Are we being governed at all? At the moment the Government seems petrified in the lights of the scandal that have overwhelmed Westminster and seems incapable of frankly anything. Jacqui Smith going as Home Secretary (about time - now for the people of Redditch to evict her as their MP) only indicates how bad things have got. Brown must be desperate if he considers that appointing Ed Balls in Darling's place will only make things worse: he is probably loathed by certain parts of Labour as he is by the Tories. he is a truly divisive character - having associated himself with Brown for so long that he is seen as his his henchman - the remaining Blairites really detest him.
The problem now is what to do?
Brown - as his is right (and indeed as John Major did) - will hang on until the last possible moment for an election but the damage that that will impart is massive.
No Labour MP will support a No-Confidence vote (although it would send a massive shot across Brown's bows) and Brown is not the type to just go to the country. The country will not accept a second unelected PM (despite all the constitutional point about electing the party and not the PM) so Labour will know that attempting to usurp Brown will just cause their own downfall.
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