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.

BigChoc, by that token it does give room to say that Brexit is also not a done deal.

I find it, hmmm I dunno. I don't know what to make of it.

Summary:
Theresa May - Prime minister
Philip Hammond - Chancellor (promoted - was foreign secretary)
Boris Johnson - Foreign secretary (promoted - was backbencher)
Amber Rudd - Home secretary (promoted - was energy secretary)
Michael Fallon - Defence secretary (no change)
David Davis - Brexit secretary (promoted - was backbencher)
Liam Fox - International trade secretary (promoted - was backbencher)
Liz Truss - Justice secretary (promoted - was environment secretary)
Justine Greening - Education secretary and minister for women and equalities (promoted - was international development secretary)
Gavin Williamson - Chief whip (promoted - was David Cameron’s PPS. The chief whip attends cabinet, but often the chief whip is not technically a cabinet minister)
Patrick McLoughlin - Conservative chairman (promoted/moved sideways - was transport secretary)
Jeremy Hunt - Health secretary (no change)
Natalie Evans - Leader of the Lords (promoted - was a Lords whip)
Chris Grayling - Transport secretary (promoted/moved sideways - was leader of the Commons)
Damian Green - Work and pensions secretary (promoted - was a backbencher)
Andrea Leadsom - Environment secretary (promoted - was energy minister)
Sajid Javid - Communities secretary (moved sideways/demoted - was business secretary)
James Brokenshire - Northern Ireland secretary (promoted - was immigration minister)
Greg Clark - Business and energy secretary (promoted - was communities secretary)
Priti Patel - International development secretary (promoted - was employment minister)
Karen Bradley - Culture secretary (promoted - was Home Office minister)
Alun Cairns - Welsh secretary (no change)

Vacancies
Cabinet Office minister
Leader of the Commons

George Eaton ‏@georgeeaton 15s16 seconds ago
Based on new Labour leadership rules, I currently expect reduced victory for Corbyn.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jeremy-hunt-health-secretary-theresa-may-cabinet-public-reaction-a7136751.html

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Ian Birrell ‏@ianbirrell 16s16 seconds ago
One more thing about our new @DFID_UK supremo: she supports the reintroduction of the death penalty. Horrific...

www.buzzfeed.com/jimwaterson/new-international-development-secretary-called-for-departmen?utm_term=.feop1neZv#.uga7eNyBP

In 2013, she told the Daily Telegraph the government should consider scrapping DfID and replacing it with a new department to help businesses invest in the developing world.

She told the newspaper at the time: “A long-term strategic assessment is required, including the consideration to replace DfID with a Department for International Trade and Development

And now we appear to have both... Oh

Ginger, if it is adopted. It is only, as show says one union at the moment, but it is indicative of the direction they are trying to push, and as show said earlier, in some unions there may be a disconnect between the union leadership and the members.

It may come to nothing, but it shows that there are truly people wanting to take Labour back to the 1970s.

And I didn't mean each year before, I meant each election. Typing too fast, apologies.

This is what JC said about re -selection last year ......before he won

^"he will not introduce mandatory reselection" if elected and will not not endorse moves to "depose sitting MPs" (for instance through the use of "trigger ballots"). The announcement is a signal that Corbyn would seek unity, rather than 1980s-style division. But the bigger question of how MPs relate to a party that has been fundamentally changed by the leadership election remains. In an essay in a new Fabian Society pamphlet, Corbyn proposes giving members far greater influence over policy.

"We cannot simply make policy at party conference once a year," he writes. "We need to review our policy-making process to ensure that it is inclusive, accessible, participatory and able to take democratic decisions quickly." But how he will manage a PLP that disagrees with so many of the policy stances he has taken (whether endorsed by members or not) remains an open question^

And of course, ND must put in her 2p worth...

Tory MP gives her thumbs up to the new cabinet
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Nadine Dorries ✔ @NadineDorriesMP
Thrilled with every appointment Not one made bcse once at school /uni/ or shared a flat with the PM. A cabinet of sheer talent

Yvette Cooper on TV. Says there should be a single unity candidate. She won't back either one until they sort themselves out and decide who it will be.

Says Corbyn not getting his act together and challenging May. Whole party should them come together behind them and take on the Tories.

At least she's attempting to provide some opposition.

Bathroom Okay, thanks for explaining that.

I think I can sum up the Cabinet, as one great big sick joke.

Unless you are NI.

"We need to review our policy-making process to ensure that it is inclusive, accessible, participatory and able to take democratic decisions quickly."

We can all see how well that's working out, can't we?

George Eaton ‏@georgeeaton 52s52 seconds ago
Still no job for Matt Hancock, arch-Osborneite who backed May early.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-brexit-vote-does-not-mean-leaving-europe-in-any-sense-eu-referendum-reshuffle-a7137056.html

Ginger What??????? He is now saying we shouldn't leave the EU??

That quote from BJ is extraordinary, even for him.

GingerIvy Matt Hancock used to be my local MP before we moved across the boundary line. He's quite well liked around here, though obviously ambitious.

Yep. Things that make you go "hmmmm...."

Ed Miliband not happy about end of DECC
Ex-Labour leader on scrapping the energy and climate change department
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Ed Miliband ✔ @Ed_Miliband
DECC abolition just plain stupid. Climate not even mentioned in new dept. title. Matters because depts shape priorities shape outcomes.
4:19 PM - 14 Jul 2016

Boris Johnson says Brexit vote does not mean leaving Europe 'in any sense'

In any sense? Er, what?

Lib Dem Press Office ‏@LibDemPress · 7m7 minutes ago
So Patel wanted to abolish DfID, Green opposed NMW, Johnson insults other countries & Hunt stays at health. Reshuffle is certainly 'bold'

WTF is going on?!

And still, the US manages to play Top Trumps in the nonsense....

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/14/donald-trump-vice-president-christie-pence-gingrich?CMP=twt_gu

Newt Gingrich. Good God.

Ginger PMSL Has he lost it completely or committing Hari Kari so he doesn't have to go to 'Rhodesia'

Maybe he just means that the UK is geographically in Europe and the EU isn't Europe? Maybe this is the part of the Brexit view that the EU is on its last legs anyway?