Bringing Back the Blairites.

Alan Milburn: Looking like a chipmunk who has just smelt a particularly bad fart*

It is ok, people. Britain is about to become a far fairer place to live. Our visionary Prime Minister, as part of his ongoing commitment to ressurrect the careers of Nu Labour drones who you hoped had finally left the public eye, has given a job to Alan Milburn. Something about social mobility, I think, but I cannot really be arsed to work out exactly what Milburn's new job is. It sounds made up, and I doubt that the man who, for all the world, resembles Nu Labour's answer to Alan B'stard, will be able to achieve anything in this *role*.

What does worry me is the precedent that seems to have been set by this appointment and that of Peter Mandelson. Because this all seems to be leading to what must be considered the worst case scenario - the return of David "machine gun 'em" Blunkett to the Cabinet. And I'd argue that the last thing we need is Blunkett back at the front line of British politics in a role such as "Minister for Brutal Suppression of Any Political Opposition", or whatever other role Brown might invent for him.

*Photo from the BBC.