IMHO Mr C is right. "The devil you know, rather than the devil you don't" springs to mind. Maybe Sir Jock has made a sensible suggestion.
Brown and Co don't give a buckled fart for us anyway, and he could well give us Harriet Harperson, Ruth Kelly or Hazel Blears! Arrrrrrghhhhhhhhhhh
Nowt wrong with a lady SecDef, of course, as long as it's Maggie T.
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