UK General Discussion: 2019. Blackadder goes Brexit.

[Silent Hunter]

Grayling was a dire Transport Secretary; the rail enthusiast community hated him with a passion.

[Lumine]

Mundell (Scotland), Wright (Culture) and Hunt (Foreign) now sacked as well.

EDIT: And Stride too (Leader of the House).

[Lumine]

Indeed! Confirmed offices for Gove, Truss, Barclay and Ben Wallace as well. Thus far:

Prime Minister: Boris Johnson
Foreign/First Sec of State: Dominic Raab
Chancellor: Sajid Javid
Home: Priti Patel

Cabinet Office / Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster: Michael Gove
Defence: Ben Wallace
Brexit: Stephen Barclay
Trade: Liz Truss

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I read somewhere that Hancock is staying at Health, although with Truss at Trade the NHS might be doomed anyway.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

Damn, surprised he fired Mordaunt.

Also is Gove the last survivor of the first Cameron ministry?

[Lumine]

Health: Matt Hancock
Environment: Theresa Villiers
Education: Gavin Williamson
Culture: Nicky Morgan
Business: Andrea Leadsom
Housing: Robert Jenrick
DWP: Amber Rudd

[J. J.]

The talk is:
Sajid Javid     -Chancellor of the Exchequer
Priti Patel        -Interior Minister (Home Sec.)
Domenic Raab -Foreign Secretary

Edit: All 4 have been confirmed. The four most important positions in government are now held by a Muslim, a Hindu, a Jew and a Christian.

Not to mention a PM whose great grandfather was a Turk and a great great great grandfather was the King of Wurttemburg. 

[Silent Hunter]

Grant Shapps has gotten Transport.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Very surprised to see Rodney Tine return to the cabinet so soon, especially given why he had to leave in the first place. Shocking stuff.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

May is in the unique position as somebody almost universally judged as a failure, and most likely to be missed very soon by comparison.

[Lumine]

Jacob Rees Mogg is now Leader of the House of Commons.

[CumbrianLefty]

Meanwhile...

https://twitter.com/jaredomaramp/status/1153742493034438656?s=19

http://archive.ph/TdYVn

Nick Clegg getting booted out for this waste of space was one of the stupidest results of the 2017 election.

He should have been booted out for a very good Labour candidate in the 2015 GE instead.

[brucejoel99]

Along with the resignations, more than half of Theresa May's cabinet are no longer in their roles. Here's a summary of the reshuffle:

Sajid Javid is chancellor, Priti Patel is home secretary, Dominic Raab is foreign secretary & first secretary of state, & Jacob Rees-Mogg is leader of the Commons.

Michael Gove is the new chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster & has been replaced as environment secretary by fellow Brexiteer Theresa Villiers.

Jo Johnson is the new minister of state at the department for business, energy & industrial strategy & the department for education.

Gavin Williamson is education secretary, Andrea Leadsom is business secretary, Ben Wallace is defence secretary, Liz Truss is international trade secretary, Mark Spencer is the new chief whip, & Robert Jenrick is secretary of state for housing, communities & local government.

Grant Shapps is the new transport secretary & Stephen Barclay, Matt Hancock, & Amber Rudd are keeping their jobs as Brexit secretary, health secretary, & work & pensions secretary, respectively.

Former chief whip Julian Smith is the new Northern Ireland secretary, Alister Jack is Scottish secretary, & Alun Cairns will keep his job as Welsh secretary.

James Cleverly is the new Conservative Party chair while Rishi Sunak is the new chief secretary to the Treasury.

Robert Buckland is the new lord chancellor & justice secretary, & Nicky Morgan is the new secretary of state for digital, culture, media & sport.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Michael Gove is the new chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster

Does this carry any importance (since Gove is apparently not going to be Minister for the Cabinet Office) or has Boris essentially sacked him without sacking him?

[Dereich]

Jacob Rees Mogg is now Leader of the House of Commons.

That is funny enough to be the thread title.

[morgieb]

This might be the worst Cabinet of all-time. Raab and Patel has to be some kind of practical joke, surely?

[brucejoel99]

Michael Gove is the new chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster

Does this carry any importance (since Gove is apparently not going to be Minister for the Cabinet Office) or has Boris essentially sacked him without sacking him?

It's still a senior role within the Cabinet Office, & it looks like it's preparation for a no-deal scenario, considering they're gonna need all hands on deck if/when that were to happen.

This might be the worst Cabinet of all-time. Raab and Patel has to be some kind of practical joke, surely?

I'm afraid that this is all so terribly true.

[Blair]

The funny thing is that this is actually what people were wanting for ages; a cabinet which chucks out the useless ministers (Grayling, Bradley, Clark, Brokenshire etc) and puts in people from the newer intake who are actually good in the media, and who you could see as future leadership candidates.

The junior ministers will be very interesting; largely because they do a lot of work in the Commons and within MPs, and also because that's how you see who's on the up....

I still don't get giving Patel Home Sec... she's never held a real domestic cabinet job, and was sacked from her last one for gross incompetence.

[Hnv1]

"The Age of Banter"

[Silent Hunter]

The useless ministers have been replaced with useless ministers.

[CumbrianLefty]

This might be the worst Cabinet of all-time. Raab and Patel has to be some kind of practical joke, surely?

Williamson is arguably the worst pick, both on a practical and moral level.

Seriously, how has what he did just been airbrushed away??

[Starry Eyed Jagaloon]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-boris-johnson-immigration-policy-home-office-priti-patel-free-movement-a9020871.html
This is refreshingly good policy, and will hopefully keep the Brexit Party alive to split the Conservative vote.

[Oryxslayer]

https://twitter.com/itvnews/status/1154782412557168643

MP for the 19th Century strikes again!

[Suburbia]

Can Johnson win a general election?

If the Tories lose, who is the next Tory leader?

[CumbrianLefty]

1) Yes, he can (which is certainly not saying he *will*)

2) Who knows? Would depend on how that had happened to a significant extent.