The reshuffle begins!

[cromwell]

Liz Truss gets the Foreign Office! Gove = housing and levelling up whatever that really is. He is also something to do with Scotland and their wish to separate.

Well they better get what levelling up is otherwise the newly won red wall seats will be quickly lost.

The perception that those thick northerners don't really count will reveal they do and are far from thick.

Would that mean the red wall rebuilt? well not with Starmers disdain for the non metropolitans who voted brexit.

[patman post]

It was right that Williamson went and Raab got demoted. But Gove at housing? And Lizz Truss replacing Raab?

Still, what else could be hoped for when they only had Tories to choose from? Most of the most principled ones have left.

In terms of shoring up competence, it is no better than replacing Frank Spencer with the Chuckle Brothers.

I certainly agree with you from what I've seen so far. 
Liz Truss principally brings to mind her cheese speech and pork markets remark — neither likely to make her foreign dealings easy. 
I guess the only consoling thought about this whole Johnson administration is that at least they're not LibDems or (shudder) Labour... 

PS — I've just seen the independent — great minds, or fools?:   
https://www.indy100.com/politics/liz-truss-pork-markets-speech-b1920795

[srb7677]

It was right that Williamson went and Raab got demoted. But Gove at housing? And Lizz Truss replacing Raab?

Still, what else could be hoped for when they only had Tories to choose from? Most of the most principled ones have left.

In terms of shoring up competence, it is no better than replacing Frank Spencer with the Chuckle Brothers.

[cromwell]

I doubt the Tories are going to give Boris the boot. He may have taken a bit of a hiding lately, but he is still the grassroots favourite.

And who wants poor, silly Sir Keir?

Bliarites?
Seriously though a week is a long time in politics and I'm not so sure as you of Boris's longevity.

[Borchester]

Not yet perhaps but there will be another couple of days. I am hopeful there will be new capable faces otherwise he will have missed perhaps his only opportunity to save his position.

I doubt the Tories are going to give Boris the boot. He may have taken a bit of a hiding lately, but he is still the grassroots favourite.

And who wants poor, silly Sir Keir?

[papasmurf]

I am hopeful there will be new capable faces

There aren't any.

[T00ts]

(mostly) same faces, slightly different shit




Can't see anything to get excited about

Not yet perhaps but there will be another couple of days. I am hopeful there will be new capable faces otherwise he will have missed perhaps his only opportunity to save his position.

[johnofgwent]

(mostly) same faces, slightly different shit




Can't see anything to get excited about

[papasmurf]

It could be a mistake to leave Priti where she is.

It was mistake to ever have Priti Patel in government.

[T00ts]

It could be a mistake to leave Priti where she is.

[papasmurf]

I wonder who will be taking over Gove's propaganda department.

[T00ts]

Liz Truss gets the Foreign Office! Gove = housing and levelling up whatever that really is. He is also something to do with Scotland and their wish to separate.

[Thomas]

One thing I don't understand is why Mark Francois and Bill Cash aren't given senior positions in government. Surely, if we're judging by pure ability, those two should hold premier positions.

Stope it!

[papasmurf]

A waste of time shuffling when there are only jokers in the pack.

[Sheepy]

I am enjoying the pure panic. All in goodtime.