The Prime Minister has sacked the Home Secretary and David Cameron is on the verge of being brought back into the Cabinet. The Mail has more.
Rishi Sunak kicked off a dramatic reshuffle today with Suella Braverman axed as Home Secretary – and signs of a shock comeback for David Cameron.
The P.M. moved to oust Ms Braverman as he tries to restore his authority with potentially less than a year to a General Election.
Foreign Secretary James Cleverly has been sighted in Downing Street, sparking speculation that he could take over in the Home Office.
In a decision that could send an earthquake through Westminster David Cameron has paraded into No.10, potentially to be given a peerage and fill Mr. Cleverly’s old role.
The sacking of Ms. Braverman comes after an extraordinary week of rowing over handling of pro-Palestinian protests in London on Armistice Day.
She drew the fury of No.10 by lashing out at “hate marches” and then penning an article accusing the police of bias without getting it cleared.
Critics have blamed her for inflaming violence with far-right counter-protesters taking to the streets – although the Tories are badly split with supporters saying the grim scenes in the capital proved her right.
The stunning developments were greeted with extreme sarcasm by one former minister in the right-wing ERG bloc. “We’re ecstatic. All we need is for Tobias Ellwood to be Defence Secretary and our joy will be complete,” they said.
The Cabinet minister sounded defiance last night despite mounting speculation about her fate, releasing a statement saying pro-Gaza demos “polluting” the streets with hate “can’t go on”.
A Downing Street source said: “Rishi Sunak has asked Suella Braverman to leave government and she has accepted.”
In an ominous response, Ms. Braverman said: “It has been the greatest privilege of my life to serve as Home Secretary. I will have more to say in due course.”
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“”as he tries to restore his authority”” By bringing back David Cameron. Oh how I laughed.
“Authority”
I’m laughing along with you!
I will not trust anyone who smiles all the time no matter what they’re saying!
Just like Baloney Blair can say words like “weapons of mass destruction”, and “Digital IDs” with a grin like the Cheshire cat! A plastic grin is worse than a genuine scowl.
Bringing back useless, failed prime ministers is certainly scraping the barrel.
Hail “Call me Dave.”
A failed Prime Minister by any reasonable measure but he sent Libya back to the stone-age which, amongst other ‘benefits’, enables some of the unchecked migration. Arriving with blood on his hands, he’s an ideal candidate for Other Interests.
Completely agree.
Former clown-town PM and woke and proud Theresa May will re-enter the scene maybe as Minister of Reversing Brexit – because ‘the science’, SAGE, models and ‘polls’ said there is 112% consensus that it what should happen, with Sushi Knickknack arguing that May restores trust and provides sober reason etc blah blah
Sammy Davis Sunak (or is it Norman Wisdom)? just sacked probably the only real tory left in the cabinet. We now have a new prime Minister called Starmer. Goodbye Rishi, you lasted slightly longer than Truss but will now lose the election and be removed as leader, not that you ever did any leading. ————Perhaps it is a good thing to be rid of these pretend tories though and all right leaning people should now tactically vote to get rid of these UN/ WEF lackeys and support Braverman/ Badenoch as the new leaders.
Fu#£!ng A!
And isn’t Braverman married to a Jewish guy? So there is that. Although I’m sure that’s completely unrelated to anything…
“Allahu Akbar” it is then.
And the globalist technocratic takeover at the top of government is complete.
Absolutely!
Braverman and Badenoch both supported the Covid tyranny and neither is British.
“… just sacked probably the only real tory left in the cabinet. “
Wasn’t that his reason?
Yes probably. Thinking about elections rather than principles.
According to Nadine Dorris, in her book she mentioned that just like the Great Reset, figures who run the Tories like Gove etc are enacting a controlled demolition of the Tories with closer alignment to the EU. It is just what’s happening.
wink
More fiddling while rome burns!
He doesn’t have any more strings in his bow, to mix a metaphor.
I see what you did there!
No room to hammer another nail onto the Conservative coffin. They’re well and truly done for.
Unfortunately that means Starmer, Holy moly, God save us all!
Unless the medicine is nasty, it isn’t curing you.
The Country needs a real big dose of Socialist Government and they need it good and hard.
Most didn’t experience the 60s and 70s, and others seem to have memory lapse.
With luck it will bring about revolution.
“With luck it will bring about revolution.”
Perhaps that is the intention.
Starmer will be getting his orders from exactly the same people as the Tories worked for.
Please cut the green crap, Dave.
While his whole family host and have massive investments in wind farms..?
Come and see Democracy The Musical. Britain’s longest running pantomime. Musical director Klaus Schwab.
Unfortunately, for the moment, it’s still sold out!
Excellent!
Farce.
Featuring the Tory party, Britain’s longest running, and worst, joke.
Oh no it isn’t…..
Oh yes…..now don’t start all that
Goodbye N.Ireland and goodbye Brexit.
It can’t be ‘Goodbye N.Ireland’ until a majority in Northern Ireland vote to leave the UK, according to the Good Friday Agreement which is a legally binding international treaty, and there is no sign of a majority voting for a United Ireland anytime soon. There is currently a 2 to 1 majority in favour of remaining in the UK.
