[DaveO]

Re: Cabinet reshuffle : Tue Sep 04, 2012 1:49 pm  

As to Hunt he is a real champion of the NHS: http://www.politicshome.com/uk/article/60538/hunt_and_the_nhs_olympics.html

As to Hunt he is a real champion of the NHS: http://www.politicshome.com/uk/article/60538/hunt_and_the_nhs_olympics.html

Re: Cabinet reshuffle : Tue Sep 04, 2012 1:57 pm  

"Women know if we're not at the table, we're on the menu," Ceri Goddard, chief executive of the Fawcett Society, on the reshuffle so far.

Re: Cabinet reshuffle : Tue Sep 04, 2012 2:40 pm  

DaveO wrote: As to Hunt he is a real champion of the NHS: http://www.politicshome.com/uk/article/60538/hunt_and_the_nhs_olympics.html There's more He's a mucker of Daniel Hannan, it's difficult to find a more odious tory than he.

DaveO wrote: As to Hunt he is a real champion of the NHS: http://www.politicshome.com/uk/article/60538/hunt_and_the_nhs_olympics.html There's more He's a mucker of Daniel Hannan, it's difficult to find a more odious tory than he.

[DaveO]

Re: Cabinet reshuffle : Tue Sep 04, 2012 3:01 pm  

cod'ead wrote: There's more He's a mucker of Daniel Hannan, it's difficult to find a more odious tory than he. And some more (not as bad as that link): http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tomchiversscience/100179258/jeremy-hunt-health-secretary-thinks-homeopathy-works/ There is enough ammunition in these various links for a half decent opposition to have Cameron and Hunt on the back foot (to put it mildly) from day one.

cod'ead wrote: There's more He's a mucker of Daniel Hannan, it's difficult to find a more odious tory than he. And some more (not as bad as that link): http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tomchiversscience/100179258/jeremy-hunt-health-secretary-thinks-homeopathy-works/ There is enough ammunition in these various links for a half decent opposition to have Cameron and Hunt on the back foot (to put it mildly) from day one.

[John_D]

Re: Cabinet reshuffle : Tue Sep 04, 2012 3:23 pm  

DaveO wrote:

There is enough ammunition in these various links for a half decent opposition to have Cameron and Hunt on the back foot (to put it mildly) from day one.

The question is; by putting in such an obviously unsuitable person for the health gig, what else are we missing?

Well, even fewer women, a non-lawyer in the top legal job in the country - someone who thinks the Human Rights Act should be repealed at that. What else?

Re: Cabinet reshuffle : Tue Sep 04, 2012 3:23 pm  

The only cabinet reshuffle there should be is every single one of them out and others in who care about people.

Re: Cabinet reshuffle : Tue Sep 04, 2012 3:32 pm  

DaveO wrote:

There is enough ammunition in these various links for a half decent opposition to have Cameron and Hunt on the back foot (to put it mildly) from day one.

Andy Burnham has already weighed in:



" The NHS was supposed to be the prime minister’s number one priority. Swapping one failed minister with poor judgment for another is a strange way to show that.

Right now, the NHS needs somebody who believes in its values and is ready to stand up for it. Instead, the prime minister has given it the man who reportedly tried to remove the NHS tribute from the opening ceremony of the Olympic games.

NHS staff fearful of the government’s drive to open up the NHS to full competition will take no comfort whatsoever to find a man in charge who, in his last job, bent over backwards to promote powerful private-sector interests.

Andrew Lansley’s crime was supposed to be his failure to communicate his reforms. What the prime minister doesn’t understand is it is the NHS policies that are wrong, not the way he is selling them. Appointing a ‘yes-man’ to run the NHS will not bring the change of direction in health policy that patients and staff are desperately hoping for. Judging by his record, it may make matters worse.

I welcome the new secretary of state to his role but I serve notice to him today that, unless he removes the threat to the NHS from his government’s policies, he will face the same opposition as his predecessor."

[John_D]

Re: Cabinet reshuffle : Tue Sep 04, 2012 3:56 pm  

Oh hello: http://t.co/BMnjYFUL

Oh hello: http://t.co/BMnjYFUL

Re: Cabinet reshuffle : Tue Sep 04, 2012 4:03 pm  

John_D wrote: Oh hello: http://t.co/BMnjYFUL Evil Biatch is Miller the Killer. I've never seen someone hate the people so much that she is supposed to represent.

John_D wrote: Oh hello: http://t.co/BMnjYFUL Evil Biatch is Miller the Killer. I've never seen someone hate the people so much that she is supposed to represent.

Re: Cabinet reshuffle : Tue Sep 04, 2012 4:13 pm  

IMO, Hunt should have been sacked from, government months ago. If anyone lives in his consituency could they please lobby for his deselection as Tory party candidate?