David Cameron - Foreign Secretary

[rjfp1962]

Confirmed on Times Radio......

Edited by rjfp1962 on Monday 13th November 10:15

[sugerbear]

Arch remainer returns to government.

[James6112]

sugerbear said:

Arch remainer returns to government.

Kind of good news..
He caused the disaster though
Made worse by Johnson & his Loons

[dai1983]

Glad we brexited so we no longer have unelected gravy train riders running the country.

[Skeptisk]

Well that was a surprise. I didn’t even know he was still an MP.

Did anyone see this one coming? If yes please send me some investment tips or what I should use for the lottery!!

[Rivenink]

The high tide marker of talent in the Tory party.


I wonder if he'll quit the moment it gets a bit difficult again.

[Scrump]

Skeptisk said:

Well that was a surprise. I didn’t even know he was still an MP.

He isn’t.

[vaud]

Skeptisk said:

Well that was a surprise. I didn’t even know he was still an MP.

He isn't but you don't need to be one. Now (Lord) Cameron can serve from the Lords.

Also you don't even need to be an MP to be the PM; it is more convention.

[OutInTheShed]

Rivenink said:

The high tide marker of talent in the Tory party.


I wonder if he'll quit the moment it gets a bit difficult again.

Return of the Empty Suit.

As far as I can see, his only talent was for resigning before he got sacked?

[eharding]

sugerbear said:

Arch remainer returns to government.

Excellent - as Foreign Secretary he can both discreetly start the long and subtle diplomatic manoeuvrings required for the UK to eventually re-join the EU - eventually to be delivered by Starmer late in his second term as PM of course, and at the same time help solve the energy shortage by having a proportion of PH generate enough super-heated boiled piss steam to run at least a dozen large power stations (to be dedicated to supplying EV recharging stations, obvs)

[Rivenink]

Scrump said:

Skeptisk said:

Well that was a surprise. I didn’t even know he was still an MP.

He isn’t.

Yep, he'll get a nice cushy appointment to the HoL so he can collect £500 a day (or whatever their daily expenses are now) for showing his face,

[vaud]

Rivenink said:

The high tide marker of talent in the Tory party.


I wonder if he'll quit the moment it gets a bit difficult again.

To be fair to Cameron he couldn't have reasonably navigated Brexit having campaigned to remain.

[Byker28i]

OutInTheShed said:

Rivenink said:

The high tide marker of talent in the Tory party.


I wonder if he'll quit the moment it gets a bit difficult again.

Return of the Empty Suit.

As far as I can see, his only talent was for resigning before he got sacked?

probably the last reasonable PM before we got the latest shower? Certainly an improvement over Bliar/Brown

[Cheburator mk2]

eharding said:

Excellent - as Foreign Secretary he can both discreetly start the long and subtle diplomatic manoeuvrings required for the UK to eventually re-join the EU - eventually to be delivered by Starmer late in his second term as PM of course, and at the same time help solve the energy shortage by having a proportion of PH generate enough super-heated boiled piss steam to run at least a dozen large power stations (to be dedicated to supplying EV recharging stations, obvs)

PH should definitely introduce a "like" button! Made me chortle...

[FredericRobinson]

OutInTheShed said:

Return of the Empty Suit.

As far as I can see, his only talent was for resigning before he got sacked?

A rare talent amongst this shower

[rev-erend]

eharding said:

Excellent - as Foreign Secretary he can both discreetly start the long and subtle diplomatic manoeuvrings required for the UK to eventually re-join the EU - eventually to be delivered by Starmer late in his second term as PM of course, and at the same time help solve the energy shortage by having a proportion of PH generate enough super-heated boiled piss steam to run at least a dozen large power stations (to be dedicated to supplying EV recharging stations, obvs)

Excellent prediction

Edited by rev-erend on Monday 13th November 10:33

[turbobloke]

As posted in another thread, this is hilarious. Return of the PR Fluffer, empty suit or not.

With no EU gravy train this is as good as it gets for wets, somebody should blame brexit

[2xChevrons]

vaud said:

Rivenink said:

The high tide marker of talent in the Tory party.


I wonder if he'll quit the moment it gets a bit difficult again.

To be fair to Cameron he couldn't have reasonably navigated Brexit having campaigned to remain.

That's the most accurate and politically astute way of looking at it - a PM who campaigned strongly for remain and then had the referendum return the other result would have struggled (to put it mildly) to have the mandate, authority and trust to carry out the rest of the process.

But Cameron stated in early 2016 that he would stay as PM regardless of the referendum outcome. Which was a massive act of (take your pick) arrogance, complacency, hubris and lack of political savvy.

Those qualities defined Cameron's second term as PM. He'd rolled the dice several times on major UK constitutional/national issues, overly-confident that the result would go the way he wanted and came unstuck. To our collective detriment.

[the-photographer]

"While I have been out of front-line politics for the last seven years, I hope that my experience - as Conservative Leader for eleven years and Prime Minister for six - will assist me in helping the prime minister," Cameron says.

He adds that, though he may have "disagreed with some individual decisions" made by Sunak, the PM is a "strong and capable" leader.

[bitchstewie]

Any chance of a general "the Government" thread as there's just so much overlap between names and issues and posts plus it could be someone else this time next week.