Ironically, if it were to be ‘goodbye Brexit’, this would strengthen support for Northern Ireland remaining in the UK, as the type of Brexit the Conservative government negotiated has weakened Northern Ireland’s position in the UK and encouraged more support – among the crucial approximately 20% of ‘neither nationalist nor unionist’ voters – for a United Ireland within the EU.
Also talking about a United Ireland as if it’s inevitable makes it more likely to happen, which seems to be a tactic of republicans, but still, despite these claims, we are a very long way from a majority in Northern Ireland voting for a United Ireland.
wrong thread!
Braverman was actually in touch with the electorate. She had to go.
So, Toby, why are you still a member of that utterly contemptible party.
How does giving in to the opposition demands to get rid of Braverman restore any sort of authority.
It staves off his defenestration by the Wet element – of which he is a member – which it appears has a 90%+ majority in the Parliamentary Party
I see Cameron had to be bribed with a peerage in order to take the job. It means of course that he won’t have to answer any difficult questions in the commons. Still the same coward who walked away from the premiership when things got tough.
I totally agree. Over the Brexit referendum, he shouldn’t have taken sides. He should have said that he had negotiated the most he could get from the EU, so it was that new deal or we leave completely. You, the public, decide and I will implement what you decide. Then, the day after the referendum, given the result, he should have triggered article 50 immediately. Then all the bollocks that ensued may not have happened and we would have left completely.
Exactly.
My own conspiracy theory is that Theresa May deliberately lost her majority in order to destroy Brexit. Pensioners was an own goal on steroids.
No. That’s not what happened. He resigned* as an MP in Sep 2016. Ministers in government have to be either an MP or a member of the Lords. To make him a Minister the PM had to give him a peerage.
I think it’s a terrible idea to have Mr Cameron back in government and clearly shows that Mr Sunak is scraping the bottom of the barrel. How Cameron can be Minister in charge of foreign policy when he so clearly showed his discontent with the Brexit vote is unfathomable.
*Yes, I know. MPs can’t technically resign.
He can resign as a Minister tomorrow but he still has his “honour”.
True. I hope he does resign. It would be the honourable thing to do.
One of the journalists on GBN made the point that DC might be useful in the GE campaign (which is on now) as a senior operative – he’s about 20 years older than Rishi, after all. Many of the ministers in other departments are younger as well. Perhaps he’s betting on the horses for the race ahead.
In breaking news John Major has been appointed Minister for LGBTQWERTIUP++
Cameron the gutless posh boy? That should frighten us all on this side of the argument.
A comment on TCW that I agree with 100%.
“So an unelected PM, either by the electorate (yes I know we don’t elect PMs directly) or his own party’s membership, now gives responsibility of one of the great pillars of state to an equally unelected individual.
????
The WEF in motion”.
Also, given that he isn’t an MP, how will he be held accountable for anything that happens?
Anarchy in its proper meaning – leaderless, is the UK today.
yep! SNAFU.
The WEF is in every and all motions.
Too right! How’s the ‘give away all our sovereignty to the Wef’ bill going on?
Have they slipped it under the door yet while keeping us looking at the roof?
So an unelected PM, either by the electorate (yes I know we don’t elect PMs directly)
What’s this contradiction in terms supposed to demonstrate? Can’t help picking the unelected phrase from the ‘muricans but – oh well – the political system in the UK is different and it doesn’t make any sense here? Only MPs are elected in the UK and while these MPs are supposed to represent their constituents, they’re in no way required to care for their opinions. They’re basically free to do whatever they want insofar it gets majority support in the house of commons. Insofar members of the electorate believe this wasn’t the case, they’re just mistaken. Boris Johnson was no more elected than Gordon Brown.
True. But I disagree with the final sentence. Boris, was elected MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip and a large majority of Conservative MPs were elected in the 2019 election at a time when it was known he would become PM if that occurred.
In contrast, in the 2010 election Gordon Brown was elected MP for Kirkaldy and Cowdenbeath but insufficient other Labour MPs were elected for him to be able to form a new government.
What I think is significant is that Boris had been PM for only 4 months when he managed to call a general election (the PMs right to call an election having been curtailed by David Cameron’s government) – he won. Gordon had been PM for 2 years 10 months by the time he called a general election – he lost.
If you look at the PMs who have been selected by their parties to take over leadership mid-parliament since James Callaghan’s time, it seems it’s best to call a general election sooner rather than later – at least if you want the job as PM.
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Rishi Sunak has been PM for a year. If he hangs on as long as possible he’ll have been PM for 2 years 1 month by the next election. He’d probably do better to call a GE ASAP – it would at least put this government out of its misery (and ours).
That is just how things work in UK politics.—-Infact you will find there has been a whole bunch of them including Callaghan, Major, Brown and even Churchill.———-
He can’t be quizzed in the Commons, except via his number 2 (whoever that is, as long it’s an MP). Not sure how the Parliamentary privilege works when it’s like that. E.g if he lies about something in the Lords, can his No.2 pass it on in the Commons?
I despair!
