Wednesday 24th July 2019

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Wed 24 Jul, 2019 6:55 am

Morning

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Post by **refitman** » Wed 24 Jul, 2019 7:48 am

Bad day for Jared O'Mara.

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Post by **adam** » Wed 24 Jul, 2019 10:22 am

Dominic Cummings. Looks like Roger picked a good day to be in the Library.

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Wed 24 Jul, 2019 10:45 am

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HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Wed 24 Jul, 2019 10:54 am

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"What does this look like? Eva Liz Moen, a disabled woman from Norway, told the conference how she was enabled to employ two personal assistants – “my liberation tools” – to support her lifestyle and her work for Norwegian independent living charity Uloba. “What’s important is that I decide who, what, where and when,” she said."

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Wed 24 Jul, 2019 11:10 am

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GetYou · Post by **GetYou** » Wed 24 Jul, 2019 11:12 am

Dominic Cummings? Are you f*cking kidding me? Contempt of Parliament Dominic Cummings?

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Wed 24 Jul, 2019 11:12 am

"Let me put it this way: children with special educational needs are not a separate category. They aren’t a problem. They’re not an extraterrestrial event we have to make allowances for. They are not even a “they”. They are us. "

GetYou · Post by **GetYou** » Wed 24 Jul, 2019 11:15 am

Oh but it's OK because he's got a big brain according to unbiased LauraK. She measured it with string and cross-checked the results with Norris McWhirter.

Willow904 · Post by **Willow904** » Wed 24 Jul, 2019 11:21 am

HindleA wrote:https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... ssion=true

I suspect defending their record in Coalition is a tactic to win back centre-right votes lost to the Tories rather than to court left-leaning voters.

AnatolyKasparov · Post by **AnatolyKasparov** » Wed 24 Jul, 2019 11:26 am

Got an email from Labour yesterday, telling us that "we can stop Boris".

All fine and good, but one way of doing that might actually be to stop calling him "Boris".

Willow904 · Post by **Willow904** » Wed 24 Jul, 2019 11:27 am

Re Dominic Cumming's appointment as special adviser:

Sarah Wollaston MP
@sarahwollaston
If true, would be an appalling error of judgement to appoint someone who has been in contempt of Parliament. Very rare for this to happen & would be shameful to be rewarded by PM with such a high profile role. Background to this here: (link: https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/c ... 149003.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;) publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201719/cm…

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HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Wed 24 Jul, 2019 11:30 am

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AnatolyKasparov · Post by **AnatolyKasparov** » Wed 24 Jul, 2019 12:10 pm

May's last ever PMQs - anybody watching?

PorFavor · Post by **PorFavor** » Wed 24 Jul, 2019 12:12 pm

Good morfternoon.

Shamed Tory ex minister Priti Patel will be handed a plum job in Boris Johnson's top team as the new Prime Minister launches his first reshuffle tonight.

Theresa May sacked Ms Patel from her job as International Development Secretary after it emerged she had conducted 'off-the-books' meetings with senior Israeli officials during a 'family holiday'.(Mirror)

citizenJA · Post by **citizenJA** » Wed 24 Jul, 2019 12:50 pm

Good afternoon, everyone.

AnatolyKasparov · Post by **AnatolyKasparov** » Wed 24 Jul, 2019 12:57 pm

PMQs is still going on!

citizenJA · Post by **citizenJA** » Wed 24 Jul, 2019 1:50 pm

AnatolyKasparov wrote:May's last ever PMQs - anybody watching?

From a purely psychosocial standpoint, the Tory obsession with Corbyn (and Labour) is interesting. Tories are fragile and display it openly; they're probably unaware of their transparency. We've had nearly a decade of hardship Tory governments intentionally imposed as well as their having placed the nation in an internationally disastrous position. This minority Tory government's response to, 'use this time wisely' was using it preposterously. They've no mandate and no more than a handful of rational MPs total. They're certainly not a functional government. They mean to destabilise Labour in order to give themselves a chance of coming ahead in a GE. The well-being of most people doesn't figure in Tory government's machinations at all.

citizenJA · Post by **citizenJA** » Wed 24 Jul, 2019 2:09 pm

I'm a Labour party member. It's inappropriate for other party's MPs and their members telling the current Labour party leader to stand down. Not to put a too fine a point on it - they may fuck right off.

citizenJA · Post by **citizenJA** » Wed 24 Jul, 2019 2:18 pm

May is going to speak some more, everyone.

AnatolyKasparov · Post by **AnatolyKasparov** » Wed 24 Jul, 2019 2:32 pm

citizenJA wrote:I'm a Labour party member. It's inappropriate for other party's MPs and their members telling the current Labour party leader to stand down. Not to put a too fine a point on it - they may fuck right off.

Cameron said the same to him, pretty much, at *his* last PMQs.

However, the most hilarious stat for me is that Corbyn has outlasted *seven* UKIP leaders.

Given that some thought he might only last months when first elected.......

Willow904 · Post by **Willow904** » Wed 24 Jul, 2019 6:42 pm

Sajid Javid confirmed as chancellor
Sajid Javid is the new chancellor, No 10 has confirmed.

From the G

Given his main competition appeared to be Liz Truss, this isn't a huge surprise.

Willow904 · Post by **Willow904** » Wed 24 Jul, 2019 6:46 pm

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Tom Newton Dunn
@tnewtondunn
What we know so far: half the Cabinet - 16 - have gone in the most brutal reshuffle in decades.

