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This thread is getting far too polite - Livie are going down because their fans can't get the abbreviation right

Perhaps, but I see their core vote lapping it up.

Better get used to it because the Tory 2024 GE campaign started at Sanook's first PMQ. The 4 butts (sic) campaign but Corbyn but Covid but Ukraine but Starmer will take us back into the EU they've got nothing positive.

This was always the possible drawback with the Kibble investment, despite holding a smaller % of shares than SMISA they (Kibble) have F/T people at the club (my assumption) whereas SMISA is reliant on members carrying out duties in their spare time. SMISA need strong willed representatives to deal with this situation and SG certainly fits the bill, he did look tired at the end of the old BoDs tenure back in 2016 but if he's rediscovered his mojo then why not?

We'll have to sweeten any deal.

Truly a Cabinet of all the talents

Three days in and RS is already caught between a rock and a hard place - he'll not want to sack Braverman as it will be a sign of poor judgement but she's a loose cannon and will continue to embarrass herself & the Tories in the minds of most people. Impossible not to laugh...

Toys out the pram! Seems to me the DUP are less a political party and more a fundamentalist group - they'd do well to remember as Sir Edward Carson said that the Tories are not their friends.

Yeah, I think it's clear the purpose of her resignation letter to Truss was to ensure her place in the next regime and while it was successful the real surprise is why Sunak chose to reappoint her, it's not like there's a shortage of bonkers right-wingers with less baggage he could have picked to please that segment of the party.

He was photographed lighting Diwali candles outside No. 10 yesterday but who knows how seriously he takes it?

They were until we had vaccines. Everyone makes up their own mind, just because you follow a different bunch of experts than the rest of us doesn't make you special, certainly not in the sense you imply.

Must make him just about the longest serving Cabinet Minister (certainly in the same role) but then his only job is to take whatever bullets are coming his way due to Westminster's indifference to Scotland, too insignificant to get fired - well paid non-entity!

From The Telegraph..... As I predicted ‘government of all the talents’ - FFS!

Rewarding Mr. Loyalty & Ms. Security Risk must raise questions about his political nous. Oh, and it didn't take long for "a cabinet of the talents" to fall apart.

Rashi Soonak taking the piss.....

@Granny Danger Surely a change to the thread title? Main point - gotta love that "special relationship".

Must have some hidden talent....

I thought so too but obviously the narrative is going to be "last 12 years" - nothing to do with us. Sadly, they might even get away with it.

I see that as being part of the "it's a new regime" narrative that's gonna be the Tory line up to the next GE - it'll probably help that her fallout with Truss was so public, I see this being minimized with claims that it was only a technical matter and besides her fondness to deport refugees to Rwanda will go down well with the party membership.

Maybe I'm wrong about Mrs. Dishi but I still think the focus of any attacks on Dishi & the Tories should be the current reshuffle and the narrative that the new regime bears no responsibility for the current economic situation, Covid, Truss/Kwarteng & the Ukraine - nothing to do with us!

Fairy Nuff!

Obvs I am in a minority on here regarding Mrs. Dishi but Mr. Dishi has enough skeletons is his own closet (see above) do we really need to look into hers - it's a new millennium and I reckon that's an outdated way to look at things. I just checked the article (re-heated from August) and there's nothing to suggest that either Mr. or Mrs. Dishi even knew of these two companies - I'm happy enough to say that this sort of one-way-bet capitalism should be examined, my main surprise is that the criticism appears in the Daily Heil, they're obvs not anticapitalism so it must be some other agenda they were persuing.

May be in a minority of one here but is it really fair to criticize him for his wife's affairs? He's been a key player in the Conservative government who got us here, his "Eat Out to Help Out" policy was counterproductive to say the least, his part in the financial mismanagement of CorporateCovid and the rush to sweep the associated fraud under the carpet should be unforgiveable then he was fined himself as part of the Partygate saga, and even in the summer was promising tax cuts (just not as much as Truss!) so his rebirth as a "grown-up politician" is only possible with selective amnesia.

Doesn't look like Matt's getting back in the cabinet...