'Minister for common sense' to ban 'woke civil service jobs' | LBC

Esther McVey has announced that Civil Service jobs dedicated to equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) will be banned - calling them 'woke hobby horses'.
The Cabinet Office minister said that in future there would be no more devoted EDI jobs in Whitehall outside human resources, and no more staff working solely on EDI work.
Under the plans, new guidance would stop all external EDI spending across the Civil Service unless it is specifically signed off and cleared by ministers.
Carol has her say about this, and has her numbers to back it.
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[@MaxMisterC]

Paying Esther McVey"s wage is an example of Govermental waste

[@lizdocherty3067]

The reason they rent a flat is because they are unable to claim mortgage payments on expenses, so claim expenses for rented flat, they rent out their own flat so win, win for them. The rent from their own flat pays the mortgage and they claim expenses for the flat they live in.

[@profdrrameshkumarbiswas1337]

It’s the opposite of “common sense”!!

[@TheBigMidweek1889]

​@@lizdocherty3067 And then they want the public to get angry at benefit claimants. Brilliant deflecting tactics!

[@bluegold21]

@@TheBigMidweek1889 'Socialism for the rich, hard capitalism for the poor.' MLK. The right-wing politicians are desperate to implement a two-tier system of class, a totalitarian autocracy.

[@kalponaahmed1762]

No common sense there?😅

[@chrstnldg6652]

When are we getting prison sentences for their corruption

[@user-dz8kk6gr5s]

That is what I define as a beautiful dream Tories breaking rocks sentenced to hard labour..but they wouldn't last long having never done a hard day's physical graft in there lives

[@keithpanton]

Silly concept, rich people seeing any kind of punishment for massive criminality? That's only for the peasants!

[@maxine2798]

This is why they are filling up the prisons so they can say "sorry, too full. We can fit any tories in"

[@user-dz8kk6gr5s]

@@keithpanton one can dream of are they now censored

[@ibexdnb2879]

Look what Tony Blair did in comparison. Prime ministers have impunity...

[@latheofheaven1017]

If Esther McVey can't prove her worth, she doesn't pass the public interest test. Get rid of the idiotic post of Minister for Common Sense. Get rid of the Tories.

[@BrianCharlesThomas-dp9du]

Her post is a contradiction in terms.

[@gregorybiestek3431]

@@BrianCharlesThomas-dp9du The Tories still have a ways to go. After all if they are following the US-GOP then they need to adopt what Texas & 1/3 of all US-States did - make ALL Diversity programs ILLEGAL. per recent report the University of Texas along has had to fire 300 people & eliminate 600 activities on its campus to comply.

[@theworldaccordingto4555]

Fester McVile is the Tory equivalent of Marjorie Taylor Greene. Scary!

[@badwolf5601]

I think you will find that title goes no Mad Nadine Dorries. But I can see the confusion 🤪

[@tonyharpur8383]

I LOVE the name Fester McVile...! 😅

[@acerimmer1023]

If the minister for "common sense" 🤭 had ANY common sense, she'd realise it's all over and it's nearly time to clear out the desk.... bye bye Tories 😂😂😂😂

[@BrianCharlesThomas-dp9du]

Excellent!

[@Gaza-vu6gl]

She has no common sense 🤣

[@LWQ15881]

Great one mate

[@7thDaughter]

It's not the Tories who started all this woke nonsense, I was a civil servant and the wokeness started with Diversity training in 2002. The civil service run this country not Labour or the Tories, it's the civil service that dictates policy.

[@skapunkno1]

There's still systems to wreck and money to steal before they jump.

[@pallascat1743]

The Tories have imported their tactics from the GOP. And yeah 'minister of common sense' sounds ridiculous. They really are trying to appeal to the thickest of voters.

[@Paul-eb4jp]

They always have, to vote tory you have to be very wealthy or thick.

[@Ghengiskhansmum]

Why do you think teachers have been under attack from the right wing? They don't believe in educating ordinary children to a decent level...they want cheap labour or sheep to worry.

[@paulbird3235]

WHAT NEXT! Are they going to deny the election result or are we going to have an insurrection?........

[@lewis123417]

And the civil service hasn't done the exact same by adopting America DEI initiatives 😂

[@MaxMisterC]

@@lewis123417 So if we live in a true meritocracy, what's wrong with trying to involve everyone in the drive to maximise our economy?

