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Thank God but there's not been a decent Home Secretary since Roy Jenkins. Our Governments, one after the other, has let us down since they allowed themselves to be run by media and the desire for votes from the brain dead voters ("Nice hair? Good teeth? I'll vote for them. Who cares if they are any good?").
I cannot stand either extreme (right or left). Concrete thinking, blindly following rotes.
So few real people (since Maggie and Corbyn).
I thought the coalition was the best government in recent times. Sunak should bring Nick Clegg back as Home Secretary. With Cameron and Hunt as Chancellor - quite a vote winning team. And so few silly women booked on gender for positive discrimination, not talent or ability.
Just to explain - nothing against women (Maggie was decent and principled) - whilst I disagreed with many of her social views - I often argued with her about gay issues. Nothing against left wing (Corbyn was decent and principled) - whilst I wanted him to come out against Brexit, I felt he was right to represent both sides, as his party did. But I disagreed with his economic approach.
I've said many times that the coalition was the best Government in decades - tempering the stupid RIGHT wing influences (stupid Brexit). And would have been great under Corbyn and McDonald (tempering the extreme LEFT wing socialist economic ideas). And I've often said there are certain aspects of gender positive discrimination are stupid. Exactly as racial or sexual positive discrimination (I had an on camera row in San Francisco for criticising a "gays only" ownership of businesses and was called Anti-Gay). It's all down to simplification. Just as now media says either support Israel or Palestine whereas the truth lies in supporting both but condemning the excesses of both sets of extreme terror.
Ex-pm David Cameron back as foreign secretary comes as a total shock. He has barely given an interview since leaving government. I thought he was happy just chilling at home. My understanding was that you had to be at least an MP before you served in the cabinet, but apparently not.
robbiex wrote: Ex-pm David Cameron back as foreign secretary comes as a total shock. He has barely given an interview since leaving government. I thought he was happy just chilling at home. My understanding was that you had to be at least an MP before you served in the cabinet, but apparently not.
It's all one big club Robbie, we don't vote for Bilderberg Group or the WEF but they have a lot of power.
David Cameron bottled it when the Brexit vote didn't go his way.
It strikes me that the post has traditionally been given to women because no man wants it; it fulfills the Positive Discrimination rule; and women are MEANT to be more sympathetic and caring. Some are. Some arent. May was ghastly. Patel was worse. Suella pushed the boundaries even further.