No problem. We're not a presidency, MPs are individually elected and then anyone can form a government.
Theresa May's Conservatives
Jeremy Corbyn's Labour
Tim Farron's Liberal Democrats
Paul Nuttall's UKIP
2 people's Greens
Nicholas Durgeon's Scottish Nationalists
Satan's Sinn Fein
Dr Ian Paisley's DUP
Some other bunch of nonces
I'm foreign, but I wish I were an Englishman
No problem. We're not a presidency, MPs are individually elected and then anyone can form a government.
The job of the right wing press is to sell newspapers to right wing people, so it's not really constitutionally relevant what they think. This kind of transition has happened with Callaghan, Major, Brown, May and now Johnson just in the last 40 years, it's not a new thing.
The Cabinet is looking alright. I would like to have seen Steve Baker made Minister for Steve Baker, but I can settle for drumming the pretend Brexiters out.
Missed this at the time and it's quite good. Bizarre to think that over three years on the square root of fuck all has actually happened.
This cabinet makes no sense whatsoever unless he's going for an early election.
I wasn't exactly enamoured by the thought of Boris as PM but all the right people are fizzing just now. Sit back and enjoy the meltdown.
Sidelining all your enemies / people who didn't vote for you is very Trumpian and I really doubt it will work in a scenario where instead of a 4 year mandate, you have a working majority of 2 and have to get them to vote for your Brexit plan very soon.
It's either election or Deadly Dom has some sort of evil masterplan for getting No Deal to happen.
Amber Rudd still has a job what more do people want? If the stupid cunts want to force an election they would have done so in or out of government, so indulging them is pointless.
An absolute thundercunt is now in charge of the country and we are changing the Foreign and Defence Minister in the midst of a crisis with Iran.
The tories have fucked this country beyond belief.
Raab for Foreign Secretary / Patel for Home is the worst possible pair of appointments anyone could have thought of. Even the same pair the other way round would have been marginally better.
Patel? Jaysus, giving Trevelyan II a big job says it all really.
I suppose but is there an actual alternative to any of the turds on either side of the isle?
Get Sturgeon in until the end of the season.
A NO DEAL election has got 1983 written all over it.
They're certainly in a much better place to fight that election if/when it comes. A coherent position of sorts, Farage's fox shot (again), Dom Cummings spirited in via the back door (they kept that beautifully quiet) and a hopelessly splintered opposition spread across three or four other parties.
It's just not a cabinet that allows them to buy any time.
Leadsom and McVey anywhere near government is awful but I think Raab as Foreign Sec makes is marginally worse.
Gavin Williamson in charge of Education is a laugh.
I'd be surprised if he can get the blocks through the holes of the right shape without some thought.
I think there might be advantages to properly seperating the executive from the legislature. It's arguable - but not the point I'm really making. In practice we elect both a party and a PM. It would be a reasonably simple constitutional change that said that a change of PM required/triggered an election.
The cabinet is a disgrace.
Javid is a banker linked to some of the shadier aspects of global financialisation. He took apparent glee in persecuting Julian Assange.
Raab is clueless and has a strong commitment to social Darwinism. Although that presumably doesn't apply to the rich.
Patel is corrupt and an extreme authoritarian.
We don't elect a PM either in theory or practice.
Well you've got that and the people who say "I VOTE [party]" as if it's an undeniable biological fact like their inside leg measurement or blood type, and will continue to vote for said party regardless of what their policies are, who is leading them or anything else.
Can’t wait to visit this thread more often over the coming months, the schadenfreude will be great.
I see the ERG are already having a hissy fit after Steve Baker was offered a junior job (and turned it down).
Dom
He's the roving Minister of Sound.
I’ve turned on the whole Boris as PM thing just so I can read The Telegraphs fucking weird through the looking glass spin on every fuck up he makes.
He's done alright so far I'd say.
There is a book to be written on triumphalist by-election speeches that come to fuck all. The coalition years were a golden period for them.
'...and their Lib Dem allies...'
The one in Richmond Park when Sally Crusty-Sandals beat Zac Goldsmith was a classic of the genre.
I liked the Corby one, since it was actually a win for Labour rather than just one stiff replacing another in a shithole seat. The pleb who won it (and lost it in 2015) was giving it all the ONE NATION bit, and David Cameron didn't even care.
Love this bloke. I bet he wasn't even drinking at the time. He will have heard it, had a drink, and then Triple Haitched it into the air for lol effect.Originally Posted by Financial Times
Deadly Dom has properly touched a nerve with the columnist commentariat this week, and I have to say it is a joy to behold.
What's he trying to do?
Apparently one of:
Proroguing parliament.
Ignoring the result of a no-confidence vote.
Calling a general election to be held after Brexit and then pushing ahead with no deal in the meantime.
Constitutionally, it's clear that were there to be an election called for example, Johnson would remain as PM but in a caretaker capacity. No important decisions are supposed to be made.
It'll be the general election with Brexit during the campaign.
The key thing to remember is Corbyn wants and needs No Deal. Watch him frustrate the Remainers ever more from here on in.
Big up the PARLIAMENTARY ARITHMETIC brigade trying to work out how you form a 'Unity Government' out of the sweaties, the Liberal Democrats, and a list of future Labour leaders from 2012.
Luckily the progressive majority will save them.
If we end up simultaneously running an election and finalising Brexit we may as well give up and hand the keys to Sam Allardyce, Steve McClaren and Roberto Martinez.
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I've got so much respect for her you wouldn't believe it.
It is a good grift.