[@alanrumble7238]

What about claiming back the large wedge given to Mone and other Tory friends and members.

[@user-dz8kk6gr5s]

Seems to have gone very quiet on that front..but if you had over claimed benefit by 30p you would be up in front of a judge

[@roderickjoyce6716]

Wedge? It's at least the size of Ben Nevis.

[@timwoodger7896]

The trouble is sociopaths have a different view of whats common sense compared to the rest of us! They also don’t share the same reality as the rest of us either 🤮

[@wumpyjumps]

No such thing as common sense, it's a thought-terminating cliché meant to make one's own beliefs automatically right without justification by claiming it's obvious and what everyone supposedly already knows. Hence, the Tory party and people similar to them like to use it because there are no real arguments justifying their ideology.

[@BrianCharlesThomas-dp9du]

I agree. And also they don't give a dam about anyone or anything except for themselves. That's why authoritarianism appeals to them.

[@sasserine]

McVey's household arrangements are far more deserving of investigation than Rayner's.

[@BrianCharlesThomas-dp9du]

This is what happens when you have the police in your pocket.

[@KevenHutchinson-gt1nn]

She is having a pretty taxing time at the moment.

[@TheLucanicLord]

Are we going to get a minister for spelling properly, a minister for doings sums right, and a minister for knowing arses from elbows?

[@EthanKristopherHartley]

The qualifications required would be too high. 😉 😁

[@SteveLoughran]

Careful: As far as the Truss faction is concerned-people who can get sums right are part of the Anti-growth coalition

[@andybrice2711]

I look forward to the _Minister for Street Smarts._

[@Weirdisjustabrownandyellowword]

And a minister for silly walks!

[@gregorybiestek3431]

@@Weirdisjustabrownandyellowword The Tories still have a ways to go. After all if they are following the US-GOP then they need to adopt what Texas & 1/3 of all US-States did - make ALL Diversity programs ILLEGAL. Per recent report the University of Texas along has had to fire 300 people & eliminate 600 activities on its campus to comply.

[@deadlyfremen7447]

More like Minister for Culture Wars. Such a waste of time and money.

[@fylbike]

The problem with 'common sense' is that it is usually used as a simplistic solution to complex problems.

[@Edward-cv2gw]

No. The left hate the words common sense because they know that expression neatly summarises a lot of their identity hogwash.

[@stephenreeds3632]

They just seem to be breaking everything apart as a final, spiteful act before the end.

[@Dynasty1818]

Wait until Labour get in charge and things get properly bad

[@robinrdale8318]

@@Dynasty1818it will be like Canada on steroids

[@Edward-cv2gw]

Lol oh please don't break the woke diversity quotas Esther. How will we cope ?

[@user-hd8fj2mb5p]

​@@Edward-cv2gwGo back to sleep after giving your head a quick wobble.

[@janewright2800]

@stephenreeds it really seems so!!!

[@paulbird3235]

And they were bad mouthing Angela Raynor! more like minister for 'NO STANDARDS WHATSOEVER'....

[@smahier]

The only "hobby horse" in this entire scenario is Esther McVey and her obsession with using lazy culture war tropes to get the gammon base onside.

[@KevenHutchinson-gt1nn]

Whats pork got to do with her ?.

[@fatwalletboy2]

Disgusting......the whole lot needs clearing out and replacing with MPs with integrity and arent morally bankrupt.....minister of common sense......what next minister of funny walks?

[@Edward-cv2gw]

Do you think common sense is common, though ? No, its not,so trying to bolster it has merit.

[@Edward-cv2gw]

Disgusting ? Lol what's disgusting about common sense ? It's only because hard leftists want to enforce their own dogma, and so traditional common sense gets in the way of that indoctrination.

[@andrewjones-productions]

@@Edward-cv2gw You cannot be serious!! Common sense isn't something you can "bolster" by appointing a Minister of the Crown.

[@pauln6803]

​@@Edward-cv2gw Common sense cannot be preached, it has to be learned.

[@reiw5802]

​@@Edward-cv2gw Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen Albert Einstein. You've ASSUMED everyones definition of common sense is the same.

[@dianap6264]

Who in their right minds would ever accept such a role?! And yes its beyond absurd to have such a minister😂

[@Rachel_M_]

Picture ypurself in this situation. You are offered a promotion at work with a nonsense title (broom watcher for example). It comes with a large pay rise and enhanced expense account? Do you accept the job?

