Suella Braverman's time is up.

[Pickman's model]

You mean 13 November will be known as the the Train Crash / Shit Show transition...

try saying that after a few pints

 

[Lord Camomile]

DUN, DUN, DUUUUUUUUUUUUN!!



(Desperate writers turning to stunt casting to wring the last few coins from a dying series )

 

[andysays]

i suspect that the ejection of braverman will end one chapter in forthcoming books about this chaotic administration and cameron's return will begin another. this peculiar decision seems to me to highlight the utter bankruptcy of sunak's government and the period of warfare within the conservative party that the departure of the former and the return of the latter will be put previous discontent within the party in the shade.

That's more like it.

 

[Ax^]

Cameron. Fucking Cameron. Are they just running out of ways to take the piss?

tbf he wife wanted him out do the house as was making it look untidy

 

[tony.c]

Didn't that happen with Mandelson?

 

[cupid_stunt]

I think we're all veterans of watching politics on this forum and I'm not sure I've ever seen anything as desperate as bringing back an ex-MP who isn't even in the Lords as a Cabinet member.

He is a Lord now, the King has confirmed his appointment.

 

[Lord Camomile]

He is a Lord now, the King as confirmed his appointment.

Again, how long does that take to arrange?

Because if it's just a quick call to Charlie on a Monday morning, that's... fucked.

 

[agricola]

I think we're all veterans of watching politics on this forum and I'm not sure I've ever seen anything as desperate as bringing back an ex-MP who isn't even in the Lords as a Cabinet member.

This appointment is solely about Sunak popcorning the right-wing in the same way that they've popcorned everyone else, a decision deliberately made to wind them up.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Again, how long does that take to arrange?

Because if it's just a quick call to Charlie on a Monday morning, that's... fucked.

That's all it takes, all Sunak had to do was recommend him to the King, and the job is done, as if by magic.

 

[agricola]

Again, how long does that take to arrange?

Because if it's just a quick call to Charlie on a Monday morning, that's... fucked.

According to various sources online, its only a convention that a minister is a peer or MP; what they have to be is a member of the Privy Council (the Cabinet is technically a committee of the PC).

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Again, how long does that take to arrange?

Because if it's just a quick call to Charlie on a Monday morning, that's... fucked.

It's still fucked of course, but clearly all this was arranged over the weekend.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

That's all it takes, all Sunak had to do was recommend him to the King, and the job is done, as if by magic.

Tbf 'magical' is a good description of the honours system.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Tbf 'magical' is a good description of the honours system.

Dark magic.

 

[belboid]

According to various sources online, its only a convention that a minister is a peer or MP; what they have to be is a member of the Privy Council (the Cabinet is technically a committee of the PC).

which you get to be by, the monarch agreeing to the PM's recommendation.

 

[Kaka Tim]

Again, how long does that take to arrange?

Because if it's just a quick call to Charlie on a Monday morning, that's... fucked.

"Hi Rishi - did you say a quick call for some charlie?"

 

[MrSki]

 

[A380]

Tbf 'magical' is a good description of the honours system.

Goverment by Sorting Twat.

 

[Kaka Tim]

Actually gove must be miffed - home secreatary and foriegn secretary vacanices just whooshed past him. What with that and being jostled ...

 

[agricola]

which you get to be by, the monarch agreeing to the PM's recommendation.

yes, but he got his PC ages ago

 

[tim]

John Major for Chancellor of the Exchequer.

 

[Kaka Tim]

ffs - Im trying to do some work but laughing at tory shit shows keeps getting in the way. Again

 

[PR1Berske]

 

[A380]

yes, but he got his PC ages ago

I thought you automatically got in the PC as an ex-PM. Just checking to see if Truss is , apparently yes she is.

 

[ska invita]

I don't really understand all the 'big call' stuff. No one really cares apart from other Tories do they? Doubt even 1pc of the country knew who the foreign secretary was.

 

[agricola]

I thought you automatically got in the PC as an ex-PM. Just checking to see if Truss is , apparently yes she is.

you get it by being in the Cabinet or potentially being part of it - Corbs got his after being appointed leader of the opposition, IIRC

 

[belboid]

yes, but he got his PC ages ago

sure, but it doesn't really matter, because he'd have just been made a member of he wasn't already. If one already needed to be a member, there could never be new members.

 

[Voley]

Cameron?! The bloke that led us into the Brexit shitshow?

Bloody hell, they really are totally out of ideas aren't they?

 

[Lord Camomile]

That's all it takes, all Sunak had to do was recommend him to the King, and the job is done, as if by magic.

Democracy!

ffs - Im trying to do some work but laughing at tory shit shows keeps getting in the way. Again

Very much also this.

 

[belboid]

I had thought that Thatcher had appointed someone from the HoL to a reasonably senior position and so it was. Lord Carrington, also foreign sec for her first three years. Since the, a couple of Attorney Generals and some relatively minor cabinet positions.

 

[cupid_stunt]

I had thought that Thatcher had appointed someone from the HoL to a reasonably senior position and so it was. Lord Carrington, also foreign sec for her first three years. Since the, a couple of Attorney Generals and some relatively minor cabinet positions.

Lord Mandelson was business sec in 2008.