Minister for Murdoch becomes Health Secretary.

Hardly surprising he's booed when the latest proposal is to take 70% of benefits away from the sick if they don't go on work schemes, included unpaid work experience.

It'sa no wonder politicians take this country backwards. Not only are they only interested in the short-term up to the next election but within their short destructive spells in power they reshuffle each year or two. Ministers are appointed to impotant and complex "departments" usually with no relevant knowledge or experience and before they have a hope of getting to know anything about the department they are moved somewhere else to wreak destruction there. It is frankly ludicrous and amateurish.

Pro-homeopathy, anti-choice, anti-stem cell research.

So obviously the ideal candidate for the job.

Don't know what you mean, everyone knows that if someones only job in their entire life is a towel folder at Harrods then they are completely capable and knowledgable to run the economy of Great Britain. Never mind that Balls fella who's actually got a degree in economics - no he'd be rubbish

The previous administration had it's faults, but when they came in in 1997, the new Cabinet had been shadowing for at least 2 years and had a fair idea of what they wanted to do, plus what they couldn't do, and some fairly detailed knowledge of the subject. Unfortunately it didn't last.

Miller the Killer - Disabled Minister - GONE. Yay!!!!

Well Lansey's done the damage anyway but how Hunt will handle the department God knows. What came out of the Murdoch affair was a picture of an ineffectual man hanging onto the coat tails of the likes of Osborne running round telling tails.

A sad day for this country when someone of such low calibre can be given this job.

Does CallMeDave actually [iwant[/i to lose the next election by a landslide? The appointments at Health and Justice are farcical.

Clarke becomes Minister without Portfolio while Osborne remains Minister without a fooking clue

Jezza should have stuck with exporting marmalade to Japan.

He was fooking hopeless at that as well.

Any suggestions from your Lib/Dem party?

There're not [imy[/i LibDems any more than Labour were [imy[/i Labour when I voted for them.

Having said that, just about anyone else would be an improvement over Hunt and Grayling. A Health Secretary who believes in magic (homeopathy) and is anti-choice, plus a Justice Secretary who's anti-equality. You couldn't make it up.

Isn't David "expenses scandal" Laws supposed to be coming back? If so, I hope there is a public uprising.

Junior education minister. £56,000.

Which, ironically enough, is almost exactly the amount he swindled on expenses.

Forgive me mate.

I thought for one, stupid, absurd moment, that you honestly believed ministerial positions were delegated on the tenure of the relevant candidates capabilities.

As I'm sure you're probably aware it's a lot more to do with 'toethelineabilityitis'.

That is the amount he swindled on expenses. Lest we forget.

It really is outrageous. If this didn't show there is one law for the rich and powerful and another for the rest of us I don't know what does.

Oh I know that. But there's usually [isome[/i attempt to avoid utterly absurd appointments. This is like CaMoron's given up already and has decided to just have a laugh for the remainder of his tenure.

You're short by £592.00 or thereabouts.



I thought you might have been quoting his new salary, which would have had a certain perverse symmetry about it.

As to Hunt he is a real champion of the NHS:

[urlhttp://www.politicshome.com/uk/article/60538/hunt_and_the_nhs_olympics.html[/url

"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.

[url=http://eoin-clarke.blogspot.co.uk/There's more[/url

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):

[urlhttp://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tomchiversscience/100179258/jeremy-hunt-health-secretary-thinks-homeopathy-works/[/url

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.