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According to Tim Shipman

‘NEW: James Cleverly will become as Shadow Secretary of State for Housing. Tories see this as a key role to take on Angela Rayner’

So the Tories who failed on housebuilding can criticise Labour when they fail on housebuilding and the Lib Dem’s can demand an extension of the green belt.

Meanwhile Reform will promise whatever they think people want to hear and change daily.

You missed out the Cleverly Defence, which I imagine will get deployed:

CLEVERLY: Why aren't Labour building the houses we need?
RAYNER: You had 14 years to build houses and you did nothing! If its important to build houses in Barnsley why didn't you do so?
CLEVERLY: Cos its a shithole

Vote Conservative because if you want shit government you may as well be sneered at whilst it happens.

How very PB, a header on the SNP & Indy turns into a reflexive regurgitation of Brexit was good anctually and Remoaners smell.

Obsessive, toi?

Complete with a laboured, bitter, unfunny whine from your good self. So, yes: tick tick tick

"Leavers are, for obvious reasons, reflexively defensive these days."

QED

It is remarkable that a handful of Brexiteers have the audacity to spam the site each day with a million posts decrying current government fiscal travails, whilst still quietly considering Brexit is a success and "Boris Johnson got all the big calls right".

How sad that on a politics site, people should have views that conflict with your own.

Well I seem to recall the beasting of Scott for his anti-Brexit posting. "Scott,n' paste" etc. And the same people complaining about that are doing exactly the same but on a topic that cheers them.

It's your entitlement to spam the site with your point of view (TBF, your posts are very measured, legitimate and very readable some, other posters on the other hand are just particularly dreary). Their posts do not add to, but diminish the debate.

PB is such a fantastic resource. It was at its best during US election 2020 as exceptional posters counted down Donald Trump's defeat with data, when it looked from the early count like he might have won.

A number of my favourite (like minded) posters seem recently to have thrown in the towel. If we want the site to be a pro- Tory/ Reform echo chamber let's crack on regardless.

Oh do stop bleating. The Labour Party is now in power. The government of the day ALWAYS gets a kicking on PB and its opponents are thereby energised. Cope

And of course this government is excruciatingly bad (see the polls) and led by a loathsome failure (see the polls) so it will get particularly and severely drubbed. Cope

He is coping. Mechanism of choice being to point out the deluge of brainless drivel from right wingers (and one or two others who risibly claim to be unaligned) on here.

It's an honourable course. Much easier to de-engage or 'go light' (ie do only the non politics chitchat that PB is always good for, regardless of clashing world views and brain chemistries).

You'll join me on the naughty step for that post!

- No, I'm expecting 25 likes for that.

Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch is set to reshuffle her shadow cabinet on Tuesday.

Sir James Cleverly, who previously served in government as the foreign secretary and home secretary, is expected to return to the front bench as part of the changes.

The leader of the opposition had been expected to make small changes to the make-up of her frontbench team in order to replace one or two shadow ministers who wanted to step down for personal reasons.

However, BBC News understands Badenoch has opted for a bigger shake-up, including bringing back former leadership rival Sir James into a high-profile role.

A party source confirmed the reshuffle to the BBC, saying: "The leader of the opposition will be making some changes to her frontbench team today.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c24v0j73e75o

Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch is set to reshuffle her shadow cabinet on Tuesday.

Sir James Cleverly, who previously served in government as the foreign secretary and home secretary, is expected to return to the front bench as part of the changes.

The leader of the opposition had been expected to make small changes to the make-up of her frontbench team in order to replace one or two shadow ministers who wanted to step down for personal reasons.

However, BBC News understands Badenoch has opted for a bigger shake-up, including bringing back former leadership rival Sir James into a high-profile role.

A party source confirmed the reshuffle to the BBC, saying: "The leader of the opposition will be making some changes to her frontbench team today.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c24v0j73e75o

Will she bring Suella back? There's a risk of a big Kemi/Cleverley/Stride vs Jenrick/Braverman schism

Having said that I think Cleverley knows Braintree is a goner in all likelihood and a shadow senior role sets him up for Mayor of London tilt