Liz Truss Resigns [Who'll be the next Prime Minister?]
07-09-2022, 21:57
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Re: New Prime Minister: Liz Truss
I hate gimmicky Ministerial jobs anyway. I am not opposed to the creation of them but it should be a real job with a Ministry. They keep shuffling them around and bolting things onto different departments. It's a mess.
The one they should do it to is the Home Office which is far too big.
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07-09-2022, 23:05
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Re: New Prime Minister: Liz Truss
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It's not about the appointments themselves. They're fine.
It's the gratuitous observation to which I object. It's unnecessary.
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In the last hundred years
Home Secretary - there have been 41 office holders, 3 of which were from an ethnic minority (all in the last 4 years)
Chancellor of the Exchequer - there have been 37 office holders, 1 of which was from an ethnic minority (the current Officeholder)
Foreign Secretary - there have been 44 office holders, 4 of which were from an ethnic minority (all in the last 3 years).
Perhaps it’s a pertinent, rather than gratuitous, observation because of the 122 Officeholders, only 8 of them have been from ethnic minorities, and all of those in the last 4 years, and never before have all 3 Offices been held by ethnic minorities.
It’s a change, and the media reports change…
btw, interesting (imho) statistic - 7% of the U.K. population are privately educated, yet 74% of the new Cabinet are privately educated.
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08-09-2022, 08:53
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Re: New Prime Minister: Liz Truss
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What's happened to the Minister for Brexit Opportunities post? Seems to have been quietly forgotten about... Impossible task I guess.
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Apparently Rees-Mogg still has that as part of his new job. But that other departments are now also supposed to look out for them.
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08-09-2022, 08:57
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Re: New Prime Minister: Liz Truss
Former BBC journalist and rector of Edinburgh University is slammed for racism after dubbing Liz Truss's diverse Secretaries of State as 'the coconut cabinet'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ed-racism.html
his post should be renamed rectum of Edinburgh University
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08-09-2022, 09:33
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Re: New Prime Minister: Liz Truss
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A health minister that is 20 stone, loves her cigars and is anti-abortion? Cracking appointment.
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Nobody was making this observation when overweight, cigar smoking and whiskey drinking Ken Clarke was Health Minister.
Is it because it's a woman that it bothers you?
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Chancellor of the Exchequer - there have been 37 office holders, 1 of which was from an ethnic minority (the current Officeholder)
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3 - Sunak, Kwarteng and Zahawi
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08-09-2022, 09:36
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Re: New Prime Minister: Liz Truss
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Nobody was making this observation when overweight, cigar smoking and whiskey drinking Ken Clarke was Health Minister.
Is it because it's a woman that it bothers you?
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I don't think forums were around then or I'm sure the point would have been made on them if other media did not pick up on them. Would have expected to see something in the tabloids at the very least.
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08-09-2022, 10:21
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Re: New Prime Minister: Liz Truss
Latest opinion polling since Liz Truss became prime minister.
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The first YouGov/Times voting intention poll of Liz Truss's tenure shows the Conservatives on 29% of the vote (+1 from our previous survey on 31 August-1 September) to Labour's 44% (+1). This is Labour's highest score since August 2017.
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https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics...7-sep-2022-aug
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08-09-2022, 10:22
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Re: New Prime Minister: Liz Truss
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Originally Posted by Pierre
Nobody was making this observation when overweight, cigar smoking and whiskey drinking Ken Clarke was Health Minister.
Is it because it's a woman that it bothers you?
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Thank you for the correction - appreciated…
(tbf, 2 of those were in the last 2 months )
This Ken Clarke?
And I believe there was a comment in Yes, Minister/Prime Minister about an overweight smoking Health Secretary.
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08-09-2022, 10:43
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Re: New Prime Minister: Liz Truss
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And I believe there was a comment in Yes, Minister/Prime Minister about an overweight smoking Health Secretary.
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It's at the end of the episode that he comes Health Secretary having tried to stop a smoking tax during the episode, the premise of the joke is that he is really unhealthy but becomes Minister for Health anyway.
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08-09-2022, 11:01
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Re: New Prime Minister: Liz Truss
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Originally Posted by Pierre
Nobody was making this observation when overweight, cigar smoking and whiskey drinking Ken Clarke was Health Minister.
Is it because it's a woman that it bothers you?
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4 - Javid?
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08-09-2022, 11:24
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Re: New Prime Minister: Liz Truss
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Former BBC journalist and rector of Edinburgh University is slammed for racism after dubbing Liz Truss's diverse Secretaries of State as 'the coconut cabinet'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ed-racism.html
his post should be renamed rectum of Edinburgh University
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Jeez
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08-09-2022, 11:33
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Re: New Prime Minister: Liz Truss
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Former BBC journalist and rector of Edinburgh University is slammed for racism after dubbing Liz Truss's diverse Secretaries of State as 'the coconut cabinet'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ed-racism.html
his post should be renamed rectum of Edinburgh University
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The posts are unacceptable and I'm glad his current employers are taking action. Although typical of the Mail to get the BBC association in, even though he's not been employed by them for over 13 years as far as I can see.
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08-09-2022, 12:13
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Re: New Prime Minister: Liz Truss
BREAKING: Prime Minister Liz Truss announces in House of Commons, a yearly £2,500 price guarantee on energy bills for two years. Also government, removes ban on fracking in the UK.
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08-09-2022, 12:26
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Re: New Prime Minister: Liz Truss
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The posts are unacceptable and I'm glad his current employers are taking action. Although typical of the Mail to get the BBC association in, even though he's not been employed by them for over 13 years as far as I can see.
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TBF Ben this is common practice all over.
Constant references to the past if it can create an effect is carried out by all the media.
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08-09-2022, 12:30
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Re: New Prime Minister: Liz Truss
Something going on in the house, notes being passed round, people leaving, The Queen is under observation
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