Stunning failure of judgement

I find it difficult to disagree with William Hague today as he lambasted the Prime Ministers ' stunning error of judgement' in appointing Mandelson back to the cabinet. Brown has faced condemnation both from within his party and outside I particularly liked the quote from Nick Clegg's chief of staff Danny Alexander - "Resurrecting ex-ministers from the political graveyard is not going to breathe new life into Gordon Brown's zombie government."

Scandal prone Mandelson must be leaving Labour spin doctors shaking as they wonder what will force him to resign this time, will it be financial, immigration related or something similar to the 2004 scandal. Mandelson appears to have been appointed as a ploy to unite Blairites behind Brown, siphoning off governmental posts to placate your rivals is not a good way to run a country. It is high time that Labour stopped the quarreling within their party between the Blairites, Brownites and left so that the government may focus on the nations not inconsiderable problems.