The Michael Gove File

[gosub]

BBC Radio 4 - Michael & Boris: The Two Brexiteers

Boris Johnson and Michael Gove snatch leadership defeat from the jaws of Brexit victory.

www.bbc.co.uk

Heard this the other week. Who'd have thought a pair of opinion puce writers for the Times and Telegraph would end up where they did

 

[tim]

He may be standing down from parliament, which has got his local Liberals excited at the idea of "Wining Here".

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/politics/2022/aug/30/lib-dems-get-ready-for-possible-byelection-if-michael-gove-quits

 

[Elpenor]

Bizarrely being floated by Simon Jenkins (who’s perhaps been on the sherry to think this) as a unity candidate to “do a Michael Howard” and provide a veneer of competence to limit their losses at the next election.

The best course left to the Tories is to oust Liz Truss – and install a caretaker leader | Simon Jenkins

A unifier like Michael Gove could prepare the party for effective opposition, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

www.theguardian.com

Given how much both wings of the Tory party hate Gove, can’t see this happening even if it would be equally funny and dangerous with Gove as prime minister for a brief period

 

[Chilli.s]

A Pobminister

 

[scalyboy]

Operation Save Big Pob

 

[strung out]

He's back in the cabinet - levelling up secretary.

 

[Dom Traynor]

Bizarrely being floated by Simon Jenkins (who’s perhaps been on the sherry to think this) as a unity candidate to “do a Michael Howard” and provide a veneer of competence to limit their losses at the next election.

The best course left to the Tories is to oust Liz Truss – and install a caretaker leader | Simon Jenkins

A unifier like Michael Gove could prepare the party for effective opposition, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

www.theguardian.com

Given how much both wings of the Tory party hate Gove, can’t see this happening even if it would be equally funny and dangerous with Gove as prime minister for a brief period

Simon Jenkins is probably the least correct of all the political commentators most of the time. There are very few wrong opinions this man hasn't had.

 

[steveo87]

Cant fill all the prisons with coke heads, if there gas heads are already in there....top 4d thinking from Gove.

 

[stavros]

He's gone well beyond a mere four dimensions.

 

[pogofish]

We met him around New Year - He spent it up here. Both of us were of the opinion he was well coked-up!

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

His ex, Sarah Vine, is as nasty as a human being can be. Whenever she writes any of her thoughts just think how much of an utter cunt do you have to be for Gove to give you the Spanish Archer!

 

[CNT36]

Michael Gove failed to register hospitality with donor whose firm he referred for PPE contracts

Exclusive: Gove enjoyed VIP hospitality at football match with owner of company awarded £164m of contracts after Gove’s referral

www.theguardian.com

Michael Gove failed to register hospitality he enjoyed with a Conservative donor whose company he had recommended for multimillion-pound personal protective equipment (PPE) contracts during the Covid pandemic, the Guardian can reveal.

While still minister for the Cabinet Office, in August 2021 Gove was entertained to VIP hospitality at a Queens Park Rangers (QPR) football match with David Meller, whose fashion products company had been awarded £164m PPE contracts following Gove’s referral in May 2020.

Poor forgetful Mike.

 

[Elpenor]

I believe the expense policy at my work doesn’t permit collecting nectar / Clubcard points if filling up a work car with petrol. As not allowed to personally benefit.

When you compare that to what politicians get away with it’s fucking ridiculous

 

[quiet guy]

For years when I used a company fuel card I couldn't collect Nectar or Morrison points but in a recent change they now don't stop me collecting the points when I fill up. Kerching. £75 fuel top ups give me a few points.

 

[two sheds]

I hope you're declaring all these points on your tax returns

 

[brogdale]

Guardian leading with Gove's bullshit, Trumpian Swan-song to exclude 'extremists' from 'public life'.

They know they're toast and this is just the sort of shite they want firmed up before they're history. Somewhat ironically, their 'definition' of 'extremism' reads like the very raison d'être of the vermin party:

 

[eatmorecheese]

Ah! Got it. Fucking finally.

He's cosplaying some weird Goebells shit. He wouldn't think of it that crudely, but there it is.

They won't laugh at you now, will they, Pob?

I admit, I'm pissed so this analysis can be taken with a pinch of salt, but fuck me .

 

[Puddy_Tat]

when priti bloody patel thinks it's going too far...

Three Tory ex-home secretaries warn against politicising anti-extremism

Exclusive: Intervention by Priti Patel, Sajid Javid and Amber Rudd comes just before Michael Gove is due to unveil official definition of extremism

www.theguardian.com

 

[two sheds]

There was a Guardian article recently that I can't find that said that pob is mainly responsible for the tory party's recent(ish) lurch to the right.

 

[Calamity1971]

State of it !

 

[Bingoman]

State of it !

Is he on something?

 

[Calamity1971]

Is he on something?

He's quite partial to a bit of Charlie.

 

[brogdale]

Thread closes; the odious little twat

 

[Silas Loom]

He’ll be in the headlines again before too long for something reprehensible. Thread should stay open.

 

[BusLanes]

RIP to Mr 8 Grams

 

[eatmorecheese]

He'll either become a coked-up wreckhead being boring at parties or a Catholic priest or something.

Or, boringly, House of Lords and tedious media commentator. Lord Gove of Medellin.

 

[brogdale]

tedious media commentator

shit loads of lucrative non-exec directorships and that

 

[brogdale]

Career highlight

 

[Karl Masks]

He can return to his more important job of chasing Indiana Jones across the world in pursuit of the Ark of the Covenant

 

[marty21]

Can't believe he's only 56 !

I have a minor Gove anecdote

I was at a restaurant last year & he was at a nearby table .