All smiles for Yvette Cooper
Fraser Nelson 8:05am
I've been in Westminster since 6.30am, a time when anyone awake is crying out for coffee and looking like death. But two metres in front of me now stands the biggest smile I have seen all day. Yvette Cooper was careful not to beam as much on camera, but was a ray of sunlight as she came bouncing up the stairs to the Sky News stage (where I have been doing a paper review). She is tipped for a big job today - probably DWP - and what a day, I suspect, it will be for the Balls-Cooper axis.
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Boudicca
June 5th, 2009 8:17am Report this commentWhat a grotesque parody of a Government.
Helene Davidson
June 5th, 2009 8:21am Report this commentThis is truly fantastic news. We will now have Ed Balls and Yvette Cooper right in the spotlight, two people who increase support for the opposition (ALL of it, Tory, LibDem, Plaid, SNP etc) just by opening their mouths.
On a more serious note, any prime minister with the interests of the country at heart would have chosen the revolver and brandy over the appointment of a croney cabinet. But it is no more than we, the voters, have come to expect of this unelected mismanager of our future.
William Henry Thomas
June 5th, 2009 8:29am Report this commentWhat a ghastly prospect. Luckily it won't last long. The PM might reflect on how this political upheaval is adversely affecting the value of the pound.
Ray
June 5th, 2009 8:30am Report this commentI imagine rather like the gleeful countenance of Heinrich Himmler when he finally got his hands on command of the Wehrmacht in 1945.
Balls-Cooper will probably make about as much difference to the fate of the Labour Party as the bespectacled chicken-farmer-cum-SS-Reichsfuhrer did to the fortunes of the Third Reich.
Ann
June 5th, 2009 8:32am Report this commentSo - has-beens, toadies and nepotism-wallahs.
Truly a "Labour" party.
The electorate will consign this bunch of crooks, thieves, incompetents and illiterates to the opposition for a generation, just as soon as we get a chance to do so.
dorothy wilson
June 5th, 2009 8:32am Report this commentAnd that shows, only too clarly, the extent to which Brown is having to scrape the bottom of the barrel in his attempts to survive.
Nicholas
June 5th, 2009 8:33am Report this commentIt cannot be healthy - or good for democracy - for a husband and wife team to be holding two major cabinet posts.
The plot thins.
Andy Leeds
June 5th, 2009 8:41am Report this commentYou poor sod: having to get out of bed so early to cover this shower. Go have breakfast. You are wasting your time covering this farce.
Vulture
June 5th, 2009 9:07am Report this commentRay is right -the Balls-Cooper duo have been inhabiting Planet Bruin for so long that they have inhaled the same noxious delusion gas as their dear leader. It truly is the last gasp for the reality deniers.
They will be in office just long enough to order a new consignment of paperclips.
cuffleyburgers
June 5th, 2009 9:25am Report this commentWhat depresses me is that there is a chance Brown might fall now, but I bet there will still be no election.
Pundits have been saying for months that they couldn't foist another unelected PM on us, but as far as I can see there is no actual mechanism for forcing one.
We know these clowns have no respect for protocoll, precedent, unwritten rules etc so how is it going to happen?
Tandy
June 5th, 2009 9:58am Report this commentI agree with many posters. This couple are pure poison. He is absolutely thick.
HJ
June 5th, 2009 9:59am Report this commentI'd like to see Yvette Cooper given a high profile position.
Once the public becomes aware of her vacuous "because it's the right thing to do" line that she endlessly parrots in answer to any challenge to her position, then it will finish her political career.
Victoria Meldrew
June 6th, 2009 12:35am Report this comment'I Cannot Believe It'
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