Cameron Shuffles A Marked Deck.

Its not as if David Cameron has much to work with to be honest or had much room for manouvre. Removing George Osborne from his job of strangling the British economy would have been an admission that Tory ideology is bankrupt. Moving William Hague would have meant putting another clueless member of the cabinet at the Foreign Office without his ability to speak in deep stentorious tones. Removing Theresa May would have meant admitting that their attack on the police and the Border Agency is a home goal of spectacular proportions. He did ask Ian Duncan Smith if he was tired of torturing the sick, disabled and unemployed but apparently not - he refused to budge. (Which makes you wonder how much authority Cameron actually has in the government). So it was Lansley, who failed to privatise the NHS without anyone noticing, who moved aside for - of all people - Jeremy Hunt, the man who failed to get Murdoch's BSkyB deal through without anyone noticing. Hunt also happens to be an enthusiastic supporter of homeopathy - healthcare by magic potion and mumbo-jumbo. The new Justice Secretary, replacing the Herman Goering of the Tory party Ken Clarke, is Chris Grayling who believes in slavery and thinks that proprietors of B&B's should be allowed to bar homosexuals from their premises. So we now have a new look cabinet that is pretty much indistinguishable from the last. It is still full of vicious ideologues and second-raters, the smug and self-satisfied dregs of humanity raised to high places.