Ding Dong, the Witch is dead!

Jacqui Smith has announced she's standing down as Home Secretary next week. Good, she has jumped before she was pushed, hopefully this is just the first government minister to go as the whole rotten deck of cards come tumbling down. Expect her to be joined by Blears and Darling (Can't see him accepting a demotion to another department). Let's hope Gordon follows her soon as well.

If the labour party won't push him, the motion of no confidence is looking inevitable. Gordon picked a silly time to snub the queen didn't he?

Update


Tom Watson is standing down from the cabinet as well, so he can spend more time with...Gordon? The question is, will he get a turn to play with farmy farm?

Update II

Looks like a dissolution motion will be tabled on Wednesday. Details will follow shortly.

Urgent Stock trading tip

Buy Nokia, I repeat...'BUY NOKIA!'

IPSOS MORI poll in has Labour on 18% tied with the Lib Dems and Conservatives with a 22% lead. Schadenfreude...what a brilliant word!

The People's Politician

No real political point to this post, just a massive doff of the cap to the irreverant genius that is Boris Johnson. Why use a few words to call Simon Heffer a big girls blouse...when several hundred would do it so much more eloquently.

Read this column and appreciate.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5419788/MPs-expenses-Everything-will-be-all-right-when-Simon-Heffer-rides-to-the-rescue.html

When Boris eventually steps back from politics there is little doubt he will become a chatshow fixture and a raconteur to rival the great Peter Ustinov. I admire David cameron greatly but what I wouldn't have given to have Boris just once question Gordon Brown at the despatch box. I'm sure Gordon's head would have possibly exploded trying to unravel a pithy putdown delivered in a mix of English, Greek and Latin. Once his time as Mayor of London is up can't we persuade him to relocate to the principality? First Minister Boris Johnson has a nice ring to it...and the people here would certainly pay more attention to the dross (sorry, meant debate) than we presently do here in Wales.

Gordon finally locates his Balls

So Alistair Darling is for the chop apparently and is going to be replaced by Ed Balls. Why was the country never informed of Gordon's prevelance for smoking crack? I hope it happens. The sooner Balls is in place, The sooner Gordon gets toppled by the few sane members left in the cabinet and the sooner we get the General Election we need. Let us pray!

McBride didn't work alone

I've noticed the Mail on Sunday's frontpage, desperately trying to add Cameron to the troughers hall of shame.

The gist of it is :-

Cameron's main residence is in London and has always been his main home since well before he came to parliament.

He claims the ACA for his constituency home in Chipping Norton (As this is what the 2nd homes allowance was created for, no wrongdoing here)

Just because Cameron and his wife are well off doesn't mean they should be expected to fork out for the constituency home. Cameron in fact did place £300,000 of his own money in capital against the property and a further £100,000 which reduced the cost of the interest payments. The main crux of the story seems to be Cameron is a millionaire, he shouldn't claim for this, yah yah, old etonian toff, etc.

This has the whiff of number 10 all over it. It must be hurting them so badly that he's come out of the expenses affair squeaky clean with his reputation enhanced, unlike Brown who has serious questions to answer even if the mainstream media seem content to gloss over his own playing of the system.

Paul Dacre's tongue must be lodged so far up Gordo's back passage I'm surprised there's any room left for Ed Balls.

PS. 3 posts in a day, I must be going barmy.