All Quiet

Finally! A quiet week in politics for once.
Interesting to see Ming Campbell starting to get noises-off. Those dire performances at PMQ and the failure to make any real gains in the local elections seem to have got some of the party rattled.
Chat-line enthusiast and failed leadership candidate Simon Hughes is damning Ming with faint praise, musing that we should wait until the party conference to judge if Campbell was the right choice.He also said that his leader would be practising his PMQ technique and "concentrating" on it, which implies he has not been doing up until now.
Ed Davey also defended Ming - as did Shirley Williams when I met her last week - look out for that interview on www.politicsjunkie.co.uk in the coming days.
I never thought that Ming was a good choice - when the Tories are painting Tony Blair as old and out of touch, the LibDem leader looks ancient.
But we are still four years away from an election - both Campbell and Cameron have only just begun, and they will be joined at the top table by a new Labour leader. At some point.