Odd Timing

Ruth Kelly, the Poison Dwarf and Transport Secretary has resigned her cabinet post. It's most odd. The news "leaked" in the early hours of this morning. She's a hardcore catholic and word on the street is she was having trouble with her conscience over the embryology bill. Publicly she has said that she is stepping down to spend more time with the family. Timing is odd though. She has never been a Brown fan. At least she was always assumed to be one of those ministers that tolerated rather than supported him. No one seems to know where the leak came from, or at least, no one is saying. And it came just as Gordon was congratulating himself on his bacon-saving speech at yesterday's conference.

I can't say I thought that the speech was very effective. There was nothing very new in it. The surprise element of his wife coming on stage to introduce him won him a point or two, but none of the editorials this morning have dared to suggest that he is now safe.

Harriet Harman, foul woman, wound up the Labour conference with a speech in which she suggested there was something "not quite right" about David Cameron. Well that had substance. Care to tell us exactly what you mean by that Harriet, or was it just some desperate attempt at a witty put down? There have been a lot of personal attacks against the Conservatives during the course of the conference. I didn't notice much in the way of political fencing though. Lets wait and see what the polls have to say after the Conservative conference next week, and then make a judgement about who the public think is "not quite right" shall we.

There will have to be an election in the next 12-18 months, but it could be much sooner, and the government is trailing very badly in the polls. Thus, unless things change, there will be a lot of Labour MPs losing their jobs in the near future. I can hardly wait for the desperation and panic to begin.

I'm tired, very tired.