…he would be described ‘as if Nature had intended to make a gorilla, and had changed its mind at the last moment’?
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Just keep her and Priti Patel away from the now vacant position at Work and Pensions please!
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It really is in bad taste to take a job the first day you can and it suggests impropriety. The purpose of you not being able to take the job is to avoid the perception that you were selling favours. The jobs being just waiting for you as soon as you are legally allowed to take it enhanced that perception. If there was a wait time of a few months then it would at least be plausible to say that you started shopping for jobs when the lockout ended and you were hired because of your credentials.
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Hah, environment. She gets to deal with the farmers who’ll lose their EU subsidies.
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Watching from this country - where foreign affairs and trade form a single department - British Prime Minister Theresa May’s decision to make Boris Johnson her foreign secretary has a certain ruthless Home Office logic to it. Essentially May has broken up the British Foreign Office for parts. David Davis and Liam Fox have been given newly-minted cabinet posts to handle the two most important tasks in today’s British foreign relations - respectively, extricating the United Kingdom from the European Union and re-establishing it as a global trading power in its own right. Johnson, meanwhile, is removed from Conservative Party plotting at Westminster and allowed to get on with being a travelling circus.
Of course, that tends to assume that the only foreign crises the UK will face will be related to the fall out from Brexit.
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I think the UK won’t be let deal with any other crises than the ones of their own making.
Oh, the Department of Energy and Climate Change has been abolished.
Guess there’s nothing to worry about there any more, then.
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(Not Liking because it happened, just saying thanks for yet more surreal info.)
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Well, what they did was to merge the Department of Energy and Climate Change with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, to create the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
Which is a word salad that just looks to me like dropping Climate Change.
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Makes sense, or rather their kind of sense. Curtailing environmental degradation curtails corporate and crony profits. Can’t have that if they don’t have to have that. It’s the mud people who suffer from pollution, while the poshies are off playing cricket on country estates.
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The UK has won the war against climate change.
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The Ministry for Fracking, Fracking, Fracking and Fracking.
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at least they are honest: skills are dropped, too…
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Louise Mensch keeping up her well-deserved reputation.
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One day down… X to go?
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The EP is as democratic and transparent as you like. The Commission is what it is because of the national politicians that run it. Including the British ones…it’s more like Downfall the movie; the problems are caused by the overweening arrogance of politicians.
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Of course; now we are leaving the EU we will no longer be affected by all those emissions from the rest of the world, because we have taken back control.
With BJ as Foreign Secretary our new policy will be an eight mile high wall round the entire country, built by the unemployed. We will get Mexico to pay for it. We will then go back to coal, steam engines and town gas. Soon, no population problem.
If anybody needs a Follow button replaced by a Creepy Stalk button she does.
That implies a steady economy and investment, so no, it’ll be the Ministry for talking about fracking while covertly buying Russian gas.
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Why, now we have proof. Theresa May is the Devil herself. There is only reason to pick Boris Johnson for Foreign Secretary and that is… ironic punishment.
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Well, I don’t want to play the “Who’s Worse” olympics, but yeah, Bolton was fucking horrible.
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