There are rumours that Sunak will reshuffle his cabinet today, which provides an easy question of the day:
Will a reshuffle save Sunak?
- No (42%, 149 Votes)
- Replacing an incompetent person with another incompetent person will not change anything. (40%, 142 Votes)
- No one knows who most ministers are now, so this won’t change anything (16%, 56 Votes)
- Yes, but only if it gets rid of Braverman (3%, 9 Votes)
- Yes (1%, 3 Votes)
Total Voters: 359
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More like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic to me.
https://labourhub.org.uk/2023/11/13/the-pilot-returns-to-the-titanic/
Now all we need is for Blair to return as humanitarian coordinator for Gaza.
What a laughing stock.
David Cameron, the King of Austerity. Not even an MP. The talent less Tories no longer even have a barrel to scrape.
As with his time in No. 10, I suspect Cameron thinks he’d be rather good at being Foreign Secretary, without having any particular idea why this should be so. Or any idea what he plans to do or how he is going to achieve it.
Still, at least he’ll be able to travel the globe on the government’s purse, rubbing shoulders with ‘important people’, which is what I suspect is most important for him.
We now hear that Cameron has been made Foreign Secretary. What an utterly desperate move, confirming the total inadequacy and incompetence (other adjectives are available) of the current generation of Tory politicians. One can only imagine what foreign politicians will think of Referendum Cameron turning up on their doorsteps.
Lard Cameron of Greensill, I hope
At least he hasn’t brought Boris Johnson back. Yet.
Or even worse, Truss!!
Sunak has made a decisive move back to the centre (of a right wing party, of course), and he will be looking to that to cement his position. I think it will do so until the fascist tendency are sure of the membership enough to send in the letters to the 1922 Committee, which I don’t see happening until Spring. When (or if) it happens, it will explode British politics into chaos. It is then more likely that a centre right bloc will form, even possibly an alliance of centre Tories with Starmer and what’s left of Labour.
I imagine letters to the 1922 committee will be going in soon, as Sunak has told all tory MPs they are not good enough to be foreign secretary.
I am sure you are right
Those Tory MPs have only been clinging on in the faint hope of a ministerial job plus car and extra money. Now thats gone they might as well stick the knife in
I note that some of those resigning are basically doing so to get the point ministerial quarantine period over now in anticipation they will lose their seats and so need a new job asap next year
The Guardian reports Nick Robinson quoting an Israeli newspaper saying Cameron was the most pro-Israel PM ever.
Cleverly ( and Braverman) were active members of he Conservative Friends of Israel.
Boris said the International Criminal court should not be involved in any investigation of Israel’s actions. This may be the continuing policy. Labour may differ.
National interest and morality don’t always coincide. But to many outside the western world, it increasingly looks like the West is guilty of double standards. We condemn Russia in Ukraine , rightly in my view, but not doing so over Gaza or the occupation of the West Bank. I think it does look this way and is neither moral nor in our national interest. Sunak likes to bang the patriotic drum but may be vulnerable here.
There is a potentially very nasty row brewing here which won’t just be confined to the conservatives.
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2023/nov/12/uk-government-challenged-over-icc-inquiry-into-israels-conduct
Braverman is a loose cannon with more than enough idiots to fall in behind her.
This is bad.
Thank you, Richard and this community.
I will leave it to former officials who know more about the British constitution in theory and practice to consider the implications of having a senior minister in the Lords and unable to answer questions in the more important Commons. Since Lord Carrington’s resignation in 1982, there was an understanding, no more than that, that senior ministers should sit in the lower house.
Cameron has long hankered to return to government and specified this post. In 2018 or 2019, he told hacks at the Cheltenham jump racing festival that he was expletive deleted bored and specified the Foreign Office. There was much laughter across the channel.
Sunak owes Cameron. Sunak joined the Tories when Cameron encouraged people from all sorts of backgrounds, including Carole Vorderman, his wife’s cousin Kirstie Allsopp, lingerie and PPE magnate Michelle Mone, high street retail magnate and, ahem, more, Philip Green and fashion designer Mary Portas, to join and either advise the party / government or stand for parliament. Sunak expressed interest in standing and had to be parachuted into a safe seat. He applied for Richmond, Yorkshire, but lost to a local candidate. The local party was overruled. As it happens, Crispin Odey seed funded the investment firms co-owned by Rees-Mogg, Somerset, and Sunak, Theleme. Rees-Mogg’s aristocratic wife and in laws are the biggest landowners in Sunak’s constituency. Their influence helped, too.
Crispin Odey out of favour at the moment, isn’t he?
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/oct/31/odey-asset-management-shut-crispin-odey-hedge-fund
What’s also bad is that Cameron will be in the lords for life.
Another reason to get rid of the house of lords.
My MP has just been saved from a sticky situation. He was in the transport department, responsible for roads and buses.
Go North East buses have been on strike for two weeks so far and will be until 22 December unless an agreement is reached.
He seems to have nothing to say about that.
The A1 dualling has been announced then suspended again.
He has just been made party chairman.
At least he won’t be bothering non- conservatives any more.
What does a party chairman do?
S/he goes around rallying the troops by eating very large numbers of what are called rubber chicken suppers at constituency association dinners, after which they give a perfunctory speech
Thats about what I was going to say. Endless chatting up of potential donors and rallying the troops.
He’s very good at that. You never see him in a photo opportunity without a pub in the background or a glass of beer in his hand. He might have to change to more wine.
Before he became an MP he worked for CCHQ and helped produce both May’s and Johnson’s leadership campaigns.
Is this reshuffle just another distraction? What news are they hiding this time?
Good question
Didn’t hide this very well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKiBWol5S4s&pp=wgIGCgQQAhgB
Anyone pay East Anglian water for their water?
From weownit.
I have just tweeted it
Good work by Cat and her team