Lord Carington was Foreign Secretary from 1979 - 1982 so not really 100 years ago and certainly within my lifetime.
Lord Carrington was the last unelected holder of one of the great offices of state, what, 100 years ago?
The UK had an unelected Prime Minister from the House of Lords in the 1960s
The good news is that Keir Starmer has pledged to abolish the House of Lords and replace it with "an elected chamber of regions and nations."
Keir Starmer: I will abolish House of Lords to ‘restore trust in politics’
Another possibility is that mattyfez is a Liberal Democrat supporter.
Or like me he has fallen out of love with Labour over the last few years?
thanks for the kick in the memory cells
Another possibility is that mattyfez is a Liberal Democrat supporter.
They don't really exist, just folk that won't commit either way 🙂
@ransos I'm not saying I agree with it, just that it's not an unusual occurrence and it's not outside the rules.
Keir Starmer: I will abolish House of Lords to ‘restore trust in politics’
Sisyphus would be proud
James Heappey always sounds like they’re doing the Dominic Raaaaaaab thing again
It's a step to the left. . . .
Lord Mandelson was "First Secretary of State" - i.e. Deputy Prime Minister under Brown. Of course, Lord Chancellor, which had to be occupied by a Lord, was generally regarded as a great office of state until its duties were reassigned. The occupier still precedes the Prime Minister in the Order of Precedence.
Some posts above about Gullis.
He was a teacher before becoming an MP.
For the sake of his former pupils, I hope he was a much better teacher than he is an MP.
He was a teacher before becoming an MP.
Explains a lot about the state of education in this country!
Jonathan Gillis is perhaps the only MP who can rightfully claim to have improved education in the UK in the last 14 years.
Apparently his former pupils describe him in less than glowing terms. High point was him losing his shit over someone photoshopping his head onto a picture of a seagull and sticking them up around the school.
High point was him losing his shit over someone photoshopping his head onto a picture of a seagull and sticking them up around the school.
I’m enjoying imagining that it might have been a fellow teacher who did this to him.
High point was him losing his shit over someone photoshopping his head onto a picture of a seagull and sticking them up around the school.
I'm now tempted to start every day by photoshopping Gullis's head onto a picture of a seagull and tagging him on Twitter. This is the one that caused him to lose his shit...
Almost worth a trip to Stoke with a bootload of copies.
It'd be great of Led By Donkeys just did a billboard of that image
Not sunak directly but informative about tory disarray. ..yesterday morning Nus Ghani, the (then) Construction Minster, told a trade forum, in person, that she would be in post for 'the rest of the year' and trotted out the usual platitudes about commitment, focus, investment etc.
Today - she's gone.
Peter Obourne rips into the Tories again.
It's been an absolute golden age for those of little moral integrity and an absolute willingness to rubbish institutions and the country itself for personal gain.
A remarkable shift in wealth, power and influence in such a relatively short period of time.
^^ It should be but when you have the power to literally make the laws...
philip davies aka Mr esther mcvey - in the pocket of the gaming industry; also presents drivel on gb news.
mark spencer- wtf has he done or achieved?
mansour - is he tory donor alleged to be involved in dodgy art world dealings? Could be a different mansour.
mark spencer- wtf has he done or achieved?
The caterpillar cake is nice, and those pig sweets are OK.
With sneaking out an honours list when there wasn’t one due, it’s almost as if he’s not expecting to be around for much longer, isn’t it?
In other completely unrelated news from that triumph of privatisation, the water industry…,
Thames Water is expected to collapse and have to be renationalised at huge taxpayer expense in the run up to the local elections. All while the shareholders (all overseas investment firms) saunter off with the billions they’ve trousered over the previous years, leaving a literal shitstorm in their wake
Thames Water is expected to collapse and have to be renationalised at huge taxpayer expense in the run up to the local elections. All while the shareholders (all overseas investment firms) saunter off with the billions they’ve trousered over the previous years, leaving a literal shitstorm in their wake
While I don't disagree with your opinion on privatisation, not sure why you think it should cost the taxpayer a penny to 'acquire' Thames or any other of the indebted water companies, the Shareholders & Lenders knew the risks.
Macquarie should be banned from doing business in the UK.
It won't happen - and probably cannot, legally.
Their past ownership was instrumental in causing the shitstorm swirling around Thames Water.
While I don’t disagree with your opinion on privatisation, not sure why you think it should cost the taxpayer a penny to ‘acquire’ Thames or any other of the indebted water companies, the Shareholders & Lenders knew the risks.
That should be the case, but we all know how this lot operate. They’ll bail them out with public (our) money and then hand it back to their mates for them to asset strip it and use their monopoly position to hold customers hostage all over again. Thames waters present debt is 18 billion and the (obscenely highly paid) management want to put water bills up by 40%
philip davies aka Mr esther mcvey – in the pocket of the gaming industry
Bloody knew Tim Sweeny would be involved somewhere!
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With sneaking out an honours list when there wasn’t one due, it’s almost as if he’s not expecting to be around for much longer, isn’t it?
He's going to call it later in May or into Summer isn't he?
I hope you're right.
Just want to have as many Portillo moments as possible.