The UK is Out - New PM - and whither now for Article 50

billybondsbeard

Boris is Foreign Secretary ?
Really ?
;doh

MrsGrey

;nonono

OMG


Although ;hmm

Exporting buffoonery? Has it been tried before? Could be a winner. Watch that trade deficit shrink. ;wahoo

AdMeus_CaputFilius

BBB,

Thought that was a good move, it's the place he can do the least damage as it is really the Civil Servants and Diplomatic Corps that run the Foreign Office, the FS is just a figure head who is directed by them - there are literally hundreds of them in place to stop him putting his foot in it....... ;hmm then again, this is Boris were talking about

MrsGrey

At Angela Eagle's shindig tonight, she made a joke about Boris.

A cry went up from the audience: “He’s the foreign secretary!” Eagle laughed initially, but then looked thunderstruck. “Boris?!” she exclaimed, then temporarily lost for words.

There was uproar in the room, Labour MPs turned to each other, “are you serious?!” one shouted. Eagle finally regained her composure: “All I can say is never ever say that having a Labour government elected isn’t important.”

;lol

OutcastLondoner

While hundreds are holding one foot back, he's plunging in head first.

https://twitter.com/SPIEGEL_Politik/status/753305643809959936

ASLEFshrugged

I'm sure there is method to her madness in appointing Boris as Foreign Sec, I'm just too thick to see it.....

grey_til_I_dye

ASLEFshrugged said:

I'm sure there is method to her madness in appointing Boris as Foreign Sec,

Fixed it for ya!

Yeoldhammer

UK politics is a joke.

Swissiron

It's like selecting Wilshere for England !!!!! Oh, wait..-

IronHerb

AdMeus_CaputFilius said:

BBB,

Thought that was a good move, it's the place he can do the least damage as it is really the Civil Servants and Diplomatic Corps that run the Foreign Office, the FS is just a figure head who is directed by them - there are literally hundreds of them in place to stop him putting his foot in it....... ;hmm then again, this is Boris were talking about

Aaah! The unelected bureaucrats! ;whistle

SuzanneClaret

Boris Johnson is foreign secretary: The world reacts....



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-36790977

SuzanneClaret

madridhammer

I've avoided this thread for fear of getting involved in heated arguments about the whole thing & I don't want to argue with fellow Hammers,however.....
Boris Johnson as Foreign Secretary? More embarrassing than England's abject performance at the Euros.I despair for my country,I really do.

ASLEFshrugged

Madrid - I think May decided a senior "Brexiter" in a senior position would keep the anti-Euro wing of the party happy, she hates Gove so Boris was the obvious choice.

If his performance as Foreign Sec is anything like his performance as Mayor then he'll spend most of the time overseas and leave the actual work to his underlings. And the first time he gets caught "playing away from home" she can sack him.

OutcastLondoner

http://metro.co.uk/2016/07/13/theresa-mays-husband-steals-the-show-in-sexy-navy-suit-as-he-starts-new-life-as-first-man-6005294/

SuzanneClaret

I think we might need to redefine sexy ;nonono

PrestonHammer

He looks like Where's Wally without the red and white garb.

imagelost

IronHerb said:

Still if May delivers on her speech this evening we won't need a Labour party.

All jokes aside,, we need a good opersistion , or something like it ;hmm

SuzanneClaret

SuzanneClaret

imagelost

#Welljell

pardewalegend

Ne

No I wasn't being ironic

I have nothing against homosexuals but I do agree with the above why on earth teach about gay marriage in schools!!

Oh I know it's now politically correct

SuzanneClaret

Pards

Religion is taught in schools.

How to open a bank account is taught is schools.

Why wouldn't you teach kids about diversity and the make up of families.

Why would you not want well informed teenagers?

Lukerz

I was never taught anything relating to financial matters. One of the biggest mistakes that schools make.

grey_til_I_dye

pardew

Where is the justice in trying to force Christian morality (or an interpretation of it) onto a population when the country is most assuredly not predominantly Christian (and that has nothing to do with immigration)?

In the eyes of the law (you know, as made by the people's democratically elected representatives) in the UK homosexual marriage has the same status as heterosexual marriage.

Are you suggesting that schools should teach a selective approach to the laws of the UK?

Or deliberately ignore them?

SuzanneClaret

Slaven_A_Laugh_Lukerz said:

I was never taught anything relating to financial matters. One of the biggest mistakes that schools make.

That's a pity. I was.

#ItsAnAgeThing

Yeoldhammer

Slaven_A_Laugh_Lukerz said:

I was never taught anything relating to financial matters. One of the biggest mistakes that schools make.

Same

Yeoldhammer

pardewalegend said:

Ne

No I wasn't being ironic

I have nothing against homosexuals but I do agree with the above why on earth teach about gay marriage in schools!!

Oh I know it's now politically correct

Why not teach about it?

IronHerb

They don't reach you how to be gay, they just tea ch awareness for gods sake.

billybondsbeard

Some thoughts on religion by Christopher Hitchens
https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/12316119_943185502427096_7655515137152294926_n.jpg?oh=2746ab77857d47d256798154e384dc7d&oe=582CF124