Sorry To See You Go Alan

Probably the most approachable bloke in the whole of Gordon Browns Cabinet was Alan Johnson, as was Yvette Cooper streets ahead of all of the other women I had met.
So the news that Alan Johnson was resigning from being a front bench spokesman for the shadow cabinet is a really tough blow, not just for Ed Miliband of course, but The Labour Party as a whole. I wish and hope matters turn out well for him and his family.

On the other hand Yvette Cooper will be no walk over as Shadow Home Secretary, believe me, she is extremely intelligent and very diligent in her dealings, so they had better watch out in The Home Office and their ministers.
On the other hand Labour's front bench rottweiler, Ed Balls, can now set about ripping chunks out of George Osbourne and that team of  n'er do wells, after all Ed has probably forgotten more than the whole of that team know about economics in it's broadest sense.