Sacked (10, so far):
Hunt
Mordaunt
Fox
Clark
Hinds
Bradley
Wright
Mundell
Brokenshire
Nokes

Resigned (4):
Hammond
Gauke
Stewart
Perry

Retired (2):
Grayling
Lidington
6:10 PM · Jul 24, 2019

Willow904 · Post by **Willow904** » Wed 24 Jul, 2019 6:47 pm

Which job is Rees-Mogg going to get then?

citizenJA · Post by **citizenJA** » Wed 24 Jul, 2019 7:02 pm

'Retired' does that mean standing down next GE?

PorFavor · Post by **PorFavor** » Wed 24 Jul, 2019 7:06 pm

Priti Patel is now Home Secretary.

AnatolyKasparov · Post by **AnatolyKasparov** » Wed 24 Jul, 2019 7:08 pm

I see that this afternoon's spam attack has been duly expunged.

PorFavor · Post by **PorFavor** » Wed 24 Jul, 2019 7:08 pm

Dominic Raab - the Geography expert - is Foreign Secretary.

PorFavor · Post by **PorFavor** » Wed 24 Jul, 2019 7:13 pm

Who, I wonder, will be appointed as the UK Ambassador to the USA?

Willow904 · Post by **Willow904** » Wed 24 Jul, 2019 7:29 pm

citizenJA wrote:'Retired' does that mean standing down next GE?

Probably, followed by the Lords no doubt. It's a charmed life for some.

Post by **refitman** » Wed 24 Jul, 2019 7:49 pm

AnatolyKasparov wrote:I see that this afternoon's spam attack has been duly expunged.

Yeah, that was 'fun'

Willow904 · Post by **Willow904** » Wed 24 Jul, 2019 8:16 pm

Spam? I presume we're not talking about chopped ham.

citizenJA · Post by **citizenJA** » Wed 24 Jul, 2019 8:32 pm

Gove appointed chancellor of Duchy of Lancaster

RogerOThornhill · Post by **RogerOThornhill** » Wed 24 Jul, 2019 8:43 pm

Evening all. Long old day in the library.

I kept half an eye on what was going on and then, fed up with politics, decided to check the cricket score...

What was this spam thing all about - anyone we know or just some random stuff?

Post by **refitman** » Wed 24 Jul, 2019 8:44 pm

RogerOThornhill wrote:Evening all. Long old day in the library.

I kept half an eye on what was going on and then, fed up with politics, decided to check the cricket score...

What was this spam thing all about - anyone we know or just some random stuff?

Random Russian bot dropped 9 posts over the site. Killed it with fire.

RogerOThornhill · Post by **RogerOThornhill** » Wed 24 Jul, 2019 9:00 pm

So Truss gets International Trade?

Fox couldn't stay of course - he'd got to the point where he knew what he was talking about and knew that Johnson was talking bollox.

A veritable cabinet of all the talents indeed...

RogerOThornhill · Post by **RogerOThornhill** » Wed 24 Jul, 2019 9:12 pm

From someone who was in the DfE at the same time...

Sam Freedman
@Samfr
·
11h
Cumming's certainly certainly a lot smarter than most Brexiteers and a great campaigner; but he loathes a lot of the ERG mob and I'm struggling to see how he'll work with Lister, Sedwill and other strong characters in the cabinet office.

and thus

Sam Freedman
@Samfr
·
3h
Presumably with Cummings going into No. 10 Gove will be doing the Liddington cabinet office job....?

Guessed correctly.

citizenJA · Post by **citizenJA** » Wed 24 Jul, 2019 9:31 pm

Goodnight, everyone.
love,
cJA

AnatolyKasparov · Post by **AnatolyKasparov** » Wed 24 Jul, 2019 10:23 pm

Amber Rudd and Nicky Morgan have eaten a veritable mountain of their former words, then

Post by **adam** » Wed 24 Jul, 2019 10:42 pm

Willow904 wrote:Which job is Rees-Mogg going to get then?

Leader of the House apparently.

Post by **adam** » Wed 24 Jul, 2019 10:44 pm

He is acting like a man who would like to lose a confidence vote.

Post by **adam** » Wed 24 Jul, 2019 10:46 pm

adam wrote:
Willow904 wrote:Which job is Rees-Mogg going to get then?
Leader of the House ~~apparently~~.

RogerOThornhill · Post by **RogerOThornhill** » Wed 24 Jul, 2019 10:49 pm

Nick Boles not mincing his words...

Nick Boles MP
@NickBoles
The hard right has taken over the Conservative Party. Thatcherites, libertarians and No Deal Brexiters control it top to bottom. Liberal One Nation Conservatives have been ruthlessly culled. Only a few neutered captives are being kept on as window dressing. 1/
7:17 PM · Jul 24, 2019·Twitter for iPad

How long do we give this utter shower before it all falls apart?

gilsey · Post by **gilsey** » Wed 24 Jul, 2019 11:06 pm

RogerOThornhill wrote: How long do we give this utter shower before it all falls apart?

As usual for the last 3 years, we're at the mercy of that endangered species, sensible tories.

It's really shit.

gilsey · Post by **gilsey** » Wed 24 Jul, 2019 11:09 pm

Rishi Sunak named Chief Secretary to the Treasury

My MP.