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OMFG, tried to look at the comments but that site is a car crash.
"Gaza cannot and must not be allowed to remain a prison camp"
- Lord Cameron 2010
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2010/jul/27/david-cameron-gaza-prison-camp
binners
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Another GB News presenter is appointed to the cabinet. Esther McVey is now Minister for the Cabinet Office
What an absolute farce and the jokes on us.
I’m going to stick my neck out here and say Dave’s appointment; as far as PR goes; is a stroke of genius.
It's the first politically smart thing that Sunak has done. Before that the focus was on Suella's response and her band of merry idiots. Now Cameron dominates the headlines for the next 24 hours.
It's also astute in terms of shoring up the middle England vote, which is just about all the Tories have to play for.
Her actual title is ‘Minister for Common Sense’
Feels like a token to keep the GBeebies audience happy. One of their presenters gets a job with basically no brief, no legislation to pursue. Just soundbites on 'wokeness' for that end of the media market.
Just a constant revolving door of ministers. Housing is now on its 16th minister since 2010. Steve Barclay is in his 8th ministerial job since 2020.
The place is being run like a third division football team, constantly swapping managers and coaches around while trying to work out how to rescue the unholy mess.
Her actual title is ‘Minister for Common Sense’Christ on a ****ing bendybus.
Oh that absolutely guarantees that she's going to be the thickest moron in town.
The problem is, within a week Cameron just becomes the new normal and all the usual Tory infighting and country wide issues are back in people's minds.
Cameron is also bringing a lot of baggage with him, he's not a clean pair of hands. I think many will view his appointment as the Tories just throwing the dice again.
They'd be correct too.
binners
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Her actual title is ‘Minister for Common Sense’
To save me hunting, is that the actual title? Genuinely?
From the Sun (sorry)
ESTHER McVey has made a shock return to the Cabinet as Rishi Sunak's "common sense tsar" tasked with tackling the scourge of wokery, The Sun understands.
So, I'm not sure if that's an actual title but the job description is astounding enough...
Yeah, people going through no fault evictions, struggling to pay mortgages, living in tents, waiting years for NHS operations wake up every morning bemoaning how wokism is the scourge of their lives.
Holy crap.
I doubted he could look any superior and pleased with himself, but it seems I was wrong
I want to see Nadine Dorries' reaction to him being made a peer.
Official announcement doesn't seem to have any of the common sense / wokery nonsense.
binners
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Just watching Dave on the news has reminded why I absolutely despised the smug, smarmy, self-entitled pig-****er when he bowed outI doubted he could look any superior and pleased with himself, but it seems I was wrong
There will be some big money to be earned here too. This is as much about feathering his nest as anything else. No wonder he looks smug. Get involved in some shady dealings worth buildings, the punishment? Promotion back into government.
It's the Tory way.
timmys
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Official announcement doesn’t seem to have any of the common sense / wokery nonsense.
It seems that number 10 "sources" are promoting the anti woke stuff about her appointment. It's to placate the ERG mob for parachuting in Cameron allegedly...
Oh, Mcvey has to give up her TV side hustle for this appointment, leaving a job vacancy...
Paging Suella!
I think Mad Nad has a gig on Talk TV already?
So many Tories... Just not enough TV presenter gigs for them all.
I pray they don't end up in tents. I worry for them.
C4 News reporting a couple of Tories have handed in letters to the 1922 committee and more might in Wednesday depending upon the court ruling.
They wont her enough letters in but it's a sign the infighting will continue as Rome burns.
^ Yeah, I think she's posted on Twitter calling for a vonc?
Sunak is buggered basically. This comes across as a young lad having to call his dad to pick him from a nightclub as he is stoned and got into a fight. And lost.
"Oh Rishi...."
"Sorry dad. Can I open the window? I have to puke."
"FFS Rishi!..."
“Tsar for Common Sense attending Cabinet”
Had to check several times to make sure it wasn’t a joke.
Can we end this shit now!?! We need an election.
Well again, sticky-neck-out time; Dave’s biggest mis-judgement was trusting the British electorate
In fairness he had had two successful referendums so seems to have brought into the myth he was a PR master. As opposed to spending a couple of years in a PR role that his mummy organised for him and having won the other referendums due to the support of the right wing rags. Its more their support he misjudged.
His paid lobbying for Greensill is also up there. We are lucky that imploded before he could help get it to deeply embedded.
I bet someone else wrote it, she would hit too many keys at once using her forehead
It's complete drivel, so I'm fairly sure she wrote it herself.
My favourite sentence in it is the following, which seems to be trying to support Boris:
"Yes Boris, the man who won the conservative party a massive majority, was unforgivable enough."
I hadn’t thought about that, it will be astonishing if she hasn’t had a seizure
I reckon she will be chuffed to bits.
It proves (for a rather flexible definition) that there was a plot in the tories to take control from the glorious hero Johnson.
This is the next step in their dastardly plan. After forcing Johnson and then Truss out to get Sunak in they are now using Sunak to get Cameron back in as PM.
Its 10d long term chess.
It's all kicking off at Tory HQ, Sunak looks like he's going towards the left of the party as the right is just too mad for his liking now!
I enjoy listening to 'The Rest is Politics' on youtube, which has Alistair Campbell and Rory Stewart discussing key issues, they've done a video for this and lots of potential areas being raised, it's a good listen.
Some gammon headbanger Tory MP was on channel 4 news earlier talking about the letters going in already and another leadership election. He was deadly serious too.
They seem to regard this as their entitlement even after Boris, Mad Lizzie the rolling car crash of the last few years and would actually do it without a second thought. They’re all absolutely insane!
Fantasy politics question: imagine you are Sunak, and your only aim is to retain power. What would you do today to stay in office?
I would immediately call a GE which would terrify the entire Tory party so they have to stop criticising Sunak and start campaigning. It would shut diwn parliament and government. I would then go completely batshit aggressive on Labour, enough to scare the Tory base and watch Labour year itself apart as it loves to. And I would form a coalition with the Lib Dems...
When did sunak contact cameron to start the discussion...hi dave, it's me lil' rish!
It's entirely possible - but hugely unlikely - it was over a coffee after the Remembrance service; sunak is described as someone who likes to plan so was it the Times article wot dun it for braverman?
I think this was in the works for several weeks at a minimum.
yeah definitely been in the works for a while, you've got to wonder why he appointed her in the first place
if braverman was only given the job to keep the extreme right wingers happy, is sunak now strong enough he can just ignore them
the front pages are all about Cameron, barely a whiff of braverman