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The point I was hoping to make was that statements like
"He single-handedly saved that nation" and "He was responsible for the death of 3 million Bengalis"
Are both empty and come from the same place and their intent is equally simplistic and dangerous (i.e. to stop the audience from thinking and exploring for themselves). Both are worthy of criticism and rejection . History is complex and rarely lends it's self to snappy one liners.
Under Priti Patel, Johnson thinks we're the Saudi Arabia of penal policy, where y'know, they behead people and it's illegal to be gay.
Under Priti Patel it's sink or swim.
What's fatso trying to hide this time? Could it be the kicking of the can down the road again on border checks - the ones that are going to cripple UK exports (even more)?
His ability to make completely crass and inappropriate remarks never ceases to amaze me. It really is a gift.
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.
'Brien
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.
incompetent replaces incompetents with other incompetents.
Buckland seems to have been given the boot for being ideologically impure.
Don’t you mean culture war secretary?
Yep, more spitfires and Churchill statues.
I used to read those little war comics as a kid and loved the war films of the 70’s but oddly don’t seem to have the same fetish that these numpties share.(Probably due to reading that subversive 2000AD as well)
Find bandwagon and jump on.
But a shambles distracts from the Clown Captain…
Job done.
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
It works…
Yay, an outspoken hater of the BBC and the licence fee now in charge of the department overseeing the BBC and how it's funded. What could go wrong?
I used to read those little war comics as a kid and loved the war films of the 70’s but oddly don’t seem to have the same fetish that these numpties share.(Probably due to reading that subversive 2000AD as well)
Same for me. 2000AD should have been studied at school.
So, Raab gets to be Deputy PM, a position last handed to some-one as a consolation prize for being Nick Clegg, essentially just because he was so bad his last job that he was replaced by Liz Truss...
genuinely baffling
He already had that role, just not the title. It was Raab that stepped into Johnson's shoes when he was ill. He looked so out of depth as it happens.
Yeah, but Johnson is directly rewarding failure...Even some-one as slow witted as him can see that that's not anyway to "run a country" it's stupid.
Imagine if I said to my head of reception. "Oh, you appear to shit at this job, I'll move you sideways to head of nursing..." Madness.
I just want more of these so I'm happy enough.
Johnson promotes idiots for a lot or reasons - they are ideological sound, loyal, popular with Tory voters, and because they are idiots and won't threaten him. Raab is the ideal man for his second in command on those last grounds. Gove also no threat as he is personally odious even Tories hate him. He is no doubt regretting promoting Sunak, I suspect he underestimated his competence (lets not go into why) and we will see him phased out soon enough.
Yeah, Sunak was meant to be an obedient drone, put there to rubber stamp anything Boris said. He's since got ideas above his station, so he'll be gone as soon as Boris can reasonably get away with it.
But right now he's the only cabinet member (including the PM) who looks capable of finding his own arse using both hands, so he's safe.
Its going to be interesting to see the reaction to foreign dignitaries when faced with pressing issues of international diplomacy to be greeted by the intellectual colossus that is Liz Truss
Other than perhaps Raab, I imagine Boris is thinking instead of him being better, he could make people above him perform worse which in turn will push him up the list. It was touched on in the Brexit thread, instead of improving yourself you damage others to level the playing field.
The net approval rating for Liz Truss is terrifying.
Talk about being easily pleased
ConservativeHome though. I mean, I'm amazed that Rees-Mogg scored so low.
The net approval rating for Liz Truss is terrifying.
It is odd. At most I thought it would be meh. Is she really active in tory social circles or with lots of local constituencies so they see more of her (although I am not sure that should help).
The low approval for Patel is also weird, I thought she was supposed to be popular?
The puzzling thing is why is Priti Patel's rating so low. You can see she really wants to drown refugees with her own hands beneath the cliffs of Dover so you would think that's the kind of thing the Tory voters would lap up.
Nobody fills the Tory member with such conflict and confusion as Priti Patel
She's utterly heartless, totally devoid of a single shred of humanity, compassion or empathy and would happily nuke refugees and benefits scroungers if they'd let her, but theres an obvious problem which they just can't overcome....
Liz Truss
Oh dear god.
She's the person representing Britain as foreign secretary?
The woman is a walking container of stupid with leaks in. Wherever she goes it just falls out.
Colleagues uni mate works at dfit, she says Truss was a car crash and genuinely as dim as you think
No surprise there, after all anyone competent in a cabinet post would make Johnson look bad.
The puzzling thing is why is Priti Patel’s rating so low
Probably because there's a large number of people who've worked with her and know her who actively despise her. Her historic work for big alcohol and big tobacco are as irksome to the puritanical wing of the Tory party as they are to the political left. Oh, then there's this account of her early PR career.
https://twitter.com/bmay/status/1232205841899687941?lang=en
Dorries appointment makes total sense, perfect for the imaginary culture war
Idiotic isn't it? The BBC is by any standard a global success, folk watch our sport in the millions, buy the telly programmes we create and listen to the music we make, but the Tories put a clown in charge just "to own the Libs"
We've become America by the Sea
Nadine Dorries - the only person I can think of who has written more books than she's actually read.
Nadine Dorries – the only person I can think of who has written more books than she’s actually read.
Now correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought being an author could be a full time job.
How on earth does she find the time to be the minister for victorian attitudes to sexual orientation?
There's a difference between carefully crafting sentences and the literary equivalent of pebble-dashing a sheet of A4 after consuming a bag of peanuts and six cans of Guinness, which would also seem to be her approach to expressing an opinion on anything.
I think we know what to expect from Mad Nad.
Apparently the BBC should be re-making all the Carry on Films, interspersed with more ‘Downton Abbey’ type stuff
Good help us.
https://twitter.com/thetimes/status/1438451785132302346?s=21
Is she the one (well, one of the ones but the actual MP one) who was outraged that we would no longer be involved in EU decision making after we left?
Nadine ****ing Dories. **** me
I'm on holiday so I'll leave it at that
I really do not mean to, but I have to laugh at the shitshow you are having. From the outside (knowing the actors as it were) it’s amazing seeing the slide of a nation into the level of insanity it is going through.
That is at the same time as crying for what has become of a once sensible nation. If it ever was that.
Sad to say, but I feel more in rune with the average Swede than the average Brit these days, sorry
Sad to say, but I feel more in rune with the average Swede than the average Brit these days, sorry
No need to apologise. So do I and I don't live in Sweden. The UK is running a close second to the US for the level of stupidity of the population.
State controlled TV... we can look forward to new episodes of Border (Repatriation) Force, Jamie Olivers "cooking on a ration book" Hunted (immigrants) and that perennial favourite The Glorious Leaders weekly speech....