adrianc
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Post by adrianc on Jul 14, 2016 7:09:50 GMT
Given Fox's new post as International Trade and a head of Brexit, not sure how much there is left for BoJo to do?! Potentially a shrewd move, the appearance of a leading role while keep actual influence away from him... That's exactly how I'm seeing it. Nice big title to massage his ego, and keep him inside the tent pissing out. Fluffy salesy visibility on the world stage (which he did well for London, especially in the Olympic run-up). Nothing actually too important for him to break. I wonder about the choice of Davis for Brexit, too. Prominent leaver - Farridge has tweeted that he's "optimistic" about "inspired choices". But definitely yesterday's man. The last time Davis was really heard of, it was heading up a human rights lawsuit against May as Home Sec last year... Strange choice, unless you look at it as handing a seriously poison chalice to somebody in the knowledge they'll fail miserably at it. If she was serious, her leadership campaign manager - Grayling - was very leavey...
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Post by duck on Jul 14, 2016 8:40:32 GMT
I've heard that BoJo's first foreign trip is to Turkey to meet their Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
BoJo's talents run deep, he wrote this limerick and won £1k for the most offensive poem in a contest run by The Spectator
There was a young fellow from Ankara
'Who was a terrific w******
'Till he sowed his wild oats
'With the help of a goat
'But he didn’t even stop to thankera’
Then off to the States, China, France ...... is there somewhere/somebody that he hasn't offended?
(Mods, re-reading this post makes me think it would be more appropriate in the jokes thread ....... if only!)
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Post by bracknellboy on Jul 14, 2016 8:59:18 GMT
Nice big title to massage his ego, and keep him inside the tent pissing out. Pity he didn't take the same approach when it came to the really meaningful in/out vote. (IMHO only)
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Post by Greenwood2 on Jul 14, 2016 9:43:34 GMT
At least he speaks a few languages, has family links to quite a few countries and was born in New York. It will either be a disaster or a master stroke!
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Post by adrianc on Jul 14, 2016 10:00:30 GMT
If she was serious, her leadership campaign manager - Grayling - was very leavey... Grayling remains as leader of the commons. Gove out. There's definitely a whiff of intent about all of this...
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Post by Greenwood2 on Jul 14, 2016 10:10:59 GMT
Couldn't have Boris and Gove.
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Post by ilmoro on Jul 14, 2016 13:55:12 GMT
If she was serious, her leadership campaign manager - Grayling - was very leavey... Grayling remains as leader of the commons. Gove out. There's definitely a whiff of intent about all of this... Transport for Grayling Lets seee what Leadsom gets, assuming she accepts it. Villiers has gone, and Whittingdale so thats 3 leavers dumped, and 3 remainers (Crabb, Osbourne, Morgan)
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Post by adrianc on Jul 14, 2016 13:59:20 GMT
<groan> Staunch HS2 fan...
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Post by jjc on Jul 14, 2016 14:40:44 GMT
Lets seee what Leadsom gets, assuming she accepts it.
She's got DEFRA ilmoro. Had been rumoured she'd get Energy, but word since this morn is DECC might well be folded & put into a new Business / Industrial Strategy / Energy hybrid ministry that will be May's vehicle for key industry growth. Would be a big job & unless I missed it still vacant (& not sure which big boys still free to fill it)?
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Post by ilmoro on Jul 14, 2016 14:53:47 GMT
Lets seee what Leadsom gets, assuming she accepts it.
She's got DEFRA ilmoro . Had been rumoured she'd get Energy, but word since this morn is DECC might well be folded & put into a new Business / Industrial Strategy / Energy hybrid ministry that will be May's vehicle for key industry growth. Would be a big job & unless I missed it still vacant (& not sure which big boys still free to fill it)? Greg Clarke, who I have never heard of
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Post by jjc on Jul 14, 2016 15:13:27 GMT
Ta IM. Teesider who had in noughties been Shadow Energy & Climate Change, so brings some experience on that side. Don't know much about him. Would imagine Steel will be one his priority remits, in addition to energy. Another interesting appointment to what looks like being a shrewdly selected cabinet.
