[Boiler]

Raab confirmed as justice secretary, lord chancellor and deputy prime minister.

[Crabcakes]

Apparently Raab didn't take losing the FO well, and Williamson refused to take a demotion. And by the looks of it Raab must have had some serious leverage to walk out with basically a *promotion*.

I suspect this could be the first signs of Johnson's "wall of shite" approach starting to fail though. He can't promote everyone who threatens to spill the beans, Williamson is now going to be even more pissed that a catastrophe like Raab is now deputy PM, and what happens next time someone fucks up? Or what happens if e.g. Patel is now jealous that Raab has somehow leapfrogged her despite his disastrous performance?

I think there's going to be a lot of briefing and backstabbing in the next few months.

[Arrowhead]

Raab confirmed as justice secretary, lord chancellor and deputy prime minister.

Christ almighty. May as well ask him to open the batting in the next test match, too.

[zuriblue]

Priti Vacant staying put. Also Sunak is staying.

[Abernathy]

Fuck me backwards with a bent bog brush.

Liz Truss confirmed as the new Foreign Secretary.

Has she shagged Johnson ?

[Crabcakes]

Fuck me backwards with a bent bog brush.

Liz Truss confirmed as the new Foreign Secretary.

Has she shagged Johnson ?

No, but I suspect she could shaft him.

He can only choose from a tiny pool of people - those who have already signed up to the mutual destruction system that will see them having to perform such nonsense as defending Cummings' eye test road trip in exchange for almost never having to be held accountable themselves, and those who are willing to buy in to such a scheme.

[Andy McDandy]

Seeing rumours that Nad's been promoted. Not sure what to though. Some saying culture, presumably because she wrote a book and went on telly.

[Andy McDandy]

Apparently there's a strong correlation between the sacked and low to negative approval ratings. So this is basically all about getting rid of the PR disasters.

[Samanfur]

Nadine Dorries to DCMS.

Argh.

[Abernathy]

This is a nightmare, right ? I'd like to wake up now, please.

[Andy McDandy]

Where's Dowden going? Down to the bottom of the garden to join his fellow gnomes?

[Samanfur]

Nadhim Zahawi to Education.

[Boiler]

Nadine Dorries to DCMS.

Argh.

Boiler's head go 'pop'.

Dowden, I understand, is Minister Without Point - sorry, Portfolio.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Nadhim Zahawi to Education.

Oh fuck. Oh shit.

Kids get the dross again.

[Boiler]

So has the Vaccines Minister post ceased to be with Zahawi's appointment?

[Boiler]

With the appointment of Dorries to the DCMS, will this get forced through?

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/ ... ys-tory-mp

[Abernathy]

And to think I thought that the Department of Education could not get worse than Williamson.

Zahawi.

Marduk on a fucking motorcycle.

[Bones McCoy]

Fuck me backwards with a bent bog brush.

Liz Truss confirmed as the new Foreign Secretary.

Has she shagged Johnson ?

Please Abers, not until after the watershed, when dinner's been safely digested.

[RedSparrows]

Nadine Dorries at culture. Just...

Yet again so much that is important for a nation's identity and sense of self is left to the pricks who have no fucking idea beyond waving flags and sniggering at anything they don't understand, which is nearly everything.

I don't ask for some superlative cultural steward, just someone who's not demonstrably an absolute fucking philistine.

[Crabcakes]

The interesting, silver lining take is that this is apparently his "election cabinet". The best he could do. A self-owning utter moron in at culture. A cruel, corrupt bully in at the FO. A no-talent replacing a scheming yet incompetent oaf at Education. An untrustworthy backstabber who has recently gone totally off the rails as his "levelling up" champion. A man who couldn't be arsed to make phone calls to save lives as Deputy PM and Justice secretary. A chancellor who has lost his shine, but who also wants his job. A U-turning health secretary who is only back in cabinet because his predecessor was so riddled with holes he could no longer take bullets for the PM. Rebellious, restless backbenchers who won't stand for another lockdown that he may have to bring in regardless because of his previous hesitancy and eagerness to appease. An unpopular tax hike. Falling polls. Emptying shelves, skilled job shortages rising inflation and rising unemployment, with no one able to address the problem because they're not allowed to acknowledge the source of the problem. Falling personal popularity and an almost desperate desire to now beat Thatcher on longevity simply to have something to put against his name in the history books which isn't defined by disaster and corruption. And outside of it all, a scheming goblin out for revenge on his former boss, his wife, and their lackeys, with a personal mission to absolve himself of all blame at the expense of everyone else.

It has the whiff of Major's last days of sleaze about it already. Everyone is sick of the same faces getting away with the same stuff, but he can't drop them or swap them as there isn't anyone else. And I give it 2 weeks before someone's caught fucking up again.

He's set out his stall for the election already - culture wars everyone is already wise to, further brexit denial, and hiding himself away. If I were an opposition party, I would already be making calls about forming some sort of progressive alliance.