Monday 8th January 2018
Posted: Mon 08 Jan, 2018 7:10 am
Morning all.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/01 ... reshuffle/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
A cabinet minister for "no deal"
Hmmm....
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Re: Monday 8th January 2018
Posted: Mon 08 Jan, 2018 7:27 am
Re: Monday 8th January 2018
Posted: Mon 08 Jan, 2018 7:38 am
A good take on Toby Young, who should never have been appointed
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Re: Monday 8th January 2018
Posted: Mon 08 Jan, 2018 8:36 am
No heating, school closed to kids but not us. The hunt for heaters is on...
Re: Monday 8th January 2018
Posted: Mon 08 Jan, 2018 8:39 am
If you read some of the pieces around the time of his appointment, before it occurred to people that he might have a bit of a past, it was suggested that whilst the Office for Students is supposed to be there to protect the interests of students in HE, it also had a role in 'protecting free speech on campus' - he still seems an ideal candidate if what the government is after is somebody to make sure that the fees students pay to be there are used to fund speakers who will attack their right to be there because of who they are. It's a bit like the problem with the Worboys case being that the probation board were doing their job, not that they weren't.SpinningHugo wrote:A good take on Toby Young, who should never have been appointed
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Re: Monday 8th January 2018
Posted: Mon 08 Jan, 2018 8:51 am
Apart from the picture of a naked Toby, Zelo Street (Saturday) was good.
Press Turns On Toby Young
eg Giles Coren:
Press Turns On Toby Young
eg Giles Coren:
“ This whole broigus has left me torn. I can’t help but feel some sympathy for a fellow journalist being strung up now for things he wrote years ago to try and make a name for himself. On the other hand, Toby is the biggest twat I have ever met ”.
Re: Monday 8th January 2018
Posted: Mon 08 Jan, 2018 9:08 am
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Re: Monday 8th January 2018
Posted: Mon 08 Jan, 2018 10:38 am
Barking.PaulfromYorkshire wrote:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/01 ... reshuffle/
A cabinet minister for "no deal"
Hmmm....
Re: Monday 8th January 2018
Posted: Mon 08 Jan, 2018 11:10 am
Good morfternoon.
Re: Monday 8th January 2018
Posted: Mon 08 Jan, 2018 11:28 am
Harry Cole
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EXC: James Brokenshire has resigned from the Cabinet. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5292321/n ... overnment/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; …
11:21 AM - Jan 8, 2018
THE NORTHERN Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire has resigned and will be leaving Government, The Sun understands. More to follow
thesun.co.uk (Politics Live, Guardian)
Re: Monday 8th January 2018
Posted: Mon 08 Jan, 2018 11:31 am
Re James Brokenshire - Sky News is reporting that his resignation is because of health reasons.
Re: Monday 8th January 2018
Posted: Mon 08 Jan, 2018 11:52 am
I see the reshuffle is going well.
Re: Monday 8th January 2018
Posted: Mon 08 Jan, 2018 11:57 am
Yes - they've already swung into Kelly's Heroes bridge mode.adam wrote:I see the reshuffle is going well.
Re: Monday 8th January 2018
Posted: Mon 08 Jan, 2018 11:59 am
Looks like it's Brandon Lewis for Party Chair. (Sky News)
Re: Monday 8th January 2018
Posted: Mon 08 Jan, 2018 12:15 pm
Yes but they'd already Tweeted it was going to be GraylingPorFavor wrote:Looks like it's Brandon Lewis for Party Chair. (Sky News)
It's the panto reshuffle.
Chris Grayling is Chairman!
Oh no he isn't!
Re: Monday 8th January 2018
Posted: Mon 08 Jan, 2018 12:18 pm
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Re: Monday 8th January 2018
Posted: Mon 08 Jan, 2018 12:28 pm
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Re: Monday 8th January 2018
Posted: Mon 08 Jan, 2018 12:30 pm
I'm most disappointed.
