Elections and the new Cabinet

Disaster for Labour, lost all the councils they held. I can't see it being that much better in the Euro elections.

However, what I really have a problem with is the fact that the Business Secretary (who's been given a "super-Department") and the Transport Secretary are both unelected officials. Surely all Cabinet Ministers (except obviously The Leader of the House of Lords) should be MPs not Peers. More to the point another two peers are being created (Lord Sugar and Baroness Kinnock). Surely Brown didn't have a problem finding MPs who are faithful to him to fill two of those positions - Transport Secretary and Europe Minister.

After these disastrous results and the refusal of Brown to admit any fault on his own part he is a "lame-duck" Prime Minister and the sooner he goes to the polls the better. He must know that in a General Election whether or not his is the Leader of the Party the Tories are going to win (probably by a Landslide).