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Brown's government even further right than Blair's
It certainly looks like it, most of the remotely "lefty" people in the cabinet have been moved off, and today Brown has finished appointing his junior ministers, some of which aren't even in the Labour Party, a few examples:
We've got Sir Ara Darzi, health minister. Admiral Sir Alan West, Home Office minister, Lord Stevens advisor for international issues. Lord Malloch Brown, Foreign Office minister for Asia, Africa and the UN. Lord Lester advising constitutional reform.
Best of all Sir Digby Jones, formally of the CBI now trade minister. Labour's Fightback has the scoop on this guy, who is rather well known among the labour movement - for all the wrong reasons.
Blair announces plans to resign as Labour leader
No real surprise. He'll meet the Queen on June the 27th to hand over his resignation as Prime Minister and will stay on as Labour leader until the Labour Party elects a successor.
For the fools that voted for the Tories at the recent elections, just think how worse off we'd be if the Tories were in power the last 10 years. The public services would be gone; the NHS would have been dismantled instead of having record levels of investment. There would be no minimum wage and the rich would be even richer, and there'd be no peace in Northern Ireland.
So long Mr Blair. Now Michael Meacher needs to back off, so John McDonnell can bring the left of the Labour Party to take the leadership and bury the Tories at the next election.









29th June 2007 21:38:31, 112 words, 730 views