Comments on: Ken Clarke and the Kings of the Jungle https://jamescousins.com/2009/12/ken-clarke-and-the-kings-of-the-jungle/ A (micro.)blog without a purpose. Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:06:41 +0000 hourly 1 By: Weekly wrap-up, 4 December | JamesCousins.com https://jamescousins.com/2009/12/ken-clarke-and-the-kings-of-the-jungle/#comment-1243 Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:06:41 +0000 http://jamescousins.com/?p=2742#comment-1243 […] I’ve already blogged A few of the things I have already blogged about, I attended a fund-raising dinner with Ken Clarke on Monday and spent time with the London Fire Brigade on their fire safety visits on […]

]]> By: James https://jamescousins.com/2009/12/ken-clarke-and-the-kings-of-the-jungle/#comment-1242 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:21:16 +0000 http://jamescousins.com/?p=2742#comment-1242 In reply to Lobbydog.

Did I claim the Shadow Cabinet was full of big beasts? If anything, I said just the opposite in the penultimate paragraph when I stated: “opposition doesn’t produce big beasts, and it will be interesting to re-visit this a few years into a Cameron government.”

Blair had a Shadow Cabinet of unknowns in ’97 because they were all opposition politicians. My central point is that after 12 years in Government Labour have a remarkable weak Cabinet. I don’t think, as a Conservative, I’m throwing stones in a glass house saying that.

]]> By: Lobbydog https://jamescousins.com/2009/12/ken-clarke-and-the-kings-of-the-jungle/#comment-1241 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:10:41 +0000 http://jamescousins.com/?p=2742#comment-1241 Those in glass houses, James. As a non-aligned animal I can say objectively that many people wouldn’t even be able to name four members of the shadow cabinet. Take out the four they might – Cameron, Hague, Clarke and Osborne – and you are left with the likes of Villiers, Grayling and Lansley. Need I say more.

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