Terror of being exposed at PMQs ensures prime ministers are well briefed on the performance of their ministers.
Meanwhile, strikes and protests continue and, in recent weeks, criticism has been mounting over the performance of his ministers.
Talk of Labour drifting, or of mutterings about Mr Miliband, or agitation about the supposedly uneven performance of shadow ministers is exaggerated silliness, feeding and fed by the need to have something to say rather than by anything that is actually happening.
Her speech attacked the performance of Labour ministers in the Welsh government.
After the 2010 general election, Farage expanded UKIP's appeal, especially to Conservatives who were unhappy with the performance of Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservative-led coalition government.
It came amid rising concerns in Washington over the performance of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki of Iraq, who has made little progress toward bridging the sectarian divide in his country.
But the scale of Labor's defeat, and the fact that the vote became a virtual referendum on the performance of Prime Minister Brown, who leads the Labor Party, appeared ominous for Mr. Brown and his party.
Thus far, the request has been refused on the basis that access to the Brandis outlook calendar would "substantially and unreasonably" interfere with the performance of the minister's function.
Mr. Karzai was responsible the last time two ministers were removed, in June 2010, when his disapproval of the performance of the interior minister, Hanif Atmar, and the director of the intelligence service, Amrullah Saleh, compelled them to resign.
Instead we have been given a worrying insight into the performance of the prime minister's policy team.
