The fresh shadow chancellor’s speech in Brighton was full of the very things his predecessor,Ed Balls, had been promising for years Ed Balls probably wouldn’t have chosen Len McCluskey for his warm-up act, or but otherwise the fresh shadow chancellor could well have been reading large chunks from his predecessors conference speech in Manchester final year. No rants and only a few gentle threats to Corbyn refuseniks to step in line – Margaret Beckett looked as whether she was actively trying to airbrush herself out of the conference platform. This was to be a speech of peace,love and solidarity.
Earlier in the day John McDonnell had tried to dampen down expectations by promising to be stupefyingly boring and talking as whether he was an old fashioned bank-manager. This was his one concession to old Labour politics, as the 1980s was probably the final time anyone actually heard their bank manager speak. Or even knew they had one. These days Captain Mainwaring works in a call centre along with every almost other bank worker.
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Source: theguardian.com