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OwlFancier posted:I genuinely can't imagine cameron would want to come back, what the gently caress could possibly be in it for him? He's wisely stayed the gently caress out of things since the brexit vote, the last tory with a shred of sanity. And his oik mate George has done way better than him out of government, he's probably looking for opportunities to make something extra.
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I think there might also be a thing where other senior Tories probably don't want to be associated with this government, they know the next election is going to be a massacre and the last people left will be the ones most tainted by it. Better to stay on the back benches, hope you survive re-election, and then rebuild in opposition behind whatever sociopath the Tories put up.
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It's actually a beautiful natural cycle, where Tories who leave in Everlasting Disgrace with a Legacy of Failure just have to wait for a few years and then they blossom back into a Reassuring Safe Pair of Hands that can generate positive headlines. Soon it will be spring and the Boris tree will flower anew. grobbo fucked around with this message at 10:31 on Nov 13, 2023 |
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Hope it works out as well as it has for the GOP just shutting up and hoping Trump goes away.
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Tesseraction posted:Suckella Firedman https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/nov/13/suella-braverman-sacked-home-secretary lol bye bitch We're only going to get someone even more stupid and fashy now though.
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Tedsville posted:lol bye bitch It's James Cleverly.
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Looking forward to James Cleverly's usual level of competence has him bewilderedly leading the pro-ceasefire march this Saturday.
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Tesseraction posted:what the gently caress? I'm pretty sure that he doesn't have to be either to be a minister, but it's been a long time since that was the case.
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Tesseraction posted:Looking forward to James Cleverly's usual level of competence has him bewilderedly leading the pro-ceasefire march this Saturday. He's remarkably useless as a minister, even by those standards, it's rather incredible.
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This says they're MPs or peers https://www.parliament.uk/site-information/glossary/minister/
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EvilHawk posted:Apparently Cleverly was first into Downing Street after she was sacked so... lol. maybe they should actually organise the entire thing like a sprint race. line them all up and actually there's a better idea i had after those four words
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Gorn Myson posted:He represents the last time the Tories had a respectable image, so much so that Starmer's Labour have been trying to marry his politics that with a nostalgia for New Labour. But like, how could he possibly get anything out of hitching his horse to loving rishi sunak of all people, the last dying fart trapped in the sub-basement into which the bottom of the barrel has melted?
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Private Speech posted:I'm pretty sure that he doesn't have to be either to be a minister, but it's been a long time since that was the case. He does have to be in one of the houses, but it'll be a simple thing to appoint him as a Lord of something. I actually thought he already was a peer
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keep punching joe posted:It's James Cleverly. 
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Mr Cleverly this morning tumbled his way from Braintree to No. 10, somehow managing to miss every branch on the way down
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You're telling me that there's a guy called Cleverly, from a place called Braintree, and that he is dumb as poo poo?
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Private Speech posted:I'm pretty sure that he doesn't have to be either to be a minister, but it's been a long time since that was the case. fairly sure ministers do have to be in Parliament by convention, but the PM can appoint people outside parliament as ministers and then put them into the House of Lords; Gordon Brown did that in 2007 with the 'goats'.
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EvilHawk posted:He does have to be in one of the houses, but it'll be a simple thing to appoint him as a Lord of something. I actually thought he already was a peer Traditionally the outgoing PM is knighted by the incoming, a tradition Brown broke as Blair left in disrepute, and Cameron broke because he's a smug oval office, and Theresa May rewarded his shittiness by not knighting him either. Johnson knighted Blair in 2022, pissing off literally everyone.
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Wake up and the first poo poo I hear is David Cameron is rumoured to be the new Foreign Secretary. Well, at least it's not Tony Blair?
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forkboy84 posted:Wake up and the first poo poo I hear is David Cameron is rumoured to be the new Foreign Secretary. Well, at least it's not Tony Blair? He's busy as Israel have requested he be the UN ambassador solve the peace negotiations.
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The only part of my previous post that was a joke was the UN part btw https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-said-seeking-to-appoint-uks-tony-blair-as-gaza-humanitarian-coordinator/
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keep punching joe posted:You're telling me that there's a guy called Cleverly, from a place called Braintree, and that he is dumb as poo poo? He is a special kind of special.
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That's what's so funny about it though, he was foreign secretary until today, during a war in Europe, and no-one remembered he's in the cabinet.
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quote:How James Cleverly voted on Business and the Economy Okay he's not completely awful.
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Arise Lord Pig fucker. LCFADP.
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Tedsville posted:Okay he's not completely awful. He thought he was voting for faster coke delivery.
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Tesseraction posted:He thought he was voting for faster coke delivery.
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Being Home Secretary seems to turn everyone into an insane fascist but Braverman really put in the extra work and topped a long line of nut jobs as the most racist, most authoritarian we've had in a good while. Glad to see her gone, shame she'll probably be back on the front bench in two months or so.
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Unelected PM gifts cabinet position to unelected mate. We're just in some mad junta now.
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pigfucker on the foreign desk and Lord Blair of Gaza. May as well start prepping my survival cave for WW3
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something grim about them aping a football transfer reporter hack for this poo poo. it really does feel like a game to them huh
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Sunak should go further an assemble a cabinet of former UK prime ministers, god knows there's enough of them now. Like when all the Doctors Who come back for an anniversary special.
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