Well, you would expect 'Cain' Miliband to have a keen sense of self-preservation. Anyone who can stick it to his own brother must, there-after, have an exquisitely sensitive spot between his own shoulder blades. Consequently, moving his Balls, so to speak, to shadow the Foreign Office and the Home Office, respectively, and thereby keeping them both well away from the Treasury, surely the key portfolio for the immediate future, was shrewd. Mind you, if I was him I would consider asking MI5 to bug the Balls' kitchen where, I guess, the preliminary plots and plans to bring down Miliband have already been discussed. Or put it this way, if the MI5 bugs indicate that Charlie Wheelan has been invited to dinner, chez Balls, 'Cain' had better start wearing a bullet-proof vest!
Also, a very shrewd move to put 'Postman Pat' Johnson in as shadow chancellor. He is your archetypal 'ordinary bloke' and as it is going to be ordinary blokes who, by and large, are going to feel the lash over the next few years, his voice will resonate with them. Clever, Eton-educated Georgie Osborne, the rotter from the Sixth Remove, will no doubt run rings round him on the technicalities of high finance but ordinary blokes don't understand any of that, they will just listen to 'Postman Pat's' plain English complaints and identify with him. If Osborne has any brains he will not patronise or underestimate Johnson.
As for all those ghastly 'wimmin' (see previous post), well, honestly, just for a minute, I almost felt sorry for poor old 'Cain'!
If clever Georgie Osborne was "Eton-educated" he must have done it as a correpondence course.
Posted by: dearieme | Saturday, 09 October 2010 at 00:34
Oops, thanks DM, should have checked - mea culpa and all that sort of thing!
Posted by: David Duff | Saturday, 09 October 2010 at 18:44