UK General Discussion: Rishecession

[Torrain]

The funniest outcome here is that Sunak puts all his chips on Dave, cashes in the political capital, and the Lords Appointment Commission then blocks Cameron over his lobbying issues.

[Torrain]

https://twitter.com/10DowningStreet/status/1724004188403737058

[AustralianSwingVoter]

David Cameron is in Downing Street.

Surely they’re not sending him to the Lords, right now? FCDO from the Lords?

Big Mandelson 2009 energy

I feel like it's even more bizarre than Mandelson joining the Cabinet. It'd be like if Major appointed Thatcher in 1996. How often does an ex-PM become a Cabinet minister, let alone one that isn't even in the Commons? I don't think I've heard of something like that anywhere in the world, at least not in the Anglosphere.

Already forgotten Kevin serving as Julia's Foreign Minister? John Gorton also forced himself into McMahon's cabinet for Defence by being elected as Deputy Leader.

Though Rudd at least was still in Parliament at the time and had only been on the backbench for a couple of months, so not quite as bizarre as Cameron joining the Lords. If anything the comparison here is Bob Carr becoming Foreign Minister after Rudd took a kamikaze run at Gillard's job....

And he took Arbib's senate seat in the process, even though it had been promised to Warren Mundine, triggering his hilarious defection.

[AustralianSwingVoter]

https://twitter.com/Conservatives/status/1724004200516903049

[Zinneke]

On the one hand Cameron was praised for his attention to policy detail in arenas like the European Council meetings and the G8, so he's a serious minister compared to the media-obsessed sociopaths the new generation of Tory ministers continue to produce. On the other hand he led the initiative for the disastrous Libyan intervention, had terrible strategic nous when negotiating with the EU and is a crook.

[TheTide]

He was the last PM to be any good at the dispatch box. Of course he won't be able to do any of that.

[Coldstream]

He was the future once.

[Logical]

Oh my god this is so incredibly funny

[Amanda Huggenkiss]

When was the last time a former PM returned to the cabinet with a different role?

[Cassius]

[Neo-Malthusian Misanthrope]

I did not expect to get woken up by a notification about David Cameron today. Can somebody explain how this works logistically, did they have to get him into the House of Lords for this?

[Torrain]

I did not expect to get woken up by a notification about David Cameron today. Can somebody explain how this works logistically, did they have to get him into the House of Lords for this?

He’s getting a peerage. MPs on both sides seething about the fact they won’t be able to question the Foreign Sec in the Commons - especially amid both ongoing wars.

Does mean that we’ll get to see his outside earnings, as a condition of entering the Lords. That’s going to be its own news-cycle…

[Torrain]

Lest we forget, one month ago…
https://twitter.com/David_Cameron/status/1709579002220867922

[Conservatopia]

The writers have brought back a character from an earlier season whose storyline always felt underdeveloped and cut a bit short. This is where they get the whole cast together to do the final chorus (Dave's tenor part a special highlight) and give the series a feel-good send off. All that's needed now is the announcement that the new Chancellor is Frank Lampard.

[Logical]

Rishi shows that he remains committed to Net Zero by recycling garbage politicians.

[MacShimidh]

The most galaxy-brained decision I’ve ever seen.

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The writers have brought back a character from an earlier season whose storyline always felt underdeveloped and cut a bit short. This is where they get the whole cast together to do the final chorus (Dave's tenor part a special highlight) and give the series a feel-good send off. All that's needed now is the announcement that the new Chancellor is Frank Lampard.

The writers liked having 3 former Conservative Prime Ministers in Parliament, so since Boris Johnson left, they had to add Cameron back in.

[Torrain]

[AustralianSwingVoter]

Going through the rigamarole of appointing Dave to the Lords while Theresa is still sitting on the backbenches is also rather funny. She really is doing a Heath.

[Хahar 🤔]

The writers have brought back a character from an earlier season whose storyline always felt underdeveloped and cut a bit short. This is where they get the whole cast together to do the final chorus (Dave's tenor part a special highlight) and give the series a feel-good send off. All that's needed now is the announcement that the new Chancellor is Frank Lampard.

The obvious choice for this government would be Sam Allardyce, surely.

[Torrain]

I guess if nothing else - Sunak’s attempt to be the ‘change candidate’ are officially dead, and he’s doubling down on incumbency.

[afleitch]

I feel sorry for Cameron. He's going to prepare a big speech one day and an aide will have to whisper in his ear he's not included the obligatory references to the 'wokerati.'

[Cassius]

The return of Cameron has completely wiped the sacking of Braverman from the coverage, so that’s a win for the next few hours I suppose.

[DavidB.]

He'll make a fine minister but I can't believe the Conservatives don't see how bad the optics are for them here.

[Coldstream]

Time to bring back Matt Hancock next.