Blair the butcher?

Just a comment on the recent re-shuffle. Lets face it he didn't really cut hard enough - Charles Clarke had to go, but will John Reid last very long - he's had about one job a year in the past nine years. Was Jack Straw demoted because of past errors rather than being a bad Foreign Secretary? But hey Margaret Beckett - the first female Foreign Secretary - that deserves one cheer at least! Lower down should Patricia Hewitt have been cut as well? I think so. Why move Ruth Kelly - should Education have this constant changing of Secretary of States? And my local MP Stephen Timms moves from being Pensions Minister - and the average holding of that post is now only 8 months - when Pensions deserves long term attention. It must take six months for the new postholder to understand the brief let alone do something about it. But congratulations Stephen you're now in the Cabinet.