The Westminster Hunger Games Contines. May Day! May Day!

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THE BREXIT FALLOUT CONTINUES - THREAD NINE

The Tories have settled their scores and May is now PM.
Is it May's Day or May Day for the people?

After careful consideration I thought the best way to sum up the Labour Contest was in one simple picture. May Day, might also be appropriate here too.

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Things are moving fast, so hold on tight for the Brexit Ride

Sense of humour compulsory. No experience necessary though

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/eu_referendum_2016_/2683852-The-Westministenders-Hunger-Games-continues-Hunting-for-the-Opposition?pg=1 Previous Thread Eight.

www.thepoke.co.uk/2016/07/14/micheal-gove-sacked-simply-best-11-celebratory-tweets/

Gove sacked joy...

I think she needs to remove obstacles to ending the doctors' and teachers' strikes. And those obstacles are the Secretaries of State she inherited.

So what alternative is there?

Unlike all the "there is no alternative" bollocks we've been subjected to since about 2008, I'd agree and say that there really isn't any alternative to having Brexiteers on board and taking some risks.

Snap election = market uncertainty, though. Not sure that would be helpful (though I don't disagree with the point about securing a mandate)

May and Gove loathe each other. My only surprise with his sacking was that it wasn't the first thing she did, though I wonder what he will do now - plot from the sidelines? Or leave politics?

indy100.independent.co.uk/article/a-map-of-all-the-countries-boris-johnson-has-offended--W1zaTLC63rW

A map of all the countries Boris has insulted.

Sarah Vine must be wondering what the fuck just happened. I hope she didn't order too much new wallpaper for Number 11.

The BBC says Hunt likely to be moved, but not sacked. So pleased that slimy little creep Gove is out.

So:

-Gove will be hiding in the shadows....don't think he can really do very much since he over played his hand

• GO will be going back to his wallpapering job
• Cameron will be busy schmoozing and working out how to rake in the cash
• Bojo will be in Bolivia keeping his head down arf!

And we have a chancellor who knows how to add up - officially. Ofcourse I don't want a Tory government. I am worried how they will destroy the social fabric of the UK. BUT I think TM was the only choice and she has shafted the bastards

My only surprise with his sacking was that it wasn't the first thing she did

It would be revenge visibly presented as such. She needs to be seen to be acting calmly from a position of authority.

Gove has stabbed too many other Tories in the back for TM to trust him.
He is also a total fanatic who won't listen to reason once he gets a bee in his bonnet.
Far too dangerous to let near power.

My impression of Boris was that he was totally shocked after the referendum when he realised the damage he had done.
He seems genuinely penitent and I stongly suspect TM read him the riot act when appointing him
She can use and control Boris.

She doesn't just have party political constraints;
She has to maximise reaching out to Leavers, because the country is in a dangerously angry state, full of division and hate.
Tackling that is a priority

Normally an opposition leader would be helping to calm things down, but JC is more likely to pour petrol on the flames

TM is NOT by any stretch of the imagination a Labour politician, so of course her policies on many non-Brexit issues are not going to please Labour voters.

However, in the current desperate situation both with the country and with Labour, a sensible One Nation Conservative is absolutely the best we could hope for.

Can we presume Leadsom won't be given a job?

Post Referendum Politics

`Twas brillig, and the slithy Goves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the Labour Party,
And the Angela Eagle outgrabe.

"Beware the Brexitwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Daily Mail, and shun
The frumious Rupert Murdoch!"

She took her vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe she sought --
So rested she by the No.10,
And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought she stood,
The Brexitwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the Government,
And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
She left it dead, and with its head
She went galumphing back.

"And, has thou slain the Brexitwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish girl!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Miss May!'
He chortled in his joy.

`Twas brillig, and the slithy Goves (Hunts and Osbornes)
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the Labour Party,
And the Angela Eagle (tried to) outgrabe

More poems/ annihilations of good poems welcome

Bigchoc - agreed. I have an underlying admiration growing for her (oh my goodness) but I can admire politicians of other colours without agreeing with them. And she has a bloody hard job to do clearing up this mess.

Brilliant.

What is Liz Truss like?

Is Liz Truss as Justic Sec good news, bad news or a bit Unknown?

The Foreign Secretary had to be a Brexiter, or when the eventual deal doesn't have sufficient unicorns, some would claim a Remainer sabotaged it.
Those 3 Brexiteers had to be appointed to seal off that whole area, so he rest of the government could proceed with business.

All PMs, even MrsT have to appoint some people they'd rather not.
Also, there is only a choice of about 370 MPs and the odd peer, but the real choice is much less.
Some are alcoholics, some are too old, too ill, too mad, too often found with their trousers down ...

Liz sits on everything for ages. Not very decisive. Maybe will suit justice.

Presume Greening gets Education then?

I'd be interested to know the percentage of female appointments in this Cabinet compared to previous ones. What with TM's talk of ensuring balance on corporate Boards.

Let's just say that Truss will not move on ever to a career in stand up comedy.

Just confirmed Greening for Education.

Loathsome revealed publicly how totally useless she is
She also got too personal & nasty to be forgiven - being childless is probably a really deep sorrow for TM

TM would have to be under deperate pressure to give her anything except a stilleto heel where the sun don't shine.

Yeah, Loathsome crossed a line when she made that dig about being better qualified than TM. Too personal, too low.

TM would probably rather gouge her own eyes out than appoint her to anything.