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

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

I don't see how this government can govern, so I think it's a pantomime for a while: blame Europe, blame parliament, blame blame blame, then provoke a vote of no confidence and get to the election with disingenuous reluctance.

xxp a lot of the headbangers out there are ENRAGED by Rudd/Morgan etc in the cabinet.

clearly going to keep on saying "we won't have an election" because he reckons people still fatigued by that prospect - it's nearly inevitable though, and he'll position it as having been foisted on GBP by a recalcitrant EU/WM

I think a lot of those Tory-Lib dem marginals are really done for the Tories. Labour can also demonise the Unchained vision, which is incredibly negative and dark at its core.

And I still think Boris' past -- his role in the Leave campaign as well as his personal life -- will have a role to play.

yup. someone is saving that recording for election week.

I don't see how this government can govern, so I think it's a pantomime for a while: blame Europe, blame parliament, blame blame blame, then provoke a vote of no confidence and get to the election with disingenuous reluctance.

Sounds about right.

Time to check in on what Matthew Goodwin, author of the forthcoming National Populism: The Assault Against Liberal Democracy, is tweeting:

https://i.postimg.cc/fbbhsGF6/ECE2-AC6-C-DE0-C-4-BCC-9-F89-2-A93545-C2-C53.jpg

There is absolutely no way that centre-right liberals are not going to line up behind Johnson, however Atlas Shrugged he goes.

How can there be Islamophobia in the Tory party with a cabinet like this?!

You mean that guy they forgot to invite to meet Trump?

lol! Priti is such a poisonous piece of garbage, can't Macron have her please

On one hand, another big step in the rise of fascism. On the other, this reshuffle means that Bravo Two Zero will be on the GSCE curriculum.

Once you've met some deranged pub bore whose eyes travel in multiple directions and they have a well thumbed copy of Bravo Two Zero with the pages stuck together - that's when you call Prevent. Not make them a fucking minister.

Feel like we should run a sweepstakes on the first one to be sacked.

If I was Corbyn I'd be calling him out on his dare-or-die bullshit and ask him to call an election. The line should be 'what are you afraid of?' from now on.

thanks boris, very cool!

Well, the new Housing Minister is a guy named Robert Jenrick. The multi-millionaire owns 3 houses, and just to show his common touch, he once said he doesn’t “need to have a disabled daughter” to know what it’s like to be hard up.

Absolute tosser.

— Rachael Swindon (@Rachael_Swindon) July 25, 2019

https://ipnotglobal.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/robert-jenrick-e1383324980122.jpg?w=871
he seems like a fair lad!

the cold, dead eyes of a killer right there

He's got three houses, so he must be a perfect match on housing amirite?