Craig Murray came out for the Lib Dems and so finds himself in the novel position of supporting a Conservative-led coalition:

I can say that I can broadly support this government and am convinced that it will be an improvement on the bunch of authoritarian war criminals who have been replaced.

You nailed that one, Craig. Welcome back on board, even if your army of fans seem somewhat divided on your good sense.

Another former FCO colleague turned diehard Labour blogger (and Long Sentence Champion of the Universe), Brian Barder, is less happy:

Mr Cameron can’t realistically expect a sober and constructive opposition if he constantly accuses Labour of responsibility for the financial mess we’re in, and misrepresents Labour’s 13 years in office as an uninterrupted chronicle of mismanagement and failure — as the irredeemably, jejunely tribal William Hague, our new foreign secretary, was doing without a shadow of embarrassment on the radio this morning.

We old dips have a phrase for it, Brian. It’s called kick ’em when they are down – and richly deserve it.

Plus both you and Craig have long called for war crimes charges against key Labour leaders – whatever nano-sized successes they achieved in all those years surely pale into insignificance against that?

Guido shows himself to be a true man of principle. Having called lustily for the ConDem outcome, he is not wasting time pointing to some, hem, unsatisfactory aspects of new Ministerial postings.

So far so good for my old friend from the legendary St John’s College conservative machine, Alistair Burt, who joins the FCO as a junior Minister.