Rishi! Sunak!

Well I’m glad that Braverman’s resignation was so heartfelt and significant. 6 whole days, that’s a new record isn’t it?

Is Sunak going to get away with this “there is a crisis and I am the man to fix it” thing when he was chancellor of the exchequer for most of the last 2 and a half years and fixed ****-all? Can he blame everything on truss’s lunatic budget?

Grim to see braverman back, for a minute there I thought sunak might be sensible

Can he blame everything on truss’s lunatic budget?

In the summer, we reached the point when even the Tories were blaming the Tories for…. “all this”. Don’t see why recent events would put a stop to that, just because they’ve piled on even more shit on top of “all this”. Trying to restrain the blame to just 6 weeks, rather than 12 years, could be tried… hopefully it won’t stick.

“EDIT: if gove gets an appointment that will be putting a fox in the hen house.”

I hate to say it but Gove is an absolute collosus compared to that shower of s***

Honeymoon is over for Sunak. The appointment of Braverman points towards an increased likelyhood of civil unrest.

I hate him more than Johnson already.

I am not sure why anyone should be surprised that someone on the right of the Tory Party should behave like someone on the right of the Tory Party.

Nothing Rishi Sunak has ever said suggests that as Tory leader he would shift the party to the left.

I thought his appeal was that despite shifting the Tories to the right he would be a competent Tory Prime Minister?

Surely Johnsons greatest asset was his laziness and incompetence ensuring that he never actually got anything done?

God spare of us from another right wing Brexiteer loon on a mission, a la Truss.

Could be Sunak’s first mistake…

More about Nutella’s “resignation”

I thought his appeal was that despite shifting the Tories to the right he would be a competent Tory Prime Minister?

If he has any appeal then this is it. However I don’t see competence as the way out of the current mess, actually I don’t see any way out of it without a lot of people getting crushed. But then many of them voted for it so I’m sure they will all be happy we have no more European immigrants (an increase in the other kind but we wont talk about that) and their standard of living destroyed. But heyho Brexit and shit. Anyone who voted Tory (or didn’t vote) last time round are welcome to their brown sandwich, those that didn’t I have sympathy for.

Gillian! Keegan! for education. Who?

Will she be the 93rd Education Secretary this year?

I wouldn’t worry too much, she’ll be gone by next week

I mean thank **** Coffey isn’t health sec anymore, but he’s given her DEFRA. Give it a week and there’ll be a new policy to plough up organic farms to plant tobacco

Extremely underwhelming cabinet appointments. Just the same old shit, same washed up faces.

As for Braverman, jeeez. Presumably that’s payback to the ERG for their votes

So I guess sensible discussion regarding the effect Brexit has had on our economy is not on the cards?, can’t see any discussion about the single market being on the agenda either.

Hope the EU tell Sunak and his lackeys to **** off

I have to say, I’m disappointed. Not that I’d ever agree with his politics, but I thought he might take a more grownup approach to the job. But no, he’s just appointing the same bunch of useless **** with no qualifications for their job…I guess I’m not surprised tho. The party is still riven by the same lunatic factions on all sides and I think he’s going to really struggle, way more then he should have to if he’d just had a bit of courage.

Just proves that has been promoted too soon, without anywhere near enough experience of politics.

Appointing coffey to *anything* is a big mistake.
You thought useless eustice was, well, useless?
coffey will, I believe, be a disaster.
Has sunak announced a free Peleton for every household – yet?

“As for Braverman, jeeez. Presumably that’s payback to the ERG for their votes”

The ERG have an even firmer grip on both their party and the country than they ever had.

There is nothing to say about this cabinet other than they are an arrangement of Brexit nut-jobs.

The only silver lining in all of this is that it could hasten the point at which the British public at large realises the truth about Brexit, they’re not even offering dead cats this time around, just the same old stick your head in the oven, half baked Brexit deal.

Cue a Cold War Steve cartoon of some desperate soul sticking their head in the oven but not being able to afford the gas to end it all…

Braverman!!! Has her personal email shenanigans been forgiven?!

Not sure what you were all expecting – there’s not exactly a big pool of talent (or any talent) to choose from! 🤣😱

And here comes Gavin… Sorry, Sir Gavin.

