Osbourne as chancellor

[expat]

I think you have all assessed the options comprehensively.

Now I'm really depressed.

[Doggy Styles]

I said what I thought about Osborne here. Bit unkind I know, but it's how he comes across to me at the moment:

He's got to go. No credibility, no ideas, no vision.

But I don't see Cameron ejecting him.

If he did, Ken Clarke can never do that job for the tories. Vince Cable has been great for exposing Brown's weaknesses in parliament, but even if he were to join a tory government, I suspect he'd be a disaster as Chancellor.

Davies or Hague have enough gravitas to make a fist of it, but it might require a right barstard that we don't know about yet. As someone said, the next ten years will require a long term plan to turn around the mess we're in, with a lot of hard and painfull decisions.

The Chancellor will have to do the sort of things for which Thatcher is still villified today. Worse perhaps. It has to be somebody very strong and single minded.

[expat]

Portillo will come back

[thelace]

Portillo will come back

Then we really are DOOMED!

He could bring Lamont back to help him?

[bogeyman]

Then we really are DOOMED!

He could bring Lamont back to help him?

The last thing we need is another financially-incompetent badger in the HOC.