I'm bored. My ratings for the cabinet so far:
CON Cameron: Decent statesman but tries to be all things to all people. Embarrased of his upbringing and has made a lot of mistakes in appointments (Coulson etc). 5/10
LD Clegg: Good statesman but has allowed himself to become a hate figure for those that don't understand his reforms. I like him a lot but I don't think he'll last the spring. Probably better suited to a Foreign Minister role. 7/10
CON Hague: Generally a good FM and a good head of MI6. Handled Libya relatively well and isn't getting drawn into Argentina's bullshit. 8/10
CON Osbourne: Generally a good economist but isn't doing a good enough job of selling his reforms to the British public. 6/10
CON Clarke: Been relatively quiet this parliament, dealt with the riot sentencing relatively well. 7/10
CON May: Terrible. How she is in a position as powerful as Home Secretary is beyond me. 2/10
LD Cable: Has been marginalised by his own party which is fucking stupid. He should be in the quad, not Danny Alexander (who I still like). Best Lib Dem politician by a shot. 9/10
CON Duncan Smith: Don't know really. Head of Dept. Work and Pensions but unemployment is too high and pensions are terrible in the private sector. 4/10
LD Davey: Not had enough time to decide yet. Huhne did a good job as Energy Sec. so he's got big boots to fill. 5/10
CON Lansley: Terrible. He's obviously had very little input in the NHS reforms and is about as useless at selling them as a trainee BT call centre slave. Will be thrown out in May's post-Apocaly...I mean post election reshuffle. 2/10
CON Gove: Looks inbred. Probably hates the state school system. Isn't consulting anybody before going ahead with reforms. Will probably cause a strike due to his ineptitude. Also a member of the religious right in the CON party and shouldn't be near our secular, multi-ethnic school system. 3/10
CON Pickles: Not too bad, I agree with a lot of the localism stuff and broadly support his efforts to devolve powers at city council level (e.g. elected mayors). Needs to do more to reform local politics. Needs to lose weight. 8/10
CON Warsi: Don't even know what she does apart from be a pretty stale attempt at bringing ethnic minorities into the cabinet. 2/10
edit, more:
LD Alexander: Probably decent at economics, not a great politician, although I suppose that's a compliment. 7/10
CON Gillian: Shouldn't be in the position she is. Fucking NIMBY cunt too with HSR. 2/10
CON Hunt: Olympic prep going well, but probably more down to Labour than him. 6/10
CON Maude: Don't imagine he'll make it through the spring either. Jerrycans will end this gentleman's career. 2/10
CON Mitchell: Quiet but does the job. Glad we're above aid for trade. Carrying on with Labour's policies. 6/10
I'll do mine as well.
CON Cameron: Could do better. Is good with international politics and the foreign policy has been excellent. Poor on the domestic front, needs to be better involved and get a better grasp of the detail, needs a ball buster like Coulson back in to advise him. The new guy, Craig Oliver, seems like a foppish cunt of the public school/Oxbridge ilk, so he needs to go and a Coulson/Campbell like figure needs to come back in.
8/10 for foreign policy, 3/10 for domestic, combined score of 4/10
LD Clegg:Useless. I mean completely useless. He has made very little headway in pushing any kind of liberal agenda. This latest attack on civil liberties is a prime example of his uselessness, how a coalition that includes the Lib Dems and has a Lib Dem deputy PM can even contemplate introducing this stuff is beyond my understanding of being liberal.
3/10
CON Hague: Has done a good job. Libya was executed well, needs to do more on Syria, but still good. Has renewed our ties with the US very well too, I hear he was instrumental in getting Dave such a prime billing with the President. Like it or not, our relationship with the US is still the most important one we have, they are the number one foreign investor in the UK (and we are still the number one foreign investor in the US, by some distance too).
8/10
CON Osborne: Has done a decent job, but took his eye off the ball with the latest budget. It has got decent measures in it, but it was spun very poorly. It is time for Osborne to give up his dual role as Tory party strategist and Chancellor, I think he is a better Chancellor than strategist anyway. He may have been able to keep it going while not being in government, but being in government is 10x more time consuming than not. Also too reliant on a macro-economic improvement, needs to look at tax breaks for producers and creative industries. The latter has seen some movement which is great.
7/10
CON Clarke: Has had some poor ideas and some good ones. Mixed really...
6/10
CON May: Was doing well until this latest database wheeze, it looks like the Civil Service mandarins who have been pushing for this for the last 20 years have found their victim. Must do better or should face the chop.
1/10
LD Cable: Completely ineffective at BIS. He is the anti-business secretary and leaves much of the actual work of BIS up to the Chancellor from what I hear. MUST DO BETTER.
3/10
CON Duncan Smith: Doing a great job reforming the benefits system, but should ease up on the disability reassessment as doing it this fast will cause a lot of problems for people who are less able to defend themselves. Also needs to press ahead with the workfare scheme, get more businesses involved. My bank is interested but we won't commit until the government does. Should also look at work study qualification/training subsidies.
7/10
LD Davey: Has made a good start and the "blow" to our nuclear ambitions with RWE pulling out may be a blessing in disguise as it will give the government an opportunity to reassess the situation and give Thorium breeder reactors a better chance.
?/10
CON Lansley: Shit.
0/10
CON Gove: Awesome. Best minister by a country fucking mile. I was talking to my old headmaster on the old boys day and he was saying that they have just become an Academy school and it has allowed them to buy out expensive PFI contracts and invest the savings in more teachers and assistants. The decision to enforce a maximum 50% cap on religious school admissions of the defined religion is also good as it will help kids integrate better.
9/10
CON Pickles: Good job, but needs to cool down on the religious rhetoric. Shouldn't waste money on weekly bin collections, would rather have HMS Ark Royal up and running again.
6/10
CON Warsi: Awful, awful person who needs to be booted out of the party let alone Cabinet.
0/10
LD Alexander: Doing an excellent job at the Treasury, but must do better to root out spendthrift civil servants and needs to instil a culture of thrift within the public sector. Should look at introducing automatic budget cuts and stabilisers for departments which overspend on purpose.
8/10
CON Gillian: Useless, should have resigned over HS2.
1/10
CON Hunt: Did well to fight for the games industry and other creative industries in this budget, has done well generally
7/10
CON Maude: Should stick to his day job, though I don't blame him for his gaffe, should never have been let near a television camera. I blame the No.10 press office, they should know better. Has been effective in cutting back office spending and cutting out PFI schemes.
7/10
CON Mitchell: Fuck this guy. Fuck him. We spend £10bn a year on international aid which we don't need to. He is a worm.
0/10
Phillip Hammond: Tory party's very own Mr Fixit. Did a decent job at Transport but glad he is out as he was a massive point of resistance to airports expansion.
7/10
Justine Greening: Has done well to listen to business and reopen airports expansion. We need a third runway at Heathrow and we need to turn Manchester into a proper northern hub. She seems to realise this.
8/10
