Twice if not more, this blog has pointed out\u00a0to Ed\u00a0that his top team were all in the wrong jobs and\u00a0he has now acted. Good for him. The new line up is much better and will make politics much more lively.\u00a0Ed\u00a0Balls is currently\u00a0the best advocate for Labour’s economic policy, which is one, nevertheless, with which this blog is in\u00a0profound disagreement.<\/p>\n
Alan Johnson, who seemed an inspired choice at the time,\u00a0disappointed in his role from the very beginning, by saying, then showing, that\u00a0he knew nothing about economics. I suspect he disappointed himself. He is a good man. We hope, after a rest, he will be back. Yvette Cooper vanished into her Foreign Affairs shadow. She will be happier as shadow Home Secretary.\u00a0 Her replacement, Douglas Alexander, will be jolly boring. But Labour’s record at foreign affairs, with its endless wars and military adventures half baked and ill equipped, is even worse than its no more\u00a0boom and bust spectacular.<\/p>\n
Having said those nasty things, we think\u00a0this is a much more credible Opposition now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Twice if not more, this blog has pointed out\u00a0to Ed\u00a0that his top team were all in the wrong jobs and\u00a0he has now acted. Good for him. The new line up is much better and will make politics much more lively.\u00a0Ed\u00a0Balls is currently\u00a0the best advocate for Labour’s economic policy, which is one, nevertheless, with which this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malcolm-blair-robinson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2979"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2984,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2979\/revisions\/2984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}