Dave is Back!!!

[LadyMacB]

Dave Cameron is back in the cabinet…. desperate throw of the dice or inspired move to limit the inevitable defeat?

I'm glad to see him. I'm a long time Tory voter but of the centrist liberal variety, not the recent mess.

Foreign Sec. nice.

The man fucked a pigs head. He should be no where near the leadership of this country.

Fucked a pig’s head and responsible for Brexit. Sheer desperation from Rishi.

That doesn’t even compute for me in terms of ‘damaging things DC has done’.

Desperate, he is awful and he destroyed lives, absolute joke.

This man is the reason we're in the mess we are now. His austerity measures are the reason why all government services are massively underfunded now and in trouble. He brought about Brexit by not listening to other people. Then he scarpered as soon as the referendum results came in. Why on earth is that will be celebrating him coming back?

Wow Cameron. Responsible for the Brexit mess then ran away, followed that by being at the centre of the biggest lobbying scandal in uk history.

The man who started the current shitshow rewarded with a peerage and top government job.

This country is a banana republic at this point.

Good god. I didn’t even realise he was still an MP. Desperate times for Sunak.

Sunak doesn't exactly have a good field of potential candidates to choose from though.

I think Cameron would do well at the diplomacy and fostering relationships angle of the job. He's a supporter of maintaining aid budgets.

If he's having to react to a crisis, formulate new policy or get closely involved in tough negotiations, then I really have no predictions about how he'll do (but that's also truse of just about anybody)

He isn't. He's being given a peerage and will serve in the House of Lords.

Allowed but outrageous imo. He won't be answerable to MPs in the House of Commons, as he won't be able to speak there.

Isn't it mortifying for Sunak to essentially admit that not one of his MPs is up to the job? That his 'team' is that shit that in a rare move, someone will have to be presumably rushed through the peerage process as they aren't even an MP?! Even just optics wise it's a shit show.

He won't be answerable to MPs in the House of Commons, as he won't be able to speak there.

I didn't know this. How on earth does that work?! God what an absolute embarrassment this government is.

This. I suspect the peerage is his only motivation and Rishi is desperate. He will try to steer towards a moderate Tory party over the next 12 months ahead of the election I reckon but hopefully no one is so short memoried that they will fall for it!

@KeyWorker he's not an MP, he probably will be a lord by the end of the week.

I don’t get what’s in it for him though? He seemed to have a nice life with his shepherds hut. Why come back for a year unless he thinks he can win the next election. I bet Sam Cam is furious.

In his speech to the Tory conference, Sunak apparently said

”We’ve had thirty years of a political system which incentivises the easy decision, not the right one.
Thirty years of vested interests standing in the way of change.
Thirty years of rhetorical ambition which achieves little more than a short-term headline.”

Doesn’t time fly! It doesn’t seem like 30 years since DC was PM.

He's been made a life peer. He's not just getting a job for a few months before the next election

Tired of 'chillaxing'?

Gordon Brown was keen on getting a way for the Commons to summon a Lord who held government office so they could be answerable. IIRC, it was because it would make it easier to appoint from a wider (and quite probably more experienced) group.

I'm guessing nowt has come of this

He isn't. He'll have to be elevated to the Lords.

He isn’t an MP. He’s being given a peerage so he can be in the House of Lords.

God, they really are desperate.

He's a much more decent bloke that many of them but at the same time with the Brexit referendum made the probably worst decision which has ever been made for young people and small businesses in this country, plus education and the NHS with all the departing staff, plus all the racism which has proliferated since then, and I will never forgive him for that.

Presumably trying to be heir of Thatcher (33 years since she left office)