Caroline Flint not trusted by Brown

Caroline Flint would be hard pressed to convince me that she was an upstanding and honourable woman at all times. She comes across mostly as a woman with pent-up grievances, just bursting to be amplified. So is it any wonder that she muses to herself that Gordon Brown didn't really trust her? "I don't think he trusted me and we never got a chance to really get to develop our relationship".

There has to be some trust at the highest level otherwise it all implodes. Currently, Brown is weathering a constant squall rather than a storm. Austin Mitchell thinks he looks knackered. Whatever one's opinion of him as prime minister, Gordon Brown should not have to be up by five and in bed past midnight. That's no way to carry on.

Patricia Hewitt is the latest female who feels that Brown has disadvantaged her. I can't think why. Ms Hewitt has had plenty of scope to strut the national stage, cobbling together all kinds of dodgy political deals, like the cheesy handout to Rover just before the last election. Hewitt is a dissembler par excellence, so maybe that's why she is not wanted.

Hewitt goes on to say, "Gordon Brown's inner circle has always been small, almost entirely men and as far as I can see really rather laddish in its culture". A real put down. In all this feminist rant stuff that Hewitt spews out every six months, she cannot see that possibly, just possibly, it's because she can't really be trusted.

Back to Caroline Flint who has a name to go with her style. She says of Brown, "I don't think he really knows me and what makes me tick." Did it never occur to you Caroline to let him know what makes you tick, or was he supposed to be a mindreader? Come off it, your demeanour says a lot. Perhaps for starters you could tone down the grumpy harlot image and just try to be nice, ordinary and pleasant for once?

Caroline Flint's foul mouth

Gordon Brown was right to sack Caroline Flint. The woman has done this country no favours in her ministerial "career". Her absurd attack on the Prime Minister just proves the point. And, yes, he may be grumpy and bit gauche around women, but he is certainly no misogynist. She branded Gordon Brown a 'f****** b******' as she stormed out of Government in anger at his 'sexism', it has been claimed. That sexism she calls "window dressing". She says the PM used women as 'a smokescreen, a way of making it look like you've got a lot of women around the table' while giving them little influence. How she thinks the country can fall for that rubbish beggars belief.

Caroline Flint is a woman who thinks highly of her own abilities. She appears to be (I take from the Farage comment) a curious hybrid, part temptress, part machievellian schemer. Basically, a woman to be given a wide berth, which is precisely what Gordon Brown has done.

Every time she comes on Question Time, her lips curl in snide ripostes to the audience. She definitely has a massive chip on her shoulder. Ex-MP Oona King, Gordon Brown's former aide, said it was 'absolute nonsense' to suggest he had a problem with women. She also accused Ms Flint of exploiting her sexuality. She said, "She shocked a lot of women in the party by often posing in a fashion that implies she's more interested in the way she looks than the policies she presents." Touché

Chipmunk gophers Gordon's nuts!

Hazel Blears has decided that the time has come to take a gouge out of Gordon, politically speaking of course. Today she has resigned from the Cabinet as Communities Secretary in order to spend more time in her community, namely Salford. Yesterday it was the Home Secretary, tomorrow will it be someone else. Not Geoff Hoon, because he hasn't got the scruples or even the photo montage kid, James Purnell, who is equally guilty of expense immorality. These two, though, have not done anything to upset the Presbyterian Conscience. Hazel did, even though her misdemeanors were so similar as to warrant a forensic examination to spot the difference.

So, Hazel has gone. This government isn't imploding, it's exploding. It's more like a firecracker with lots of little explosions. Those explosions get bigger by the day.

PMQs is coming up soon. I'll be watching to see how it all goes for the Prime Minister. Watch for a lot of gulping air from him and glum faces from those behind him. Jack Straw's face is the one to watch. If he doesn't look supportive, I reckon he will be choosing the words to use when he tells Gordon that the game's up!

Caroline Flint's on Question Time!

I can't wait! To see the public have a go. This woman wants to be taken seriously, but, seriously, is she serious when she poses like this and then says men shouldn't say anything untoward about her! WOW!!

New Labour asylum has restless inmates!

There was a saying that "the inmates have taken over the asylum" meaning that the leadership was of poor quality, so much so that even a person with diminished mental faculties could be perceived as doing better. New Labour has been a party of intellectual spivs cosying up to anyone with a low threshold for financial and moral integrity. Hence the insatiable desire to be seen with money launderers, bogus banking bosses and the more seedy side of life. William Booth once remarked that the Devil shouldn't have all the best tunes, so he took the tambourines and trumpets out into the streets for good rousing Christian singing. I'm the first to acknowledge that the Devil has the best ways to an easy life. He's very good at manipulation, very good at deception and top of his game at temptation.

Do I judge them all for wanting easy credit to flow, for everyone to have jam today? No, but I do want them at least to admit that all these dodgy dealings over the last two years have been based on a bubble of hot air. Instead of coming clean, the New Labour cabinet is beginning to show signs of a pub brawl in the making. Harriet Harman has been simpering in the corner, plotting on the one hand, issuing easy denials on the other. Added to this mix is the Hell's Angel and biker supremo, Hazel Blears. Now she knows how to rev up a machine, and the New Labour machine has been running on a chemical concoction unknown to mankind, so she is trying to make sure no proper petrol gets near it. I see all the signs of an imploding punch-up on its way.

And are there any serious journalists out there who could possibly think Yvette Cooper could replace Gordon Brown as Prime Minister? This is not CBeebies!