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Sunday, May 06, 2007
I Feel a Fisk Coming On...
Coming later.... a fisking of THIS article by Melissa Kite in the Sunday Telegraph on a Shadow Cabinet reshuffle. I reckon know who the source is for most of it, and it's one of the more ridiculous pieces of speculation I've seen in months.
Iain Stability is what's required now - something that GB will be yearning for over the next 6-months. DC should wait and see what GB does before he even thinks about a re-shuffle. I agree with Kite that Clark, Gove, Kirkbride, Grayling & Spellman need recognition. However, a few doubts over Petsy's ex!! Leave Fox where he is - I heard him after dinner at Nottingham - excellent!! The only question with Hague is, how do we use his speaking skills to greater effect? ST
Whenever the new Shadow Cabinet is announced, it should contain plenty of the new faces who have been making the running and proved their talents.
Cameron has paid his dues to the older big beasts, and it really is time that Fox, Willetts, Letwin etc were moved over. I've nothing against them, but they've lost their hunger for attack.
The intellectual abilities of Willetts and Letwin are too powerful for them to be out of the main strategy planning team. DC will keep them as counterweights to the good public performers like Hague.
5 comments:
Iain
Stability is what's required now - something that GB will be yearning for over the next 6-months.
DC should wait and see what GB does before he even thinks about a re-shuffle.
I agree with Kite that Clark, Gove, Kirkbride, Grayling & Spellman need recognition. However, a few doubts over Petsy's ex!!
Leave Fox where he is - I heard him after dinner at Nottingham - excellent!!
The only question with Hague is, how do we use his speaking skills to greater effect?
ST
Fox is gone. Trust me on this. It has been on the cards for months and timing has been the only issue.
Amazed you haven't heard this yet Iain. But it is 100%.
Whenever the new Shadow Cabinet is announced, it should contain plenty of the new faces who have been making the running and proved their talents.
Cameron has paid his dues to the older big beasts, and it really is time that Fox, Willetts, Letwin etc were moved over. I've nothing against them, but they've lost their hunger for attack.
Fox has never impressed me and he's been pretty ineffectual in Defence.
The intellectual abilities of Willetts and Letwin are too powerful for them to be out of the main strategy planning team. DC will keep them as counterweights to the good public performers like Hague.
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