David Cameron - Foreign Secretary
David Cameron - Foreign Secretary
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rjfp1962

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9,033 posts

95 months

Monday 13th November 2023
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Confirmed on Times Radio......

Edited by rjfp1962 on Monday 13th November 10:15

sugerbear

6,253 posts

180 months

Monday 13th November 2023
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Arch remainer returns to government.

anonymous-user

76 months

Monday 13th November 2023
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sugerbear said:
Arch remainer returns to government.
Kind of good news..
He caused the disaster though
Made worse by Johnson & his Loons


dai1983

3,150 posts

171 months

Monday 13th November 2023
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Glad we brexited so we no longer have unelected gravy train riders running the country.

Skeptisk

8,897 posts

131 months

Monday 13th November 2023
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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

4,269 posts

128 months

Monday 13th November 2023
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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

23,689 posts

180 months

Monday 13th November 2023
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Skeptisk said:
Well that was a surprise. I didn’t even know he was still an MP.
He isn’t.

vaud

57,695 posts

177 months

Monday 13th November 2023
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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

12,851 posts

48 months

Monday 13th November 2023
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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

14,648 posts

306 months

Monday 13th November 2023
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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

4,269 posts

128 months

Monday 13th November 2023
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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

57,695 posts

177 months

Monday 13th November 2023
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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

82,914 posts

239 months

Monday 13th November 2023
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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

3,182 posts

221 months

Monday 13th November 2023
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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

4,643 posts

254 months

Monday 13th November 2023
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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

21,596 posts

306 months

Monday 13th November 2023
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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

biggrin


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

turbobloke

115,439 posts

282 months

Monday 13th November 2023
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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 wink

jester

2xChevrons

4,170 posts

102 months

Monday 13th November 2023
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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

4,176 posts

198 months

Monday 13th November 2023
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"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

63,538 posts

232 months

Monday 13th November 2023
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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.