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[John Drake]

From hapless to hopeless at Health.

http://www.bbc.co.uk...litics-19472688

Is this really the best they've got?

[Griff9of13]

From hapless to hopeless at Health.

http://www.bbc.co.uk...litics-19472688

Is this really the best they've got?

Probably. Doesn't say much about the rest of them does it?

Not so much a re-shuffle as re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Half way though their (one term ) parliament and they look completely lost and clueless. Trouble is the other side don't look that much better.

[Severus]

I really don't think the NHS is the uppermost priority for a Tory led cabinet.

[Wolford6]

Baroness Warsi has been relieved of her post and doesn't seem to have been offered anything else.

Tactical error by the posh boys?

Gove keeps his job. Cameron needs him to carry on as a whipping boy to deflect some of the flak that would otherwise be concentrated on Osborne.

No news on Vince Cable yet.

[Bedford Roughyed]

Hunt is still regarded as an up and coming MP...no really... could be a sign that Lansleys one man campaign/plan against the NHS is over?

Biggest bad news is grayling at justice.

[gingerjon]

Hunt is a stand-back and watch man. That's all the new Health Secretary has to be.

Under the new system none of the important boards report to the Health Secretary, they report directly to parliament.

His only real area is public health, i.e. awareness and nudging.

[Griff9of13]

David Laws has reportedly been made an education minister!

He should be doing a spell in Her Majesty's Prison not Her Majesty's Government!

[gingerjon]

David Laws has reportedly been made an education minister!

He should be doing a spell in Her Majesty's Prison not Her Majesty's Government!

He should.

So should a lot of MPs.

[D9000]

The Head of Netball (Justine Greening) has got moved out of Transport. That'll teach her to oppose the Heathrow 3rd runway. Villiers has gone too, doesn't say who the replacement is. Doesn't really matter. Transport ministers come and go every five minutes; of all the ones we (The Transport Industry, that is) had to deal with in the last 30 years, only Adonis ever had a grip on his brief, and he only ever cared about trains.

[Griff9of13]

He should.

So should a lot of MPs.

Totally agree. No loyalty to any particular party on this issue.

[l'angelo mysterioso]

name='D9000' timestamp='1346759695' post='2551690 only Adonis ever had a grip on his brief, and he only ever cared about trains.


your username uggests you are quite keen on them as well

[JohnM]

Is this really the best they've got?

I know what you mean. This government just does not have the policies, the people nor the power to make the changes that are so necessary.

Bonfire of the quangos? Whatever happened to that? Shameful levels of payments to the top management of those few quangos disposed of, only for these people to turn up the following day in similar high paid public sector jobs whilst the rest of the staff become jobless.

MPs expenses..does anyone really think anything has changed?

Immense cost of war in Afghanistan

Complete failure to address the public sector pensions issue

More waste of time and money on the needless vanity project of HS2

Complete failure to police the banking system where the interest rates charged to business bear no relationship to base rate.

Complete failure on housing, with mortgages far too cheap and rents far too high,

Abandonment of savers.

Much needed reform of the benefits system, but totally ruined by the way they have gone about it.

Sure the last lot were worse, but that is no excuse. At least , though this lot is increasing spending on the NHS and despite Sev's opposite opinion the govt IS committed to the principle and practice of the NHS.

Edited by JohnM, 04 September 2012 - 12:59 PM.

[Bedford Roughyed]

Hunt likes homeopathy and thinks the NHS should be disbanded. Perfect.

[JohnM]

Hunt likes homeopathy and thinks the NHS should be disbanded. Perfect.

Now you ARE being silly!!

[Griff9of13]

Now you ARE being silly!!

Really?

http://www.guardian....t?newsfeed=true

http://www.huffingto...l?utm_hp_ref=uk

[Wolford6]

Hunt likes homeopathy

Those things can happen when you go to a boys-only boarding school. I expect he's grown out of it by now.

[Futtocks]

Not so much rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic, more like repositioning the waxworks in the Chamber of Horrors.

[Wolford6]

Taken from Guido Fawkes:

Prime Minister, First Lord of the Treasury and Minister for the Civil Service –The Rt Hon David Cameron MP

Deputy Prime Minister, Lord President of the Council – The Rt Hon Nick Clegg MP

Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs – The Rt Hon William Hague MP

Chancellor of the Exchequer – The Rt Hon George Osborne MP

Chief Secretary to the Treasury – The Rt Hon Danny Alexander MP

Lord Chancellor, Secretary of State for Justice – The Rt Hon Chris Grayling MP

Secretary of State for the Home Department; and Minister for Women and Equalities – The Rt Hon Theresa May MP

Secretary of State for Defence – The Rt Hon Philip Hammond MP

Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills – The Rt Hon Dr Vincent Cable MP

Secretary of State for Work and Pensions – The Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith MP

Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change – The Rt Hon Edward Davey MP

Secretary of State for Health – The Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP

Secretary of State for Education – The Rt Hon Michael Gove MP

Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government – The Rt Hon Eric Pickles MP

Secretary of State for Transport – The Rt Hon Patrick McLoughlin MP

Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs – The Rt Hon Owen Paterson MP

Secretary of State for International Development – The Rt Hon Justine Greening MP

Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport – The Rt Hon Maria Miller MP

Secretary of State for Northern Ireland – The Rt Hon Theresa Villiers MP

Secretary of State for Scotland – The Rt Hon Michael Moore MP

Secretary of State for Wales – The Rt Hon David Jones MP

Minister without Portfolio – The Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP

Minister without Portfolio – The Rt Hon Ken Clarke QC MP

Leader of the House of Lords, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster – The Rt Hon Lord Strathclyde

Leader of the House of Commons, Lord Privy Seal – The Rt Hon Andrew Lansley MP

Minister for the Cabinet Office, Paymaster General – The Rt Hon Francis Maude MP

Attorney General – The Rt Hon Dominic Grieve QC MP

Solicitor General – The Rt Hon Oliver Heald MP

Chief Whip (Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury) – The Rt Hon Andrew Mitchell

[D9000]

name='D9000' timestamp='1346759695' post='2551690 only Adonis ever had a grip on his brief, and he only ever cared about trains.


your username uggests you are quite keen on them as well

Up to a point, Lord Copper, up to a point ...

[PC]

Ah, a much more Tory cabinet. After the charade for the last 2 years here go with the true face of the Tories. A justice minister who thinks it's OK to exclude homosexuals from a place of work, and an equalities minister who voted against equal rights for gays. And how long before we see a new runway at Heathrow on the agenda?

If the Lib Dems needed a further reason to get out of the coalition, they've just got it.