Someone really doesn't like Douglas Alexander
James Forsyth 3:43pm
Last Sunday, The Observer suggested that Douglas Alexander’s political career was effectively over after a falling out with the Prime Minister. This Sunday brings another anti-Alexander briefing with The News of the World reporting that he’s been dubbed ‘worst minister ever’ at DFID and that when the cabinet split up into break out groups, a Stephen carter innovation, Alexander was the last to be picked.
The string of stories in recent days about divisions within the Brown camp shows that the tensions between the old Brownites and the new Carter-recruited team are a potentially lethal threat to Brown’s premiership. But the briefing against Alexander seems more likely to be a product of tensions amongst those who have been with Brown for a long time.
These private feuds going public all adds to the feeling that the Brown government is stumbling, directionless and on the way out. If Brown is to fight his way back, he’ll need to restore internal discipline first.
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Bernard from Horsham
March 30th, 2008 4:15pmRestore internal discipline.... fat chance of that!!
Trumpeter Lanfried
March 30th, 2008 4:44pmWhat's DFID for God's sake? I can't keep up with all these acronyms. Whatever happened to the Board of Trade?
Dr Blue
March 30th, 2008 5:12pmIt's good to see this incompetent and useless government falling apart.
It would be good to get rid of them before they can do too much damage to the country.
Perry
March 30th, 2008 5:19pmNever mind the 'Ooooohh . . . you bitch' stuff . . . he only looks a child . . . and the (real rather than imaginary) experience that equips him for a post in or at DFID is . . . ?
Kevyn Bodman
March 30th, 2008 7:17pmThis behaviour is absurd, and disgraceful.
Briefings against colleagues, public gossip, badmouthing rivals. I don't want a government run by a bunch of posturing teenagers.
Wouldn't it be nice to have a Cabinet of confident adults,each with a basis of real-world experience, who want to get on with the job instead of positioning and worrying about whether didagreements with the PM would end their career?
Well, that's my Sunday fantasy. On Monday I'll have to face reality again.
Chuck Unsworth
March 30th, 2008 9:21pmSomeone?
er, Someone?
No,
Everyone!
This man has the physical attributes and the mental capacity of a petulant schoolboy. When did he form the impression that he is, somehow, a Minister of State?
Cyber Nat
March 30th, 2008 9:25pmI'm surprised it's taken them this long to realise what Dougie is really like.
GS
March 30th, 2008 10:08pmIsn't it marvellous to see these dopes fall apart? Happy days are here again.
John
March 31st, 2008 10:45am"Last to be picked" - that is funny. Did they all line up against the wall like little boys playing football in the playground? Who were the captains? Did one group have to brainstorm in skins?
PS. Douglas Alexander is David Muir's favourite politician...
John A Clifford
March 31st, 2008 5:59pmDouglas Alexander is my MP and a more decent and astute man you will never meet.