What a load of old bullocks!
Ed Vaizey booted to backbench, Hancock booted to DCMS
New UK Prime Minister Theresa May's reshuffle last week resulted in higher pile of bodies than a Game of Thrones wedding. Among a number of big hitters to be axed, including George Osborne, was digital and cultural minister Ed Vaizey. Vaizey had held that position since 2010 and is succeeded by former Cabinet Office minister …
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Monday 18th July 2016 12:32 GMT breakfast
So we have Gummer and Rees Mogg facing off against Benn and Kinnock. Firstly, this eighties revival idea has dragged on too long and gone too far; secondly it feels almost as though there is an established political class who are keen to retain power within a few enduring dynasties.
Thank goodness we've taken back our democracy.
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Monday 18th July 2016 14:45 GMT Youngdog
@ Rich 11
I'm glad we have a monarch as our Head of State - I much prefer someone who had no more choice than who's womb they sprang from than some grubby schemer who genuinely thinks they're above everyone else and deserves to rule. Leadership is a burden - not a prize.
"Those who seek power are not worthy of that power"
Plato
"The desire to be a politician should be enough to ban you from ever becoming one"
Billy Connolly
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Monday 18th July 2016 16:41 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: We only need one dynasty - Ironically
Why ironically? Nobody credible has said that the Queen or her descendants wanted to leave the EU. In fact, prior to WW1, the nearest equivalent to the EU was the way that all the related monarchs could get together and "sort things out" - the problem came when people like Grey wanted us to oppose our close relatives the Germans in the interests of the French, who we had repeatedly had to bash very hard to try to keep the peace. For quite a significant period, and depending on how you look at it, Britain was officially part of Hannover or vice versa. And if the King of Hannover hadn't been mentally ill and had had more diplomatic sense, the American colonists might not have left the union.
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Tuesday 19th July 2016 09:16 GMT Charlie Clark
John Selwyn Gummer
Wasn't he one of those twats who decided he couldn't stay in the Church of England when it ordained women priests?
Nice to know the Tory party is still producing progressive thinkers. And, once we're free of those EU shackles, we can go back to creating cheap cattle feed from scrapie-infected sheep. What could possibly go wrong?
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Tuesday 19th July 2016 13:43 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: John Selwyn Gummer
"Nice to know the Tory party is still producing progressive thinkers. And, once we're free of those EU shackles, we can go back to creating cheap cattle feed from scrapie-infected sheep. What could possibly go wrong?"
With Andrea [Polsci, Warwick, 2.2] Leadsom at DEFRA, we will soon find out.
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