When George Lucas was making Star Wars: The Return of the Jedi, the working title for the film was actually “Revenge of the Jedi” (indeed this appeared on many of the early posters). In the end, Lucas rejected the word “revenge” as he felt it simply wasn’t the Jedi way.
In recent weeks we’ve seen repeated media stories that Jeremy Corbyn is planning a “revenge reshuffle”. A variety of sources, some of whom have been attributed as being “aides” to Jeremy or those “close” to the leader have apparently stood up speculation that Hilary Benn, Rosie Winterton, Maria Eagle and me (amongst others) are all for the chop for not voting against extending military action from Iraq into Syria during the recent free vote in the Commons.
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