Badenoch – women and equalities minister!
The thick of it has nothing on this lot

Have we forgiven him for being a criminal?

Rishi was falsely claiming to be a full-time resident of the United States while he was living in Downing Street, and writing tax law for ordinary British citizens to follow…
Meanwhile whilst pretending to be a full-time US resident, his wife was claiming to be domiciled in India, in order to avoid paying tax on her overseas fortunes..
The maximum penalty for tax evasion is seven years or an unlimited fine..
What does Rishi get??

WTF.. lets make him PM.

Braverman!!! Has her personal email shenanigans been forgiven?!

Have we forgiven him for being a criminal?

This is Year Zero. Again. All is forgiven.

It seems like the qualification for cabinet membership remain the same asat any other point in the last few years…. absolutely insane, as thick as mince, but a fully paid up member of the Brexit Cult

When do you reckon he’ll trigger Article 16 then? By the weekend?

Braverman!!! Has her personal email shenanigans been forgiven?!

Didn’t Braverman sack herself for breaching the ministerial code?

If so it seems reasonable that she should have the authority to forgive herself.

It’s not all bad my POS MP Jake Berry has been sacked resigned

Coffey on Wikipedia:

she went up to Somerville College, Oxford in 1989 to study chemistry.[6][7] However, in 1991 she was required to withdraw from the college on academic grounds, having obtained poor examination results attributed to over-involvement in extracurricular activities

I think the odds on a General Election before Christmas have just shortened.

frankconway
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Appointing coffey to *anything* is a big mistake.

Yup, in her 17 minutes as health secretary she performed much like any pub expert would in that position “I tell you what we need! More antibiotics! Just give ’em to everyone”. Actually stupider than Trump’s “give them a really big dose of the flu vaccine”

He has just entered my I spy book of ****.

“I think the odds on a General Election before Christmas have just shortened.”

I think you’re right. If you’d have taken an opinion poll from this thread 24 hours ago the thought that Sunak would have recognised the importance of stabilising the mood in the country as well as his party was at least in people’s minds as a possibility.

And for those who will just respond “what did you expect” theres no need to respond, we know how smart you are.

It takes some serious front to stand at a lectern and solemnly say that you’ll be bringing back integrity to government then promptly appointing a Home Secretary who was sacked 6 days earlier for breaching the ministerial code.

I was hoping for anything positive, but it’s obvious that we’re just in for more of the same. With added public sector cuts for good measure

Hmmmmmm… I wonder what odds I can get on him being gone in a shorter time than Truss?

Nothing has happened to make a GE more likely.
Opinion polls on the subject would be irrelevant.
There is no upside for the tories in an election before Jan ’25.
I posted yesterday that they are about
self-preservation, not annihilation.
This will suppress any possibility of a VONC succeeding.

The party is still riven by the same lunatic factions on all sides and I think he’s going to really struggle, way more then he should have to if he’d just had a bit of courage.

The new Prime Minister was more concerned with his party than the state of the country in his first speech, as was the last but one. Ms Mordaunt was the only candidate that mentioned country first. He’ll limp on until the last possible moment the the shower of mediocrity that is the Conservative Party will be consigned the the outer darkness where they belong.

As a man who has never felt the need to protest about anything, I’m now at the point where I’d happily March on the streets if I thought it would get this shower of cretins out of power

As for the The reinstatement of braverman…ffs she is a despicable human being, hideously ugly both inside and out.

Someone as repellent as Braverman should be nowhere near the Home Secretary’s job in the first place

I assume her overnight redemption and rehabilitation was one of the ERG’s demands?

They’re the ones running the country

Sweet baby Jesus and the orphans! Really?! REALLY?!!!

Gavin Williamson. Now Sunak is just taking the piss

— John Crace (@JohnJCrace) October 25, 2022

Ah. The man with the blackmail book.

Don’t forget the influence of the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) and other shadowy “Think Tanks”, registered as charities! Oxymoron anyone?

williamson – minister without portfolio; more like minister without a brain.

May as well give Patel a position too now, for the full house bat**** crazy cabinet bingo card.