[flint] would you trust this woman?

You know, when one comes to think it through, as The Nameless Libertarian has, Caroline Flint comes out of this not smelling of roses.

TNL points out that it's not the first time Labour's pulled this trick of using women as a PC smokescreen so in that respect she may be right. What she fails to mention is that she was imported wholesale in the Blair Babe rush, irrespective of talent.

One doesn't expect that loyalty would be a quality highly sought after among pollies and yet her petulant and childish display, not unlike Segolene's in France, makes one really wonder about the temperamental suitability of such people for high office.

In the end, how much respect do you have for Flint, Purnell and Blears? Was Flint's stab in the back motivated by the good of the country or by her own thwarted ambitions?

Similarities in temperament although Segie is maybe nicer.