Liberal Burblings

The BBC reports:

…former CBI head Sir Digby Jones is to be made minister for trade promotion…Sir Digby is to be given a peerage and will have to join the Labour Party in order to serve as a minister.

So, you have to join the Labour party in order to join the “government of all the talents”.

Er?

This is just a week after Brown offered Ashdown a cabinet post – presumably Labour membership wasn’t a condition in that case…or was it? Was the offer to Lord Stevens conditional on that crusty old conservative (or Conservative?) joining the Labour party?

I am confused. We appear to have witnessed a U-turn.

The “government of all the talents” appears to be a recruiting scheme for the Labour party , under a different name. I knew that Labour had haemorrhaged members by the thousand, but this is ridiculous.

And has Sir Digby Jones previously expressed any Labour-leaning sentiments? Not according to fellow Midlander John Hemming MP.

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