Has the Conservative Party lost all sense of competence

She got rid of two millionaires, Greening and McLaughlin.
I don't know how many more she promoted.
Zahawi retweeted a post from someone saying good that Greening had left.
Hunt said he was pleased as well. I think they might not be on message . They are supposed to feel sorry that she's gone.

"Jeremy Hunt spent some 115 minutes closeted with Theresa May today. According to media sources such as Laura Kuenssberg, May intended to sack him and he ‘argued passionately’ for his job.

According to one Number 10 source, he cried.

In the end, May’s face-saving measure of allowing him to keep his job with an amended title, so she could avoid the admission that she spent almost two hours trying unsuccessfully to fire him, could be a disaster for our elderly and vulnerable.

By giving the most damaging Health Secretary in history an additional brief for social care, she has extended his reach – a reach that has only been disastrous for the NHS."

I wonder who the no.10 source was.

You've got to watch this video.

videos.files.wordpress.com/N9punff4/bridgen-corbyn-health1_hd.mp4

The Times and the Sun are the reviewers on the Newspaper review for tomorrow's papers, and they don't need any leftwing papers to attack May.

You would have thought the idea of under-promise over-deliver might have got through to her after talking herself up and the election and not being able to live up to it but still she talks it up all weekend and then cannot deliver. It's madness.

www.itv.com/news/2018-01-08/chris-grayling-reshuffle-gaffe-tories-congratulate-wrong-man-for-new-party-chairman/

Even worse, they congratulate the wrong man for new chairman. I wonder who runs their twitter account - the same one who said about Hunt crying, do you think?

Unfortunately, Grayling is still at transport. Hard luck for the East coast mainline.

It's no wonder the house of commons didn't want Damian Green to go.

www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jan/08/parliament-reports-24000-attempts-to-access-pornographic-websites-since-election

Not just the commons, the Lords as well.

newsthump.com/2018/01/08/david-davis-desperately-hoping-for-new-job-in-cabinet-reshuffle/

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jan/08/theresa-may-reshuffle-detoxify-tories-brexit

I definitely agree with Polly here.

So Toby Young has resigned from the Office for Students.

Resigned after the petition passed 200,000 and Young said it "was a distraction".

Good. Never should have been offered the job in the first place. Mind you, the news will be overshadowed by the shambolic reshuffle.

Who says petitions don't work!
My grandson signed it yesterday after asking what a troglodyte was.
"He's talking about me. Can I sign it?"
Must have been his signature that was the tipping point.

DJ I'd love to think that's the case.
For a young lad like your Dgs to feel so empowered is wonderful!
'This affects me and I can do something about it!'
Give yourself a pat on the back.

Thanks, mcem.
Some people haven't heard the news as they are still signing.
220,000+ signatures now.

Another day another shanbolshuffle

I expect they’ll try to sell it as a total victory for a strong and stable Maybot though if possible.

Hope all the Tories are keeping their fingers crossed as they will need to.

Membership less than 70k now.

Didn't Laura Kuenssberg make really scathing remarks about Corbyn's shadow cabinet reshuffle two years ago? I think she said something along the lines of "if Corbyn can't manage a reshuffle how on earth could he manage a country". (Can't find the exact quote).
I do hope she is as scathing about May's so-called reshuffle. Her most condemning tweet so far seems to be "Ouch!"

Kuenssberg did say yesterday that there were no more women or ethnic minorities than before in the reshuffled cabinet and were more Oxbridge educated than before.
I thought May was trying to make her Government more diverse?
Perhaps today there will be more diversity in appointments.

"Shambleshuffle". I like that ww!

I see Young’s resignation is being blamed by the rabid right on bullying and trying to silence.

What a lot of snowflakes they are.

Dunt twitter

“9 days into the new year and the prime minister tries and fails to reshuffle. Government uni regulator is appointed and then forced to resign. Government letter leaked over its horror of a no deal it itself has suggested”

www.24housing.co.uk/news/councils-need-lifetime-tenancies-to-help-house-vulnerable-tenants/

This is being discussed in the House of Lords at the same time that May appoints Raab to be housing minister. He voted against lifetime tenancies.

There seems to be a lot of weary resignation from the Tory party over this shambleshuffle

Let's hope they all become weary enough to resign end masse!