[@neilburton6121]

Created just for her to get her back on the gravy train...

[@josefschiltz2192]

As Al Murray might say - as the Pub Landlord: "The Minister for Common Sense? I'd be EMBARRASSED to write that down if I were you, squire!"

[@globalist1990]

Just what do tories create? They cut, they stop, they reduce, they go for austerity. Just what for do they want to save money? If there's no more public services, why tax?

[@trytellingthetruth.2068]

Where the Tories cut, Labour increase. They increase taxes, increase crime, increase debt and increase austerity. Labour is the Yin to the Tories Yang. Both parties are as bad as each other.

[@christopherbradley7149]

That’s exactly the point. They use private services anyway. To them it’s a win win, destroy public services they don’t use anyway, continue enjoying their private services while they pay less tax and get more money.

[@johnrussell3961]

To pay off their mammoth debt!

[@trytellingthetruth.2068]

@@christopherbradley7149 You'll find Labour financed some of those public services using private institutions. Privatisation via the back door.

[@johnrussell3961]

@@trytellingthetruth.2068. Back then the tax needed to repair Tory damage was deemed unacceptable . So was more debt. Now look at us. Debt labour would be condemned for creating , and high tax rates because the Tories shrunk the taxable economy. This is far left levels of incompetence..

[@phil637]

This group of tory MPs is a waste of public money !

[@allanhall-up1yk]

Minister for common sense? Are you kidding? Who is Minister for stupidity, then All of them 😮?

[@BrianCharlesThomas-dp9du]

Excellent!

[@obijon7441]

Minister for Sadopopulist Doublespeak.

[@janewright2800]

@allenhall😅 love that!

[@Jessjoe1956]

Ester McVile is such an odious character, a disgraceful stain on our country.

[@Sekekama445]

😂😂😂 Minster of common sense! Is this a joke? Isn't that essential a requirement in any job . No wonder none is reliable to do the job.

[@johnrussell3961]

Like ethics. If you need someone to advise you it means you haven’t any.. now that’s common sense.

[@Rachel_M_]

I'm Expecting a new "Department of Joined Up Thinking" next...

[@weswheel4834]

The implication I think, Is she gets to tell us what common sense is. Personally I think that’s a bad thing.

[@edvigq]

Common sense is required at the bottom of a hierarchy where things get done. It is ever less of a job requirement the higher up you go and the more your paycheck depends on noise and waffle

[@vereferreus5262]

Woke = Common Sense, but she doesn't understand the word Woke, like the red necks in the USA don't understand it. McVey trying to be the british MTG?

[@zackr9070]

It would be common sense to bring back Sangita

[@BrianCharlesThomas-dp9du]

This is why I always refer her party as the Cons. It seems more appropriate than Tory.

[@vereferreus5262]

More like the party of cons servative...

[@TG-ts3xn]

We should call Labour the Islamists then?

[@roobmcroob696]

Tory comes from the Gaelic Toraidh, meaning thief. Pretty apt i think

[@adrianwhyatt594]

If they had any common sense they would never have supported Brexit, let alone hard Brexit.

[@Dynasty1818]

Ahhh hindsight, the perfect excuse for the uninformed to whine.

[@BrianCharlesThomas-dp9du]

I absolutely agree with you.

[@adrianwhyatt594]

@@Dynasty1818 No, the Remain Campaign warned what would happen at the time. How right we remainers were!

[@profdrrameshkumarbiswas1337]

Hypocrisy and dishonesty from the tory crime family! Typical!

[@davidjscox1]

Oh please just call an election and let's get them consigned to history....

[@profdrrameshkumarbiswas1337]

Why on earth are the tories even opening their greedy cake-holes? They should spend their time packing their bags.

[@pmyumjr]

After 14 years of cuts there is absolutely no waste left.

[@johnrussell3961]

There was no waste in 2010. That’s why everything became dysfunctional immediately , including asylum processing .

[@yvojo2862]

They have stripped away everything they can...to line the elite's pockets!

[@pascaledowling6309]

Yes the waste of space that is the current government

[@tobylynch]

Is disliking politician's discrimination.

[@barbiedahl]

In today's dystopian reality it's a patriotic duty.

