Front bench dream team

I'm another fan of Rachel Reeves, TerriBull. I really rate her and in fact had a £1 bet on her to be the next PM after Cameron (100/1). It was foiled by his resignation of course and as you say, she's not been in the national news much lately.

Dennis could not and would not be impartial ?

There are some characters of our generation that it would be a shame to lose.

I did toy with the idea of Dennis Skinner for Speaker as he has a loud voice and is not afraid to speak up, but then again, he might have a problem with being politically impartial, so perhaps not.

Rachel Reeves, where's she gone these days? keeping a low profile, I really like her, Liz Kendall, Chukka and of course Ed, Balls, that is, all love him now I don't feel qualified to suggest which Ministry should be assigned to them, other than Chancellor for Ed I imagine.

Jo Swinson (LD) Minister for JUstice - she doesn't want to build new prisons.

kitty, I hove hopes for Stephen, he was honest the day of the local elections results to say it was a disaster for labour

How about a few more women ladies

Not forgetting Ed did Strictly as did cable ?

I liked keir starmer as dpp and thought he was very 'sensible' but he seems to have come over all dreary lately.

Steven kinnock
Dan Jarvis

I doubt Ed Balls would have a problem with tv, he was shadow chancellor , yes oposition best place for May ?

I wasn't mocking Yvette, Annie. I actually like her. I just thought that I might already have seen her hubby on the One Show, so he'd have no problem with that.

I have another suggestion you might prefer -Theresa May for Leader of the Opposition. She might be better at asking questions than she is at answering them.

Tim Farron definitely lacking in charisma for me...

And Yvette is quite capable of standing in her own two feet, pity mocking has come into a good thread

Sorry, not Farron for PM, as much as we can say personality doesn't come into it, it does

Vince Cable for Chancellor of the Exchecer. (PhD in Economics, Glasgow)

Chukka Umumma for Business Secretary. (Very smooth looking city type)

I'd rather have Tim Farron as PM. (youngish, charismatic leader of centre / left party).

Yvette Cooper could be DPM (I'm sure her hubby would be happy to appear on tv with her)

Might she not go a bit too far though and either ban or tax to kingdom come anything with an engine or a chimney? The Greens are a bit too idealistic for me.

We can probably agree that we don't want Diane Abbott for anything!

We haven't got education and chancellor sorted

I agree about Caroline Lucas, she'd be an asset.

Sorry Angelab, X posts

So true Ana, those three are a nightmare not a dream .

I am undecided about Starmer Daphne, we know little of him, he has only been a MP for two years

Frustrating, there are so many good labour MP's

Caroline Lucas - green. Environment

I heard Caroline Lucas from the Greens the other day and thought she sounded v impressive - Environment?

Keir Starmer is in the Shadow Cabinet - I'd have him.

And we don't want any of them in our Dream Team!

Daphne, I have no idea who the shadow cabinet are with the exception of McDonald, Abbott and Thornbury