Grant Shapps should win plaudits today after it was announced he has handed out over £77 million-worth of ferry contracts to provide post-Brexit freight, and this time all to experienced trading firms that actually own ships. It wasn’t that hard,* Chris…
The four companies – Brittany Ferries, DFDS, P&O Ferries and Stena Line – compare favourably to Chris Grayling’s choice of Seaborne Freight, who not only had no history of ferrying or trading, copied and pasted their terms and conditions from a pizza delivery outlet.
The £77.6 million awarded today will ensure vital medicine and other critical goods will continue to be transported over to the UK “whatever the outcome of the negotiations with the EU.” Boris wouldn’t want anyone afreight the government isn’t going to deliver on its Brexit promises…
*Often forgotten in the Grayling ferry story that the taxpayer lost not a single penny and Seaborne Freight was backed by experienced shareholders from the ferrying industry.
Failing Grayling has lost his bid to become Chair of the prestigious Intelligence and Security Committee after a successful Labour-backed coup by MP Julian Lewis. Only Grayling could lose a rigged election…
A statement just released by the Cabinet office confirms Dr Julian Lewis’s election as Chair:
The Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament (ISC) today elected Rt Hon Dr Julian Lewis MP as its Chairman.
You’ve got to give it to Grayling, at least he’s consistent…
Responding to the news Boris has appointed Chris Grayling the new trustee of the national portrait gallery, a Labour source tells The Times that it’s:
“The least reassuring appointment in the art world since Mr Bean was put in charge of Whistler’s Mother.”
Before he left the department the former transport secretary, Chris Grayling, wanted to publicise the phasing out of the Pacer trains so despised by commuters. Grayling joked that he wanted to ‘blow up’ a Pacer train in a populist move to demonstrate the government’s understanding of the public’s widespread detestation of them. In response, Gavin Williamson, who was at the time Defence Secretary, offered to lend him a tank…
Whilst the photo op would have secured an incredible redemptive legacy for the former minister, the explosive imagery was never sanctioned, with the government instead looking at turning the hated “buses on train wheels” into public spaces for social enterprises. The Department of Transport is running a competition to award 3 carriages to the best 3 community projects put forward. Always trust the civil service to ruin everyone’s fun…
Chris Grayling has sunk to one of the lowest approval ratings the ConservativeHome members survey has ever seen, plummeting to more than ten points behind even Philip Hammond, who he had been neck and neck with at the bottom of the table since July. Grayling is the only Brexiteer in the bottom dozen Cabinet ministers, in a league table that overwhelmingly rewards Brexit credentials. Tory members think he’s useless, that is apart from one Tory, Theresa May. Her debt of gratitude to him for managing her leadership campaign must surely be reaching the limit.
Embattled Transport Secretary Chris Grayling has not been having a great time of it of late. However, he earned a brief respite this afternoon as Guido learned that the Electoral Commission has thwarted an attempt by a group of disgruntled commuters to launch a new “Chris Grayling is a Moron” party to take him on in his Epsom and Ewell seat.
The Electoral Commission told the peeved passengers that it was likely to refuse the proposed name on the basis that it “could be considered offensive” and could also include “words the publication of which would be likely to amount to the commission of an offence”. Spoilsports…
