The cabinet reshuffle
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swee'pea99
Squire
Glad to see Gove's been expelled.
Hill Wimp
Fair weathered,fair minded but easily persuaded.
I've just shuffled my kitchen cabinet.
Ansome
Well-Known Member
- Location
- On the Cornish side of the Tamar
I only shuffled mine, I haven't done it before so I couldn't reshuffle it.
Wafer
Veteran
- Location
- Somerset/Devon border
Pleased too, but he's been replaced in Education by someone who attended an Independent school followed by Oxford Uni and went on to become a Corporate Lawyer. No teaching qualifications or anything remotely like it and not exactly a representative school experience (have any Tories?) ....
Oh but it's ok, it's a woman so that must make it fine....
Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
- Location
- Northumberland
Gove over.... too ecstatic for all the teachers I know to start contemplating his replacement's suitability. Happy day.
Ansome
Well-Known Member
- Location
- On the Cornish side of the Tamar
Because you're going on a cruise soon?
DCLane
Found in the Yorkshire hills ...
- Location
- Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
Edited to cover both education numpties.
Ansome
Well-Known Member
- Location
- On the Cornish side of the Tamar
Because you're wearing a stripy top and are not exactly petite?
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
Exactly.
Cheddar George
oober member
- Location
- Location: Location
I suspect Vernon is already baking a celebration pie.
Cheddar George
oober member
- Location
- Location: Location
Wafer
Veteran
- Location
- Somerset/Devon border
I was desperately hoping Pickles would go too, but seems not 
Shadow education secretary
The Honourable Tristram Julian William Hunt – he has the title 'Honourable' because he is the son of Lord Hunt – FRHistS (born 31 May 1974) is a British Labour Partypolitician, activist, historian, broadcaster and newspaper columnist, who is currently the Member of Parliament for Stoke-on-Trent Central. He also teaches and lectures on modern British history at Queen Mary, University of London[1] in Mile End, East London. He has written several books and in his work as a broadcaster has presented history programmes on television. Hunt is a regular writer for the Guardian and the Observer.[2]
Hunt is a member of the Labour Party, and after supporting the party as an activist for several years and working as a member of the party's staff, he entered the political arena professionally, becoming an MP at the 2010 general election.
Hunt is the son of Julian Hunt, Baron Hunt of Chesterton, a meteorologist and leader of the Labour Group on Cambridge City Council in 1972-3, who was created a LabourLife Peer on the recommendation of Tony Blair in 2000.[3] After attending University College Schoolwhere he got two As (History and Latin) and a B (English Literature), Tristram Hunt read History at Trinity College, Cambridge and theUniversity of Chicago, and was for a time an Associate Fellow of the Centre for History and Economics at King's College, Cambridge. His PhD, Civic thought in Britain, c.1820– c.1860, was taken at Cambridge and was awarded in 2000. While at Cambridge he was a member of the Footlights, where he was a contemporary of David Mitchell and Robert Webb.
But don't let that spoil a good partisan political rant!
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