Rats being thrown off the sinking ship
Jacqui Smith - the Home Secretary - is to resign (or more accurately be sacked) next week.
The current cabinet is:
Delete the words Rt Hon as a start, but post-reshuffle how many of them are going to be left on board the Flying Dutchman as it sails eternally around the Cape of No Hope under the esteemed Captain Broon?
Then take away those who are standing down at the next election and work out just what the chances are of coming up with a coherent team with any ability, credibility or interest in anything other than saving their seats.
It leaves Pa Broon heading into ignominious defeat and the pre-death experience of the House of Lords with a second-stream team, and only the Lord "Guacamole" Mandelson surviving the inevitable defeat just like a turd floats to the surface.
It's not going to pretty to watch, but it is going to be fun measuring the despair and desperation o0f the new Cabinet.
The current cabinet is:
| Prime Minister, First Lord of the Treasury and Minister for the Civil Service | Rt Hon Gordon Brown MP |
| Chancellor of the Exchequer | Rt Hon Alistair Darling MP |
| Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs | Rt Hon David Miliband MP |
| Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor | Rt Hon Jack Straw MP |
| Secretary of State for the Home Department | Rt Hon Jacqui Smith MP |
| Secretary of State for Health | Rt Hon Alan Johnson MP |
| Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform | Rt Hon Lord Mandelson |
| Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs | Rt Hon Hilary Benn MP |
| Secretary of State for International Development | Rt Hon Douglas Alexander MP |
| Secretary of State for Defence | Rt Hon John Hutton MP |
| Leader of the House of Commons and Lord Privy Seal | Rt Hon Harriet Harman QC MP |
| Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government | Rt Hon Hazel Blears MP |
| Secretary of State for Transport | Rt Hon Geoff Hoon MP |
| Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families | Rt Hon Ed Balls MP |
| Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change | Rt Hon Edward Miliband MP |
| Secretary of State for Work and Pensions | Rt Hon James Purnell MP |
| Secretary of State for Northern Ireland | Rt Hon Shaun Woodward MP * |
| Leader of the House of Lords and Lord President of the Council | Rt Hon Baroness Royall of Blaisdon |
| Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport | Rt Hon Andy Burnham MP |
| Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills | Rt Hon John Denham MP |
| Chief Secretary to the Treasury | Rt Hon Yvette Cooper MP |
| Secretary of State for Wales | Rt Hon Paul Murphy MP |
| Secretary of State for Scotland | Rt Hon Jim Murphy MP |
Delete the words Rt Hon as a start, but post-reshuffle how many of them are going to be left on board the Flying Dutchman as it sails eternally around the Cape of No Hope under the esteemed Captain Broon?
Then take away those who are standing down at the next election and work out just what the chances are of coming up with a coherent team with any ability, credibility or interest in anything other than saving their seats.
It leaves Pa Broon heading into ignominious defeat and the pre-death experience of the House of Lords with a second-stream team, and only the Lord "Guacamole" Mandelson surviving the inevitable defeat just like a turd floats to the surface.
It's not going to pretty to watch, but it is going to be fun measuring the despair and desperation o0f the new Cabinet.
7 comments:
Great news. Good riddance, Jacqui ID!
The New Labour project is finished. Period.
I'm sure the next cabinet meeting will be more like the Mary celeste to continue with your boating theme!
Angus you will also have to be a bit careful with your analogies 'only the Lord "Guacamole" Mandelson surviving the inevitable defeat just like a turd floats to the surface' because the cream also rises to the top!
Mendelsom as our leader now their's a thought that would certainly set the zealots all of a quiver. Can you image it when he goes to meet the Queen? Newspaper headline Old Queen meets New (Lab)Queen
Maybe he meant curds because they do too, as does sour cream, fungi and all manner of other unsavoury objects. The unfortunate thing is that any or all of these imbeciles replacements won't be much better. I always thought the Sex Pistols anthem of anarchy in the UK was well ahead of its time......
Time to start crossing them out Angus
friday Mid Morning
On the boating theme
Broon is now rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
And the SNP is rearranging them on the Tartanic
And Salmond is rearranging them on the Tartanic
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