Rayvin

The independent is reporting that the DfiD staff have been told they're getting a new boss though..

The BBC now following her car down the road in a helicopter WTF is going on?

Was just thinking that myself Thank fuck I'm not in the open plan bit of our office.

I have to say mind, the press literally tracked Priti's jet through the skies. Updates about her Whatsapp status as well. They clearly think this will be huge.

"[Patel is being made a scapegoat, it is not credible that the Foreign Office knew about these meetings but Downing Street did not. She left for Uganda after apologising and being told that she was safe - now they are bowing to pressure. She is going to be pretty angry if she is sacked and she could do some pretty hard damage to Downing Street. No 10 is being naive, the prime minister will create an even bigger problem for herself if she sacks Priti."

Ok will try to join you - we can go over the basics.

What will Patel do, I wonder... surely she's not going to take the fall for this if No. 10 knew. Might even be criminal if she did it on her own...

Seriously, how much of this shit can the government take before it's on its knees The end must be in sight now, surely.

https://twitter.com/MarcusDysch/status/928207754866712578

The announcement of Marouane Chamakh is particularly brilliant

That is awesome.

Basically confirms that May doesn't have the authority she should have though. Weakness is rampant in the government, how can anyone expect that they will be able to deliver any manner of successful Brexit..

I don't quite understand how Patel gets sacked and Johnson doesn't, mind.

I assume he's retiring...? But your post also makes it sound like he could have died, so I'm really unclear on this.

They're being shored up by the Leave vote still IMO... The leavers presumably know that Brexit comes tumbling down if the Tories collapse.

It has to come crashing down, surely. They're not going to hobble on like this until Brexit is through.

If that is his plan, he's going to get more desperate as this goes on. The longer she keeps him there, the more damage he does to himself.

The thing is, it's reaching a point where he'll almost take May with him now. She looks beyond pathetic in the face of the ongoing farce that is his control of the foreign office.

Fucking well in Thornberry

You're fucked, Parky. I've never actually done anything remotely capable of getting me into such trouble tbh, I'm fascinated that so many people have!

Agreed, but you never know..

God... let's hope he was guilty of something serious (kind of a weird thing to say, but...). As it stands, this is pretty tragic...

Naturally.

If he's right about the economic shock element, it could be enough to kick us into another GE. And tbh, at this point, we need as much damage to happen as possible before we're out in order to give us the best possible chance of turning it around again.

If you only knew