Saturday, August 25, 2012

The ideal Cabinet re-shuffle

OK, so some of what follows is decidedly wishful thinking but without dreams ................

David Cameron is apparently contemplating a re-shuffle of the portfolio's of his ministers and so I offer the following:

There is an agreement to have 5 Lib Dems in the Cabinet.  Currently these are, Clegg, Davey, Cable, Alexander and Moore. 

The most obvious candidate for removal is Vince Cable.  This, frankly speaking, socialist anti-business Lib Dem cannot be left in charge of the Business portfolio.  Replace him with David Laws.  Most commentators view him as very capable and he has served his punishment for his expenses mis-demeanour's.  Cable will make noise from the back-benches but the sound might actually be less and get less air-time than emanates from him, today, where he regularly strays into areas outside of his portfolio and spouts off on things in a non-Coalition way.  He is not a team player!

Next, move Ed Davey from Energy and Climate Change to Culture and Media.  Davey cannot be replaced with the obvious candidate, James Delingpole, unless Delingpole is elevated to the House of Lords.  What a picture, springs to mind!!  The key is to get this ministry away from the 'green zealots'.   Note to Dave.  There are big votes in this.  Scrap the lunatic 'green policies' and we will see reduced fuel bills, all to the credit of the Conservatives!!

Kenneth Clarke out of Justice and replaced by David Davis.  Clarke is far too detached and still stuck in a pro-EU time-warp.  We don't need baggage like that, going into an election.

Andrew Mitchell - out of International Development - pushes a NGO agenda at a time when we simply cannot afford it.

Justine Greening -  out of Transport - she has funked the Heathrow Third Runway question and is pushing the seemingly uneconomic H2S or, as it is known in the Tory heartlands - the 'political suicide express' .  Replace with David Willets - Two-Brains might actually get engaged on a coherent and integrated policy.

Keep
Lansley at Health - these reforms need to be bedded-in and he is the man for the job.
IDS at Work & Pensions - No comments needed for a minister on the top of his game
Gove at Education - Same as IDS - taking no prisoners as he pushes through much-needed reform

With Lords reform now abandoned, this Government should not waste the talents of the Deputy PM.  So, given his enthusiasm for reform make him responsible for consulting on and then developing a policy for the reform of the relationship between the UK and the EU. 

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