Milliband’s Poisoned Chalice
The elections for the Shadow Cabinet have meant that both Yvett Cooper and her husband, Ed Balls, are both up for plum jobs.
If I were Ed Milliband, I’d have hoped that one wouldn’t have got elected, as there is nothing worse, than to have husband and wife in the same meeting arguing from different sides. Say you decide what should be done and agree it with the husband, as it’s his brief. But if the wife disagrees, she’ll use all her feminine charms to change her husband’s mind and you have to go through it all again. It would also work the other way round, if you’d agreed it with the wife and the husband reasserted his male instincts.
There are endless scenarios and you can understand why some companies don’t like employees to have relationships stronger than friendships! I also speak from personal experience, which probably meant that one of my projects wasn’t as good as it should have been!
The Anonymous Widower 
I too didnt like that idea, indeed the two Miliband brothers standing against each other bothered me. And in my ward, of the three local councillors, two are husband and wife, but dont have the same surname so may people dont realise it!
Even recruiting volunteers, if two family members applied together, they were never interviewed together and were not generally able to volunteer together either.
Comment by Liz P | October 8, 2010 |