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

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

all the "sorry to see x go" talk made me think some Tories had actually crossed the floor, but hell no, that would be too much to expect after all the talk abt Never Boris

(might some go now the cabinet's been announced? or after a weekend to think about it and discuss it with family? or should I stop deluding myself that such a thing might ever happen?)

Truss and Raab for exploratory cheese and pork markets reconnaissance trip to Calais obv

or should I stop deluding myself that such a thing might ever happen?

This strikes me as the UK equivalent of American liberals pining for 'good' conservative Republicans, so yeah.

i looked at those jon worth flow diagrams for the first time in ages and it seems delusional

https://jonworth.eu/brexit-what-next/

Makes me nostalgic for those long-ago times of certainty. Like every time round the actual result is something batshit-unexpected and thus nowhere to be seen on the pointless flow.

the biggest challenge of all... 👀

2/4 I've been a cabinet minister for every hour my 3 gorgeous children have been alive. So whilst it may seem strange for someone who just tried to become PM (& is a terrible cliche) I have decided now is the time for the biggest challenge of all - to be a GOOD DAD!

— Jeremy Hunt (@Jeremy_Hunt) July 24, 2019

lol oh great

Theresa Villiers returns to cabinet as environment secretary

Theresa Villiers, the former Northern Ireland secretary and another alumnus of the Vote Leave campaign, has returned to the cabinet as environment secretary.

"I have decided now is the time for the biggest challenge of all - to be a GOOD DAD!"

Surely even on here we can't be churlish about a repentant child-abuser making a pledge to change his evil ways.

Hasn’t Villiers got a very slight majority or something?

think it may be a dig at boris “5 or 6 children” johnson

xp

they are the lucky ones!

Ooooh definitely a dig at BJ.

Good lord, Gavin Williamson, sacked a few weeks ago for leaking national security secrets to the press, now in charge of Education.

i always mix him up with Nazi otter-lover Henry Williamson

Nicky Morgan to culture secretary - this is from SEPTEMBER 2018. welcome to the resistance, Nicky https://t.co/9W2vmRDPT8 pic.twitter.com/HA3calWEKa

— Jon Stone (@joncstone) July 24, 2019

The Rt Hon Grant Shapps @grantshapps has been appointed Secretary of State for Transport @transportgovuk pic.twitter.com/lZNqFWXZ3B

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

lest we forget

https://images-i.jpimedia.uk/imagefetch/c_fill,f_auto,q_auto:eco,w_1192/https://inews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/GrantSchnapps.jpg

lol One-Nation tories in the area!

In this era it has become clearer than ever that actual One nation Toryism hasn't really been seen since the 70's or Blair's half arsed version in the 90's

"never mind the backstop.. the buck stops here"

^^^
I've always said posh schools are well overrated!

DID HE JUST SAY THAT

I am over on BBC4 watching Mary Beard, who actually knows her shit re: classics, as a form of protest.

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

― gyac, Wednesday, 24 July 2019 bookmarkflaglink

The thinking (and this is just as much in regards to Dominic Cummings hire) is to do with uniting the right-wing under leave, getting the Brexit party faithful back, and if successful pushing that Unchained vision through. In a situation with few options..

james butler explains the cabinet: https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2019/july/bring-your-own-sunshine

(it reads a bit hurried to me in places -- he was also at teh demo -- but JB is always good on process and procedure and where this can create blocks and problems)

Rees-Mogg offered numerous Cabinet roles but didn't fancy the demotion.

xps yeah the assumption I guess is that this neuters the Brexit Party so that they sweep up all single-issue leavers, along with keeping standard Tory scum plus a tiny Boris = ledge contingent; they can rely on media to help most single-issue remainer dopes go lib dem and weaken Labour; non-single-issue votes break messily but don't give enough to ultimately ahem 'let Corbyn in'.

I am cautiously optimistic that this will not work.

Lol:

"High office has spared us Johnson’s long-threatened book on Shakespeare" xp