I just wish some British leader would grow some balls and run the country the way the people want it run!
I dont care who the are,what side their on, just put some basic common sense back into leadership and be boll@€kst to what the woke wa@kers think!
Conservatives should now vote Reform. Starmer will be horrendous, but worse is better. The parliamentary Conservative Party delenda est.
Lest we forget:
“This report determines that UK policy in Libya before and since the intervention of March 2011 was founded on erroneous assumptions and an incomplete understanding of the country and the situation.
Other political options were available. Political engagement might have delivered civilian protection, regime change and reform at a lesser cost to the UK and Libya. The UK would have lost nothing by trying these instead of focusing exclusively on regime change by military means.
Having led the intervention with France, we had a responsibility to support Libyan economic and political reconstruction. But our lack of understanding of the institutional capacity of the country stymied Libya’s progress in establishing security on the ground and absorbing financial and other resources from the international community.
The UK’s actions in Libya were part of an ill-conceived intervention, the results of which are still playing out today. The United Nations has brokered an inclusive Government of National Accord. If it fails, the danger is that Libya will sink into a full scale civil war to control territory and oil resources. The GNA is the only game in town and the international community has a responsibility to unite behind it.”
And:
6.We note former Prime Minister David Cameron’s decisive role when the National Security Council discussed intervention in Libya.
https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/78/foreign-affairs-committee/news/103285/libya-report-published-16-17/
Just as one might have thought the Sushi regime couldn’t get any worse.
But as the Jews say, nothing’s so bad, it can’t get worse.
And they have experience.
I suppose the next turn of the screw has to be Starmer and a Labour Government – 5 years to flatten the Country, although they might bring the result in sooner.
Can a Starmer Labour government really be any worse than this Conservative government?
I think I may bet on Suella Braverman being the next Prime Minister after Keir Starmer.
Yes I think it can, because Socialists don’t understand – or want to – market economics. They will wade in with their central economic planning and control habits, chase off investment and collapse the economy. The Scot loon Gordon One Eye did a good job but he was too much New Labour to finish us off properly.
And I think that has to happen – as it did through the 70s – so people feel extreme pain and demand real change, or many could emigrate and leave the place to the immigrants and alphabet people to become a shit-hole of diversity and inclusion.
1970s refresher: inflation above 20%, mortgage rate 16%, corporation tax 60%, income tax 35% in increments of 5% to 83% with a super tax for the wealthy on unearned income of 15% for a top marginal rate of 98%, average wage settlement 14%. Strikes, strikes, strikes and power cuts. The Brain Drain. All our talent emigrated, the rich left, professional workers left.
You could be right, nothing is so bad that it cannot be made worse, but at least they’ll be out within five years if that happens, and hopefully by then there will be a real alternative.
Much as I despise current Labour and what they stand for, they can easily be much worse. The Tories have to water down their socialism to play to their core vote, who are seemingly only fairly dense and not completely dense, and also to the backbenchers, some of whom have a vague idea what conservatism looks like.
Andrew Lawrence sums up the weekend’s events.
https://youtu.be/aCDwJ5TVGcc?si=p4vSGbQL2-GmCSdZ
How could you, Suella? How could you make such a venomous accusation against the Met police as to suggest they have “double standards”?!
For JSO, who destroyed commuters days, blocked emergency vehicles and caused general mayhem on the M25, the cops uniforms might as well have been party outfits as they stood by and had some pleasant chit-chat with the protesters.
For BLM, they took the knee, bestowing honour and demonstrating remorse for harbouring such “white privilege”.
For a bunch of antisemitic ideologues spewing forth invective and calling for Jihad, violence and murder, and invoking references to a 7th century massacre of Jewish people, they were quite happy for that to go ahead, too.
But for the freedom (anti-lockdown) marches, crowds of peaceful protesters were surrounded by shielded Met officers along with the TSG, who proceeded to assault people and make as many arrests as they could in response to a directive to break up the protest.
So shame on you, Suella, for calling out the Met on their obvious double standards in policing protests. They’re only there to keep us safe, you know… and of course they are absolutely impartial!
Dismissed for stating the Obvious ! The UK cannot sustain this level of absurdness , we are being fast tracked into Anarchy !!…
Anarchy is where each man & woman takes responsibility for their own governance.
We don’t have anarchy, we have tyranny as everything is being imposed upon us. The language has been perverted – Boris Johnson did a fantastic job of brainwashing everyone that parliament is sovereign during the Brexit saga. It isn’t. We, the people are sovereign which means that we are the masters of the MPs, the PM etc only as we gave away our sovereignty by asking these MPs to represent us, absolved ourselves of responsibility, they’re not going to want to start listening to us.
Hence why the distraction, divide & conquer bread & circus act continues with a vengeance. United we, the people are powerful. They aim to keep us ignorant of that fact.
Panto season kicks off early this year.
And since he doesn’t know what a woman is, Keir Starmer gets to play the drag!
Two fingers up to the 17.4 million who voted for Brexit and the millions to gave Johnson an 80 seat majority to get Brexit done.
And in return, they’re going to give the Not-a-Conservative-Party two fingers in 2024.