Captain Underpants stays as OT minister
(CNS): According to the Governor’s Office, Chris Bryant remains UK minister with responsibility for Overseas Territories following a Cabinet reshuffle in which he and Baroness Glenys Kinnock essentially switched jobs. Bryant has now been given the more prestigeous post of minister for Europe while Kinnock takes on Africa. CNS reported this morning that the Kinnock had now also replaced Bryant as OT Minister but this appears not to be the case. Bryant, a former vicar who is notorious for posing on a gay website in only his Y-fronts, has attracted more derision by scooping Downing Street and the Foreign Office in announcing the mini Cabinet reshuffle by posting it on Twitter.
Shadow Europe Minister Mark Francois is quoted in the Daily Mail as saying, “Gordon Brown’s government is again stumbling into farce. Glenys Kinnock was appointed in chaos, now she has the embarrassment of being the first minister ever whose reshuffle has been announced on Twitter by her successor.”
The move into a less prestigious ministerial position is largely seen as acknowledgment by Prime Minister Gordon Brown that he made a mistake by appointing Lady Kinnock, the wife of former Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock, into the high profile European post. However, she retains her minister of state salary of £106,136, while Bryant keeps his parliamentary under-secretary of state salary of £96,167.
CaribWorldNews reports that yesterday (12 October), in a written ministerial statement to the House of Commons, Bryant said elections for a new government in the Turks & Caicos Islands, where Britain has imposed direct rule, should be held by July 2011, if not sooner. He also insisted that the 14 August suspension of ministerial government and the House of Assembly for a period of up to two years in TCI was “taken to restore the principles of good governance and sound financial management in the Turks and Caicos Islands.”
He also revealed that a full review of the TCI government`s finances has been undertaken and measures put in place to limit public expenditure, increase revenue and bring the Islands` debt under control.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94lW6Y4tBXs
We now live in a world stocked full of clueless leaders. Somebody has to have the gall to tell it like it is.
If you watched the video Gordon Brown was laughing rather than listening.
Typical behaviour of someone that is clueless.
Lord help us.
He was quickly put back because our comments did not favour his replacement and the Europeans dont want him either.
Keep up the pressure and they will soon move him again.
Maybe the Greeks will take him.
What??? You mean… they sailed right by the U. S in a warship…. to "restore the principles of good governance and sound financial management" to…Turks and Caicos???
It’s a huge country!! How did they miss it???
You want to look at what The Independent has to say
Glenys Kinnock dropped from European role
Oh shoot! So they switched it back again and we’re stuck with Captain Underpants… this is not a good thing Cayman 🙁
I’m going to miss Captain Underpants. There was just too much comedy involved.
Wikipedia has a bio on the Baroness http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenys_Kinnock
According to Wikipedia she is a serious humanist http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Humanist_Association
We should definitely send Julianna to sort her out when Government goes back for more money in the new year. She could explain the Emporer’s slush fund and the payments to the churchs that support the UDP as evidence of sound fiscal policies. That ought to do it.
Hmmm…Baroness Kinnock… we will see who she is
Maybe, just maybe, this god fella does exist after all
Then again, maybe not.
A lot to lose if you are wrong and He does exist. "Too late, too late" shall be the cry! Is that a gamble you want to take?
Baroness Kinnock looks a lot like a more reasonable person. But I don’t think I’d want to negotiate with her without a bodyguard.
Another leftwing old time socialist. God help us-and Britain.