Cameron's Cabinet Of Losers

What a difference a week makes.

No more than a few days ago the possibility of a 'rainbow' coalition, led by Labour and the Liberal Democrats, was still likely.

However such an arrangement was lambasted by the Tory Party and their friends in the Press as being a coalition of 'losers'.

Now, of course, David Cameron and Nick Clegg have got their wish and we have Conservatives and Liberal Democrats sitting side by side in Cabinet; people who were at each others' throats a few short weeks ago.

But, in this poor economic climate who has Cameron picked to carry out two of the most important jobs in Government?

At the Foreign Office, we now have William Hague.  A man who, in 2001, led the Conservatives to almost their worst poll defeat in living memory. Who can forget his pathetic, one-issue 'Save the Pound' election campaign? Now he is in charge of one the four Great Offices of State.

And at a time when unemployment is going up and dealing with the economy is the number one priority, who do we now have running the Department of Work and Pensions?  None other than Iain Duncan-Smith, who was so ineffectual as Conservative Leader, that he was unceremoniously dumped by the Party after just two years.

What's more, Ken Clarke, who held the posts of Chancellor, Home Secretary and many other positions in Cabinet and is so associated with the discredited last years of the previous Conservative government,  has now been made Justice Secretary.  Is this who we now have responsible for Law and Order in this country?

And is if that wasn't bad enough, many veterans of the Shadow Cabinet now have Government jobs.  Theresa May, who once described the Tories as the 'nasty party', is a prime example.

So much for Cameron's talk of a fresh team.

If the Tories want to talk about a Government of losers, then they should definitely look closer to home.