moot point. ConHome use the same model as us.
- Serbitar
  
  Perhaps this site would be better without comments altogether; it seems to me that only about fifteen or twenty people ever bother to express an opinion more often than not nonsensical. Why not simply turn down the knob marked “weird” from eleven down to zero and dispense with the comment stream altogether. LabourList is all heat and no light these days, let alone enlightenment!
http://twitter.com/doktordunc Duncan Hall

Where’s the backbencher result?

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