Stop voting for fucking Tories

[robmatic]

Priti useless staying at the home office

Liz promoted to foreign secretary!

Good grief.

[SaintK]

Priti useless staying at the home office

Liz promoted to foreign secretary!

Holy fuck!!!!! We'll be an even bigger laughing stock globally

[sturginho]

Priti useless staying at the home office

Liz promoted to foreign secretary!

Holy fuck!!!!! We'll be an even bigger laughing stock globally

Can't wait to see how she deals with the Taliban

[Biffer]

Seems like Raab is throwing his toys out of the pram, doesn’t want to be moved to justice

Where did you get that from?

All over Twitter, reporting from senior political reporters quoting senior sources, Whitehall officials etc.

[SaintK]

Mad Nad appointed Culture Secretary That's the BBC and Channel 4 fucked

Dorries, currently a health minister, is a very successful fiction writer, which means she would be better qualified to represent the creative industries than many other people who have done that job. But she is also rightwing and pro-Brexit - two traits that might make her less welcome in the arts world.

[ScarfaceClaw]

Liz Truss. This is a wind up isn’t it?

[Hal Jordan]

Truss also keeps her post as Women and Equalities Minister.

Shows you how much Johnson thinks of the post that it's a part time gig, although many would argue that appointing Truss to the job in 2019 was an indicator of the place it held in the Cabinet's priorities in the first instance.

With Jenrick and Buckland gone, it looks like a purge of the insufficiently Brexity, as opposed to them getting the boot for flat out snout in the trough and shitting on their Lord Chancellor's oath respectively.

[fishfoodie]

Truss also keeps her post as Women and Equalities Minister.

Shows you how much Johnson thinks of the post that it's a part time gig, although many would argue that appointing Truss to the job in 2019 was an indicator of the place it held in the Cabinet's priorities in the first instance.

With Jenrick and Buckland gone, it looks like a purge of the insufficiently Brexity, as opposed to them getting the boot for flat out snout in the trough and shitting on their Lord Chancellor's oath respectively.

Truss was also Pro-Remain; but she has had no problem regurgitating the Pro-Brexit horseshit

[Insane_Homer]

Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Responsibilities include:
The National Lottery
Telecommunications and online

[tabascoboy]

Priti useless staying at the home office

Liz promoted to foreign secretary!

Holy fuck!!!!! We'll be an even bigger laughing stock globally

You may all mock, but it's greatly reassuring that we will have a Foreign Minister who will make sure the interest of our cheesemakers is placed first and foremost in foreign policy.

[sturginho]

Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Responsibilities include:
The National Lottery
Telecommunications and online

The tories are oh so worried that the Chinese are spying on us through 5G, when all they really need to do is apply to be an intern in Nadine's office

[Rhubarb & Custard]

Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Responsibilities include:
The National Lottery
Telecommunications and online

The tories are oh so worried that the Chinese are spying on us through 5G, when all they really need to do is apply to be an intern in Nadine's office

Also what logins? Because if it's as simple as she's stating it she should be fired for cause

[fishfoodie]

Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Responsibilities include:
The National Lottery
Telecommunications and online

The tories are oh so worried that the Chinese are spying on us through 5G, when all they really need to do is apply to be an intern in Nadine's office

Also what logins? Because if it's as simple as she's stating it she should be fired for cause

Indeed !

Sharing your login & password with someone else is a dismissal offense in any organization handling sensitive information. The idea that a cretin like this could have access to security information is insane

[ASMO]

Liz promoted to foreign secretary!

Holy fuck!!!!! We'll be an even bigger laughing stock globally

You may all mock, but it's greatly reassuring that we will have a Foreign Minister who will make sure the interest of our cheesemakers is placed first and foremost in foreign policy.

Blessed are the cheesemakers

[Rhubarb & Custard]

The tories are oh so worried that the Chinese are spying on us through 5G, when all they really need to do is apply to be an intern in Nadine's office

Also what logins? Because if it's as simple as she's stating it she should be fired for cause

Indeed !

Sharing your login & password with someone else is a dismissal offense in any organization handling sensitive information. The idea that a cretin like this could have access to security information is insane

It's is possible there's some group/shared function than enables others to take actions for and on her behalf I suppose, but it's incredibly slopping design to have shared login details, I cannot for the life of me think why one would do it that way bar wanting to establish deniability

[ASMO]

Also what logins? Because if it's as simple as she's stating it she should be fired for cause

Indeed !

