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They will not be missed.

     http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/ed-miliband-accused-of-lurch-to-the-left-as-he-demotes-blairites-liam-byrne-and-stephen-twigg-in-shadow-cabinet-reshuffle-8864773.html Blow for Blairites: Liam Byrne and Stephen Twigg lose frontbench jobs Byrne and Twigg have gone.They will be missed about as much as a severe hang over. There are still more of the Blairites and Brownites remaining in the PLP who should be removed as soon as possible. Byrne you may remember was the shadow minister who "instructed" Labour MP's to abstain on the Work Fare vote and thereby assist Iain Duncan-Smith to vote through a retrospective change to the legislation and justified his actions by stating that, " sanctions are vital to give back-to-work programmes their bite". What is this man doing in the Labour party in any case?

It is not just a seating plan that is needed.

  http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/apr/27/ed-miliband-plans-autumn-reshuffle?commentpage=2 Ed Miliband prepares Labour for major autumn reshuffle Miliband warns frontbench team that some 'need to make their mark'   In addition to "re arranging the deck chairs", Miliband should also look at policies. No matter which faces occupy the front bench, a party which acquiesces to changes in the law following the "Poundland Workfare" judgement, allows wholesale privatisation of the NHS with barely a whimper, when in office did nothing to amend or repeal the anti trade union legislation of previous Tory governments, did not role back and in some cases even increased, the insidious expansion of privatisation, will never be taken seriously as a radical reforming party. There is no mention emanating from Labour, of any plan or idea on how to rein in the excesses of the bankers or how to expand public sector programmes for social housing or infrastr...

Difficult if not impossible choices.

  http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/sep/02/david-cameron-shakeup-reshuffle#post-area  Prime minister hopes reshuffle allied to growth plan will boost coalition's fortunes. How will replacing (reshuffling) one set of self centered numbskulls with another set of the same intellectually challenged dim wits make one iota of difference to the people of this country? Cameron must be faced with difficult choices as he scrapped the bottom of the barrel to find the current incumbents in the first place.