Goodbye Andrew Mitchell hello Justine Greening

[Jeneral2885]

What does Greening know about international development?

[LeftishBrit]

1. What does Greening know about anything?!

[T_i_B]

2. She'll know one thing....

That she's been given that job as a punishment for opposing the expansion of Heathrow.

Given that her constituency would be affected by that I have some sympathy for her as she does genuinely seem to have been standing up for her constituents.

And I say that regardless of my own views on airport expansion.

[tjwmason]

3. She knew enough about transport to oppose a third runway at Heathrow

So had to go...it's not like it was in both coalition parties' manifestos to oppose it.

[T_i_B]

4. The row about that appears to be escalating

Boris Johnson and Zac Goldsmith have waded in now

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-19484126

[dipsydoodle]

5. All over now until post 2015.

See http://www.democraticunderground.com/10882136

[Jeneral2885]

6. I was thinking more of

Given Greening a ring-fenced department

[T_i_B]

7. I understand your frustration....

However, the whole matter of Greening's opposition to Heathrow expansion is a major issue as to why she's been moved to International Development.

As to suitability, Cameron has appointed a health secretary who believes in homeopathy and an enviroment secretary who doesn't believe in climate change. You have to wonder how far down the list of priorities actual suitability for the post was with this reshuffle.

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. Hunt doesn't just believe in homeopathy; he wants to privatise the NHS

Andy Burnham slams Jeremy Hunt for co-authoring a book calling for the NHS to be "De-Nationalised"

(quotes from Hunt's books: )
...
2. The problem with the NHS is not one of resources. Rather, it is that the system remains a centrally run, state monopoly, designed over half a century ago.

3. Page 78 of the 2005 book says the following "Our ambition should be to break down the barriers between private and public provision, in effect denationalising the provision of health care in Britain"
...
8. Page 80 of the 2005 book states "a 1940s monopolistic structure is no longer relevant in the Twenty-first
Century."

9. Page 74 of the 2005 book states "We should fund patients, either through the tax system or by way of
universal insurance, to purchase health care from the provider of their choice."

http://eoin-clarke.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/jeremy-hunt-co-authored-book-calling.html

[LeftishBrit]

9. He co-authored a book with Daniel Hannan?! That says it all!

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