Gove Offered Brexit Secretary Job...

[vetuste_ennemi]

... just seen on a news channel.

Apparently his price for accepting the poisoned chalice is to regenotiate the current deal.

May can't accept those terms, can she?

Anybody got more details?

[emmie]

only that someone just posted the fact that Gove is 12/1 on for the top job and that Raab is the favourite.

[Old_Geezer]

No point in carrying on with a plan that won't get through the House, so that's a given. But the question is whether he would change it significantly. Don't see it myself.

[Togo]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/11/15/michael-gove-offered-brexit-secretary-job/

[jim360]

Who is he kidding? In four months?! Less than, in fact, because it's generally accepted that there's basically no time left to sort out all of the obligations associated with a deal before March 29th.

[emmie]

PM to give a conference at 5pm, so perhaps we will know then.

[Togo]

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/michael-gove-offered-brexit-secretary-13594993

[naomi24]

Here’s the latest on the whole sorry mess from the Guardian.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2018/nov/15/brexit-deal-theresa-may-takes-agreement-to-parliament-politics-live

[emmie]

the deal is supposed to be accepted by all the member states by 25th November, 10 days from now, so we don't have a lot of time left to change things now.

[Togo]

Turned it down. A non starter.

https://metro.co.uk/2018/11/15/michael-gove-turns-down-brexit-secretary-job-after-dominic-raab-resignation-8143832/

[emmie]

so we have no Brexit secretary, and others falling on their swords, what next.

[Peter Pedant]

we gonna hear at five
poisoned chalice is precisely the phrase that occurred to me

[weecalf]

We are staying forget ref and Brexit .Pass the port and lemon .

[Old_Geezer]

I expect he was hoping for an extension. Not something I'd approve of.

[Jackdaw33]

Whatever else he may be,Michael Gove is not stupid. No wonder he turned it down.

[gulliver1]

Brexit, what was that?

[douglas9401]

Tha tha tha tha tha that's all folks.

Cancel all the nonsense and return to the real world, the experiment has failed and we're back in, older but wiser.

[Togo]

48 hours ago the bookies were offering odds of 6/1 on May being gone for Christmas. It now stands at 4/5.

[jno]

if I were May I'd do a Major - quit now and stand again. Let's see how many of these high-principled rebels will offer to take on the job now, rather than when all the hard work's been done.

[jim360]

Well, looks like the lady's not for turning again.

I'm not sure whether to admire her guts or to stare aghast at her bloody-mindedness.

[Jackdaw33]

If May stands again she will lose. Were she to win I will show my Rse in Harrod's window.