Gordon Brown does something right shock

The papers gasp at Caroline Flint's stiletto attack on Gordon Brown. But Caroline Flint should be a laughing stock.

On Thursday night she was swearing eternal fealty to G Brown, looking straight into her interviewer's eyes, no dissembling. She was emphatic in her loyalty.

But less than 24 hours later and she is lambasting him ... for what exactly? Not giving her a cabinet post. After all ... she is a woman.

In Labour's time warp politically correct parallel universe that makes her more entitled to a cabinet post.

This from the Europe Minister who hadn't troubled herself to read the Lisbon treaty. This from the Housing Minister who walked up Downing Street with a briefing paper about house prices on display.

Caroline Flint may have risen without trace, but petulance has marked her fall.

Her letter wasn't even much good.

I am not willing to attend Cabinet in a peripheral capacity any longer.

This doesn't attempt to disguise her motive for resigning - thwarted ambition. Nothing more.

So how does Caroline Flint look now? Judging from some comments, women don't appreciate being roped in to her pleading.

And she emerges as a politician happy to tell barefaced lies to achieve an ambition she has shown no signs of deserving. Caroline Flint is discredited.

And she did it all by herself.

Gordon Brown was right not to promote her.