Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse.... Michael Gove

[VanillaSugar]

Is back in the Cabinet, doing for the environment what he did to education.

FML.

[PaintingByNumbers]

the good news is he wont be able to do fuck all due to minority govt, but yes, wtf and fml

[ImperialBlether]

With him in charge of the environment, literally the air that we breathe, we should all be very afraid.

[Henrysmycat]

He's from my constituency. Allegedly, he's very good and helpful. He makes my skin crawl.

[ThroughThickAndThin01]

I quite like him. But then I voted Tory.

[ThroughThickAndThin01]

Where did you get the info from OP?

[Leanback]

When he was education secretary he tried to remove climate change from the curriculum allegedly...

[ohforfoxsake]

Dear God....

[titchy]

It's being reported on all the news sites!

Can't believe Hunt and Greening still in post either.

[Crunchymum]

Yep it's on BBC and Sky

[FizzyGreenWater]

Oh I quite like that idea. I imagine he will get a very thorough slapping in a very short space of time from everyone from David Attenborough to George Monbiot. Not a terrible amount of wiggle room for hapless Toryesque pseudo-intellectual 'theories' when it comes to da science.

[Broccolirevolution]

ThroughThick why do you like him? I'm not judging you on being a tory. I just can't understand how anyone could like him. Education? It's really important and he played around like it was nothing.
And what about that weird Times article where he said May couldn't get a good deal at Brexit because she's a secret Catholic, and Protestants are much better at this sort of thing.
In my mind this is crazy crazy shit.

[metspengler]

He's very professional. Despises Tory activists. Really decent as an attack dog and not afraid of pressure from loonies.

EXACTLY who you want on environment, in your corner, in the era of climate change deniers leading the western world.

[ImperialBlether]

I imagine she's short of people to ask, really, because so many are critical of her and calling for her blood right now.

[Okite]

The last year has been like a master class in how not to run a government. The mind boggles at who exactly is advising these people!

[KeiraKnightleyActsWithHerTeeth]

Ugh.
Keep your enemies close and all that though.

[Okite]

He's very professional
He very professionally knifed BoJo in the back last year, to be fair. Really good hatchet job that no one saw coming.

[NotYoda]

Ah, the flobby-lipped toad returns. How very unsurprising

[ThroughThickAndThin01]

Well I hadn't seen that article Broccoli so shall google. But I think he was a sane intelligent voice, but maybe in the wrong role.

[ThroughThickAndThin01]

I though the hatchet BoJo thing was stage managed.

[HangingRock]

When he was education secretary he tried to remove climate change from the curriculum allegedly...

Please don't let that be true

[ThroughThickAndThin01]

And the previous advisers have been sacked Okite thank God, because they were shite.,

[RainyDayBear]

I await the new Gove-levels for monitoring pollution to introduce more rigour into the system with anticipation.

On a complete side note, there is a joyous YouTube video of him falling over that always cheered me up during his days as Education Secretary.

[Moussemoose]

ThroughThickAndThin01 we are still struggling through the total and utter bollocks he made of education.
Students sitting exams and we don't know how to mark them. Utter, utter incompetence that we are struggling with. Teachers afraid to predict grades cos we have no clue due to the mess Give left behind. Climate change is the least of your worries.

[noblegiraffe]

He didn't try to remove climate change from the curriculum. He wanted it moved from Geography to Science, apparently.

Unfortunately he's an excellent schmoozer. I don't know anyone who has met him who hasn't been charmed. Despite his face.

[VanillaSugar]

Oh yes, I love that video!