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I'd think SKS would want to withdraw for a while to lick his wounds and recover. It isn't as though he willingly made way for a successor. Expecting him to turn up at Cabinet like a former owner become a guest seems a bit of a stretch.

I did note that Burnham could keep Cooper at the Foreign Office for a bit then Starmer takes over, so it doesn't have to be immediate.

Starmer is far more likely to end up at NATO in my opinion

Dear God, no, he'd be awful. He should never be in an important job that involves people's lives. He's a lawyer. Let him go back to that. He can charge a lot of money for doing things that are checked by others, constrained by the law, overseen by a judge, and assessed by a jury. That way he will cause minimum damage.

Someone who underfunded defence by 14 billion on his own review ends up in NATO

Not going to happen

Macron might in a few years

Get your facts right.

He has delivered record increase in Defence funding AFTER FOURTEEN YEARS OF TORY DESTRUCTION

The fact the Country cannot afford what the Armed Forces want is not down to Starmer or
Reeves it's down to TORY MISMANAGEMENT

When will one of you Tories ever accept responsibility for anything

I'd think SKS would want to withdraw for a while to lick his wounds and recover. It isn't as though he willingly made way for a successor. Expecting him to turn up at Cabinet like a former owner become a guest seems a bit of a stretch.

I did note that Burnham could keep Cooper at the Foreign Office for a bit then Starmer takes over, so it doesn't have to be immediate.

Starmer is far more likely to end up at NATO in my opinion

Dear God, no, he'd be awful. He should never be in an important job that involves people's lives. He's a lawyer. Let him go back to that. He can charge a lot of money for doing things that are checked by others, constrained by the law, overseen by a judge, and assessed by a jury. That way he will cause minimum damage.

Someone who underfunded defence by 14 billion on his own review ends up in NATO

Not going to happen

Macron might in a few years

Chancellor and Foreign Sec is a little beyond even his talents.

Give FS to Carns, with the sole brief of shaking Trump extremely firmly by the hand until he surrenders.

He can multitask, just like I can.

The cabinet* should lead on Britain's productivity crisis by taking on multiple roles. With AI assistance. What could go wrong?

*Might be able to slim it down enough to make it a drawer!

I tested this plan by asking Copilot, "What should the UK Government's response be to the constitutional crisis around delayed elections in Gagauzia?" It recommended:

The UK should treat Gagauzia’s crisis as a rule‑of‑law and security issue in Moldova’s neighbourhood: back Chişinău’s constitutional framework, push hard (but quietly) for rapid, credible elections under national law, and work with EU/US/OSCE to deter spoilers—especially those linked to Russian influence—while visibly engaging Gagauz society so this doesn’t look like “London vs Gagauzia” but “London for free elections in Gagauzia”.

I think that's probably a better answer than 87% of MPs could come up with unaided. It then offered to sketch a short ministerial statement that looked good. I hereby approve Selebian's plan.

Of course, if the models ever get trained on US high level foreign policy discussions from recent years, the the answer to any question will, I guess, be bomb Iran!

What utter nonsense.

Such a model would obviously answer that the only solution is to buy billions in a meme coin owned by an orange guy.

Chancellor and Foreign Sec is a little beyond even his talents.

Give FS to Carns, with the sole brief of shaking Trump extremely firmly by the hand until he surrenders.

He can multitask, just like I can.

The cabinet* should lead on Britain's productivity crisis by taking on multiple roles. With AI assistance. What could go wrong?

*Might be able to slim it down enough to make it a drawer!

I tested this plan by asking Copilot, "What should the UK Government's response be to the constitutional crisis around delayed elections in Gagauzia?" It recommended:

The UK should treat Gagauzia’s crisis as a rule‑of‑law and security issue in Moldova’s neighbourhood: back Chişinău’s constitutional framework, push hard (but quietly) for rapid, credible elections under national law, and work with EU/US/OSCE to deter spoilers—especially those linked to Russian influence—while visibly engaging Gagauz society so this doesn’t look like “London vs Gagauzia” but “London for free elections in Gagauzia”.

I think that's probably a better answer than 87% of MPs could come up with unaided. It then offered to sketch a short ministerial statement that looked good. I hereby approve Selebian's plan.

This gives me the perfect excuse to share this song:

https://youtu.be/C9RJQPZsj8E?si=5g3zpZfs3fwGOryt

Probably the most played song containing the word "Chişinău" in the history of the world.

Don’t laugh but I’m about to book a holiday there.

With the tensions between Poland and Ukraine in the past couple of weeks, Mrs Sandpit has found a daily sleeper train from Chişinău to Kyiv. Moldova is cheaper to fly to and stay in for 24 hours, than going through Krakow which is the alternative.

A quick Google says there’s not an awful lot to do there, but some nice parks and old Soviet monuments. Their local wine is apparently quite good too.