btw ed balls is a hugely over-rated politician, people talked about blair and appoint his advisers like adonis to ministerial roles…..at least adonis was effective, balls is nothing short of smug, useless and unable to extract himself from the reality that he is an education minister, not a “minister for all departments”

brown’s troubles would be well served by a reshuffle, promotin johnson to chancellor, ditchin darling amd moving john denham back to the home office and jacqui smith out of it……

one interesting point, blair had a reliable list of people that trotted out when there was a crisis, brown is facing a series of crisis and the only minister regularly speakin in his defence, is david miliband…..where is his john reid, patricia hewitt, john prescott, stephen byers, alan milburn, jack straw? straw has certainly been the most noteable absentee from the tv studios…….