Rumours of a re-shuffle apparently
That PMQs was simultaneously a car crash for the PM, and a reminder about how and why has has the job.
- minimum wage full time workers will need to work 9 extra hours to keep same income
- nurses will be on a lower income even taking into account their "pay rise"
All the PM has is... SHOUT ABOUT IMMIGRATION... and perhaps that's all he needs.
Making the working poor poorer. Reducing the incomes of front line workers. But, hey, no more migrants lowering your wages (that's the government's job).
So a reshuffle this afternoon.....
Bets on Mr Hancock finding a new role opening up for him?
Hancock won't be back for a long time. If Gove gets a proper job, a no mark (in the public eye) will take his place and concentrate on party and election gerrymandering preparation stuff, such as moving constituency boundaries and pushing through VoterID.
I’d love to see Patel go but apparently she’s well respected by the Party. God help us if Gavin Williams keeps he job, and Raab is in question.
I think he needs one of the top jobs to go, and Williamson is probably it.
I think Raab and Williamson are goners. Patel will stay (I think Johnson is probably too scared of her to do anything else)
Shame he can't reshuffle himself out 🙁
I agree with NickC's predictions.
NEW. Source tells me Gavin Williamson has given a leaving speech in his office.
No doubt to incredulous colleagues asking "who are you again?"
I can't see anyone suspected of innate competence being given an important cabinet job - Raab has elevated the Peter Principle to the level of performance art, those will be difficult (and no doubt oversized and filled with custard) shoes to fill.
Patel is fostering a nascent Nasty Party, sating the desires of Tory troglodytes who like to see pain inflicted upon folk who aren't in a position to answer back.
I can’t see anyone suspected of innate competence being given an important cabinet job
Inexplicably, the shining star with the Tory membership is Liz Truss. A woman so dense that light bends around her
She's supposedly up for a promotion. No doubt for her much lauded trade deals with Antigua and the Gallapogas Islands
Though apparently Carrie doesn't like her, and we all know who it is who's really running the country
I'm sure Gav will have the Northern Ireland Protocol sorted in no time and resolve all this sectarian nonsense while he's at it
New fireplace incoming at the NIO.
Williamson has left big shoes to fill - they’re a size twenty-six and contain traces of custard.
^^ We really shouldn't laugh.
😢
Am I being cynical thinking that yesterday we had the PM telling us Covid will be fine, this morning we had SAGE suggesting it might not be, lunchtime apparently the shafting of lower paid/key workers was revealed and suddenly
LOOK! OVER HERE! A CABINET RESTRUCTURE!
LOOK! OVER HERE! A SQUIRREL!
Well someone had to.
"Ah ha, the province of Northern Ireland, its safe with me..."
Williamson has turned down Northern Ireland apparently. Buckland is out too, after torching his own reputation to save Johnson's hide. He's also apparently cold on the Northern Ireland job.
This could be a rare moment when someone who isn't a colossal liability is called upon.
If those two have the sense to avoid the NI job while Boris Johnson breaks Britain, who'd be stupid enough to take it? None of the key decisions will be made by them, yet they have to run around kicking cans 'till the next reshuffle, in the hope of an unlikely promotion out of the job... who'd go for that? You'd have to be desperate, or have an inflated sense of your own ability, or too stupid to see you're just a... oh, hold on, there are lots of ex-ERG candidates, aren't there.
who’d be stupid enough to take it?
Indeed, the bar is very low!
The brighter sparks amongst the ERG know not to touch responsibility with a bargepole and to agitate from afar.
Fair point.
Who’ll take it then?
They put Kate Hoey in the House of Lords… perhaps she’ll have time when she’s not busy being a trade ambassador for us.
Jenrik gone, with no cabinet job at all.
Apparently Raab is ranting in Boris' office as I type (sauce, sky news & twitter).
Ah Jenrick, the man who is alleged to have helped a prominent Tory donor avoid £30m in tax.
And Raab - the Foreign Sec and pre-Brexit go to trade expert who hadn't quite understood the importance of the Dover - Calais crossing.
The grail of competence and good governance clearly runneth over.
If I lived in the NoI I'd feel bloody insulted by Johnson giving that lemon a stipend.
There is that, rumour is there's another to go and Patel has been summoned - Promotion or a demotion? Boris has the knife out, and has some balls for one, but are they big enough to demote Priti Patel? God help us if she takes Raabs position.
Just looking on Twitter about Priti Pratel and this gem came up 🤣
https://twitter.com/alexandrakuri/status/1438142015192145920?s=20
Looks like she's staying put as she single-handedly personifies everything thats worst about the Tory party, so they absolutely love her.
I expect she'll celebrate by announcing that Royal Navy subs will be starting to torpedo migrant boats in the channel
Jesus H Corbett!!! 😳
https://twitter.com/Steven_Swinford/status/1438153875048083461?s=20
All hail the cheese exports!
Jesus H Corbett!!!
Stupid and needlessly cruel...
...but that's enough about Truss and Patel.
All hail the cheese exports!
Of course, she’s managed to decrease cheese exports. So fails even on her own terms. Failing upwards. We’re being run by actual clowns.
The only clowns are the ones voting for them.
Imagine being so shit at your job that Liz Truss seems like a safer pair of hands...
Mad Nad is now culture secretary 😳
Don’t you mean culture war secretary?
Oh my ****
can you imagine the joy followed by despair at the FO, dear ****ing god what a shambles.
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She always looks like she thinks she's presenting a kids' tv program.
Nadine is a direct "shite sponge" replacement for Gav Williamson.
Her role is to absorb flack for the glorious leader.
Dumb as ****
russian and chinese bot farms are not happy.....
Rearranging the deckchairs on the titanic, unfortunately for us he doesn't have much of a talent pool to pick from.
is the highest rate daily fail comment.
Mad Nad is now culture secretary
She got herself into a right twist over on Twitter earlier with the revelation that she allows staff and interns use of her password to log into her computer. Presumably having never heard of shared mailboxes.
Honestly, if I did that at my workplace it'd be a major breach of security but apparently data protection rules are for the little people, not MPs...
can you imagine the joy followed by despair at the FO, dear **** god what a shambles
Colleagues uni mate works at dfit, she says Truss was a car crash and genuinely as dim as you think
Fair play to her for falling upwards tho!
Dorries appointment makes total sense, perfect for the imaginary culture war, shows how that Johnson has no real policies & will be relying on brexit/nationalism for the next election
To summarise, incompetent replaces incompetents with other incompetents.
