UK Rishi Sunak new British PM
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Well, yes, the Tories have well and truly gone there, and they glory in it.
It's a big issue for Brit voters for sure, but gimmicks like Rawanda and a prison barge don't come close to dealing with the problem
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We might pit that on conspiracy board
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After being dragged kicking and screaming , Sunak has finally sacked the home affairs minister
What a s**t show this party is, walking dead to the next election .
What a s**t show this party is, walking dead to the next election .
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Going to be a good HIGNFY this week though. Hope they've got decent folks on
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So it’s lord Cameron. foreign secretary.
Revolving deck chairs on the titanic
Revolving deck chairs on the titanic
Beatles no1 , ex pm back in cabinet
Back to the future 4
Back to the future 4
So you can get a plum Ministerial job without even being elected?
Not just unrepresented, but unelected swill
I would have thought Cameron would have needed to at least resign his peerage to sit in the Commons, but apparently not!
November 14, 2023
David Cameron returns: how can a prime minister make someone who isn’t an MP foreign secretary? And what happens now?
Cameron heads straight into the House of Lords so that he can join Rishi Sunak’s top team following the reshuffle triggered by the downfall of Suella Braverman.theconversation.com
In a surprise move, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has appointed former prime minister David Cameron as foreign secretary. Cameron, who resigned immediately after losing the 2016 Brexit referendum, has been almost entirely absent from the political scene ever since.
It’s rare these days for a prime minister to appoint someone who is not a sitting member of the House of Commons as a cabinet level minister in their government but Sunak certainly can do it. The prime minister has what we call the power of patronage.
What we mean by this is that there are a number of public roles for which the prime minister gets to decide who gets the job. Those powers of patronage include appointing members of the cabinet as well as other junior ministers to serve in government.
It is only a constitutional convention, rather than a rule, that government ministers be a member of either house of parliament. However, it is a convention that has been strongly abided by.
This convention revolves around the constitutional principle of responsible government where the executive is accountable to parliament. That’s why Cameron has been granted a life peerage to sit in the House of Lords, the upper house of parliament.
Making Lord Cameron the new foreign secretary is, from a historical and constitutional position, not unusual or forbidden. Under the government of Gordon Brown, both Lord Mandelson and Lord Adonis served in the cabinet, for example...
Now, what I'm wondering is, as Australia's political setup is modeled on the Westminster system, can our Aussie PM make similar unelected 'captain's picks' to cabinet? Could Scott 'Five Ministries' Morrison have assigned Brian Houston (for example) a Ministerial Portfolio and a seat on the front bench?
Could Albo do the same?
EDIT: On further reading David Cameron will not be able to function properly in the House of Commons as a Lord.
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My biggest concern at the moment, is that Sunak was talked into the decisions on Braverman and Cameron by influential members of the party.
And they are now going to use it as their base for a movement to have him removed and replaced by someone who will help the hateful and dangerous rhetoric dominate the UK, with a complicit media.
They know they will not win the next election, without a 'culture/race war' dividing the nation.
It's the same technique being used here.
And they are now going to use it as their base for a movement to have him removed and replaced by someone who will help the hateful and dangerous rhetoric dominate the UK, with a complicit media.
They know they will not win the next election, without a 'culture/race war' dividing the nation.
It's the same technique being used here.
Good to hear!! Secret Ministries are bad enough
Braverman as Prime Minister?!!! One of the reasons she got the arse was trying to potshot Northern Ireland's nationalist/republican community and actually sniping the marchers of the Unionist Orange Lodge!!
Braverman clarifies Northern Ireland comments amid angry criticism
Home secretary criticised for likening pro-Palestine protests in London to sectarian marches
Irish politics can be a bit all over the shop and anyone can make a mistake but when you're UK Home Secretary? D'oh!
Well she was dead right about "hate marches"Braverman as Prime Minister?!!! One of the reasons she got the arse was trying to potshot Northern Ireland's nationalist/republican community and actually sniping the marchers of the Unionist Orange Lodge!!
Braverman clarifies Northern Ireland comments amid angry criticism
Home secretary criticised for likening pro-Palestine protests in London to sectarian marcheswww.theguardian.com
Irish politics can be a bit all over the shop and anyone can make a mistake but when you're UK Home Secretary? D'oh!
But yeah, she was even more of a poisonous little goblin than Patel, and good riddance.
So, Cameron's back
It's all beyond irony and contradiction at this point.
If they had one shred of integrity about them, the Tories would divide themselves into a We're nice really, honestly party and an utter bastards and proud of it party
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