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Youngian wrote: ↑Sat May 25, 2024 10:24 am Will Gove’s real boss want that lucrative publishing advance returned for books he never wrote?

Or, was it a bribe, already repaid in favours and goodwill.

Or, will we see Pob down Tesco, buying a pack of crayons.

And it's goodbye from him.

Michael Gove, a well known crusader against anti red tape neoliberalism.

As a Times columnist and opposition MP, he'd have led the charge, and maybe he did as Education Secretary too (he was notorious for getting involved with other people's briefs).

But he did get his head down on housing, giving some poor social providers well deserved rockets. I am entitled to believe he tried, and that there was (putting it politely) a certain inertia that Labour could sort this stuff out.

Not a good start for a new Spectator editor. Does he know the magazine isn't aimed at Rory Stewart and Sayeeda Warsi? Guido Fawkes predictably unimpressed.

Eyebrows have been raised pretty high in response to Michael Gove’s endorsement of Kamala Harris. Gove said she had “significant weaknesses” but was “the lesser of two evils.” Those “weaknesses” have been painfully on display today…

Gove said on the BBC’s Today podcast:

“I would follow Dick Cheney’s advice, and I would vote for Kamala Harris.”

At the same time Gove refused to back Badenoch on the record because “the Spectator doesn’t back candidates, it backs causes.” Media sources question the wisdom of the Spectator’s new editor endorsing the most left-wing Democratic candiate in some years. They point out that fledgling US edition of the magazine is loss-making – sales may not be helped by this intervention. https://order-order.com/2024/10/17/eyeb ... la-harris/

Most “left wing candidate”, Bernie says “hold my beer “

What's this noise I've heard today about this oleaginous swine being put forward for a peerage?

Boiler wrote: ↑Fri Apr 11, 2025 11:29 am What's this noise I've heard today about this oleaginous swine being put forward for a peerage?

When you've already got Lord Siberia, and Daniel "Evil Paddington" Hannan, the bar is already set pretty low.

It still turns my stomach to imagine Pob, who did so much to wreck thins country, even getting a sniff at a gold plated meal ticket for life.
Let "Uncle" Rupert Murdock pay his own lackey's wages.
I'm sure Pob pulls in sufficient wingnut welfare without needing £315 daily off the hard working British taxpayer (tm)

The full list of resignation honours is here (links to gov.uk website).

Sir Mel Stride <facepalms>

Crikey, I actually used to know someone on there. I knew he was a Tory insider. Nice enough bloke. Relatively reassured he was working with Sunak. Doubt he’s stuck about with Kemi.

House of Lords is a job of work for most former ministers and you'd expect Gove to want get his hands dirty rather than clocking out at 10.05 am with Charlotte Owen.

Da fuq is Jimmy Anderson doing there?

I think he is there as a distraction. He will get the headlines whilst Shapps and some of the other useless former ministers will slip under the radar.

Recent cricketers have got knighted by PMs who like cricket. Theresa May knighted Alistair Cook and Andrew Strauss, as well as Geoff Boycott. Going a bit further back, John Major knighted Colin Cowdrey and Alec Bedser. Bedser made a good joke about being the first bowler to be knight since Sir Francis Drake.

Sunak knighting Anderson isn't really surprising,

Bones McCoy wrote: ↑Fri Apr 11, 2025 12:05 pm
When you've already got Lord Siberia, and Daniel "Evil Paddington" Hannan, the bar is already set pretty low.

Not to mention “Gauleiter” Clare Fox, “Sportswoman” Kate Hoey, and “Beefy Bastard” Botham.

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Fri Apr 11, 2025 8:43 pm Recent cricketers have got knighted by PMs who like cricket. Theresa May knighted Alistair Cook and Andrew Strauss, as well as Geoff Boycott. Going a bit further back, John Major knighted Colin Cowdrey and Alec Bedser. Bedser made a good joke about being the first bowler to be knight since Sir Francis Drake.

Sunak knighting Anderson isn't really surprising,

The biggest surprise is a Yorkshireman knighting a Lancastrian.