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

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RedToothBrush · 13/07/2016 19:56

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.

The Westminster Hunger Games Contines. May Day! May Day!
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GingerIvy · 14/07/2016 15:06

George Eaton ‏@georgeeaton 1m1 minute ago
Leadsom getting Defra continues theme of "you broke it, you own it" (CAP payments).

Showmethewaytogohome · 14/07/2016 15:10

Cave

I am guessing, purely a guess that even if the actual agreements are dealt with by Brexit all the ground work, analysis, plans etc will have to be done in the departments themselves - so they will need people to be hot on it

prettybird · 14/07/2016 15:10

With Hunt still in place and given May's comments yesterday about giving families back "control", then we should be really scared about the future of the NHS, given the review that was announced last week hidden in the House of Lords into the ways to fund the NHS SadShock

derxa · 14/07/2016 15:10

Won't a lot of the DEFRA portfolio be taken over by Brexit Department in terms of negotiating trade deals/quotas etc? Hopefully

Tanith · 14/07/2016 15:11

Someone was asking about Liz Truss.

The reason she was exiled to Environment is that she screwed up so spectacularly as Early Years when Gove was Education.

More Great Childcare and the other paper with the equally banal name were her babies. Remember the ratios debacle? And childminder agencies?

She's an accountant and, like Gove, completely ignores any opinion contrary to her own.

merrymouse · 14/07/2016 15:11

Re: fox hunting, with 4 more years till another election, will the Tories want to bother changing the law? It's obviously popular with some key supporters, but it's not generally popular. Wouldn't it just cause trouble?

Unicornsarelovely · 14/07/2016 15:15

Pretty - I think that open democracy debate in the HoL was last year. We still need to protect the NHS, but it's not implying an imminent and hidden review.

RedToothBrush · 14/07/2016 15:16

i did have one question, which may have already been covered (sorry, there's so much to keep up with), which is that if Mr Corbyn is concerned about respecting the mandate of the people that elected him, what about respecting the mandate of the nearly 9 million people that voted for the labour party (not an individual leader, but the labour party)?

You missed the memo. Jeremy Corbyn IS the Labour Party. All those votes he got in the leadership contest mean he is. Obviously. Those other voters are all Blairites and traitors, rather than him betraying them...

Yeah, VERY valid point.

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GingerIvy · 14/07/2016 15:17

BBC News (UK) ‏@BBCNews 54s55 seconds ago
Sajid Javid is appointed Communities Secretary in @theresa_may's new cabinet
bbc.in/264XBZu

Chalalala · 14/07/2016 15:17

given May's comments yesterday about giving families back "control", then we should be really scared about the future of the NHS

Yes. This is straight from the American playbook. It's all about giving people a choice and control, don't you see Hmm

GingerIvy · 14/07/2016 15:18

James Brokenshire going in now.

RedToothBrush · 14/07/2016 15:18

Leadsom clearly gets not to do the Brexit deal. She does get the job of breaking the news about how shit the deal that farmers will be getting instead and sorting out the subsequent mess.

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OlennasWimple · 14/07/2016 15:19

Can't see fox hunting coming back - it would be a real alienation to all the floating voters they need to secure from Labour to "win big" in 2020

RedToothBrush · 14/07/2016 15:19

James Brokenshire (who?!) at No10.

Ally of May's apparently.

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TheBathroomSink · 14/07/2016 15:20

Maybe they will keep loathsome so busy during out fishing and farming she won't have time to get round to fox hunting. It is not an easy job she's been given.

Sadly though it has cheered LM up beyond belief.

RedToothBrush · 14/07/2016 15:20

Priti Patel arriving now...

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squoosh · 14/07/2016 15:20

Ugh. I hate Patel. She's the furthest right of the lot of them.

squoosh · 14/07/2016 15:21

'James Brokenshire going in now.'

Never heard of him but what a great name. Is he a hobbit?

GingerIvy · 14/07/2016 15:22

Brokenshire was Immigration minister.

"Immigration minister James Brokenshire has walked into Number 10 as Theresa May's reshuffle continues."

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prettybird · 14/07/2016 15:23

Unicorns - you're right. I thought I'd checked the date but not only got today's date wrong but also the year Blush

The concern about supposedly putting us in control still stands though Sad

Alisvolatpropiis · 14/07/2016 15:24

Leadsom!!

BigChocFrenzy · 14/07/2016 15:25

Most Leave protest voters will turn to UKIP, because of their stance against immigration.
JC saying just before the referendum that there was no limit to immigration went down like cold puke.
The Tories can smash Labour if he leads them in a GE, just on immigration alone.

However, they can also say that those 192 MPs, who see him & know his abilities in rl, voted No Confidence in him

JC has several policies some voters on the left like, but he was always just a leader of a protest movement:

From day 1, he NEVER did any of the boring nitty gritty organisational work required to be the Leader of the Opposition

He & McDonnell belong to the side of Labour that is not interested in winning GEs, but only in making the Labour Party ideologically pure and building a mass movement outside Parliament, to take power that way.

They are not interested in effectively opposing or ameliorating Tory proposals wrt welfare and the nhs

  • They want economic & social disaster, because otherwise most ordinary people wouldn't be sufficiently desperate to follow them.
So the poorest and the most vulnerable are acceptable collateral damage to JC and his supporters.

McDonnell have said they would destroy Labour "if that is what it takes" to get their way
That shows how loyal they are to Labour, rather than to their ideology

The final unforgiveable failure is
JC's minimisation and tolerance of his supporters mass harrassment and horrific threats against specifically women who don't support him

Whatever the FUCK JC is, he is totally unfit to lead a progressive party

RedToothBrush · 14/07/2016 15:29

JC is able to lead a good protest.
Then he doesn't know what the hell to do with the next bit.

Still I guess, he'll be busy the next few years...

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