What type of Brexiteer is David Davis? EEA, Swiss, WTO? Is he generally a sovereignty type, anti-FoM? Big indicator on the direction May is likely to take regarding Brexit.
Disappointed with Liam Fox as foreign trade minister. He still has many questions to ask over his relationship with Adam Werritty and in my opinion should be nowhere near the ministry of trade. A bad bad appointment.
I expect Mrs May has set out the level of involvement of Mr Werritty as being just a xmas card.
I've never been impressed with David Davis. Waffler.
Absolute rubbish. He's a principled libertarian, comes from a very humble background, understands the ordinary man on the street and has a great sense of humour.
That's what he thinks he is.
Flouncing then standing again in a very, very, safe seat showed him up to be the self centred egotist he really is.
His seat was one of the Lib Dem decapitation targets along with our prime minister in Maidenhead!
Jeez the knowledge levels of political history on here are poor amongst certain posters!
A strategy which failed spectacularly. I think the target seats all saw proportionally larger increases in Tory majorities than other seats.
I've never been impressed with David Davis. Waffler.
Absolute rubbish. He's a principled libertarian, comes from a very humble background, understands the ordinary man on the street and has a great sense of humour.
That's what he thinks he is.
Flouncing then standing again in a very, very, safe seat showed him up to be the self centred egotist he really is.
His seat was one of the Lib Dem decapitation targets along with our prime minister in Maidenhead!
Jeez the knowledge levels of political history on here are poor amongst certain posters!
A strategy which failed spectacularly. I think the target seats all saw proportionally larger increases in Tory majorities than other seats.
@sundersays: Brexiteers have the global portfolios (Johnson, Foreign; Davis, Brexit; Fox, Trade, tbc) & ex-Remainers have the home front - Adam Boulton
Eric Pickles for Ministry of Food? (Was a WWII Dept, Lord Woolton and Woolton pie),
Disappointed with Liam Fox as foreign trade minister. He still has many questions to ask over his relationship with Adam Werritty and in my opinion should be nowhere near the ministry of trade. A bad bad appointment.
What type of Brexiteer is David Davis? EEA, Swiss, WTO? Is he generally a sovereignty type, anti-FoM? Big indicator on the direction May is likely to take regarding Brexit.
He did a piece on ConHome the other day. He covers the bases well, imo.
Interesting. Nothing on the city and he talks about preserving employment legislation and manufacturing. Looks like free trade in goods not services as a compromise for border controls. The banks won't be happy.
Expect a big kerfuffle about a new hereditary peerage in the Resignation Honours...
But the successor wouldn't get to sit in the Lords - unless elected at a Hereditary by-election.
Even newly minted hereditaries can't sit. When the 99 Act was passed the hereditaries which were the first holders of their title were offered life peerages.
But if he's giving Major a Hereditary surely it would be on the basis he did go into the Lords immediately - not sure how the formality would work - maybe some way of getting round it?
Can Herititaries resign their places in the Lords like appointees can?
Yes. These days a peerage (be it life or hereditary) and membership of the Lords are linked, but separate things. The peerage gives you the right to sit (though with a hereditary peerage you need to be voted in as one of the '90' - the other 2 hereditaries are the ex officio office holders) but you can terminate your membership too, without effecting your peerage. (This is in stark contrast to the situation 60 years ago - hence Winston Churchill's refusal to become Duke of London.)
Although Churchill only turned down London because Randolph thought he had a glittering political career ahead of him
Disappointed with Liam Fox as foreign trade minister. He still has many questions to ask over his relationship with Adam Werritty and in my opinion should be nowhere near the ministry of trade. A bad bad appointment.
I expect Mrs May has set out the level of involvement of Mr Werritty as being just a xmas card.
And neither should Poju Zabludowicz, although he conducts his affairs under the name Chaim Zabludowicz:
What type of Brexiteer is David Davis? EEA, Swiss, WTO? Is he generally a sovereignty type, anti-FoM? Big indicator on the direction May is likely to take regarding Brexit.
He did a piece on ConHome the other day. He covers the bases well, imo.
Interesting. Nothing on the city and he talks about preserving employment legislation and manufacturing. Looks like free trade in goods not services as a compromise for border controls. The banks won't be happy.
Given May's left wing stance in the speech, perhaps she's going to shaft city types on the basis that they have noone else to vote for anyway?
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http://www.conservativehome.com/platform/2016/02/david-davis-britain-would-be-better-off-out-of-the-eu-and-heres-why.html
Plus as predicted earlier, Theresa May has downgraded the job of Foreign Secretary with a Secretaries for Brexit and International Trade
However not too worried about what happens to the Lib Dems
Once I've recovered, I shall write a weekend thread just for, it is headlined
'After telling you to lay Osborne as next Tory leader, I'm telling you to now BACK Osborne as next Tory leader, and here's why'
More seriously, what was Eden before his appointment?
Cameron or Bercow or Blair...?
(suspect that Gorbals Mick and Gordon Brown wouldn't be interested, and Callaghan is past caring, while it doesn't strike me as Major's style).
David Cameron, Earl of Whitney?
CORBYN !
EAGLE !
SMITH !
Braver than sticking your cock in a blender with an intermittent power pulse
NEW THREAD NEW THREAD
(Was a WWII Dept, Lord Woolton and Woolton pie),
I dont expect much in truth but at least were in with a chance as opposed to guaranteed shitkicking death
Osbornophroia :-)
*snort*
Now it's Disgraced Current Minister Who Previously Resigned in Disgrace.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2011/oct/14/liam-fox-final-straw-was-money-trail