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This, from Robert Peston, looks like a good analysis: So what have we learned about Theresa May in the past 48 hours? 1) If you thought David Cameron was tough and ruthless, he was a pussycat compared with Theresa May. Barely through the door of 10 Downing Street, she sacked George Osborne...

Things, at long last, might be getting better :thumbsup:

Good point. Foreign Secretary role has been carved up into several bits, but the volume of issues it has to deal with has just risen dramatically.

I certainly wouldn't characterise BJ as an idiot or moron. He's bright and popular. But diplomatic he has never been. Agree with you on the devious bit, and also that we'll have to wait and see.

1. They don't vote themselves pay rises -- like too many of the rich they abdicate responsibility to an independent body for that ... 2. ... but, given the job they do and the amount of hours they put in, I'm not entirely convinced that we should be directing our ire at MPs' pay. My son's head...

Do you think that the appointment of BJ (that sounds so much more apt than BoJo -- perhaps we can call him BloJo) as Foreign Secretary is: -- moronic -- a stroke of genius: he's so adaptible that he'll become diplomacy personified in the post -- devious ploy by a non-moronic PM -- some other...

This is precisely the right answer. Miliband had some good ideas, but never had the confidence to stick with one, and make that his pitch. All that will really happen with that money gained from cutting corporation tax that beorhthelm mentions is that the companies' boards and shareholders will...

David Davis, who actually is a working-class Tory represents some Yorkshire constituency, although his accent suggests his origins are Home Counties (?). Of them, I actually quite like him. And the one nation stuff seems blown out of the water within a few hours, by the cabinet appointments...

Was going to say the same myself. It's almost as if we've been taken over by a lot that still think we're in the nineteenth century. Oh.

No, didn't get the wrong user. I surely can't be the only one to remember all the budget-day threads you started, waxing lyrical about George. But agree with the rest of what you say.

Osborne reportedly sacked, and not even in the Cabinet. Poor Bozza.

Hmmm. Have we seen Leadsom's tax returns yet? Perhaps these might have played a significant role in her withdrawal

So, you're saying that the 1922 Committee can make up the rules as they go along.

It looks as though it'll be today, unless it's brought to the Tories attention that their own rules indicate that they can't just announce a coronation: it's apparently the 'duty' of the 1922 Committee to find another candidate to contest the election (see @JolyonMaugham for relevant tweet)...