Cabinet reshuffle

• howard mcsweeney1

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  12 July 2014     12:59269236
  #1      
  Probably a good idea in the run up to the next general election.
  
  
  http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/jul/11/david-cameron-promote-women-young-men-cabinet-reshuffle
• Guest 649

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  12 July 2014     16:49269238
  #2      
  I wish the D,D,C, would have one.To many old school ties in it.
• howard mcsweeney1

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  15 July 2014     12:52269351
  #3      
  This is all about image rather than substance, the blues with an eye on the women's vote next May.
  
  Moving Michael Gove from the public eye is probably a vote winner too.
  
  
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-28303854
• howard mcsweeney1

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  16 July 2014     12:36269389
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  The blues are expecting to win back supporters from UKIP by having a Eurosceptic cabinet, I very much doubt that will convince all of them.
  
  
  
  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/10970038/Michael-Fallon-We-will-win-back-voters-who-flirted-with-Ukip.html
• Karlos

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  22 July 2014     17:51269654
  #5      
  Charlie got a promotion
  http://www.yourdover.co.uk/news/four_more_kent_mps_promoted_in_reshuffle_1_3694974
  
  Four more Kent MPs have been promoted in an addendum to David Cameron's reshuffle last week.
  
  Dartford MP Gareth Johnson, Folkestone and Hythe MP Damian Collins, Dover MP Charlie Elphicke and Gillingham and Rainham MP Rehman Chishti have all been appointed parliamentary private secretaries - assistants to ministers
  
  Mr Johnson will work for the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, David Gauke; Mr Collins for the Foreign Secretary, Philip Hammond; Mr Elphicke for the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Iain Duncan Smith; and Mr Chishti for Nick Gibb, Minister of State at the Department of Education.
  
  MPs don't get extra money for being parliamentary private secretaries, but it is a reward for doing well and sometimes a sign that they are potential candidates for a future ministerial position.
• howard mcsweeney1

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  22 July 2014     18:31269656
  #6      
  Well done Charlie, had a brief chat with him in Market Square last Friday and he was pointing out to me about the success of the benefit reforms in a jolly sort of way. He must have known then that he had got the job.
• Jan Higgins

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  22 July 2014     19:32269658
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  Congratulations to Charlie but success?????
  
  No end of problems for so many genuine claimants who have lost money because of the bedroom tax even if they are willing to move.
  
  Disability money stopped for two years prior to court cases and subsequent reinstatement, as in my daughter-in-law's case which meant she had to sell her car.
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• Brian Dixon

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  23 July 2014     06:47269677
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  sorry to here that about your daughter in law jan.
• Guest 653

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  23 July 2014     06:51269678
  #9      
  I'm sure there are lots of people who know someone who has been adversely affected by different forms of welfare/benefit reform. Some have been fair, some not so.
  
  
  
  Roger
• howard mcsweeney1

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  23 July 2014     09:33269679
  #10      
  Politicians tend to crow about successes but don't look at the effects on people, this report tends to confirm that.
  
  
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-28437630