So Osbourne has gone, replaced by Hammond. At least if he starts fucking up I can go and shout at him, being my MP.
I enjoyed attacking Gideon - he looked like a twat and his policies didn’t work.
And his last budget was bloody pointless.
Boris as foreign secretary 
Gideon was sacked apparently! BJ as Foreign Secretary? God help us!
Maybe when Francois Hollande said to Theresa, “give us a BJ and we will make the Brexit easier”, something was lost in translation.
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If you have a Samsung & try to type Boris, autocorrect changes it to boring…
Bless the little Korean Darlings.
Boris & Trump eh.
Right. I’m off to apply for a Polish passport
As I wanted, Davies as Brexit Secretary. Best we could have hoped for.
Disappointed Ken Clarke didn’t get the Foreign Secretary post. Then the top three jobs would have been May, Hammond and Clarke (son)
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She’s paving the way for a Coalition Government:
May, Hammond and Jezza
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Didn’t David Davis have some legal case against Theresa May?
I have to say that I think the Tories have played a blinder over the last several days.
Labour in disarray, and when the nation tunes in to see hear how our new prime minister might be different from Cameron, she positions herself and her party as somehow inclusive, in it for the little guy and even, whisper it, left of centre.
I didn’t recognise the party she now leads.
Wouldn’t mind voting for that party myself - I thought.
And all of this against a backdrop of many Labour voters aligning themselves with Brexit - what many would see as the campaign of the right.
The referendum showed many that it’s OK not to vote on strictly party lines, and they’re going to exploit that.
In my mind it’s a clear attempt to say “You voted with (many of) us on Brexit, there is no Labour Party anymore, the Lib Dems are a joke, we’re here for you and we’ve changed”.
It’s a smart move.
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Come on then Boris, time to deliver on all those promises!
If that is what they do. I was watching the speech thinking this could be New Labour. As you say, clever move, but can leopards change their spots???
Funny how they all slag each other off but the minute one of them stands down or dies all of a sudden they are Gods Gift To Politics and are wonderful human beings.
Cunts.
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I think we probably all know the answer to that - then again, Blair really did change the spots during the New Labour project.
In many respects, it really doesn’t matter.
It’s positioning.
She’s claiming a position in the minds of the millions of people that will have seen/heard/read her words by tomorrow morning.
By Friday, many less cynical than you or me will have filed away “Unlike Cameron, May is inclusive, big on the average guy tough on privilege and big business.”
After 6 months of the media air dropping the same message, even some of us cynical fuckers will start to doubt what we believe.
It’s a classic repositioning strategy from corporate marketing.
But the timing is really smart.
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One of quite a few favourite Tweets at the moment!
Johnson is now in charge of MI6. Let that sink in for a while…
Quite. Even Corbyn was sucking off Dave at PMQs.
May is an interesting character. Andrea Leadsom brought up the fact that she wasn’t a mother. I am not saying having kids makes anyone a better person, but it does really change your priorities. Don’t really want to dwell on that too much, but the other interesting May family fact was that she had no brothers or sisters, and she was unfortunate enough to lose her parents at quite a young age.
I’m not saying she isn’t fit to do the job on any of those factors, but I do wonder how someone shorn of many of the usual familial arrangements will run the country. Perhaps someone in her position takes a wider view of family, particularly with the public service record.
I was impressed with her statement, which I’ve only read, not heard. I think she hits the right notes. Unfortunately her record of legislation contradicts her words here today. Perhaps that’s because she was following Cameron’s orders, and perhaps this is her true agenda. Unshackled, she may implement it.
Really though, it’s a recognition of the present political situation. Corbyn is raising these issues, and I believe she is responding to that threat. Don’t like having the Tories in, but we’re stuck with them for the time being. If she makes good on some of her rhetoric, people may be better off than they were under Dave or Gideon.
Mind you, the Independent has an article in it claiming he’s the worst Prime Minister in 100 years. That’s not exactly difficult now, is it?
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Kelvin or Kevin?
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