James Purnell ?the out of his depth back stabber quits? Blimey!

[thebeard]

Much as per Hazel Blair good riddance to bad rubbish.

He appeared to be short of a few marbles if you ask me, very robotic and not too clever maybe?

Brown can only blame himself for allowing these people to rise to such heights.

The Germans did it in the 30s.

The pity is he may have struck a blow which will leave us all with a far more incompetent government than the one we already have.

Run by

Alan Johnson! OMG.

[louisiana]

Bets on the date of the next general election?

[vinceayre]

May 6th 2010

[bon3yard]

No matter how misguided, Labour dont tend to oust their leaders. Had he been a Tory he'd have been kicked overboard a long time ago.

[woofmarkthedog]

However that was then but this is now. Labour in its drifting right may adopt another Tory "quirk" yet....

W**F

[Tony.London Suburbs]

Poor Old Jimmy.

Probably made a pact with Hutton/ D.Miliband et al and once he was out the dor they closed it behind him!

Then Hutton left for "other" reasons and Caroline wanted to see what she was offerred b4 she left....:))