Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Looks to me like all the legal Eagles are quitting, I wonder why!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LATEST........

9:07pm: Solicitor General Oliver Heald also leaving.

9.03pm: Greg Barker out of DECC and will quit parliament next year.

8:34pm: Attorney General Dominic Grieve leaves the government.

8:16pm: Transport minister Stephen Hammond out.

8:07pm: Police minister Damian Green sacked.

7:30pm: David Willetts quits, will leave parliament next year.

7:27pm: Nick Hurd stands down as Minister for Civil Society.

7:18pm: Northern Ireland Minister Andrew Robathan quits.

7:17pm: Development Minister Alan Duncan quits “at his own request”.

5:36pm: Ken Clarke quits as Minister Without Portfolio.

5:29pm: David Jones sacked as Welsh Secretary

Looks to me like Camoron is panic struck........far more to come they say!!!!!!!!!!!!

When's Dave going?

Tim Montgomerie ‏@TimMontgomerie 8m
The hardworking Owen Paterson has gone. Big blow for Euroscepticism, climate realism and the countryside vote. Lib Dems rejoicing apparently

May next year some time Max.

Camoron opens up a can of worms with this anti Euro Tory below..

9:28pm: Owen Paterson sacked.

9:07pm: Solicitor General Oliver Heald also leaving.

9.03pm: Greg Barker out of DECC and will quit parliament next year.

8:34pm: Attorney General Dominic Grieve leaves the government.

8:16pm: Transport minister Stephen Hammond out.

8:07pm: Police minister Damian Green sacked.

7:30pm: David Willetts quits, will leave parliament next year.

7:27pm: Nick Hurd stands down as Minister for Civil Society.

7:18pm: Northern Ireland Minister Andrew Robathan quits.

7:17pm: Development Minister Alan Duncan quits “at his own request”.

5:36pm: Ken Clarke quits as Minister Without Portfolio.

5:29pm: David Jones sacked as Welsh Secretary.

Developing…

Cant come soon enough gf, not that I want Millibandus in charge you understand.


Getting rid of Paterson is a mistake, but it tells you the way the wind is blowing.

He he he its all happening at Tory HQ and Downing street.

Reshuffle: Ministers facing the sack in mutiny against David Cameron



JOE MURPHY, POLITICAL EDITOR
Published: 14 July 2014 Updated: 17:58, 14 July 2014
David Cameron faced a mutiny from ministers facing the sack tonight in a reshuffle cull of “male and pale” Cabinet members.

Friends of Environment Secretary Owen Paterson said there would be “fury” in the countryside if the right winger was axed. Lord [Greville] Howard of Rising, said “There are 12 million voters in the countryside and they will be absolutely furious if he is moved.”

Andrew Lansley, the Commons leader, is also believed to be resisting a return to the backbenches, arguing that he was promised to be nominated for a plum European Commissioner post.

Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan-Smith is thought to have been successful in a fight against Treasury pressure to move him and is expected to have won the right to stay in charge of benefits reform.

Mr Cameron plans to carry out sackings in his Commons office tonight and to make appointments tomorrow. The regular Tuesday Cabinet has been postponed until a special session at Chequers on Friday.

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...............

Iain Dale ‏@IainDale 43s
I'm now hearing William Hague will not just step down as Foreign Secretary but will also announce he's standing down from Parliament.

Rats deserting the sinking ship.


WHAT A SHAMBLES.

The last throw of Cameron and the party of Cons.

He is staying on as an advisor.

Confidence vote, it's the only chance to save the tory party, cos Dave has lost the plot.

If he ever had it?

They are doing a god job considering it is a coalition.

Dave cant keep using the lib/dims as a bomb shelter, stand up and be counted.


Or why not go the whole hog and join them, €urope an all?

Camoron as certainly lost the plot.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/jul/14/ukip-guardian-icm-poll-tories-labour-nigel-farage

Ukip support plummets to push Tories back into the lead

Poll shows Tories picking up majority of deserters as Farage's party drops back into single figures, with Labour on 33%

Ukip support has plunged back from its high point of the European elections, giving a boost to all the established Westminster parties and pushing the Tories into the lead, according to a new Guardian/ICM poll.

Nigel Farage's party drops back into single figures to stand on 9%, down seven points from last month's score of 16%. The Tories pick up the lion's share of these deserters, gaining three points to climb to 34%, enough to put them a single point ahead of Labour, even though the opposition also edges up one to 33%.

The Liberal Democrats also climb two, to 12%.

http://richardwillisuk.wordpress.com/2014/07/14/new-icm-poll-conservatives-move-1-ahead-as-ukip-plunges/

There is a new ICM poll in the Guardian tomorrow which the Conservatives taking a 1% lead over Labour following last month’s 1% Labour lead:

Conservative 34% (up 3%)

Labour 33% (up 1%)

Lib Dem 12% (up 2%)

UKIP 9% (down 7%)

This is a huge drop in UKIP support taking them down into single figures. However, the net effect of the changes this month is a small Conservative lead which will cheer David Cameron as he embarks on his reshuffle

http://www.newsnetscotland.com/index.php/scottish-news/9460-double-blow-for-miliband-as-colleague-predicts-cameron-win-and-tories-edge-ahead-in-poll

Double blow for Miliband as colleague predicts Cameron win and Tories edge ahead in poll

Labour leader Ed Miliband’s hopes of replacing David Cameron at Number Ten have been severely dented after the Tories edged ahead in the latest opinion poll.

According to the survey by ICM, Labour has lost its lead over David Cameron's party and now trails the Conservatives by 34% to 33%.

The result is an increase of 3pts for David Cameron against a 1 point rise for Miliband. The survey came on the same day that a senior Labour party figure said he believed David Cameron would win the 2015 general election. Former Labour Home Secretary Charles Clarke warned that a Tory majority is the most likely outcome of the 2015 election.

Speaking to the Huffington Post, Mr Clarke criticised the lack of direction under Ed Miliband and the lack of positive reasons to vote Labour – both of which he says make an outright Tory victory probable at the next Westminster election.

"I think the most likely outcome is a Tory overall majority," he said.

Ed Miliband, he added, had not "set out a clear statement of what Labour would actually do" and relied instead on an "assembly of odd policies ".

Mr Clarke’s searing criticism is the latest blow to Ed Miliband’s leadership - with recent polls showing that only 9 per cent of Scots think the Labour leader looks like a Prime Minister, and 50 per cent believing he has been a weak leader of his party.

Pressure has piled on Mr Miliband with a string of senior party colleagues expressing disquiet over his lacklustre leadership.

Another former minister, Labour MP David Blunkett, recently warned that losing next year’s election would see Labour "in the wilderness for as much as 15 years".