Laws resignation and EU crisis bode ill for Coalition Government

The resignation of Chief Secretary to the Treasury, David Laws, read here, and his replacement by the obviously inadequate Danny Alexander, as reported by the Daily Mail, read here, will surely remove the rock upon which the Concordat between Cameron and Clegg was based. Reviewing the available talent from both parties for the most important portfolio in the present crisis following the departure of Mr Laws, only one candidate immediately came to mind and that was John Redwood. If a senior post was needed to balance matters within the coalition then moving Philip Hammond to the position he had shadowed might have made some sense allowing Clegg's buddy, Danny to takeover at Transport, where with spending constraints the order of the day, the margin for error could not be so potentially and disastrously costly!

The ongoing silence from the Coalition on the growing crisis within the EU, commented upon in my posting of yesterday on Ironies Too regarding the seventieth anniversary Dunkirk evacuation commemorations, linked here, is even more ominous for Britain.