The Old Crowd

TGF UKIP

The greater the liar, the more chance of a job.

Trouble is, the public have forgotten the number or detail of the lies and the the Cameron carefully calibrated nice guys certainly ain't going to trouble them by indicating just what a sleazy, venal, dishonest shit Blunkett really is.

David

Q: Did the Prime Minister bring David Blunkett back into the Cabinet because he thought his history of sexual scandals might deflect from Lord Mandelson's financial ones?

A: 3 million unemployed, 15% interest rates...

Matthew Blott

I'm not sure Alistair Campbell left under a cloud, if he did, what was it?

Pete Hoskin

Matthew: True, Campbell seemed to resign of his own volition. But I think that - rightly or wrongly - many connect him with the events surrounding the Hutton Inquiry, which was ongoing at the time of Campbell's resignation. That was the cloud I had in mind.

Nicholas

As Home Secretary Blunkett was one of New Labour's early authoritarian pioneers. I was once in the audience when he gave a talk on law and order and I thought then that he seemed a bit like someone from a dais overlooking the Nuremberg Arena.

These Labour gauleiters have real form as extremists. The chips on the shoulders and the fanaticism are still there. Looks like Herr Brown is preparing the national socialist ground to deny us our GE. Ein reich, ein volk, ein fuhrer, eh?

Kevyn Bodman

On another thread I said that Vince Cable had not 'disgraced himself' with his opinion on the Barclays bank re-financing.
Now here is a chance to use the word 'disgrace' more appropriately.
Mandelson and Blunkett both disgraced themselves in office.
Brown's judgement in bringing them back, if Blunkett comes back, is very poor.

Pat

All we need now is for the Noble Lord Blair to return to Cabinet.

Once in, and with the assistance of the Noble Lords Mandelson, Prescott and Blunkett, Phase 2 of the Strategic Overthrow of Brown (or, as it is quaintly known, OPERATION WATSON-SIMON), the full circle of 'Newest Labour' will be complete.

The late Ralph Reader CBE would be pleased. The Gang Show is coming Home.

Mike, Brighton

Brown would be nuts to bring back Blunkett. Blunkett went quite insane in the latter part of his time in office (affairs with married women, chasing after said woman's child then proven not to be his (see play "Who's the Daddy?"), fast tracking nannies visa, paying for married woman's travel from his parliamentary travel allowance, allegedly providing police protection for married woman, investing in company who's share price was linked to home office contracts and so on).
You could not bring Blunkett back without hearing the sniggers from the back.....

Chuck Unsworth

So, 'The Disgraceful Cabinet', then.

Why does Brown think it clever to rub the public nose in it like this? Why does he think that the voting electorate might regard these mountebanks and charlatans as worthy members of Her Majeasty's Government? Which other disgraced politician is to be elevated to The Lords or reinstated in the Cabinet?

These people have zero credibility and/or integrity. Britain is a banana republic. We are a laughing stock.

John

Seems obvious to me: gearing up for a snap election.
Everywhere you look, suddenly, Brown says this, Brown says that, Brown is everywhere.
Singalong...Things can only get worse(r)

Austin Barry

This is awful. Why doesn't Brown just disinter Robert Maxwell, John Stonehouse and Tom Driberg, prop them up at the Cabinet table and have done with it. The smell couldn't be any worse.

EyeSee

Campbell resigned just after Dr David Kelly was found dead (it would appear inaccurate to call it suicide). An event presaged by Campbell's fury at having a tiny dent placed in his ego, by a story accurately depicting how he pretty much wrote the dodgiest of dossiers about WMD's that no-one thought Saddam had.

MartinW

Blunkett is invariably given a completely uncritical 'free ride' by the BBC, who treats him as some kind of saintly guru. It may be that cynical NuLab think this might give them an advantage in the run-up to the general election. But for me, a contant diet of Blunkett on Radio 4 is a nightmarish prospect

The Laughing Cavalier

so, McStalin makes a pact with the neo-fascists of the Blair era. It's the stuff of nightmares. Blunkett wasn't dubbed "Bonkers" for nothing.

The Laughing Cavalier

What does one have to do nowadays to be judged unfit for office?