[@kennylogue7947]

I don’t dislike the Tories I totally despise them and hope they are gone soon and never to cross our paths again. There should be investigations starting whenever they are out of office and get to the bottom of the VIP lanes and the Track n Trace money etc. There is definitely jail time to come out of any investigations. That would be juicy enough for The Daily Fail but no doubt it’s focus would still be on Angela Rayner

[@user-dz8kk6gr5s]

I am not a hateful person but I find myself making e exception with them hate dispise and loathe then

[@simonjohnson9055]

Which one?

[@pascaledowling6309]

I'm French and every time I hear Minister for Common sense, I burst out laughing.

[@alexanderstefanov6474]

Common sense and the tories are opposites

[@graemerothery6189]

Common sense isn't common. It's the application of experience and rational thought brought to action.

[@TheSuperPsychoKiller]

Grifters got to grift.

[@pauln6803]

McVey is possibly mental enough to think she has a responsibility to learn us plebs what common sense is.

[@lindalaw5466]

I thought the comment was about Carole? Don’t let her near your husband.

[@barrydaly7174]

The equalities act and advisors for inclusion in HR at the workplace are civilised and progress. The Tories are just horrible aren't they. Punching lower and lower, appealing to the most spiteful and resentful in society. Then they contradict themselves by saying they want to help Neuro diverse people and others with physical and mental conditions to start or carry on working. How doe's McVey (who despises the class she was born into ) reconcile that? the truth is they do not want to "help" people, they want to Force and coerce people into despair so they have to work, support or not. Just getting nastier and nastier will only distil their support to the most mean spirited.

[@lunaxquinn]

Lets be real, the *only* part of EDI she has a problem with is the part that doesn't dehumanise trans women...

[@naijaman6639]

The idiocy of this govt is getting out of hand. Goodness me, it is alarmingly shocking!

[@user-oe9hj9yl7m]

Esther McVey - Minister for Common sense !! Surely that’s an oxymoron!!!!!

[@THE_kopfkino]

As a headline, it is sensational. I would like to know how much public money is being spent on these “woke hobby horses”, and then compare that cost against Tory hobby horses (ahem, Rwanda policy). Then we compare the value each policy is providing the public (and the percentage of the public). We could then determine which policy is worth keeping and which should be scrapped.

[@bumberClart1000]

She’s completely off her box. Shame on her. How does she show her face in Liverpool?

[@isbestlizard]

Tories are clowns. The rest of the world look at us as they do Argentina under Milei. We are not serious people.

[@lewis123417]

Javier milei is quite popular with international organisations like the IMF

[@TG-ts3xn]

I like Milei. He hates leftists.

[@Paul-eb4jp]

£250,000 in housing benefit for the minister of common sense, you couldn’t make it up. I have suffered ageism when I was made redundant in my late 50s even though my team had the best results across the organisation, I just didn't fit in any longer, it probably served me right because I'd probably been guilty of the same 15 yesrs earlier when I was in with the in crowd.

[@user-dz8kk6gr5s]

And the misery she created at the DWP..bashing the vulnerable as always

[@transformativelearning2186]

Employment is not a religion Tell'im! No devotion needed!

[@user-dz8kk6gr5s]

The in crowd ?

[@Paul-eb4jp]

@user-dz8kk6gr5s It's a well used phrase, in this case the "in crowd" were mostly university educated, middle class and aged between late 30s and late 40s, I no longer fitted in.

[@enoch6450]

Common sense says...Don't vote Conservative or Labour

[@bazzahun]

This is something out of monty python sketch, ministry of silly walks..absolute bonkers.

[@Mr_Reset]

I didnt realise we have a minister for common sense 😂 creating jobs just to keep them employed. I would be embarrassed to have that title

[@Srikstar]

It's ironic that LBC is talking about EDI now, after Sangita Myska was asked to leave by LBC management, for her frank interview with a Israeli govt official, which we all can understand comes in the purview of the EDI principles and values.

[@andybrice2711]

Oh, EDI never includes diversity of thought. That's thoroughly verboten.

[@thisismetoday]

From a non-Brit: The UK - being the country with the least amount of detectable common sense - having a minister for common sense is so farcical, I cannot

[@rosemarycuthbert4623]

Utterly laughable 😅

[@Weirdisjustabrownandyellowword]

Autistic people like me face so much discrimination that most of us are unemployed. It's not like I don't want to work. Most jobs aren't very accessible for us anyway when they easily could be. I'm looking into self employment now.

