Who's next?

[Tessa K]

Sunak and Javid gone.

Oh to be a fly on the wall in Nadine Dorries' house tonight...

[Grumble]

Sunak and Javid gone.

Oh to be a fly on the wall in Nadine Dorries' house tonight...

The next Chancellor you mean?

[Tessa K]

Sunak and Javid gone.

Oh to be a fly on the wall in Nadine Dorries' house tonight...

The next Chancellor you mean?

I don't.

Please let it be Rees Mogg

[Hunting Dog]

Sunak and Javid gone.

Oh to be a fly on the wall in Nadine Dorries' house tonight...

The next Chancellor you mean?

I don't.

Please let it be Rees Mogg

nooo, please let Rees Mogg stay loyal to blonde wally as long as possible, the ones that go now are more likely to be coming back into next version of Tory hell.

[Grumble]

Dorries could be Health Secretary I suppose

[Tessa K]

The next Chancellor you mean?

I don't.

Please let it be Rees Mogg

nooo, please let Rees Mogg stay loyal to blonde wally as long as possible, the ones that go now are more likely to be coming back into next version of Tory hell.

Fair point.

The sound of barrels being scraped:

https://twitter.com/PeterStefanovi2/sta ... ie3sA&s=19

[Tessa K]

Now the Solicitor General has gone

https://twitter.com/PeterStefanovi2/sta ... u9Qhw&s=19

[WFJ]

Now the Solicitor General has gone

https://twitter.com/PeterStefanovi2/sta ... u9Qhw&s=19

viewtopic.php?f=10&t=3430&start=25#p126586
viewtopic.php?f=10&t=3430&start=25#p126590

[jimbob]

https://twitter.com/willquince/status/1 ... y4_E_AJ-cQ

Minister for Children and Families

[Little waster]

https://twitter.com/willquince/status/1 ... y4_E_AJ-cQ

Minister for Children and Families

Does Johnson even know how many "Ministers of Children and Families" he even has?

[jimbob]

https://twitter.com/willquince/status/1 ... y4_E_AJ-cQ

Minister for Children and Families

Does Johnson even know how many "Ministers of Children and Families" he even has?

I was thinking along similar lines.

And another PPS

Laura Trott, who doesn't seem as good as the Paralympian

[IvanV]

Laura Trott, who doesn't seem as good as the Paralympian

Laura Lady Kenny DBE, as she is apparently now styled, won her 5 Olympic gold medals in the open Olympics, not the Paralympics.

[Grumble]

I can’t tell you how much I’m looking forward to PMQs later. Hoping for some proper backbencherstabbing.

[tenchboy]

I can’t tell you how much I’m looking forward to PMQs later. Hoping for some proper backbencherstabbing.

Looking forward to an insightful commentary from you now.

[Grumble]

I can’t tell you how much I’m looking forward to PMQs later. Hoping for some proper backbencherstabbing.

Looking forward to an insightful commentary from you now.

Not sure if I can provide anything more insightful than glee and a general sense of joy when a particularly vicious barb lands.

[tenchboy]

I can’t tell you how much I’m looking forward to PMQs later. Hoping for some proper backbencherstabbing.

Looking forward to an insightful commentary from you now.

Not sure if I can provide anything more insightful than glee and a general sense of joy when a particularly vicious barb lands.

Works for me!

[Bird on a Fire]

Likewise! Looking forward to a compilation of best zingers

[dyqik]

"How nice to see fresh blood on the front benches opposite"


Should be one.

[Tessa K]

Looking forward to an insightful commentary from you now.

Not sure if I can provide anything more insightful than glee and a general sense of joy when a particularly vicious barb lands.

Works for me!

Let's call it Schadenfreude to sound more sophisticated

I'm in a rush but apparently five more have gone and Starmer is calling it sinking ships fleeing the rat

[Grumble]

Not sure if I can provide anything more insightful than glee and a general sense of joy when a particularly vicious barb lands.

Works for me!

Let's call it Schadenfreude to sound more sophisticated

I'm in a rush but apparently five more have gone and Starmer is calling it sinking ships fleeing the rat

I liked that line. And criticising those staying on as the charge of the lightweight brigade, which is having his cake and eating it.

[tom p]

Not sure if I can provide anything more insightful than glee and a general sense of joy when a particularly vicious barb lands.

Works for me!

Let's call it Schadenfreude to sound more sophisticated

I'm in a rush but apparently five more have gone and Starmer is calling it sinking ships fleeing the rat

Stinking shits, more than sinking ships; but it's a good line nonetheless

[Stranger Mouse]

Nadine Dorries’ parody account on Twitter has just resigned

https://twitter.com/katieja18583649/sta ... D5bL7Of4IA

[Gfamily]

Was looking at the Guardian top story and was shocked to see there were 18000+ BTL comments.

At first glance, I'm not really sure what the value of BTL is for stories like this, but I was taken by this one

Spoilered as it's long
Spoiler:

In the light of his promotion, there are once again lots of profiles of Steve Barclay all over the media.

And once again, lots of these profiles describe him as "coming from a working class Northern background in Lancashire".

As I've mentioned elsewhere, I was in Steve's year at school. We were in the same class for several subjects. I have spoken elsewhere about his character. But I want to talk about the "working class Northern background".

We went to an independent school. It was mostly funded by parents' fees, but it was also partly funded by the fact that the trust that owned our school and the girls' school next door owned the Golden Mile in Blackpool - the area of burger shops and rock shops and arcades - so everyone who went on holiday to Blackpool effectively subsidised our school. Still, our parents did have to pay a fair bit to send us there.

It was a great school. It had small class sizes, lovely buildings, and great facilities. Most of the teachers were brilliant. We played rugby and hockey: apparently football was too common for us. In the large and lovely assembly hall, there was a lengthy honour roll of the kids who'd got into Oxbridge - usually around 5% of each year.

The school was right by the beach. On a nice day, from the Chemistry and Physics labs, you could look across the sea all the way to Snowdownia. As you drove up the main drive, with playing fields either side, the school looked like a palace. It and its sister school were the poshest schools in Lytham St Annes. And Lytham St Annes is one of the poshest towns in the North, in a very wealthy, overwhelmingly Tory constituency.

Like almost all of my classmates, I grew up well-off and middle-class, in a nice house. My parents had good jobs. Steve lived in a nicer house than me.

The Tory leadership bangs on about how he's "working class". No he is not. He is Northern. Being Northern does not make one working class.

But this is why they are f---ing the country. They think Steve, who lived in a nice house in a lovely town and went to a good private school, is working class. So when they talk about the challenges the working class faces, that's what they're thinking of - people like Steve, or like me. People who are, frankly, upper middle. Is it any wonder that "Levelling Up" is such a f---ing joke when these people have absolutely no clue what a working class person is?

Let's remember that Jacob Rees-Mogg once joked about Rishi Sunak having gone to Winchester. That's why these d---heads think that Steve represents the working class.

Even before you start looking at the current shower's immorality, incompetence and stupidity, this is what's wrong with the Tory Party. They do not have a clue about the people who live in their country. Even if you take Boris and all his awfulness out of the equation, you're still left with people who are catastrophically out of touch and who can't even bring themselves to find out who the working class they're supposed to be helping actually are. Britain is forever doomed to fail while these people are in charge.

[Tessa K]

I'm reminded of the old curse - may you live in interesting times

[jimbob]

I didn't see Johnson sacking someone who hadn't *publicly* called for his resignation.

Gove's gone