The Worldly Experience of the Shadow Cabinet

Should anyone be interested, or perhaps wondering if Richard Littlejohn's description of the Shadow Cabinet, in the wake of Alan Johnson going, are now just "a bunch of weirdos who’ve never had a proper job in their lives", here's the run down of their worldly experience.

• Ed Miliband - Wonk/SpAd
• Harriet Harman - Political campaign lawyer
• Ed Balls - Leader writer (4 years), SpAd
• Douglas Alexander - Solicitor(six months)
• Yvette Cooper - Economic Journalist (2 years)
• Sadiq Khan - Political campaign lawyer
• Jim Murphy - Student politics
• John Denham - Student politics, political advocacy.
• Liam Byrne - Merchant Bank (Rothchilds), Accenture consultant
• John Healey - Trade Unions
• Andy Burnham - SpAd
• Caroline Flint - Local Government
• Maria Eagle - Solicitor
• Meg Hillier - Journalist (not for long)
• Mary Creagh - Charity work
• Shaun Woodward - BBC researcher/producer doing crap telly.
• Ann McKechin - Solicitor (7 years)
• Peter Hain - Trade Union researcher
• Ivan Lewis - Voluntary sector campaigner
• Tessa Jowell - Social worker and administrator for a charity.
• Angela Eagle - Trade Union
• Baroness Royall of Blaisdon - SpAd
• Rosie Winterton - SpAd, lobbyist
• Hilary Benn - Trade Union
• Lord Bassam of Brighton - Social worker, professional squatter
• Baroness Scotland of Asthal QC - Political campaign lawyer
• Tony Lloyd - Lecturer (2 years), MP for 28 years

A wealth of experience in the real-world that they wish to have power over you have to say. Genuine men and women of the working people, and in no way a "bunch of weirdos who’ve never had a proper job in their lives"!

Ironically, the MP who attends the Shadow Cabinet meetings but is not a member of it, Jon Trickett, fairs much better, he was a builder and plumber for twelve years between 1974 and 1986.

Source: Wikipedia

UPDATE: Working on the actual Cabinet too, coming shortly.