[@jamessteel9016]

Really hope McVile loses her seat

[@davidmchale5890]

Wouldn’t it be common sense for someone who owns a property to live in it rather than charge the tax payers to rent a property

[@Steve_Coates]

And miss out on the rental income of the property they own? You'll never become a minister/wealthy parasite with an attitude like that.

[@YousufD-Acrease]

The direction of attack here is disgusting, not surprising, but disgusting. Once again, trying to highlight that difference is the problem, marginalising and ruling by division. However, there are far too many back room staff in the civil service, NHS etc, which are often paid better than the frontline service jobs which are what we need our taxes to be paid on. Part of the strategy to improve our public services needs to be focused on cutting back on these jobs so there is more money to attract high calibre people to frontline services and keep the existing hard workers in their frontline jobs. As for diversity-based roles, there is a need for them, but I do cynically worry that these jobs are put into place so companies and services can cover their backsides in the case of being accused of discrimination, rather than actually wanting to help the people who are discriminated against, though that may be a by-product of the role.

[@Rachel_M_]

I can't speak about my case for legal reasons but you are spot on by saying it's a backside covering exercise.

[@wendyschneider4490]

Our last PM of Australia had an empathy coach. So I think we win.

[@barbaradavies4061]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@obscurazone]

If employees vocalise or promote their "gender critical" views openly and critically in the workplace, and face zero disciplinary action from the employer, you can be absolutely certain that I'll be handing my notice in at the end of the week. I won't work anywhere that tolerates any form of discrimination.

[@Toothache42]

Common sense is not as common as advertised

[@Dynasty1818]

As proven by the overwhelming majority of LBC listeners and their comments on every video.

[@user-jc8wb8kq1k]

Where is SANGITTA ?????

[@ne-ht4zx]

I don't know, perhaps enjoying a relaxing holiday? Why not ask her directly?

[@Strapsrx7]

She's been replaced by this shill ✊🏼🇵🇸

[@gumusluk05]

She's left the station. Get over it 🤗

[@colincampbell4261]

​@@Strapsrx7 nah - VatVuk Vanessa.

[@django3422]

​@@Strapsrx7Vorderman worked for the platform prior to Sangita's departure.

[@tonybennett4159]

Anyone who drags the lazy word "woke" into a discussion has already lost the argument.

[@frogmarched6869]

if she had any common sense she would not be a conservative person working for a wage

[@MarkFitzgerald2014]

It is only the Conservative party that needs a common sense minister, labour always had common sense.

[@kiwicol7383]

Do we have a minister for silly walks 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@grahamsmith2022]

For a bunch of people that would struggle to tie a shoelace, wire a plug or knock a nail in the Tories sure do a lot of bleating about "common " sense.

[@user-fp2hy8qy7f]

Mcvey is absolutely right, regardless of her history, beleifs or hipocrisy. how many useless ministers and government departments do we really need?

[@Beansontoast93911]

I would love it if My employer paid for my rent which is nowhere near £39,000. It’s closer to £12,000 per year and it’s a flat full of damp which the council has been refusing to repair for the last 18 years. understand if the politician for Newcastle needs for the night when he travels down to London for work business. But one thing everybody needs to realise it’s just not the conservatives doing this it’s every single party who has been elected

[@PKWeaver74]

Attacking wasteful job roles whilst employed as 'Minister for common sense', in a Government that brought about Brexit. My irony pipe just ruptured.

[@rosemarycuthbert4623]

Time to replace the word woke with a person with a conscience

[@annepoitrineau5650]

Discriminated in following way: I spoke at meetings, floating an idea. A man dismissed it. Another man then floated the very same idea and got praise. It happened so often that I recorded a meeting and then went to the union with it, they agreed it was vile but they could not do anything. My female colleagues were fuming too as this was experienced by most of us. We then tried to brinng a united front to praise each other's ideas. It did work to some extent.

[@MaxMisterC]

Conservatives just cannot stop digging...

[@patrickburns574]

FO McVey. Shed have women in twin sets and men with short back and sides. What shed really like is only employees who vote tory. Surely the city of liverpool must be embarrassed and disgusted by this thing.

[@MichaelGrandville-zv9ru]

She doesn't realize that DEI programs are why women's hiring is up also

[@Human_Herbivore]

I presume she'll stop the wokery of women having the equal right to be MPs?

[@mick5435]

Certainly would be common sense to have a general election.

