[The Weeping Angel]

[kreuzberger]

That's quite the reshuffle by Starmer, considering the circumstances were not on the radar on Tuesday evening. If he had these changes up his cuff all along, why were they not implemented before Phase Two (point one) got underway?

[Abernathy]

I think the Rayner affair nudged his hand. He had obviously been planning most of these shufflings for some time beforehand, but maybe wasn’t planning to announce them just yet. Now, he has taken the opportunity to piss on Farage’s chips, which is welcome. But when you think about it, it is mostly just Cooper, Lammy, and Mahmood playing job shuffle.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Seems to have gone very smoothly too. Usually somebody refuses a move to a department they don't fancy, see as a demotion etc. Has anything like that happened this time?

Looks like it was planned in detail, and I'm relatively impressed nothing had leaked. Perhaps having to do it quickly because you've lost the Deputy PM is an advantage in that respect.

[Boiler]

Seems that by all accounts, Starmer got his arse served to him on a platter today at PMQs by Badenoch over Mandelson.

Seriously - what the fuck did Starmer think he was doing in appointing that slippery cunt to the rôle of US Ambassador? He should have been fired into the sun years ago.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Thought he could do a job with Trump, and it seems to have been working. But always a risk, perhaps about to become untenable.

Ed Davey seemed to suggest that Mandelson might be at risk from blackmail by Trump. He may have got that the wrong way round.

[The Weeping Angel]

Thought he could do a job with Trump, and it seems to have been working. But always a risk, perhaps about to become untenable.

Ed Davey seemed to suggest that Mandelson might be at risk from blackmail by Trump. He may have got that the wrong way round.

Not good.

[Tubby Isaacs]

That's not really coaching, is it? But yeah, this is untenable, and a huge mess. How do you get rid of Mandelson without basically implying thatTrump is a paedophile himself?

[Youngian]

Not convinced Mandy's cut out for this diplomacy malarkey

"It just could not happen in Britain

How do you get rid of Mandelson without basically implying thatTrump is a paedophile himself?

Not the toughest dilemma that will pass through the PM's in-tray.