Cabinet reshuffle Feb 2020

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Stay in Bed Instead

22,362 posts

156 months

Friday 14th February 2020
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TwigtheWonderkid said:
You can laugh, but as a London resident, I'm still paying for the £50m he spent on the Garden Bridge! furious
And your grandchildren will be paying for HS2, most of whom will likely never use it.

TwigtheWonderkid

43,248 posts

149 months

Friday 14th February 2020
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Condi said:
TwigtheWonderkid said:
Stay in Bed Instead said:
TwigtheWonderkid said:
No idea. He was so fking useless that his complete ineptitude overshadowed all his other failings. He did make loads of solemn pledges and do or die promises that he failed to keep.
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You can laugh, but as a London resident, I'm still paying for the £50m he spent on the Garden Bridge! furious
He will say whatever he thinks people want to hear at that precise moment with little concern about if or how what he's saying will ever be delivered. It's populist politics at its best, and yet so many people have been taken in by it and bought into his words.

If you look back over almost his entire career it is littered with unfulfilled promises, and (in his words) bluff and bluster.
Michael Hesletine described him as the sort of man who comes out of his house each day to see which way the crowd is running, then runs to the front and shouts "follow me".

anonymous-user

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53 months

Friday 14th February 2020
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TwigtheWonderkid said:
Michael Hesletine described him as the sort of man who comes out of his house each day to see which way the crowd is running, then runs to the front and shouts "follow me".
laugh

turbobloke

103,742 posts

259 months

Friday 14th February 2020
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TwigtheWonderkid said:
Michael Hesletine described him as the sort of man who comes out of his house each day to see which way the crowd is running, then runs to the front and shouts "follow me".
Heseltine hehe what a political winner ol' Tarzan turned out to be.

PositronicRay

26,957 posts

182 months

Friday 14th February 2020
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I think you're being a bit harsh on Boris. He's only Dominic Cummings front man, go after the organ grinder.

markyb_lcy

9,904 posts

61 months

Friday 14th February 2020
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PositronicRay said:
I think you're being a bit harsh on Boris. He's only Dominic Cummings front man, go after the organ grinder.
The unelected advisor selected by the elected official?

The responsibility lies with the elected official.

turbobloke

103,742 posts

259 months

Friday 14th February 2020
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PositronicRay said:
I think you're being a bit harsh on Boris. He's only Dominic Cummings front man, go after the organ grinder.
As opposed to Corbyn and the ghost of Karl Marx.

So far BJ and DC are a winning team, which upsets some people; May 2024 (or whenever) will be more of a test.

longblackcoat

5,047 posts

182 months

Friday 14th February 2020
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turbobloke said:
TwigtheWonderkid said:
Michael Hesletine described him as the sort of man who comes out of his house each day to see which way the crowd is running, then runs to the front and shouts "follow me".
Heseltine hehe what a political winner ol' Tarzan turned out to be.
Let me guess, not right-wing enough for you?

PositronicRay

26,957 posts

182 months

Friday 14th February 2020
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markyb_lcy said:
PositronicRay said:
I think you're being a bit harsh on Boris. He's only Dominic Cummings front man, go after the organ grinder.
The unelected advisor selected by the elected official?

The responsibility lies with the elected official.
You'd like to think so, no way will DC be the fall guy.

turbobloke

103,742 posts

259 months

Friday 14th February 2020
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PositronicRay said:
markyb_lcy said:
PositronicRay said:
I think you're being a bit harsh on Boris. He's only Dominic Cummings front man, go after the organ grinder.
The unelected advisor selected by the elected official?

The responsibility lies with the elected official.
You'd like to think so, no way will DC be the fall guy.
If it comes to that, he'll have no choice in the matter.

swisstoni

16,850 posts

278 months

Friday 14th February 2020
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Who else is fed up with seemingly normal TV reporters who turn and bawl across the street to some politician a stupid question that is never going to get an answer in a million years?

What good is this doing for anyone involved?
It’s a demeaning spectacle for all concerned imho.

Anyway, carry on ...




