2014 Cabinet Reshuffle - William Hague gone

Sad to see well-respected and competent moderates like Damian Green and David Willetts leaving office. Another blow for evidence-based policy making.
 
Cosimo said:
Dave looking to have a cabinet that can win votes at the election.
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but his cabinet was winning my vote :( i liked the work gove was doing, it wasn't popular but when is making changes to education ever going to be popular? hague was also great but i can appreciate he's worked long enough already. ken clark was also a favourite of mine
 
Time to trot out one of the best political cartoons in years:

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All this (seemingly) positive discrimination isn't going to win my vote.

I'd rather see the right people for the job than what seems like "token woman here, token woman there".
 
It's a shame Hague is leaving. He seems one of the few genuine people left in politics.

I don't think the rest will be missed by many.
 
molinari said:
So happy he has gone, he is an utter fool. The fact that he said "outstanding teachers support him, bad ones don't" shows just how clueless about teachers and the teaching profession, he is.
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Indeed. Unfortunately, a lot of the damage has already been done.
 
Don't forget what Churchill said about women in politics:

"The women's suffrage movement is only the small edge of the wedge, if we allow women to vote it will mean the loss of social structure and the rise of every liberal cause under the sun. Women are well represented by their fathers, brothers, and husbands."
- Winston Churchill

Could not have been more right. What a wise man.

Now labour have 40% women and look at the state of the country. lol
 
mattyfez said:
Didn't particularly fancy Hague as leader, but I thought he was good as foreign Secretary.
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I thought he made quite a good leader, it's just a shame that some of the press decided it was open season and basically assassinated his character.

Bloody annoys me that the press have such a huge influence over politics in Britain thanks to the masses of people who believe everything they read. :/
 
I'm worried that this is just a bit of "positive discrimination" to win votes rather than necessarily putting the right people in the right roles...

However, I'm not sad about Gove and Hague stepping down - but I fear this is just political gamesmanship rather than anything meaningful... however, we shall see.
 
anything I don't mind said:
Don't forget what Churchill said about women in politics:

"The women's suffrage movement is only the small edge of the wedge, if we allow women to vote it will mean the loss of social structure and the rise of every liberal cause under the sun. Women are well represented by their fathers, brothers, and husbands."
- Winston Churchill

Could not have been more right. What a wise man.

Now labour have 40% women and look at the state of the country. lol
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Srs?
 
Deep said:
Srs?
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Obvious troll is obvious.

So Glad Gove is gone. Worrying that he's been made chief whip though - I think they are lining him up for party leader - which might not be a bad thing as they'd be unelectable with him - he's worse than Ed Milliband!
 
Women are too emotional to be in politics. They are also not fit too vote as winston predicted the women vote is easily swayed and a large influence that can be easily swayed plays in to the hands of the political parties. Thus we have most of the people voting on emotion and appearance over practical considerations. I bet if a celebrity like one of these xfactor/big brother women or men ran for prime minister she/he would win soley due to the women vote.

Remember what queen victoria said as well

" I am most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights', with all its attendant horrors, on which her poor feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feelings and propriety. Feminists ought to get a good whipping. Were woman to 'unsex' themselves by claiming equality with men, they would become the most hateful, heathen and disgusting of beings and would surely perish without male protection." Queen Victoria.
 
Narj said:
I thought he made quite a good leader, it's just a shame that some of the press decided it was open season and basically assassinated his character.

Bloody annoys me that the press have such a huge influence over politics in Britain thanks to the masses of people who believe everything they read. :/
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It was the press conferences he gave about Syria and Libya that did it for me... They reminded me of the Blair/Bush conference before the Iraq war that just paid lip service to a back room political decision that had already been made.
 
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