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Feb 2020
9:16pm, 13 Feb 2020
7,971 posts
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Caterpillar
Will be interesting to see what the new chancellor comes up with. Hopefully the investment banker and hedge fund manager who made so much money by the time he was thirty something that he didn't need a proper job for the rest of his life, will demonstrate how in touch he is with people who earn rather less than six figure salaries. I am sure he has gathered plenty of experience of ordinary life while working for Goldman Sachs. We will see. Jury is out, for the moment.
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Feb 2020
9:36pm, 13 Feb 2020
23,042 posts
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Johnny Blaze
Educated at Winchester, Oxford and Stanford. Married a billionaire's daughter. Sounds like he has had a hard struggle to get to where he is.
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Feb 2020
10:04pm, 13 Feb 2020
2,890 posts
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ThorntonRunner
Javid has just gone up in my estimation (from an admittedly low base  ) for the following quote: "I believe it is important as leaders to have trusted teams that reflect the character and integrity that you would wish to be associated with."
Demonstrates his view of Cummings and his minions.
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Feb 2020
6:53am, 14 Feb 2020
23,043 posts
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Johnny Blaze
Character and integrity are alien concepts to these people. Power is everything.
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Feb 2020
7:29am, 14 Feb 2020
704 posts
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Dave W
One bunch of tw*ts swapped for another bunch of tw*ts by a pair of tw*ts, one of whom is an unelected tw*t.
Oh what a Great Britain we live in
Bet the EU is pissing itself laughing..
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Feb 2020
8:07am, 14 Feb 2020
25,497 posts
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Wriggling Snake
Rishi needs to buy some news suits that fit.
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Feb 2020
8:27am, 14 Feb 2020
19,167 posts
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DeeGee
Oh, good, a comment on how a *male* MP dresses. It's nice to have some balance.
Up until the end of Thatcher we barely ever saw these people other than in an official photo on the telly. It had no bearing on their ability or otherwise to do the job. From what I recall, Ken Clarke was hardly ever the snappiest of dressers, he was a remnant of the pre-television, "just do the politics" time, rather than the "TV clown appearing on panel games" era.
In other news, I believe this is the first time in my life that the Chancellor of the Exchequer has been younger than me. I don't know if this is a reflection on my advancing towards the grave, or the changing demographic involved in British politics.
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Feb 2020
8:46am, 14 Feb 2020
6,737 posts
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paul the builder
I think it's just another version of "policemen are getting younger". i.e. it's us getting older. To taken a random example I just wiki-ed, Leon Brittan was 43 when appointed Home Secretary.
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Feb 2020
8:50am, 14 Feb 2020
19,169 posts
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DeeGee
Blair was 43 when he became PM.
Macron is younger than me! The president of France, a role traditionally reserved for septuagenarians!
It's when the pope is younger than me I'll start to worry.
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Feb 2020
9:26am, 14 Feb 2020
8,390 posts
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simbil
Saj probably had to go as he was not Brexity enough. The government wants to spend loads of money we don’t have to make that slogan on the side of the bus seem true. The chancellor will need to roll over and allow it without any leaks or perceived difference of opinion. Makes the role a bit pointless really.
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