Cabinet reshuffle

How is being sceptical about whether observed climate change is significantly due to human activity and is dangerous being "anti-science"?

On the contrary, scepticism in science is not only not a bad thing but is a positive duty.

What has "blokes" got do do with it - I was simply expressing a view, not trying to explain something that I had assumed others needed to have explained to them, which I take it was what you were saying.

I see the blokes have come online to mansplain it all to us

7% of people in Britain have had a private school education. In the Department of Education's ministerial team, it's 83%

anti-science? Stem cell research is a moral issue.

We now have an anti-science secretary of the environment (a deluded climate change sceptic) and an anti science health secreatry (Homeopathy FFS, against stem cell research).
These are not 'refreshing developments' for the rational amongst us.

Having a "climate change sceptic" (a strange term - does anyone not accept that the climate has changed throughout the Earth's history?) seems a refreshing development.

Better than having some fool who thinks that carpeting the UK with useless windmills will save the planet.

Incidentally, Owen Paterson was several years ago the author of an excellent policy document on fishing, in which the UK would reassert control of our fishing grounds, operate a fair system of permits to avoid overfishing, and ban the appalling practice of chucking dead fish back in the sea just because they fell foul of lunatic EU quota rules.

It was actually official Tory policy for a time but was later dropped - by Michael Howard IIRC.

Personally I don't care about how many women are in the cabinet or not. The only criteria should be can that person do the job or not. Having to put a certain number of women in just to please the feminists is in my view positive discrimination and I don't like discrimination of any kind.

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niceguy,

If the criteria that you would apply ('being able to do the job') was really applied fairly then you would expect to see a 50 / 50 split of cabinet positions (and of MPs as well). The fact that there has never been anything like a 50:50 ratio for MPs (or cabinet ministers) implies that discrimination is already taking place. Are you against the 'positive' discrmination that men receive as well?

Personally I don't care about how many women are in the cabinet or not. The only criteria should be can that person do the job or not. Having to put a certain number of women in just to please the feminists is in my view positive discrimination and I don't like discrimination of any kind.

Monday 11th June:
Oakeshott also told the Channel 4 Dispatches programme, which airs on Monday 11 June, that Cameron's continued backing for Hunt to keep his job raised "very serious questions" about his judgment, and suggested he believed there could have been an agreement between the Conservative leadership and the Murdoch press to support each others interests.

Tuesday 4th September:
Andrew Lansley has been replaced as Health Secretary by Jeremy Hunt as part of an extensive government reshuffle.The move is a promotion for Mr Hunt, who has been under pressure for his handling of the BSkyB takeover bid.

Will someone please explain what is going on and how we are expected to have faith in the government's integrity?

(I have sat through a school inset today, trying to make some sense of the new Govian appraisal systems - trying to reinvent the wheel as regards pay progression. It is the most poorly thought-out, badly presented, loose-ended piece of government twaddle I have ever seen over many years of teaching. The man is an ass.)

Maria Miller is not a woman-hater, plain stupid remark.
Fear of flying is nothing to laugh at, being a medical condition. That is ableist and cruel. He can clearly do his job without flying.
As I said on the Hunt thread this country rightly does not operate a pro-choice "abortion litmus test" for any government position. Being pro-life I approve. Homeopathy remarks are ignorant and NHS one more than a little insensitive though.

Occupy is not a reliable source any more than MSNBC or Noam Chomsky. Moderate source and I might take it seriously.

Cabinet shuffle summary:

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With the cabinet shuffle, the UK now has:

Secretary of Transport - Scared of flying.
Secretary of Health - Calls the NHS a "60-year old mistake", opposes abortion, opposes stem cell research, and advocates homoeopathy as viable treatment.
Secretary of Environment - Climate change sceptic.
Secretary of Justice - Believes businesses should be able to discriminate against homosexuals.
Secretary for Women and Equalities - Hates equality and women

(With thanks to Occupy Birmingham Uni)

Anti-Republican views now spreading out beyond the actual US election thread? Romney/Ryan should see this forum...