Lotobear

6,232 posts

127 months

Friday 14th February 2020
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TwigtheWonderkid said:
Michael Hesletine described him as the sort of man who comes out of his house each day to see which way the crowd is running, then runs to the front and shouts "follow me".
Would that be Michael Heseltine, the inveterate snob and bitter, unfulfilled, old political has been?

bitchstewie

50,778 posts

209 months

Friday 14th February 2020
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Lotobear said:
TwigtheWonderkid said:
Michael Hesletine described him as the sort of man who comes out of his house each day to see which way the crowd is running, then runs to the front and shouts "follow me".
Would that be Michael Heseltine, the inveterate snob and bitter, unfulfilled, old political has been?
Even if the answer to all of those things is "yes" that doesn't mean he's wrong.

If I'm as sharp as Heseltine when I'm 86 I'll be quite thankful.

turbobloke

103,742 posts

259 months

Friday 14th February 2020
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bhstewie said:
Lotobear said:
TwigtheWonderkid said:
Michael Hesletine described him as the sort of man who comes out of his house each day to see which way the crowd is running, then runs to the front and shouts "follow me".
Would that be Michael Heseltine, the inveterate snob and bitter, unfulfilled, old political has been?
Even if the answer to all of those things is "yes" that doesn't mean he's wrong.
Far more to the point, it doesn't by any stretch mean he's right, as above it's more likely to mean he's bitter and twisted about the UK leaving the EU under Boris's bar stewardship, leading to the old pop's pop at Boris. Most undignified for a pensioner.

markyb_lcy

9,904 posts

61 months

Friday 14th February 2020
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turbobloke said:
bhstewie said:
Lotobear said:
TwigtheWonderkid said:
Michael Hesletine described him as the sort of man who comes out of his house each day to see which way the crowd is running, then runs to the front and shouts "follow me".
Would that be Michael Heseltine, the inveterate snob and bitter, unfulfilled, old political has been?
Even if the answer to all of those things is "yes" that doesn't mean he's wrong.
Far more to the point, it doesn't by any stretch mean he's right, as above it's more likely to mean he's bitter and twisted about the UK leaving the EU under Boris's bar stewardship, leading to the old pop's pop at Boris. Most undignified for a pensioner.
I don’t think dignity is something anyone having a pop at BJ need worry about rofl


Condi

17,088 posts

170 months

Friday 14th February 2020
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turbobloke said:
Far more to the point, it doesn't by any stretch mean he's right, as above it's more likely to mean he's bitter and twisted about the UK leaving the EU under Boris's bar stewardship, leading to the old pop's pop at Boris. Most undignified for a pensioner.
Not everything is about Brexit. Sometimes comments are apolitical, but simply an observation on the man.

bitchstewie

50,778 posts

209 months

Friday 14th February 2020
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Apologies if it's already been posted but I'm encouraged by our new Attorney General.

https://twitter.com/brexit_sham/status/12281351560...

Christ.

Sway

26,070 posts

193 months

Friday 14th February 2020
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Condi said:
Not everything is about Brexit. Sometimes comments are apolitical, but simply an observation on the man.
Pretty much every public comment Heseltine has made in the last few years has been rooted in Brexit...

He's one of the most bile ridden people in the whole nation over it. Let's not forget quite how much integration with the EU defined his politics.

markyb_lcy

9,904 posts

61 months

Friday 14th February 2020
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Condi said:
turbobloke said:
Far more to the point, it doesn't by any stretch mean he's right, as above it's more likely to mean he's bitter and twisted about the UK leaving the EU under Boris's bar stewardship, leading to the old pop's pop at Boris. Most undignified for a pensioner.
Not everything is about Brexit. Sometimes comments are apolitical, but simply an observation on the man.
That’s the problem with *some* significant minority of both brexiteers and remainers though isn’t it? If it isn’t about brexit, they find/invent/speculate some angle to make it about brexit.

king arthur

6,538 posts

260 months

Friday 14th February 2020
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bhstewie said:
Apologies if it's already been posted but I'm encouraged by our new Attorney General.

https://twitter.com/brexit_sham/status/12281351560...

Christ.
I have to say I was disappointed to see Cox gone from that role.