prescott keeps job as ODPM but loses portfolio

[Scoffers]

So, is Presser now Minister without portfolio?

 

[The Large One]

Nope. Deputy Prime Minister still.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

"Ex-education secretary Ruth Kelly is to take over some of Mr Prescott's responsibilities covering communities and local government. The department will be renamed and restructured."

It's not entirely clear how planning will fit in.

I'm waiting to find out what David Miliband will be responsible for - assuming he survives the reshuffle.

 

[The Large One]

Is Milliband an old mucker of yours?

 

[Storer68]

Storer, you now have the delight of having Alistair Darling as your new boss, someone who has done virtually nothing to improve the railways and orchestrated massive cuts in services in the West Country.

so it would appear. is it me or does he look like a badger

 

[Storer68]

Storer, you now have the delight of having Alistair Darling as your new boss, someone who has done virtually nothing to improve the railways and orchestrated massive cuts in services in the West Country.

improvement from Alan johnson then , who just did nothing

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Is Milliband an old mucker of yours?

Nope.

He currently has responsibilities for planning. He is sound on matters that are important to the Albion. He is already a Cabinet Minister. And he's been tipped for promotion, rather than relegation.

 

[London Irish]

[BI'm waiting to find out what David Miliband will be responsible for - assuming he survives the reshuffle. [/B]

If it's any comfort Lord B, Miliband "knew" Ruth Kelly, in the Biblical sense, according to this article by her former employers.

http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/news/story/0,9830,1375849,00.html

 

[Lord Bracknell]

I'm sure Storer68's department won't be the only government department organising a street party to celebrate the abolition of the ODPM.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

If it's any comfort Lord B, Miliband "knew" Ruth Kelly, in the Biblical sense, according to this article by her former employers.

http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/news/story/0,9830,1375849,00.html

Marvellous scenes.

Although I may need to revise my assessment that his judgement is sound.

 

[London Irish]

It is also worth noting that Yvette Cooper, the minister who granted us the Falmer permission, is a very close political contemporary of Ruth Kelly right back to the days they were at Oxford together in the late 80s and right up and past the puke-making Third Way think-ins that Blair was organising shortly after getting elected.

I would have been concerned if Prescott had gone before the Falmer decision but he has laid down policy for the department. Kelly is a technocrat with a ferocious attention to detail and I think probably a better bet to win a court planning battle to defend her department's decision than the old slugger himself.

 

[bardo]

Ms Kelly lists her leisure interests as walking, swimming and watching Bolton Wanderers football club.

Well at least she likes football.... and will hopefully understand what a good new stadium (like Reebok) can do to a club.

 

[Lady Bracknell]

Ruth Kelly... member of Opus Dei... wearer of steel-barbed cilice garter around thigh... da Vinci code... de Vecchi code... all in this together... secret rituals on Chanctonbury ring... plot to eliminate Prescott... beautiful, willowy secretary... (shurely shome mishtake. Ed)

sounds like a gel after my own heart does our ruthie.
well some of it does...

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Miliband gets the Environment.

He's unlikely to think that development is not permitted anywhere near a National Park or AONB.

 

[Man of Harveys]

If it's any comfort Lord B, Miliband "knew" Ruth Kelly, in the Biblical sense, according to this article by her former employers.

http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/news/story/0,9830,1375849,00.html

He'll have got used to grappling with a couple of major issues etc etc.

 

[The Clown of Pevensey Bay]

"Ruth Kelly becomes Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, the renamed Office of the Deputy Prime Minister."

So does Miliband take on planning decisions as Environment sec, or will it be Kelly?

 

[Gilliver's Travels]

sounds like a gel after my own heart does our ruthie.
well some of it does...

More please!! And pictures!!!

 

[The Clown of Pevensey Bay]

The Prime Minister's spokesman said Mr Prescott would keep his salary and grace and favour accommodation in recognition of his heavy workload.

 

[Silent Bob]

Well at least she likes football....

Not really. She's a Bolton fan.

 

[Storer68]

The Prime Minister's spokesman said Mr Prescott would keep his salary and grace and favour accommodation in recognition of his heavy workload.

I'm not sure Tracey will like being described as "heavy workload"