Poor Alistair

I still believe that Gordon Brown really wanted to keep the Chancellor of the Exchequer position within the family (as it were) and appoint Ed Balls to the position when Tony Blair finally resigned. Gordon Brown realised that this would be too obvious a promotion too far, too soon and so appointed a malleable alternative. The trouble is that the job is an impossible one, virtually any criticism of the present Chancellor of the Exchequer is by extension a critiscism of his long serving predecessor. THe BBC Toady programme got into a bit of a linguistic minefield over this area this morning when Robert Peston was spouting rubbish just before 08:00.

I read in the Mail this morning that Benedict Brogan has his own theories, do read the article...