Posted on 07/24/2019 7:03:34 AM PDT by NRx
Live coverage of the transition. May is meeting with The Queen to hand in her resignation. The Queen will then summon Johnson and ask him to form the next government. He Will then go to his new residence and start announcing cabinet appointments.
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Looks like as of the moment about half of the cabinet is being replaced. This number could rise.
Major turn over. Close to 2/3 of the cabinet have either resigned or been sacked. Johnson is appointing hard core Brexit supporters.
More good news! Thanks so much for the updates!!!
Major turn over. Close to 2/3 of the cabinet have either resigned
or been sacked. Johnson is appointing hard core Brexit supporters.
More good news!
Thanks
Johnson has replaced 17 of the 22 members of the Cabinet.
The cabinet overhaul is being labeled the “Midsummer’s day massacre.”
Does the reigning monarch actually have the power to appoint the PM, or does the reigning monarch have to wait until the majority coalition elects a leader?
Elizabeth II is queen of Canada also - I recall when the Liberals elected John Turner as leader, Trudeau the Elder stepped down. I doubt the queen could have overriden the party’s wishes.
The Queen has a lot of interesting “theoretical” powers. But as a matter of practical reality no monarch since William IV has appointed a PM without the support of the Commons.
In Canada the Queen is ceremonially represented by the Governor General. His duties are defined in the Canadian Constitution, which unlike the British, is actually written down.
Good riddance. UK is under a MINORITY government correct?
The Conservatives have the support of the DUP from N. Ireland. That gives the government a majority of three in the Commons. But the Tories are so divided on Brexit that as much as I like Johnson, I think he is a placeholder. Parliament is so divided it could not agree to take a bathroom break much less approve a Brexit plan. The Johnson government will fall and there will be a general election. My guess is sometime in the Fall.
So really he probably doesn’t feel he has a mandate to get much done?
I think he does sincerely believe in what he is doing and that he is carrying out the will of the people as expressed in the Brexit Referendum. My concerns are with the political reality. He is facing a daunting challenge with out the support of a large part of his own party and thoroughly divided Parliament. I have a more detailed commentary at http://ad-orientem.blogspot.com/2019/07/johnson-takes-helm.html .
The smiling guy on the right - he's David Davis, the leading LEAVE proponent and the guy who lead the Brexit negotiations.
The picture is of his first meeting with the EU negotiators - on the left.
You see how well prepared they are?
In contrast, he's not
and that's why the Brexit negotiations failed -- along with the debacle that was the 2017 general elections
Saddam was reviled by Sunni Islamic terrorists as he was killing them; Saddam was blackmailing the Saudis and Qataris - and that money was later used to fund madrassas spreading Wahabbi ideology to Al Qaeda, Islamic state, Al Shabab, Boko Haram, Lashkar-e-Toiba, Abu Sayyaf etc.; Saddm was going to use the Saudi-Kuwaiti money to fight against the Ayatollahs once more.
Think of it -- if no Gulf War then no Islamic state, no Al Qaeda, no 9/11, no US intervention in Iraq, probably no Taliban and a very diminished Ayatollah Iran.
If Corbyn calls for a vote of no-confidence, well anything could happen -- some Tories could vote for it, but I doubt they would want to face a GE. At worst they may not vote. And as for Labourites - many may also fear a GE and not vote with the party line. Too many possibilities
His only job is to deliver Brexit. He can do that by basically delaying. Delay until November 1 and the UK automatically crashes out
OK, and is Europe expecting penalties to be paid?
No. The EU hasn’t asked for any penalties. The only financial settlement was for costs including retirement for British EU workers like Nigel Farage and other MEPs and for .wrap up costs for projects agreed combine this 7 year eu budget cycle (2014-2021)
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