Sharing your login & password with someone else is a dismissal offense in any organization handling sensitive information. The idea that a cretin like this could have access to security information is insane

It's is possible there's some group/shared function than enables others to take actions for and on her behalf I suppose, but it's incredibly slopping design to have shared login details, I cannot for the life of me think why one would do it that way bar wanting to establish deniability

Depends, she will likely have 2 laptops, 1 for day to day admin/emails etc which would likely have delegated access on it for PA's to do diary/email management on her behalf, and a ROSA laptop which would be highly secure and contain all of the secret stuff. If she has given out credentials for that, GCHQ will go ballistic.

[I like neeps]

Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Responsibilities include:
The National Lottery
Telecommunications and online

Nadine Dorries is the absolutely perfect Secretary of State for the Culture Wars. Johnson could not have picked a better one.

[robmatic]

Also what logins? Because if it's as simple as she's stating it she should be fired for cause

Indeed !

Sharing your login & password with someone else is a dismissal offense in any organization handling sensitive information. The idea that a cretin like this could have access to security information is insane

It's is possible there's some group/shared function than enables others to take actions for and on her behalf I suppose, but it's incredibly slopping design to have shared login details, I cannot for the life of me think why one would do it that way bar wanting to establish deniability

I wouldn't discount the possibility of a currently sitting Tory MP just being quite thick.

[robmatic]

Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Responsibilities include:
The National Lottery
Telecommunications and online

Nadine Dorries is the absolutely perfect Secretary of State for the Culture Wars. Johnson could not have picked a better one.

It's depressing really. It will work like a treat as well.

[Insane_Homer]

[Rhubarb & Custard]

Indeed !

Sharing your login & password with someone else is a dismissal offense in any organization handling sensitive information. The idea that a cretin like this could have access to security information is insane

It's is possible there's some group/shared function than enables others to take actions for and on her behalf I suppose, but it's incredibly slopping design to have shared login details, I cannot for the life of me think why one would do it that way bar wanting to establish deniability

Depends, she will likely have 2 laptops, 1 for day to day admin/emails etc which would likely have delegated access on it for PA's to do diary/email management on her behalf, and a ROSA laptop which would be highly secure and contain all of the secret stuff. If she has given out credentials for that, GCHQ will go ballistic.

Still you'd have to question why delegated access needs a shared/common login, what utter fecking bellend makes that part of a system design, and how does it get past even a cursory compliance/audit check? That would probably have been out of date thinking by the 90s. I suppose they might still be using systems/software from the 70s and 80s, other than Priti Patel who rejects software in favour of firmware

[Rhubarb & Custard]

Indeed !

Sharing your login & password with someone else is a dismissal offense in any organization handling sensitive information. The idea that a cretin like this could have access to security information is insane

It's is possible there's some group/shared function than enables others to take actions for and on her behalf I suppose, but it's incredibly slopping design to have shared login details, I cannot for the life of me think why one would do it that way bar wanting to establish deniability

I wouldn't discount the possibility of a currently sitting Tory MP just being quite thick.

Sadly especially one in cabinet, but that doesn't get us past she should be fired for cause. I was/am stupid isn't a good enough defence.

[Hal Jordan]

Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Responsibilities include:
The National Lottery
Telecommunications and online

Nadine Dorries is the absolutely perfect Secretary of State for the Culture Wars. Johnson could not have picked a better one.

Letwin wasn't doing too bad a job for the Orbanification Minister. However, he was quietly getting on with, whereas Dorries is a loud mouthed idiot who will be throwing nonsense out at high volume, so perhaps it's for the best.

[SaintK]

Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Responsibilities include:
The National Lottery
Telecommunications and online

Nadine Dorries is the absolutely perfect Secretary of State for the Culture Wars. Johnson could not have picked a better one.

Letwin wasn't doing too bad a job for the Orbanification Minister. However, he was quietly getting on with, whereas Dorries is a loud mouthed idiot who will be throwing nonsense out at high volume, so perhaps it's for the best.

Wrong Oliver!

[Hal Jordan]

Sorry, I wanted more.

