That's disappointing, the Politics Live lot on BBC have bogged off mid re-shuffle. They should have have asked Jo Coburn to do some overtime today. Time and a half.
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) is joined by CEO Duncan Drasdo and Financial Director Andy Green from the Manchester United Supporters Trust for a special episode on all things behind the scenes at Old Trafford including a brief history of MUST and their aims today, views on INEOS and Sir Jim Ratcliffe so far, and the Old Trafford regeneration.
Enter Boris Johnson as Environment Secretary??
That would sound better if the other 693 weren't there due to services rendered to the tory coffers .
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You joke but this is accurate.
With a tumour in her jaw, it seems.
She should be conveyed out of number 10 by horse drawn sewage barge - discharging foul effluent that follows her all the way home
Don't forget the 37 the church has.
In a country where a massive 6% of the country attend church on a regular basis.
Rushi bringing out even more deckchairs.
Barkley to DEFRA and doesn't he look pleased...
Barkley to DEFRA and doesn't he look pleased...
Well if he doesn't go then he's irrelevant in political terms, TBH I'm in 2 minds about the upper chamber, I don't really like the unelected lot though they don't have that much power these days, but on the other hand the alternative could end up being like the US Senate and that would not be a good thing!
Strikes me as if he just wants to call a GE and get this all over with.
He knew he was gonna be in a spot of bother firing Cruella. But to fire her and in a roundabout way, replace her with David Cameron? Stick a fork in him, he's done. Whatever remains of the conservatives won't stand for that.
He knew he was gonna be in a spot of bother firing Cruella. But to fire her and in a roundabout way, replace her with David Cameron? Stick a fork in him, he's done. Whatever remains of the conservatives won't stand for that.
Can we please spare a thought for @Abraxas in these difficult moments?
Why not, exactly? They voted for him as PM, so why not? And surely there cannot be many Tory voters mad enough to actually miss Suella.
2 min silence?
As has been made clear with the covid inquiry, many of these political operators in downing st and whitehall may be bright in the conventional sense (schooling etc) but when it comes to politics and real world issues, they just dont seem to be very good at doing their jobs properly. Yes hiring Cameron takes the bandwith away from Braverman for a little bit, but it just opens another can of worms with the tory brexiteers and also the whole lobbying / corruption. It also opens the door to the reform party getting more coverage / splitting the vote. Which will bite them on the arse within the next few weeks / months into the leadup to the next GE. Certainly makes the upcoming wellingborough by-election more interesting, especially of Bone stands again as a reform party rather than tory candidate...
Because you're essentially saying none of your MPs are up to task (they're not, this became apparent at the end of Johnson). However true that is it's not gonna sit well.
You've then got rid of Suella, a figurehead of the right and ERG, and replaced her with a remainer for foreign secretary. Again not gonna sit well, already seeing tweets of meetings taking place between senior Tory party members.
Braverman did not inspire the protests, despite her and the right wing media attempting to make up a different narrative.
If I'm honest, a narrative it seems you fell for. Hook, line and sinker.
Protesting for a different response from the UK government (and opposition) is not "howling at the moon". It's a perfectly respectable position.
See Macrons comments, for example.
Macron calls on Israel to stop killing Gaza's women and babies
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67356581
It just goes to show what a joke Brexit is that even after over 7 years since the referendum, the Tories throw a strop if someone was a Brexiteer or a remainer being appointed to Government. They truly need to be removed from power.
Well, Foreign Secretary is a post out of the ordinary, even at the best of times there will be very few people in any parliamentary party who's really up to it. So it's hardly a resounding declaration of bankruptcy.
Certainly many, many Tory MPs won't like the weakening of the ERG position in the cabinet, but I don't necessarily think the same applies to Tory voters these days. At least not prospective Tory voters.
You say that about foreign secretary, but please genuinely tell me the last time a party in power plucked out a former PM (or anyone not technically in government for that matter) and gave him a lordship just to take up the position? It's pretty damning if you work for the party.
And tbf I'm not talking about Tory voters I'm talking about the actual party and MPs.
Lord Carrington in 1979.
I don't usually praise him but does anyone else think waiting out the weekend and then sacking Suella first thing Monday morning was the best way Sunak could deal with this (other than not appointing her in the first place, obviously)?
No. Sacking her within minutes of the article going out stating the contents were wildly inappropriate (at best and an attempt to incite a race riot at worst) and actually showing he could be decisive and lead with strength would have been the way to go.
Still don't think this tells anyone anything they didn't already know.
There's Tom Tugendhat I suppose, not sure why he's not an option.
Peter Mandelson for Labour might be the last time it happened when Gordon Brown was PM
Not sure he counts because he was a hereditary peer already
On principal I agree yet I fear that would have added yet another "cause" and maybe increased the number of ***** at "her" protests.
Stop it. Remembrance weekend is not a thing, no one has ever called it remembrance weekend before now. The two minute silence on Armistice day was only re introduced in 1995 and it is not a day of remembrance.
He could have waited until Wednesday when the supreme court rules on her Rwanda bollocks.
Yes it is, but will get no political change in the UK government stance, especially with an election due in the next 12 months.
Braverman will not be there to agitate in cabinet and she will have retreated to the sidelines to perhaps throw the odd grenade Sunak's way and to sort out how she might make a bid for Tory leadership, that is when Sunak goes down with Cameron as his would be 'aide-de-camp' at the next GE.
What a feckin smooth brained mouth breather
Indeed.
What did they call it last year, when the 11th was a Friday and everyone was at work?
Admittedly not normally as a specific weekend, but it was this weekend, as both days occurred in the same period. Also recognition of the Armistice was always considered by many people as part of the 'act of Remembrance', which is why the two minutes silence was reintroduced.
Greg Hands is out too. Hopefully 30p Lee will follow.