Cabinet Reshuffle

[Tom8]

Titanic chairs.

The hapless incompetent Darren Jones being moved away from the treasury. Finally Starmer realises how utterly inept he is.

[Patio]

Tom8 said:

Titanic chairs.

The hapless incompetent Darren Jones being moved away from the treasury. Finally Starmer realises how utterly inept he is.

Isn't it a promotion to the cabinet?

I agree though, the benefits/pocket money creep and all dingy arrivals are women and children rubbish he spouted makes him a car crash waiting to happen

Perfect for the top table then!

[Greenmantle]

Tom8 said:

Titanic chairs.

The hapless incompetent Darren Jones being moved away from the treasury. Finally Starmer realises how utterly inept he is.

Why just pick on him when there is a whole table full of hapless and incompetent people?
<Insert List of current Cabinet Members>

[Tom8]

Greenmantle said:

Tom8 said:

Titanic chairs.

The hapless incompetent Darren Jones being moved away from the treasury. Finally Starmer realises how utterly inept he is.

Why just pick on him when there is a whole table full of hapless and incompetent people?
<Insert List of current Cabinet Members>

I do struggle to think of a single minister who you can say has done a good job. Wes Streeting maybe although he created the tory financial blackhole by caving in to unions and paying unaffordable pay rises.

[Camoradi]

I struggle to think of any conceivable problem where the solution would be "more Darren Jones"

[Terminator X]

Patio said:

Tom8 said:

Titanic chairs.

The hapless incompetent Darren Jones being moved away from the treasury. Finally Starmer realises how utterly inept he is.

Isn't it a promotion to the cabinet?

I agree though, the benefits/pocket money creep and all dingy arrivals are women and children rubbish he spouted makes him a car crash waiting to happen

Perfect for the top table then!

The weird thing is before Labour were in power he was a great MP holding the great and the good to account. Now he seems like a sock puppet.

TX.

[Hants PHer]

Camoradi said:

I struggle to think of any conceivable problem where the solution would be "more Darren Jones"

Haha, very good, and I agree. A little while back I thought he was quite media-friendly and a reasonably slick operator. You know: well spoken, suit and tie, sensible glasses, all that.

Then he made that "the majority of small boat migrants are women, babies and children" gaffe on Question Time in June. I quickly revised my opinion of him. He's as inexperienced and incompetent as the rest of them, which probably explains why Sir Keir has promoted him..........

[Crafty_]

More evidence of Starmer's dedication to having an echo chamber for his team rather than someone who will give him a dose of reality.

Doomed himself (and us) by the slavish devotion to ideology and a complete disregard for anything other than that.

[KAgantua]

Terminator X said:

Patio said:

Tom8 said:

Titanic chairs.

The hapless incompetent Darren Jones being moved away from the treasury. Finally Starmer realises how utterly inept he is.

Isn't it a promotion to the cabinet?

I agree though, the benefits/pocket money creep and all dingy arrivals are women and children rubbish he spouted makes him a car crash waiting to happen

Perfect for the top table then!

The weird thing is before Labour were in power he was a great MP holding the great and the good to account. Now he seems like a sock puppet.

TX.

This is the crazy thing. Its really the peter principle. Just because you are a good mp doesnt make you a good cabinet member.
Different (but related) skillset.

Same with kier. Great human rights lawyer, probably a good CP (i dont know enough about him) but im struggling to see how this relates to running a country.

[Yertis]

Crafty_ said:

More evidence of Starmer's dedication to having an echo chamber for his team rather than someone who will give him a dose of reality.

Doomed himself (and us) by the slavish devotion to ideology and a complete disregard for anything other than that.

Don't worry, reality will be along to bite his arse just as it did Callaghan's in 1979.

[bad company]

Angela Rayner still in post.

[J210]

Dan Tomlinson appointed exchequer secretary to the treasury. Another NGO graduate including the resolution foundation……

[J210]

Dan Tomlinson appointed exchequer secretary to the treasury. Another NGO graduate including the resolution foundation……

[M1AGM]

[Crafty_]

Yertis said:

Don't worry, reality will be along to bite his arse just as it did Callaghan's in 1979.

The problem is we all will be paying for some time to come for what they've done in the last 12 months alone.
Meanwhile they'll wander off with their millions and earn a stack more more on the speaking appearance circuit / consultancy gigs.

None of them are ever going to be troubled by the utter mess they've made.
And yes, not unique to this lot either...

[andy43]

Camoradi said:

I struggle to think of any conceivable problem where the solution would be "more Darren Jones"

Post of the week

[sparta6]

Crafty_ said:

Yertis said:

Don't worry, reality will be along to bite his arse just as it did Callaghan's in 1979.

The problem is we all will be paying for some time to come for what they've done in the last 12 months alone.
Meanwhile they'll wander off with their millions and earn a stack more more on the speaking appearance circuit / consultancy gigs.

None of them are ever going to be troubled by the utter mess they've made.
And yes, not unique to this lot either...

UK could introduce a statutory Fiduciary Responsibility Code to ministers that holds them to account, or an emergency election can be triggered.

[rdjohn]

The surprise was that Rach was not shuffled out of accounts.

Instead Starmer is shuffling past her to Darren Jones to understand why government borrowing costs is moving towards its highest for 27 years.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/aug/26/m...