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Peter Brookes on Boris Johnson gaffe that could see Briton jailed for longer in Iran – political cartoon gallery in Putney pic.twitter.com/eMHbYvRIuw
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Good night.
https://twitter.com/TSEofPB/status/748471159621095424
Thank you to Rob Smithson for getting the Isthmian league Division one North on Crowdscores.
I can now follow the mighty Potters Bar Town without turning round from my barstool.
#Esther4Leader
He was never ever a contender.
https://twitter.com/MsHelicat/status/928010318642647042
Hurrah!
Unbridled joy.
And I would bring in Kwasi Kwarteng, JRM and Rory Stewart.
#Priti2FO
Fleeing the sinking ship.
WTF was Patel playing at? Seems like only a matter of time b4 she is gone.
Boris I have more sympathy for - and not just because I occasionally mis-say things. His words have been bigged up and taken out of context for political-point scoring, and those who did that have as much to answer for as Boris.
She has to get a grip, re shuffle the cabinet, and bring in new blood.
Or she will need to go I am afaid
https://twitter.com/patel4witham
https://twitter.com/bbclaurak/status/928020582200995840
I really can't see the case for her going, but Boris staying.... there are much more serious consequences likely from his actions than there are from Patel's.
But the far more significant item in that clipping is that 40 Tory rebels are allegedly preparing to call for May to set a date to quit "if she does not do so next week". I think from the wording "do so" means "set a date to resign" rather than "sack Patel". If that's right, then Jan-Mar exit date looks plausible at 5.6 on Betfair, unless you think that she can stave it off by saying "I'll quit in April 2019".
Patel appears to have been mischief making, or at the very least running her own foreign policy. She has no place in anybody's government, if that's the case.
Waits for press to go to bed.
Of the entire Cabinet only Javid and Gove have impressed, with honorary mention to Jeremy Hunt for avoiding political calamity in Health.
Abort the lot of them.
The PM confirms yet again (as if confirmation was needed) that she is weak and useless.
Time for Tory MPs to do the decent thing and demand a vote of confidence in her leadership.
Hers was deliberate. It took planning. And was lied about.
The 2 are not comparable.
Although it's a mistake, it's habitual;
He refused to apologise properly or admit fault;
He's a total c*** unfit to be representing this country abroad.
By contrast, Boris could be directly responsible for someone being jailed for much longer than she would otherwise have been, in a country where jail conditions are particularly unpleasant.
Mike's next holiday starts in less than a fortnight.
Instead the department is giving to someone who doesn't really believe in it purely as part of a post Referendum balancing act. Then she spends her time in office pandering to anti Aid sentiment. Then this happens.
Meanwhile we progress with Brexit which will exclude our world leading Aid agencies from the EU Aid budget from which they won a disproportionate share.
If May wants to scrape a few shards of redemption from her remaining months in office she'll make Rory Stewert DIfD Sec before she goes.
Boris ought to go because
1) He simply is incapable of doing the work to be on top of the brief.
2) When questioned, he blurts out the first thing that pops into his head. Sometimes this is amusing or erudite. Occasionally idiotic.
3) He seems psychologically unable to admit error.
a. Someone vaguely competent from the new intake?
b. Another Brexiteer. Bill Cash or John Redwood?
And McVey needs a proper job.
Or, she is just a bedblocker and needs to be terminated with due dignitas.