Ex-PM David Cameron appointed foreign secretary in Cabinet reshuffle

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• guriinii@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Are the rest of the Tory MPs so shit they have to bring back a disgraced ex-Prime Minister that actually ruined foreign relations?

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  • gnutrino@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yep. That’s what ideological purges will do to a party.

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    • guriinii@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Now ex- Tory Labour PM, Tony ‘War Criminal’ Blair, whom presided over the killing of over a million Iraqi civilians, has been appointed Gaza Humanitarian Coordinator.

      Absolute fucking Joke. Rishi really wants that Gaza Marine license.

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  • HowManyNimons@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You would have thought that with that thumping 80-seat majority they’d have a deep bench?

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• athos77@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The fucker who decided to call a non-binding (and very ill-defined) referendum on whether the UK should leave the EU, made a major campaign because he wanted to stay in office, promised he'd shepherd the UK through Leave it if went through, accidentally won, decided it was absolutely binding, and then promptly fucked off for the exit? That fucker? Who the hell decided he needed anything other than eternal ignominy?

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  • rynzcycle@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The other day I sat a glass of milk on the counter next to my cat, and told her NOT to push it off. Well she did, so I went out and let my wife know she should probably clean it up.

    (This did not happen, if it did I'd be divorced or dead... Probably dead.)

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• BigChungus@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  About near fell off my chair in shock at this one - seems like even the news outlets are a wee bit surprised too

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  • tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah. I wonder how many PMs have been called back to serve in other minesterial positions after their term as PM is done?

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    • BigChungus@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Oh for sure, it’s more about who it is than the fact it’s happened at all. Cameron quietly slipped away after the Brexit vote and used his position to lobby for a number of his business interests, like Illumina. However, a I know a number of Tory voters who still love him and have him up there as the best the party has had in a long time.

      It kind of feels like the Tories are scrambling to find a face who a lot of their disenfranchised base don’t immediately hate, especially after Patel and Braverman have been so reviled. It’ll be interesting to see how this plays out before the election - wonder if Cameron has any intentions of running for leadership again.

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    • Oneeightnine@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      John Quincy Adams went back into Congress after being President but unless I’m missing someone I don’t believe any US President has ever become a minister after serving.

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• snaprails@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Diplomats across the world currently polishing up their “pig poking” jokes.

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  • Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Come on, sing it with me: poking, porking, forking, fucking!

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  • Twig@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And pork markets

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• deadcatbounce@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  He wasn’t even a good PM, and now …

  I’m still pissed that they/he screwed over the Alternative Vote referendum - a path to the Proportion Representation.

  Looks like we’re heading to a zealous two party system, like the States to me. That’s never a good idea. The two parties are both trying to claim the middle ground but both are incompetent.

  That doesn’t matter to them: in a two party system, not-the-other-one is a legitimate voting basis.

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  • HowManyNimons@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Come on now: Cameron was the best PM we’ve had for the last 5.

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    • deadcatbounce@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Liking your style, Derek.

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• anteaters@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  So how secure is the Queen’s body? Any chance of her coming back, too?

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• Jaysyn@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Deck chairs on the Titanic.

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• thehatfox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  An unelected Prime Minister appointing an unelected Foreign Secretary, who is himself a disgraced former Prime Minister.

  Couldn’t make it up.

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  • lud@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Are Foreign Secretaries often elected? As far as I know the UK elects a party and not Prime Ministers.

    It might seem stupid (and it probably is) but the party is elected and they elect their prime minister.

    UK should have a reelection though considering how fucked up everything is.

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    • bugsmith@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Well yes. They are usually elected members of parliament. They don’t have to be of course, as is apparent.

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