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Not surprisingly, I hear Angela Rayner in particular is struggling to share in your pleasure. But above and beyond the grubby issue of salaries, what is really exercising Ange is the fact that when people ask if anyone has seen the Deputy Prime Minister, it seems they aren’t referring to her...

Nobody on here is particularly outraged or otherwise about Sue's MASSIVE WEDGE so far as I can see :shrug: I think you'll find that those who seem to object are those that have been briefing against her. Just to help you, that would be most of the Cabinet, an assortment of civil servants, other...

Player off: BadFish Player on: WATFORD Zero

“A 78th minute substitution for the whataboutary tag-team. Player off, Thunderbolt. Player on, BadFish.”

I think Sue will soon be finding out that she is far more temporary than she had realised.

Agree with this - it all feels a bit Animal Farm. If only Starmer's problems were confined to what is happening outside Downing Street. Inside, Sue Gray has been a deeply divisive and pretty much universally disliked and distrusted figure around the cabinet table for months (as revealed on...

Hahaha! Stop clutching at straws and playing with words. You made a direct comparison to Civil Service roles, threw in some whataboutry and are just plain wrong. She’s now a SPAD and you know she is :lolol:

He’s a civil servant, not an adviser. Even the ‘whataboutary’ makes no sense

That’s nothing. The place where it really kicked off tonight is in Cabinet Office on 70 Whitehall. Apparently.

Not really. Most political journalists spend July and August in Tuscany with their phones switched off and juniors staffing the desk whilst Parliament is in recess.

Word reaches me of a frosty exchange between the PM’s Chief of Staff and a Cabinet Minister following a chance encounter inside No:10 late this afternoon. It seems the minister’s gleeful observation regarding the fate that traditionally befalls advisers who become ‘the story’ was less than well...

Plus Premier League tickets, designer spectacles and bespoke suits are all FREE. So happy days! f***ing moaning pensioners just above the pension credit threshold don’t know they’re born.

Unless you happen to be Sue Gray.

Which is baffling, considering the government mantra seems to be 'what's discussed in Cabinet stays in Cabinet'' (Well, according to the WhatsApp group that half the Front Bench use to gossip about Cabinet business and colleagues, it is).

Odd, isn't it? In light of this, Bozza has me asked to come in early tomorrow to pop the following emojies into storage for the time being: :wink: :dunce: :shrug: :laugh: and not forgetting :facepalm:

Free Gear Keir and his wife, Victoria Sponge (Courtesy 5 Live)

:shrug: Just sharing what I happen to have seen, in the spirit of Open Government. It’s not like I’ve divulged who the group admin is and who the members are…or repeated anything like “no wonder Bert’s f***ed off to Rome. I’d have done the same.” Because that would be the wrong thing to do...

Poor old Bert (as seemingly SKS is known as by a sizeable number of his Cabinet on a WhatsApp group) - it’s not been his best week. (Bonus points for anybody who can guess which cabinet colleague is secretly referred to as Mary Poppins and who is Mrs Banks?) :lolol:

Ha! Good to see the BBC finally break this story tonight. As with most things, NSC was weeks ahead in revealing the inside info concerning the rifts and growing exasperation amongst the Cabinet regarding Sue Gray. Even if some on here refused to believe it. I wonder what interesting texts and...

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