I thought Chris Grayling was the ideal candidate to fail to get the Tories re-elected. Knew it was too good to be true.
I thought Chris Grayling was the ideal candidate to fail to get the Tories re-elected. Knew it was too good to be true.
Re: Monday 8th January 2018
Posted: Mon 08 Jan, 2018 12:31 pm
But it comes at a rather awkward time nonetheless.PorFavor wrote:Re James Brokenshire - Sky News is reporting that his resignation is because of health reasons.
Re: Monday 8th January 2018
Posted: Mon 08 Jan, 2018 12:39 pm
edited to make it clear it's AS speaking, not me.We’ve got two urgent questions in the Commons this afternoon.
But we don’t know if Jeremy Hunt or Justine Greening will still be in post this afternoon. Both UQs may well be answered by junior ministers ...Labour Whips
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Two UQs granted from 3.30. 1. @JonAshworth to ask @Jeremy_Hunt to make a statement on the NHS Winter Crisis. 2. @DawnButlerBrent to ask @JustineGreening about the appointment of Toby Young to the OfS.
12:28 PM - Jan 8, 2018
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Re: Monday 8th January 2018
Posted: Mon 08 Jan, 2018 12:49 pm
I expect it will be the same flannel whoever responds.
Re: Monday 8th January 2018
Posted: Mon 08 Jan, 2018 12:50 pm
He's proper poorly by the sound of it.AnatolyKasparov wrote:But it comes at a rather awkward time nonetheless.PorFavor wrote:Re James Brokenshire - Sky News is reporting that his resignation is because of health reasons.
Re: Monday 8th January 2018
Posted: Mon 08 Jan, 2018 12:52 pm
Yeah, already tasteful speculation about a by-election in some quartersgilsey wrote:He's proper poorly by the sound of it.AnatolyKasparov wrote:But it comes at a rather awkward time nonetheless.PorFavor wrote:Re James Brokenshire - Sky News is reporting that his resignation is because of health reasons.
Re: Monday 8th January 2018
Posted: Mon 08 Jan, 2018 1:03 pm
Good-afternoon, everyone
Re: Monday 8th January 2018
Posted: Mon 08 Jan, 2018 1:04 pm
I'm sorry, adamadam wrote:No heating, school closed to kids but not us. The hunt for heaters is on...
Keep warm
Re: Monday 8th January 2018
Posted: Mon 08 Jan, 2018 1:09 pm
So they did keep on whoever was responsible for the Conservative Party Conference signage. I wondered what might happen to them . . .Peter WalkerVerified account @peterwalker99
Reshuffle chaos latest: after Chris Grayling error, No 10 tweets that Brandon Lewis is new party chair, then deletes and tweets again after they spell "minister without portfolio" as "porfolio"
(Politics Live, Guardian)
Edited for a "P". So to speak . . .
Re: Monday 8th January 2018
Posted: Mon 08 Jan, 2018 1:17 pm
Tories down to a t
Re: Monday 8th January 2018
Posted: Mon 08 Jan, 2018 2:08 pm
Brilliant!citizenJA wrote:Tories down to a t
Re: Monday 8th January 2018
Posted: Mon 08 Jan, 2018 2:39 pm
I remember the ridiculous fuss when Ed Miliband once mis-spelled a tweet. That is the least of the government's problems!
Re: Monday 8th January 2018
Posted: Mon 08 Jan, 2018 3:26 pm
And here is my colleague John Crace on Sajid Javid’s new title.
John Crace
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The reshuffle is now going so badly the govt has had to resort to reshuffling the name of Sajid Javid's department #reshuffle
3:11 PM - Jan 8, 2018 (Politics Live, Guardian)
Re: Monday 8th January 2018
Posted: Mon 08 Jan, 2018 3:58 pm
I deplore double-standards
Re: Monday 8th January 2018
Posted: Mon 08 Jan, 2018 4:09 pm
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Re: Monday 8th January 2018
Posted: Mon 08 Jan, 2018 4:54 pm
Oh, well. That's Social Care completely abolished, then.
