"Psychopath" politics.

[Workingman]

Yesterday Chris (Failing) Grayling was supposed to be installed as the new chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) even though many feel that he is a waste of rations. The King of the World had chosen him so nothing could go wrong, or could it? Step forward Tony Lewis.

When the committee clerk, as he is obliged to do, asked if there were any more nominations for chairman, Dr Lewis nominated himself. He was immediately backed by the three Labour and one Scottish National Party member and appointed chair by 5:4.

BoJoke and his supreme leader, Demonic, didn't like this so they have reverted to their old tactic of removing the whip from Dr Lewis. Well they do have form where that is concerned.

Their next move is likely to be to table a Committee of Selection motion, which can be debated and then voted on by MPs in the hope of removing Dr Lewis from the committee and replacing him with another Tory MP. This is likely because the current rules state that the chair is in place for the whole session of parliament. It's a risk as it could fail and put Mr Mop-head in a real predicament.

Unfortunately for them a motion was passed this morning to publish the "Russian" report, and by next week no less. This will really cheese off Dim and Dom as the whole point of the seven month delay in setting up the ISC and then putting a "yes" man in place was to bury the report.

[Suff]

Well Maggie would have burned him at the stake and nobody would have bothered to comment.

The legacy of May has left MPs thinking they can be a member of a party and just do what they want. It is not helped by the fact that Labour have been doing this for years now too.

If Tory MPs think they can just go against the leader of the party and there will be no consequence, they had better think again.

Boris has already sacked enough to lose his majority, if he has to he will do it again. Possibly closer to the end of his 5 year term.

If his back benchers think they can run roughshod over their leader like they did May, they had better stop and think again.

This may not be over yet, but it will be eventually.

Very few liked the way the government was going under May, don't expect anyone actually in the executive to have a seconds worth of sympathy for him. If they do and air it publicly, they will wind up on a reshuffle list.

[Workingman]

Oh, I forgot, it's the Tories. Any other party doing it and the blue rinsers, monocled Colonels and assorted sycophants and terminally duped would be foot stamping and desk thumping: Typical Liebour, left wing anarchists, Stalinist anti-democrats, what on earth do you expect from this lot?

Got any idea about how much the Russia report will be redacted regardless of who was in the chair? I'll go for ~50%.

[TheOstrich]

My immediate reaction was "more power to Dr Julian Lewis's elbow", to be honest.

One of the goats in Jan's neighbours' field would be a better choice than Chris Grayling, which was obviously a "political stooge appointment", and at the least Dr Lewis does have some expertise in the area of defence committees. Grayling's only expertise is making a complete hash of anything he touches. We need people who can "do the job", not "do what Johnson / Cummings want".

[Suff]

Yes we need more people doing what they want and not what the executive wants. Worked excellently for May. Almost everyone hated it.

I'm not defending Grayling as a competent, I am pointing out that if the PM cannot trust his own MPs then he can't govern.

Whatever the poor choice for Grayling, Lewis should have been up front and explained his position. Then accepted if he was removed from the committee. That way censure of the PM could have done real damage to the PM.

What he did set a precedent which has allowed Cummings and the PM to tighten their control on the party.

Exactly the opposite of what the press are blathering about.

They got the effect of the sackings in the last parliament wrong. They got the election all wrong and they are getting this wrong.

If you want to see the PM and Cummings censured, you are going to need someone a Lot more astute than Lewis. He may have won a tiny battle, but he has dug his own political grave. Doing it.

[cromwell]

Grayling's only expertise is making a complete hash of anything he touches.

There was a great quote on the Gido Fawkes website:- "Grayling is the only man who could contrive to lose a rigged election!"

Apart from that I basically agree with Suff.