Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Boris's Afternoon of the Long Knives - The Boris Era

BBC News: Reports the high level leavers and those that have been sacked from the new Boris Johnson Administration. 

Lets Get Real:

In his few hours as PM, Boris has shown that he is a good butcher, that is one of good aspects required by a good PM in the opinion of Sir Humphrey ( Yes Minister, Yes Prime Minister ), all the important Cabinet jobs have changed, Philip Hammond resigned before getting the sacked, the new Chancellor is Sajid Javid, while at the FCO, Jeremy Hunt refused the offer of being Defence Secretary, thus moves back to the backbenches, in his place we have Dominic Raab as  foreign secretary.   At the Home Office, Priti Patel will become home secretary.   These at just the top jobs, half the Cabinet that was in the May Cabinet has gone, it seems like Trump, our new PM is very thin skinned when it comes to critical comments.   Even hard Brexit Ministers who were Brexit before Boris have gotten the chop,  because they were either to critical during the leadership contest or supported the wrong candidate.   The timescale for the Administration could be  very short, Boris has given himself 99 days to get BREXIT, he has to get a deal with EU or try for  a No Deal Brexit in the face of opposition from the House of Commons.   Boris could be the shortest serving PM ever, just 99 days if he fails.   One can see a General Election in September.  The Hard Remainers will use any underhand method to prevent Brexit, this is why this blog is wary of the process. 

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