Salvo Montalbano Posted November 13, 2023 Share Posted November 13, 2023 5 minutes ago, Suspect Device said: "Call me Dave" Cameron to win the Leadership Contest, hold an in/out Referendum on Europe and... wait, hasn't this happened before? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arch Stanton Posted November 13, 2023 Share Posted November 13, 2023 Dougie is not a fan. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted November 13, 2023 Share Posted November 13, 2023 1 hour ago, Ziggy Sobotka said: It's the Romano stuff. Just saw Douglas Hurd at Glasgow Airport waiting on a flight to London. Also hearing Michael Heseltine was spotted with a club representative in a service station off the M6. Lots of business to get done before the window slams shut 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherrif John Bunnell Posted November 13, 2023 Share Posted November 13, 2023 (edited) At least Braverman going means an end to the Tories trying to stoke up the culture wars... Edited November 13, 2023 by Sherrif John Bunnell 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted November 13, 2023 Share Posted November 13, 2023 Wee ninja Willie Hague will be holding his hand up next. Tony Blair has let it be known he is available to help but his office denies he has been offered specific job. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
10menwent2mow Posted November 13, 2023 Share Posted November 13, 2023 4 hours ago, Florentine_Pogen said: As if anyone will notice............ And let's not forget the lingering stench of grift / corruption that follows 'Call Me Dave' wherever he goes. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/nov/13/greensill-scandal-david-cameron-cabinet I think anyone in the cabinet who likes a sandwich or a biscuit will notice that Coffey has gone 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted November 13, 2023 Share Posted November 13, 2023 (edited) Have to say Sunak played a blinder when he threw a pig fucking remainer ex-PM dead cat on the table to distract the loony right when he sacked Sue Ellen. Edited November 13, 2023 by welshbairn 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve_Wilkos Posted November 13, 2023 Share Posted November 13, 2023 2 hours ago, Suspect Device said: "Starmer's socialist cabal" 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael W Posted November 13, 2023 Share Posted November 13, 2023 Who would've thought a Johnson loyalist would do such a thing? That letter looks like a child wrote it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eez-eh Posted November 13, 2023 Share Posted November 13, 2023 “Brave Boris” ”Law and order” ”Take control” ”Corbyn” Not a bad attempt at a full house. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherrif John Bunnell Posted November 13, 2023 Share Posted November 13, 2023 It seems like Sunak is giving every useless old Tory a gig. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florentine_Pogen Posted November 13, 2023 Share Posted November 13, 2023 8 hours ago, doulikefish said: Hands punted as tory party chairman...30p lee next 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonS Posted November 13, 2023 Share Posted November 13, 2023 6 hours ago, TxRover said: Been fielding questions about that all this morning, as it’s incredible to a Yank that a person could be expected to perform a top level role AND represent a constituency. That's fair enough but US appointees are subject to approval by the Senate, which brings democratic accountability. Lots of countries allow the head of state or the head of the government to appoint ministers but they are all governed by laws. Rarely, maybe uniquely, in the UK the prime minister can appoint anyone they like as a cabinet minister with no restrictions. This is because they used to be appointed by the monarch. Our Secretaries of State have much more power as they alone run their departments, can exercise the royal prerogative and can make secondary legislation. The UK government as a whole isn't really a thing and doesn't have powers, it's the secretaries of state who do. The prime minister doesn't have legal power to intervene or overrule them - their power only comes from being able to hire and fire them. None of this is planned, it's all a hot mess that happened to stumble from medieval times into a democracy. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TxRover Posted November 14, 2023 Share Posted November 14, 2023 34 minutes ago, GordonS said: That's fair enough but US appointees are subject to approval by the Senate, which brings democratic accountability. Lots of countries allow the head of state or the head of the government to appoint ministers but they are all governed by laws. Rarely, maybe uniquely, in the UK the prime minister can appoint anyone they like as a cabinet minister with no restrictions. This is because they used to be appointed by the monarch. Our Secretaries of State have much more power as they alone run their departments, can exercise the royal prerogative and can make secondary legislation. The UK government as a whole isn't really a thing and doesn't have powers, it's the secretaries of state who do. The prime minister doesn't have legal power to intervene or overrule them - their power only comes from being able to hire and fire them. None of this is planned, it's all a hot mess that happened to stumble from medieval times into a democracy. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MazzyStar Posted November 14, 2023 Share Posted November 14, 2023 6 hours ago, Arch Stanton said: Dougie is not a fan. Iain Dale what a weird freak 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freedom Farter Posted November 14, 2023 Share Posted November 14, 2023 Dale calls himself "moderate" in that tweet. Austerity and bombing Libya were not moderate policies by David Cameron. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheese Posted November 14, 2023 Share Posted November 14, 2023 In the media, PMC bubble that Dale inhabits, 'moderate' has nothing to do with actual policy, it means presentation and tone. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneteaminglasgow Posted November 14, 2023 Share Posted November 14, 2023 Aye it’s like how they think ‘kinder’ politics is just about not calling people p***ks rather than, you know, not murdering people based on race or socioeconomic class. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEADOWXI Posted November 14, 2023 Share Posted November 14, 2023 14 hours ago, Suspect Device said: I cannot believe that is not satire, and not even decent Iannucci level satire, but 3rd year at school end of year, have a go at the teachers satire. I pity the people of Morley and Outwood. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEADOWXI Posted November 14, 2023 Share Posted November 14, 2023 14 hours ago, Sherrif John Bunnell said: At least Braverman going means an end to the Tories trying to stoke up the culture wars... ESTHER McVey has made a shock return to the Cabinet as Rishi Sunak's "common sense tsar" tasked with tackling the scourge of wokery, The Sun understands It starts badly, drifts to insane fantasy in the middle and ends in unbelievable farce, Not just those three lines but this whole government really 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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