Osborne On The Ropes And Miliband Duffied

It is now open season on Osborne. Iain Martin was always against him even as shadow Chancellor. Others have more recently come out against him too but perhaps none with as big a clout as Trevor Kavanagh of the Sun. However perhaps surprisingly, surprisingly to me since I had thought with his complaint about Osborne doing too many jobs Tim Montgomerie of ConservativeHome would be happy for him to drop one - even the Chancellorship, Montgomerie believes Osborne should be left in place and I must say I agree with him for the reasons given here. This does not mean that Osborne should not reduce his other roles in particular so that he may concentrate as a matter of urgency over the recess on producing a growth plan along the lines referred to in my previous blog post. Once he's done that and if if he wants to, he should be allowed to go after Balls and the rest of the Labour leadership. Ed Miliband has opened up a goal wide enough for millions of points to be scored against him as a result of his attendance at the Durham Miners Gala this last weekend at which he ignored the questions of a 14 year old boy, all caught on video. If you haven't seen the video it's captured in this piece from the Commentator blog here. The 14 year old's surname is Duffy as was the surname of the lady into whom Brown ran before the last election with unfortunate results. One wonders whether in future all Labour leaders will need to make sure they never get near anyone called Duffy, at least if a camera or or microphone is present also. Brown as you will remember was caught calling Mrs Duffy a bigot having forgotten to switch off his mic when he got into his car following her question to him about immigration. The joy of it all and which Cameron is bound to make much of at PMQs.