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Priti Patel is the latest to join Theresa May's new Cabinet #CabinetReshuffle https://t.co/rGGeixOKbo pic.twitter.com/qoWpgO8E3E
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With 2 new departments and only 1 being abolished, surely that limit has been exceeded...
Res publica pleborum
vox populi audiendum est
sine Borisem Etonia delenda est
Unlike Labour (so far).
Troll level: master.
Arf
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/labour-candidate-vows-second-vote-on-brexit-n79bxds9z
Almost zero Nat fightback to May putting them back in their box last night - the Indy dream is dead for 30-40 years IMHO.
They want to make a fuss about brexit, but they don't actually want indyref2, they have no idea even how to start planning for it.
Ruth for the Scottish Office?!
I might have to start channelling some Catullus 16 now
"There is no such thing as "EU Money". There is only taxpayers' money!"
The Boris/Fox/Davis triumvirate for me has potential disaster written all over it. They will have to work together on some pats of the negotiations you would think and all three of them might have a different vision for a post UK brexit. On the one hand May might think Brexit is your mess deal with it and if any of those right wing backbenchers kick up a fuss she can just say well I gave your lot the power to sort it out. But on the other hand if it doesn't work out she could still take damage from it, people will question her judgement.
Apart from the Boris decision Hunt remaining in post is probably the most surprising to me. I've been largely supportive of Hunt during the industrial action with the Junior Doctors and now feel it's time to impose the contract. But May could have taken the easy option and delivered a fresh start in replacing him but didn't. I have no doubt the doctors will not take this decision well but they have their own political agenda and nothing may please them.
Osborne? He could come back at some point from this but he will have to want to remain an MP. I would imagine some financial institutions will be looking at his political future with interest. Maybe he will decide he is done with Politics.
Some really big beasts and talented people on the backbenches, I can't imagine Cameron/Osborne/Gove sitting together lol
It says subsidy, which is the key point...
Based solely on pop, about twice what it should be.
But if there is a second referendum, I will vote leave. I will not be a part of "asking the other parent"
@jessphillips: Id put a fiver on Anna Soubry or Therese Coffey for Leader of the house
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_Referendum_Act_2015
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_Referendum_Act_2015
Round here, the small farmers (mainly hill farms) are likely to be happy. The bigger agri-businesses will be quaking in their boots. As a rule of thumb, MNCs and large businesses like the EU. At some arbitrary point (which varies by sector) smaller businesses don't.
"The problem we've got is too many foreigners but now Boris is Foreign Secretary he'll take 'em all back with him."
You've got to love the general public.
I like Rudd as HS she is certainly an effective and capable operator, Fallon stays as attack dog, if you have an opportunity to detoxify Health why not take it? Greening deeply unimpressive at anything...
Politics for me just got a bit more boring as there seem to be a bunch of not-very-interestings now in power.
If this is supposed to be the safe pair of hands, getting on with the job, no flashiness cabinet then I suppose it's mission accomplished. I can't help thinking, however (and with no catiness), that this cabinet is unexceptional in brainpower and ability as well as character.
I will not be watching PM May's first PMQs that's for sure. Perhaps they should screen it at midnight, as a service to all the insomniacs.
Andrea Leadsom: as soon as I tell farmers there won't be any more subsidies
BTW, Ian:
LEAVE 52%
REMAIN 48%
There!
Uk farmers will be better off as they will have a global marketplace.
I would have thought such a process should be more rigorous. Grist for the legal community here?
It's a pity, with much sympathy, that Mr. Meeks is hors de combat. His input would have been interesting.
I think this is more about making sure that while the negotiations are going on the Brexiteers can't snipe at her and, if what is arrived at is not to the liking of some of them, of having the necessary cover.
What is more interesting to me is how Hammond will work them. He is the one who will want to ensure that any deal does not eff up the economy so badly. In the end if it does that will do for May and him and the Tories' chances at the next election. So he should want to make sure that he gets the right input into any deal. Whether he will or not is another matter.
Why do you keep wittering on about it?