Public want Cable as Chancellor

An interesting new survey just out from Politics Home who have found that Vince Cable has emerged as the public's preferred choice to become the next chancellor.

Thirty one per cent polled said that Cable was the best candidate for the job whilst Ken Clarke was favoured by 16 per cent to return as chancellor.

Lagging well down the pecking order,George Osborne with 12 per cent and current Chancellor Alastair Darling.

More from the bunker

The Downfall video's continue.

This time David Cameron is not happy with Ken Clarke's interjection on inheritence tax and it appears that George Osborne calculates policy using crayons

Howard the next beast to return?

Over at Independent minds,which by the way is becoming one of my top reads,Andrew Grice speculates that another of the big beasts may be returning to the shadow cabinet.

According to Andrew

Step forward Michael Howard, the former Tory leader, who employed Cameron as his political adviser when he was Home Secretary. Howard is standing down as MP for Folkestone and Hythe at the election but could be made a peer and parachuted into the Cabinet.

Possible-well after Ken Clarke's return,I suppose anything is.

Michael Howard certainly did a good job whilst in temporary charge of the party.His legal background gave him the ability to quickly analyse and respond.The only time,Tony Blair was seriously rattled on the floor of the Commons was when he told him that this grammar school boy would not take a lecture from a private school boy.

The Tories are still short of some of the big guns needed,so why not.

A question of West Lothian

The West Lothian question will no doubt dominate the airwaves today as former Tory Chancellor Kenneth Clarke produces his solution to the question of Scottish MP's voting on matters that are purely English in nature.

Clarke appeared on the Today programme earlier trailuing his much previewed solution which involves a complicated structure of who can vote at which stage of the bill.

According to Clarke, who recognised that the Tories held up devolution for two long,the measures are needed before we have a crisis built up over English resentment.

Of course the main stumbling block in all this is the fact that we have a Scottish Prime Minister representing a Scottish constituency whose pet projects are the very issues where Scotland has a degree of autonomy.

The Conservatives no doubt sense the inequality more than Labour and these proposals will be seen as an attempt to redress what the Tories see as an imbalance of regional voting patterns.

It should though be remembered that even without Scottish MP's the Labour party has a majority of MP's in England alone.