Showing posts with label Reshuffle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Reshuffle. Show all posts

Friday, 5 June 2009

Punch and Judy Politics

It appears that the British public will get what they want, another dose of Punch and Judy politics. Firstly we get NoLab and now we are getting Cameron and nothing changes. We hardly know what David Cameron stands for but off they go like lemmings voting for a party we were desperate to be rid of 12 years ago.

Meanwhile the scale of the NoLab meltdown and the lack of LibDem progress has frankly astonished me! How can the public believe that the Conservative Party are not just as guilty as the others of swindling the public purse. Somehow David Cameron has convinced thousands of people that his moat cleaners, manure spreaders and house flippers were not as guilty as the NoLab cabinet members.

Meanwhile Gordon clings on stubbornly refusing to answer questions from the press at a press conference and doggedly repeating the same old mantra. They will have to pick him up and carry him out of Number 10.

His much vaunted 'reshuffle' collapsed when the two people that he really wanted rid of, Alistair Darling and David Milliband 'refused' to go and he didn't have the courage to get rid of them. All around him Ministers are resigning but on and on he goes even though they have lost (currently) 290 County Council seats. NoLab do not now have a single Council throughout England. To anyone else it would be a catastrophe, a signal from the public that they don't want him but he just doesn't care. In fact he just ignores democracy but then what is new from him.

He has now stuffed the Cabinet with many people of a previous dubious past and has had to turn to the House of Lords to fill the many positions vacant after the plethora of resignations. I look forward to the many challenges from the back benches.

Wednesday, 3 June 2009

The Reshuffle

Predictions are dangerous because unless you are really in the 'know' then there is a very good chance that you will end up with egg all over your face. That is of course unless you are in the Racing Press who write articles day after day on the merits of horses who ritually fail to live up the expectations of their hopes.

Gordon Brown has a major problem on his hands. He cannot find a Home Secretary! Jacqui has (thank God) followed so many other NoLab Home Secretaries. In fact they have never had an MP who has been able to cope with the office and that is no surprise. The job has always been too big for anyone other than Superman.

He also has two Cabinet Ministers who he really wants to replace but Alistair Darling and David Milliband do not want to stand aside for Ed Balls and Peter Mandelsson. Now this is the crunch because Gordon is a ditherer. He is not a man of courage and so he must choose between the immovable and the intractible. This is what you get if you are indecisive.

I dread to think who we will get as Home Secretary after Gordon's reshuffle because he has few options. This is not a joke appointment it is crucial to the security of the country. He has hundreds of MPs to select from but they are not suitable. Has there ever been a more a greater indictment on the paucity of talent on the NoLab benches.

Everyone knows that Gordon is a loser. They do not want to be associated with him. He cannot have a reshuffle because nobody wants to be shuffled and all those he wants to reshuffle don't want to be shuffled. It is a mess created by indecision and a total lack of leadership.