Gove to become Justice Secretary

[muriel_volestrangler]

In a second round of senior appointments since the election, the prime minister is reshuffling Gove, who has been his chief whip in charge of party discipline since July last year, to the Ministry of Justice, taking charge of prisons, sentencing and criminal justice.

Gove was removed as education secretary last year to head the whips’ office, reportedly at the behest of the party’s general election strategist Lynton Crosby, who feared that the former journalist’s “toxic image” could be a vote loser. At the time Gove’s wife, the journalist Sarah Vine, made her feelings clear about the cabinet minister’s move out of the limelight by tweeting a link to a Daily Mail article that the newspaper headlined “A shabby day’s work which Cameron will live to regret”.

Downing Street sources have always insisted that the move was made merely to bring a key operator into the centre of the election campaign at a crucial time.

Gove’s return to a government department appears to confirm the prime minister’s trust in him, although it will inevitably dismay many outside of the Conservative party who were enraged by his trenchant views and combative style during his time at the Department for Education.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/may/09/michael-gove-justice-chief-cabinet-conservatives-election

Oh fuck. Look forward to endless bollocks about how bad the Human Rights Act is, until the bastards repeal it and 'replace' it with a 'bill of rights act' that is a playground for immigrant bashing and obstructing any appeals to the ECHR. And I bet he'll start privatising prisons to Tory favourite companies who just happen to be donors.

[LeftishBrit]

1. oh-my-god!

Words fail me.

[non sociopath skin]

2. I look forward to the advent of "Free Prisons" ....

.... founded by Prison Officers and the families of offenders to bring vision and diversity to the prison service.

The Skin

[T_i_B]

3. Also seeing lots about the new Culture secretary

John Whittingdale, who was my MP when I lived down in Essex. He has previously been the shadow culture minister under Michael Howard and then chairman of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-32690777#?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

His track record is not brilliant, and in my experience, many of his constituents felt that he was a bit of a wally, but voted for him anyway as Maldon is a very tribally Tory sort of constituency.