Esther McVey will become Cabinet minister “for squashing bad things” to combat ‘wokery’, her Tory MP husband said today in a move criticised as “tokenistic” and making up ministers with “silly names”. The Mail has more.
Philip Davies said that the former Work and Pensions Secretary’s surprise appointment as an unofficial “minister for common sense” had come as a “shock” but he said she would put her own “stamp on it”.
Mr. Sunak is facing pushback from the Tory Right over the appointment, with former Business Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg branding it “silly” and “ridiculously tokenistic” after he fired Suella Braverman and appointed a slew of moderates.
McVey was unveiled as a Cabinet Office minister last night and will attend Cabinet with a remit to focus on combating ‘wokery’ in Whitehall.
Mr. Davies, with whom she presented a programme on GB News until her appointment, told the channel: “The idea will be that she’ll be able to work with Government departments to try and bring forward some common sense measures.
“No doubt there’ll always be a role for somebody in the Cabinet Office, to squash any ideas that are coming through that are not sensible and common sense. The Cabinet Office has that role to try and promote good things and squash bad things.”
The surprise return of the 56-year-old former television presenter after three-and-a-half years on the backbenches was seen as a nod to the party Right, after a slew of moderates including former PM David Cameron were appointed in Mr. Sunak’s reshuffle.
But Mr. Rees-Mogg told Times Radio: “I think silly titles for Government posts is a Blairite thing. That is not the proper business of Government… this is ridiculously tokenistic, won’t impress anybody.”
He added: “I welcome Esther’s return because I think she’s highly capable and a good presenter of the Tory cause.
“I think having a minister for woke is silly and I think it’s deeply regrettable that a minister of the calibre and quality of Jeremy Quin, who was in the Cabinet Office, has been lost to the Government and they brought in somebody with a silly title.”
Worth reading in full.
It’s all sounding too much like a Minister of Silly Wokes – Monty Python would be proud.
Esther McVey, who is Co-Chair of the Pandemic All-Party Parliamentary Group, is a lockdown sceptic who has raised concerns about the Covid vaccines, so it’s good to have her voice in Cabinet. However, it’s hard not to agree with Jacob Rees-Mogg that this is little more than a tokenistic sop to the Tory Right by a ‘moderate’ Left-wing that is now in charge. It’s hard to see what McVey can achieve by herself from the position she’s been given, and one rather suspects that is the point. But we’ll see.
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A perfect way to silence her sceptical voice in the commons as she is now bound by cabinet collective responsibility.
I do not necessarily accept that Esther McVey might be cowed under the cloak of cabinet collective responsibility. If she chooses to stick to her slightly independent views then what has she got to lose? I hardly believe the threat of a return to the backbenches is any threat at all – back where she was before.
What I do know for sure is that this is a tantrum appointment forced on Fishy by the DD’s and intended as a F.you to the electorate. They removed Ms Braverman from office because even if some of her public messages were being orchestrated she was becoming a major embarrassment to the executive and therefore indirectly the Davos Deviants.
Actually the disappointment is that Esther McVey accepted this sinecure but perhaps she believes she can make some political capital from it. We’ll see.
As stated above this appointment is nothing more than a huge pillorying of the electorate. It massively underscores the sheer farce and pantomime that our so-called political system and its attendant actors has become.
It’s quite amusing in a way.
As if anything that’s done in Parliament/the”Cabinet” will be allowed to derail the delights that The RPTB have in store for the UK and humanity.
The fact that some MP’s actually appear to believe they have a scintilla of influence is quite charming but laughable. What the F**** will it take to make them realise their impotence.
Have you seen the latest from Trudeau – unless all States comply with Digital ID ie Vax health (lol) passports etc.then healthcare funding will stop.
We have been in WW 3 for the last 4 years, but only about 20% of us are aware of it – at the moment. THe covid con was a dry run – as I said 3 years ago.
Violence is coming.
I couldn’t agree more
It looks to me very much like Sunak is doing all he can to destroy traditional conservatism by alienating its core voters.
The globalists don’t care which of the Unaparty runs the UK as long as its WEF agenda keeps progressing.
Anyone who either stays at home or votes Unaparty in 24 is playing the game by their rules.
There are more of us than them. Reform etc need to agree who will fight each constituency and not compete. Local activism,,direct democracy, not giving money to those like the National Trust or multinationals that hate us.
I appreciate there is a lot of confusion over all political terms but Sunak claims to be a Conservative, whose last months before its demise he seems to be supervising. There is no possibility he could destroy conservatism, which I take to be what people believe who are typically condemned mindlessly as “Right Wing”.
I quite liked the appointment of David Cameron but couldn’t quite work out why…
I think it must be because it somehow seems a bit like Lord Kitchener, with great dignity, climbing up onto the quarterdeck of HMS Hampshire in his great coat and standing there impassively as the ship sank beneath him…..
Suella’s letter
https://order-order.com/2023/11/14/suella-this-is-for-the-best/
For the TLDR crowd my summary of the letter is ‘burn m…..f…..’
As JRM said yesterday “She was sacked for being right,” Her letter pulls no punches. Good for her!
I have no idea what the last sentence means.
Your heading reminded me of Monty Python; not sure why. At least she’s doing a bit of work on GBN, where there is also one of the actors that took part in MP’s flying circus.
Even before I looked at your YT link!
She might make common sense statements like….The Police have bias in favour of BLM, JSO, Woke etc and against Lockdown protestors. If so, she better not measure the curtains.
“The surprise return of the 56-year-old former television presenter” Is that her age she doesn’t look it apart from her voice just like Pussy Galore, old voice in hot woman.
In a sense it’s all good because it further reinforces the notion of a parting of the ways. The serious-minded people will take this one way and the lemmings will take it another. It is just part of the process playing out. The Australian aborignies put forward a prophecy in 2019 where they said that there would be a parting of the ways which would start with a run on toilet paper (early 2020) and it would finally result in the interesting and cool people ascending to a higher planet and the conformists being consigned to a very dreary planet. That’s what’s happening now if you have the eyes to see it.
So, if I’ve understood this correctly, this ministerial post has been created to stop politicians and civil servants doing and saying stupid things: a kind of minder for Whitehall kiddults. Call me old-fashioned but wouldn’t it be better to hire people who aren’t stupid?
I wouldn’t worry too much about her placement and her message. There is no denying it anymore vaccine damage has become mainstream.I doubt that we will get an apology but it could’ve been worse. When the real truth comes out then you will see more affirmative action. I resisted for a long time the idea that this injection was a deliberate kill shot. Having looked into the research that these companies conducted I can say with certainty that they knew that it was a mass slow kill weapon. That will not be hidden for much longer.
Esther McVey should have had sufficient self-respect to tell Sunak to eff off.
Minister for Commonsense …… could it get any more ridiculous!
They will need a minister for conservative values next!