06-05-2007, 12:35
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Bye bye John Reid
John Reid's announced that he's going to resign as Home Secretary before Gordon Brown throws him out (there can only be one Scottish heavyweight). Good riddance to bad rubbish. That leaves Brown with the interesting choice of picking a new Chancellor, a new Justice Minister and a new Home Secretary (police/security service bit) when he gets in (assuming Blair's friend Charlie Falconer also gets the elbow).
It's not like there's a huge choice of competent Labour ministers in the first place. I suspect Jack Straw may get one of them almost by default (he's English, too, and is about the only long-serving Cabinet Minister not to be irredeemably tarnished by Blairism).
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06-05-2007, 13:20
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Re: Bye bye John Reid
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I suspect Jack Straw may get one of them almost by default (he's English, too, and is about the only long-serving Cabinet Minister not to be irredeemably tarnished by Blairism).
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Nope, he is going to be Foreign secretary, he loves sleeping in Condoleeza's bed  literally that is...
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06-05-2007, 13:22
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Re: Bye bye John Reid
I'm beginning to wonder how governmental departments function at all with revolving door leaders.
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06-05-2007, 21:59
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Re: Bye bye John Reid
Well the head in the sand Home Office grandees win out again. A not fit for purpose department sees off yet another not fit for purpose minister of a not fit for purpose government. How long have they been in power again?? 10 years isn't it and they still can't sort it out.
Oh yeah and as for Jack Straw - wasn't he the Home Secretary who promised to sort out the Afghan hijackers who arrived at Stansted in 2000 and send them all back home quick smart?? Yeah right - just more hot air!!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/637729.stm
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/pol...icle363987.ece
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Last edited by Osem; 06-05-2007 at 22:11.
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06-05-2007, 22:12
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Re: Bye bye John Reid
I read in The Mail on Sunday a few week back that Tory Boss Mr Cameron"s family tree comes from Scotland.
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06-05-2007, 22:13
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Re: Bye bye John Reid
Well with a name like Cameron that isn't entirely surprising is it? 
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07-05-2007, 09:20
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Re: Bye bye John Reid
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I'm beginning to wonder how governmental departments function at all with revolving door leaders.
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Its obvious isn't it?
They just don't!
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07-05-2007, 09:50
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Re: Bye bye John Reid
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I read in The Mail on Sunday a few week back
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Not usually the most reliable of sources. Cameron is definitely English - I don't think anyone can plausibly argue that he's a sleeper for the Scottish Nats, or something. After all, if surnames meant anything, I'd be French, Jack Straw would be lightweight, unreliable and weak and Alec Salmond would be a large migratory fish with pink flesh. Only one of these is correct.
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10-05-2007, 00:48
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Re: Bye bye John Reid
john reid was a good politician infact only 1 of a very few i trusted 
hell be missed because he was straight talking and so forth.
all the others get bent over backwards litrally
btw
gorden brown how in the hell is this possible?
no1 has voted for him to be the next pm except for other bent politicians
we shhould all votew who will be next?
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10-05-2007, 07:32
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Re: Bye bye John Reid
i may be wrong ,but i dont think he'es ever acualy finnished any thing he started ,just takes over a post to sort it out and then mooves on ,leaving a trail of woes behind him.
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10-05-2007, 08:24
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Re: Bye bye John Reid
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hell be missed because he was straight talking and so forth
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Straight talking? Perhaps you can answer me this - why has he never come up with a straight explanation for spending a drunken weekend with the Serbian war criminal Radovan Karadzic a few years ago? He does like his war criminals, does Reidy.
Reid isn't a straight talker, he's a clueless political bruiser who's as *****scared of the tabloids as any of his predecessors, with a predictable effect on the quality of his department.
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10-05-2007, 08:57
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Re: Bye bye John Reid
New Labour ministers have perfected the art of talking tough whilst delivering very little of any real substance.
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10-05-2007, 19:42
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Re: Bye bye John Reid
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i may be wrong ,but i dont think he'es ever acualy finnished any thing he started ,just takes over a post to sort it out and then mooves on ,leaving a trail of woes behind him.
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LOL, yeah. What was it, 9 different jobs in 10 years?
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