[Rhubarb & Custard]

Who is going to buy that?

[SaintK]

Boris Johnson’s new cabinet has met for the first time, assembling without masks in a packed room, as the prime minister delivered what he termed a “half-time pep talk” to his revamped team.

Photos of the meeting showed at least 30 people crammed shoulder-to-shoulder in the cabinet room, including aides and officials, none of them wearing masks, and with the windows apparently closed.

Similar images of the last meeting of Johnson’s pre-reshuffle cabinet, on Tuesday, prompted criticism from Labour and others, given government advice suggests people “wear a face covering in crowded and enclosed settings”, particularly if people are with those they do not normally meet.

[Hal Jordan]

Don't worry, the Haunted Pencil has said they don't need masks because they work so hard.

[Rhubarb & Custard]

I'd be surprised if the windows in that room did open, and that might even still be an exceptionally well ventilated room. Does seem an obvious missed chance to set a better example mind

[Lobby]

I'd be surprised if the windows in that room did open, and that might even still be an exceptionally well ventilated room. Does seem an obvious missed chance to set a better example mind

All the windows at 10 Downing Street were reinforced after the IRA mortar attack in the early 90s, so I doubt they can be opened. The Cabinet Room is probably air conditioned and has other sources of ventilation than throwing the windows open.

[SaintK]

Why hasn't this unelected scumbag been sacked yet?

The health minister who oversaw the award of Covid contracts replaced his mobile phone before it could be searched for information relevant to £85m of deals that are subject to a legal challenge.
Lord Bethell, a health minister, is one of those under scrutiny over the way contra cts for PPE and Covid tests were awarded at the height of the pandemic.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2 ... -searched

Finally
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Bethell was made a health minister in March last year, when Matt Hancock (who’s unsuccessful campaign for the Conservative leadership he helped to run in 2019) was health secretary, and after Hancock resigned there was a perception he was on borrowed time. If he is going, at least he will now have more time to look for his phone.

https://goodlawproject.org/update/eve ... ng-phone/

[JM2K6]

You don't need to use the media embedding button, SaintK. You can just post the Twitter link and the board handles it automatically and you won't end up with those

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[SaintK]

You don't need to use the media embedding button, SaintK. You can just post the Twitter link and the board handles it automatically and you won't end up with those

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tags around it

Thanks
I think you mentioned it to me before
I'll try and remember for the future......it's an age thing

[inactionman]

I'd be surprised if the windows in that room did open, and that might even still be an exceptionally well ventilated room. Does seem an obvious missed chance to set a better example mind

All the windows at 10 Downing Street were reinforced after the IRA mortar attack in the early 90s, so I doubt they can be opened. The Cabinet Room is probably air conditioned and has other sources of ventilation than throwing the windows open.

I always watched or listened shows like The Now Show and pretty much anything with Victoria Coren with my head in hands, cringing at the screechingly, toe-curlingly obvious lead line to one of the 'jokes'.

In my best Sandy Toksvig voice: 'There's plenty of sources of hot air'

[Happyhooker]

That's not where my hands are when I'm watching Victoria coren

[inactionman]

That's not where my hands are when I'm watching Victoria coren

Picture David Mitchell in the scene. Bearded David Mitchell.

She must be blind. Surely.

[Happyhooker]

That's not where my hands are when I'm watching Victoria coren

Picture David Mitchell in the scene. Bearded David Mitchell.

She must be blind. Surely.

So, you're saying a hot, rich woman with low standards in choosing her sexual partner isn't attractive?

Okay

[tabascoboy]

I hope to Christ this is just an unfounded rumour...

[ScarfaceClaw]

I hope to Christ this is just an unfounded rumour...

If it comes to be then it should be a clear signal that the honours list should be abandoned. It’s nothing a reward for corruption and favours.

[SaintK]

Don't hold your breath!

Jennifer Arcuri, who says she had a relationship with Boris Johnson while he was London mayor, will speak to the London assembly’s oversight committee at 3pm this afternoon about claims that he included her on trade trips and supported her company as mayor without declaring their relationship. City AM has a preview here.
Johnson has not confirmed that the pair had a relationship, but earlier this year Downing Street claimed he had “no case to answer” in relation to the allegations.

https://www.cityam.com/jennifer-arcuri ... morrow/