Re: Monday 8th January 2018
Posted: Mon 08 Jan, 2018 4:58 pm
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Re: Monday 8th January 2018
Posted: Mon 08 Jan, 2018 5:13 pm
Sorry, what?PorFavor wrote:Oh, well. That's Social Care completely abolished, then.
Re: Monday 8th January 2018
Posted: Mon 08 Jan, 2018 5:18 pm
AnatolyKasparov wrote:Sorry, what?PorFavor wrote:Oh, well. That's Social Care completely abolished, then.
Rhyming slang has now got it in his job title, although I have a feeling he may already have had some responsibility for it - hence its pitiful state
Re: Monday 8th January 2018
Posted: Mon 08 Jan, 2018 5:19 pm
I've lost the tweet now, but it said 'as if getting old wasn't scary enough already'. Yes.
Paul Mason.Stand by for both Health AND Social Care to get the "clueless blinking at the camera" treatment, while people die on hospital trolleys AND as they wait for care homes.
Re: Monday 8th January 2018
Posted: Mon 08 Jan, 2018 5:22 pm
May going out of her way to make the NHS crisis worse, imo.
Re: Monday 8th January 2018
Posted: Mon 08 Jan, 2018 5:27 pm
Gauke to Justice, so brace for DWP.
Re: Monday 8th January 2018
Posted: Mon 08 Jan, 2018 5:27 pm
Yes, its little more than a renaming (of the deckchairs) AFAICS.howsillyofme1 wrote:AnatolyKasparov wrote:Sorry, what?PorFavor wrote:Oh, well. That's Social Care completely abolished, then.
Rhyming slang has now got it in his job title, although I have a feeling he may already have had some responsibility for it - hence its pitiful state
I have just seen that Greg Clark is staying where he is btw, so that's one that "Shippers" got wrong.
Re: Monday 8th January 2018
Posted: Mon 08 Jan, 2018 6:55 pm
I assume everyone's gone off for a lie-down, on account of the excitement engendered by the "reshuffle".
Edited to add an "e"
Edited to add an "e"
Re: Monday 8th January 2018
Posted: Mon 08 Jan, 2018 6:58 pm
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Re: Monday 8th January 2018
Posted: Mon 08 Jan, 2018 7:00 pm
I made stew & cleaned the kitchenPorFavor wrote:I assume everyone's gone off for a lie-down, on account of the excitement engendered by the "reshuffle".
Edited to add an "e"
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Re: Monday 8th January 2018
Posted: Mon 08 Jan, 2018 7:02 pm
Fox remains where he is
Re: Monday 8th January 2018
Posted: Mon 08 Jan, 2018 7:03 pm
Aaron
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#cabinetreshuffle just been described by @SkyNewsBreak as 'Night of the Plastic Knives'. Ouch!!!
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#cabinetreshuffle just been described by @SkyNewsBreak as 'Night of the Plastic Knives'. Ouch!!!
Re: Monday 8th January 2018
Posted: Mon 08 Jan, 2018 7:04 pm
purposeful strides of a Labour MP coming out of a meeting
thank god we know that
thank god we know that
Re: Monday 8th January 2018
Posted: Mon 08 Jan, 2018 7:09 pm
Now more vice chairmen (their terminology ) than Libdem MP's
Re: Monday 8th January 2018
Posted: Mon 08 Jan, 2018 7:11 pm
Still failing at Transport.
Re: Monday 8th January 2018
Posted: Mon 08 Jan, 2018 7:14 pm
So we still don't know about Education or about Gove
Am I right to be worried?
Am I right to be worried?
Re: Monday 8th January 2018
Posted: Mon 08 Jan, 2018 7:14 pm
Though Rayner vs Gove would be a sight to behold 