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Post by jonah on Jul 14, 2016 21:08:53 GMT
Whilst I would defer to people with my knowledge than I, I really hope someone focuses on energy soon, ideally before the brownouts start from the grid collapsing.
Back on to the cabinet... Does that mean that 'free market' ledsom gets to look after farming? If so, I suspect that the industry will be in for a shock, as minimal subsidies but potentially open trade barriers could be a lethal combination. And she would get to explain why the replacement subsidy for CAP isn't happening.
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Post by jjc on Jul 15, 2016 0:45:55 GMT
There are 2 takes on the closure of DECC. Half-empty is the demotion of the ministry might mean renewables & climate-change take a back-seat. Half-full (which as an eternal optimist I lean to, for now) is that incorporating it into a larger (potentially powerful) ministry means whoever runs it will carry considerable clout.
Keeping the lights on is too big a thing to mess around lightly with, so I doubt that won’t be dealt with. You’re right in pointing it out as an issue, energy policy has been in limbo since the last elections, & Hinkley, which was intended to produce 7% of UK’s power, is looking ever more shaky. The NAO & IPA btw have just raised their estimates of its subsidy cost from £6bn to £30- 37bn, & EDF’s unions have (understandably) very cold feet about the deal.
Clark is interesting. Read a couple of speeches he made in 09-10 which showed a good grasp of what the energy challenge should be about (at a time when few in the UK had much of a clue) – investing in low-carbon yes has an upfront cost but it can make a big impact on energy security, create jobs, drive innovation etc etc. If TM is planning big things on infrastructure/energy/industrial policy/investment (as some believe) & he is charged with driving this in some way, it could be the start of many new interesting things.
Agree that Leadsom has a tough brief there with the farming subsidies. One way of reading TM’s appointments is put the Brexiteers in charge of the things they say need to be fixed (if they succeed great, if they fail you’ve defused them politically), clear out the old power guard (DC, GO, MG), resize the ambitions of those who’d looked to step up to the plate in future (Morgan, Crabb, Leadsom at DEFRA), keep onside who might be of use to you inside the tent (BJ), bring new blood & others you can count on to do the job (Clark, Rudd, Brokenshire, Greening, Bradley), put unsuitable people in charge of places you don’t want to reform (Truss at justice might well be death of MG’s prison plans), & create new ministries for the things you really do want to get done (Biz/En/IndStrat). Wow a strong (if not ruthless) play from day 1.
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Post by registerme on Jul 15, 2016 7:10:43 GMT
Agreed jjc,I think she's been quite astute. And ruthless. Not a bad combination if well wielded. |
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Post by duck on Jul 15, 2016 8:50:17 GMT
Keeping the lights on is too big a thing to mess around lightly with, so I doubt that won’t be dealt with. You’re right in pointing it out as an issue, energy policy has been in limbo since the last elections, & Hinkley, which was intended to produce 7% of UK’s power, is looking ever more shaky. The NAO & IPA btw have just raised their estimates of its subsidy cost from £6bn to £30- 37bn, & EDF’s unions have (understandably) very cold feet about the deal. As a now retired 'insider' who still keeps up to date, the true picture is very dark. Fact is Hinkley Point C shouldn't go ahead it is to use the wrong reactors, there are better out there that will meet UK safety requirements at a far lower cost both for build and for costs to term. Fact is, we the Britsh people had one of the very best designs until, about 10 years ago, BNFL/Westinghouse was sold off. We could have been building our own stations and selling this technology around the world .... some of this technology is now being sold back to us at a premium! Then you add in that Bradwell site is to be 'given' to the Chinese .... IMHO not a sensible move for many reasons. As for the funding for these new stations the g'ment should not be paying extra to other governments just to keep the expense 'off book' bite the bullet and invest directly for the future. The latest move from National Grid (this should be owned by the British G'ment and not a group of foreign companies and hedge funds!) is to pay large hospitals in the UK to 'go off grid' and to get their electricity supplies from their stand by generators. The amount that has been quietly paid to big energy users to close down their plant for longer periods is quite frightening .......... and if we want to make a go of this Brexit thing the last thing we should be doing is shutting down industry and then paying for their 'losses' out of tax revenue. Some very big challenges face the country and G'ment.
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