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.

I wonder what % of union members don't vote labour?

Peston summary on TM

Maybe the idea to replace Farron was not batshit, if he can't capitalise on this complete shambles of an opposition.
Wonder who is going to be Shadow Brexit minister, that seems quite an important job about now.

It seems from various reports and people involved, like show that that might be the case, tiggy wrt the unions. The trouble is, you can't ask sensible questions on twitter, because you get snowed under with hashtag-filled JC4PM tweets which tell you nothing you asked.

Apart from the Fermanagh farmers who voted Leave
I saw a report about them and they couldn't explain themselves. The prices were up at market that day though so all is well.
I don't think that fox hunting will be a priority at all for Theresa. She's not huntin' shootin' and fishin' like Cameron.

In future leadership elections I really think the conservatives should allow 'My Waitrose' card holders to vote.

Faisal Islam ‏@faisalislam · 20s20 seconds ago
Attorney General Jeremy Wright just entered Number 10 -important role as chief legal adviser on Brexit legalisms. Was Crabb's campaign chief

May means business....

Chris Grayling did Transport in the shadow cabinet and twitter has dug up an old interview with him:
www.railwaypeople.com/rail-news-articles/shadow-transport-secretary-chris-grayling-talks-to-andy-milne-1237.html
Jim WatersonVerified account
‏@jimwaterson
FWIW, Chris Grayling was shadow transport in 2007 had some moderate policies to roll back rail privatisation.

David Mundell Wee David
Just shows the importance of Scotland. Last to go in

Grayling single-handedly, against all advice and evidences managed to fuck up the Probation Service entirely.

David Mundell's really upped his style game since coming out. He's lost weight and grown a hipster beard.

David Mundell's really upped his style game since coming out. He's lost weight and grown a hipster beard I noticed that.

Merry - Yes good idea....and free coffee for all!

Glasgow's verdict on Boris.

One wuth which I wholeheartedly agree.

Mirror Politics ‏@MirrorPolitics 2m2 minutes ago
David Gauke appointed Chief Secretary to the Treasury www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/theresa-cabinet-reshuffle-live-hunt-8417640 …

Reshuffle 'most extraordinary since Night of the Long Knives'

BBC News Channel
Posted at
16:55
Political documentary maker Michael Cockerell says the reshuffle so far is one of the most extraordinary he's seen since Harold MacMillan's 1962 "Night of the Long Knives" when he sacked a third of his cabinet.

He says this makes that look like a "vicarage tea party" adding: "It's the vicar's daughter with a meat cleaver."

Mr Cockerell says George Osborne had made the Treasury a "fiefdom" and he believes Mrs May wanted to put her friend Philip Hammond - who is MP for a neighbouring constituency - in as chancellor, as he was unlikely to fill up the Treasury "with his own acolytes".

Reshuffle news from the Lords: justice minister to stand down
Courts resources debate

House of Lords
Parliament
Posted at
16:52
Liberal Democrat peer Lord Thomas of Gresford confirms that Justice Minister Lord Faulks will be stepping down.

"May I express my regret that my noble friend Lord Faulks has decided not to continue in post," he says.

"I can understand why he has taken that position."

Earlier, Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood was praising the minister during his speech, as this clip shows.

He has a point about GO - he had his fingers in everything, and was forever trying to take control of stuff that was fuck all to do with him. Was often why him and TM fell out. Think she was the only one who stared him down too, over student visas.

Watching Boris on the news. I wonder if he knows no one runs MI6 and GCHQ....they are a law to themselves...and they know where all his bodies are buried

Michael Crick ‏@MichaelLCrick 3m3 minutes ago
Mike Foster's legal action against Labour NEC decision that Corbyn automatically on ballot paper will be heard High Court last week in July

so, no functioning leadership for another month or so?

ITV News ‏@itvnews 8s9 seconds ago
David Lidington made Leader of the House of Commons www.itv.com/news/story/2016-07-14/live-updates-gove-and-morgan-sacked-as-may-culls-cabinet/ …

Show They probably finished burying the bodies.... Boris tends to be a bit half-arsed.

No tiggy - there wasn't anyone else who could do the Scottish Secretary's job - unless she'd chosen someone intelligent in the Lords and Fluffy had been given the under-Secretary's role so that there was someone in the House to answer Scottish Questions

As he's already facing a English Shadow Secretary as the sole Scottish Labour MP resigned, that would've done wonders for the perception of Scotland being represented in Westminster Government

Thebathroom - so he justified a hearing. Interesting

But there is no functioning leadership anyway so no change there

Ginger Very true!

Yikes.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/tory-councillors-whatsapp-messages-said-8422031