DAVID CAMERON’S crazy Cabinet makeover will make no difference to his government’s war against Britain’s working people.

Less than a year before the general election, his demotion of a bunch of ageing men in favour of a younger, more female team is clearly a bid to make the Tories look more acceptable to the electorate.

More women than ever before in a Tory Cabinet might be considered progress, but their promotion at the fag-end of this disastrous parliament with no major new legislation planned adds to the suspicion that the Prime Minister still sees them as “window-dressing,” as Unison’s Dave Prentis remarked.

They are there to improve his image rather than as policy-shapers.

In any case, not one new appointee has any record of opposing government policies which have hit women even harder than the working class as a whole, from the welfare cap to the mass cull of women’s jobs in the public sector.

Seeing a hated adversary kicked out is always satisfying, and it’s no surprise to hear that school staff rooms across the country rang with the cheers of teachers who had just learned of Michael Gove’s defenestration.

The academies-obsessed neoconservative loses his department to head for the post of chief whip, which should be entertaining — who could forget gung-ho Gove jumping up and down, red-faced with rage, screaming “Shame! Shame!” at MPs who defied the whip to vote against bombing Syria last year?

But his replacement Nicky Morgan is a Tory loyalist signed up to the Gove agenda of removing schools from local authority control and handing them to shady private chains. 

Replacing Gove with Morgan is a political ploy identical to swapping Andrew Lansley for Jeremy Hunt back in 2012. 

Cameron has ditched a discredited ideologue, loathed for the damage he has done to a key public service, and appointed someone less associated with unpopular “reforms” in the hope they can preside over the same policies without getting the personal flak.

Votes are votes and however much the Tories despise Britain’s workers the PM knows Gove’s habit of slandering the entire teaching profession, over three-quarters of a million strong, as selfish, overpaid incompetents is not a winning electoral strategy.

Similarly, ditching Defra chief Owen Paterson is a smart move. An environment secretary primarily associated with denying climate change and killing badgers isn’t the look Cameron wants when Britons head to the polls next year — particularly one who whinges that “the badgers moved the goalposts” after his slaughter programme failed dismally.

But Paterson’s successor Liz Truss is just as far to the right, being a co-author of the 21st-century Thatcherite manifesto Britannia Unchained, which called for stripping away workers’ rights on the grounds that “the British are among the worst idlers in the world.”

An understandable misapprehension from someone who mostly hangs out with Tory MPs, but with people in this country working some of the longest hours in Europe it’s unlikely to go down well on the doorstep.

We’ve also seen the Tories axe two ministers seen as “soft” on human rights, Ken Clarke and attorney-general Dominic Grieve, which will no doubt pave the way for a true nasty party manifesto next year, demonising immigrants and asylum-seekers.

Overall a busy day for the PM, who also managed to force through his snoopers’ charter and sneak out a report on the impact of the appalling bedroom tax while political pundits were busy rifling through their Westminster who’s whos.

But it changes nothing. The coalition wrecking-ball will continue to smash through working-class communities with a vengeance. The only way to stop it is to vote them out next year.