PMs change and lol we're all gonna die (but brexit will never end)

fucking YouGov with their bullshit LibDem Magnum surge.

☀️The BIG summer question🍦✊🍦:

What's your perfect ice lolly / Verso author combo?

The winning choice will be illustrated tomorrow 🌞

— Verso Books (@VersoBooks) July 24, 2019

tbf the guy who called them ice creams appears to be a total melt so he knows whereof he speaks

Raab rumoured for Foreign Sec. He’s not going to be worse than Johnson.

Gavin Williamson is the real unexploded bomb here.

Is this real?

They haven't even spelled Prof Rowbotham's name right.

tbf it is very hot today

undecided which i'd prefer: an awkward ten mins at a table with f.jameson as we both eat fabs, me using mine largely to suppress my trenchant opinions of his bad writing and thinking down the decades, or some crappy photo of a lolly i can't eat next to a book i probably won't read

posting john ruddy is a bigger yellow card than MLC imo

lot of sackings here

Does it count if you’re posting him for mocking?

The Disgraced Liam Fox and Penny Mordaunt are a bit of a surprise all things considered.

A bit surprised by Mordaunt jumping ship (lol) but makes sense if you consider she thinks this government will be a disaster and doesn’t want the taint when she inevitably runs as leader next time.

lol @ Grayling out of cabinet “at his own request”

can't believe Grayling is gone, it's the end of erm...

now we're back to just one terrible grayling, i wonder what he thinks abt lollies

Caroline Nokes sacked

— John Stevens (@johnestevens) July 24, 2019

Good of you to tell me first 😉

— Caroline Nokes (@carolinenokes) July 24, 2019

get hunt sacked

11 cabinet out - just two were Boris Johnson supporters pic.twitter.com/jC0RUdbXzC

— Sam Coates Sky (@SamCoatesSky) July 24, 2019

Look I've already made one poorly received BJ joke on social media this week

Let's just leave this here pic.twitter.com/krKoMZASr2

— Tim Shipman (@ShippersUnbound) July 24, 2019

hunt gone

gearing up for an elx

Robert Peston will always be the absolute worst of those journalists who seem to think politics and 'real life' are not connected in any way pic.twitter.com/9Roh2rYHyu

— Sam ✌️ (@samisam147) July 24, 2019

So this was pretty much on:

PM to be Boris planning ‘Night of the Long Knives X2’ with FOURTEEN cabinet ministers facing chop... pic.twitter.com/j5ZbYvyl73

— MoS_Politics (@MoS_Politics) July 6, 2019

It looks as though we have finished the sacking phase of the reshuffle. Sajid Javid, the home secretary, has just gone through the door at Number 10. He is expected to emerge as home secretary.

Great choice for Chancellor of Exchequer @sajidjavid. He will be key to making this a pro-business administration investing in the whole of the United Kingdom.

— Stephen Crabb (@SCrabbPembs) July 24, 2019

It looks as though we have finished the sacking phase of the reshuffle. Sajid Javid, the home secretary, has just gone through the door at Number 10. He is expected to emerge as chancellor.

Aw man when he abolishes income tax I should be several pounds a month better off

Several pounds? That would have been untold riches for his dad.

Priti Patel in as home sec.

Literally never want to hear any cunt imply Diane Abbott isn’t good enough to be home sec ever again.

Literally never want to hear any cunt imply Diane Abbott isn’t good enough to be home sec ever again.

Not even me in double posts.

announce ross thomson at scottish office u coward

Omg yessssss

mini thread poll while we wait for the carnage: worst Tugedhat tweet?

1)

I’m sorry to see @PennyMordaunt go given the courage she has shown in standing up for our troops against #lawfare. Whoever takes over needs to pick up the issue and fight on. https://t.co/rxVBrJWpVh

— Tom Tugendhat (@TomTugendhat) July 24, 2019

Gin. The gods want more.

— Tom Tugendhat (@TomTugendhat) July 23, 2019

Just found out my @GiveBloodNHS donation has been used at Margate Hospital. Well at least part of me has been to the beach today!

— Tom Tugendhat (@TomTugendhat) July 23, 2019

Deeply amused Alun Cairns survived at Wales - this is his third PM now.

Having never knowingly heard his surname said out loud I like to pronounce it in my head as "tuggin' dat"

xp it's almost like the Tories don't give a fuck about the Welsh office

Hardly anybody seems suited to their roles, which only makes sense if you're basically thinking about an election rather than governing. I know we're planning for one, so why wouldn't Huge Mind be too?

He must be an operational genius tho, cos that bbc drama with Cumbers made him look huge braned!

The Rt Hon Dominic Raab @DominicRaab has been appointed Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs @foreignoffice, and First Secretary of State pic.twitter.com/XEJECtJPsS

— UK Prime Minister (@10DowningStreet) July 24, 2019

Well we know he probably owns an atlas

Yup, totally an election cabinet. The chancer is doing exactly that.

Someone explain the election cabinet thing pls? Cos this looks like the dregs.

A cabinet likely to lose Johnson a VONC at the first opportunity iirc.

I don’t pretend to have the Huge Brain required for this strategy, but it was Javid that made me think: he’s the guy you put in if you want to talk tough about business while actually spaffing election sweeteners all over the shop. Especially if you don’t want actual fiscal policy and all sorts of “we have to save our cash for the incoming apocalypse” quibbles being raised.

And Patel is who you want to talk absurdly and pointlessly tough on law and order, and it won’t hurt if it’s her posturing against Khan as a proxy for Labour in the London seats.

Raab ... I got nothing but since when have Tory voters cared about engaging with foreign?

19:25
Stephen Barclay remains as Brexit secretary

Stephen Barclay is staying as Brexit secretary, Number 10 has announced

who?

sorry i mean "who hell he?" not "who ldgaf?"

Gove appointed chancellor of Duchy of Lancaster

Michael Gove, the environment secretary, has been made chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. That means he will be based in the Cabinet Office.

On paper that does not seem like much of a job. The formal demands of the job are minimal (like appointing vicars in Lancashire). But the title is normally given to a minister given some kind of “fixer” role. David Lidington, Theresa May’s de facto deputy, was chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Oliver Letwin also held the post.

Over the weekend the Boris Johnson camp briefed that Gove would be getting a promotion. This job could be a promotion, but that will depend on what Johnson asks Gove to “fix”, and how much authority he is given.

The person doing this job also often doubles us as “minister for the Today programme” - ie the government’s go-to media performer. This is something Gove would do very well.

Lolz Truss to International Trade, banter game strong