[@cwtchtalk]

Where is Sangita?

[@3bebles]

Carol, you are priceless and therefore worth every penny. This IS common sense! As for discrimination, it is blatant and covered up with full approval of those in power who have 'devotion' instead of capability, determination and intelligence. As the old skills become obsolete or even irrelevant, things are about to change so fundamentally that the current workplace will become unrecognisable which is what is SO frightening for those who are presently holding the reins...

[@gedtierney374]

Her and her husband use taxpayers money to rent a flat because they can use the money they get from the tenant that rents the flat they own to pay their mortgage. It’s against the rules to directly use public money to pay off a mortgage. They’re using a loophole to use taxpayers cash to pay their mortgage. Snouts well and true in the trough.

[@robertgavin980]

Minister for Conmen excuses for giving public money to their wealthy chums.

[@jpt757]

My exact thought...and you are absolutely spot on. First time, I heard that there is a Minister for Common Sense.

[@philipcrossley1279]

How much public money is wasted on having a "Minister for common sense" ? Surely common sense is the minimum requirement of any Minister. Is there also a department for common sense? I think common sense (whatever that might be) is also difficult to measure the benefits of, is not transparent and also does not pass any kind of public interest test.

[@MiPointIs]

A minister for commons sense is necessary for a government where the majority of it’s own MPs are the result of a public school education’

[@andyzandy4999]

The same people who check whether people should get benefits should audit the MPs to the same standard. We'd save a fortune.

[@Toodle.Pipp001]

It's 1984, not 2024.

[@helenparry56]

The minister for a made up job has the cheek to comment on the worth of real jobs

[@normhanson981]

A perfect example of the type of person inhabits the Tory party now , nice 150k salary and chauffeur driven car I guess.

[@bipolarminddroppings]

the problem with "common sense" is that everyone thinks it's something different...

[@elvismawhinney2494]

Britain is becoming American 🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️ it’s embarrassing

[@melontusk9660]

We need to ban American social media and KZbin. You are what you eat and we consume so much American media.

[@lunaxquinn]

Minister of common sense = Minister of not thinking

[@active85858585]

This government brings to mind someone having a full-blown mental breakdown: lost their family, their job, all bills are unpaid and swimming in debt. But, hey look, "I've died my hair pink! That counts, doesn't it?" The supreme irony of someone called the "Minister for Common Sense" passing judgement on what jobs are contrived and useless, is so rich that the Tories are already cutting taxes for it.

[@Trebornudd69]

The new Man UTD football owner has stated nobody can now work at home!! He said if the employees don’t like it they can leave. A prime example why we need EDI at the very top of organisations. He employs the majority of his workforce outside the UK to avoid Workers Rights. I hope he loses his best staff to local rivals. Dinosaur

[@johnrussell3961]

Most jobs relate to running the stadium. Those can’t be done at home. Why should a lucky few in offices get to work from home? Footballers cant work from home.

[@Trebornudd69]

@@johnrussell3961 Did you listen to a word Carol and the expert said?

[@darrenengland6269]

It's quite ironic that "the minister for common sense" views other civil service jobs as pointless.

[@mrdanjames]

How much does a minister for ‘common sense’ get paid? We could start there to get rid of pointless waste.

[@1982neill]

Esther is basically this country’s Marjorie Taylor Green

[@georged8309]

What a load of BS what is a woke civil service job . .???? Seriously 😧

[@conalcorbally3001]

Why does no one talk about the gender pay gap in the 21-30 age bracket, when women earn more than men? You know, that age bracket when the hours worked outside the home are more comparable...

[@dwaynewrighton8547]

Do we still have a minister of food security?

[@johnrussell3961]

Covey is guarding the tuck shop!

[@ai-d2121]

As a foreigner ( Dutch) I only can say that this minister for common sense is the embodiment of the Ministry of Silly Walks. But as this a real position one could argue that this even funnier.

[@DarkHelixia]

Minister of Common Sense must surely be the epitome of British humour ...

[@samsoncooper1]

Carol your tone of voice does so much work here! haha! Love it!

[@perrythomas4115]

The oddest thing is that "common sense" is a term which is a falsity. There is no such thing as "common sense" - if we all had it we would all react to everthing in the same way. If there were such a thing as "common sense" no one would vote Conservative, surely?

[@MaxMisterC]

Didnt Rishi only just speak about trying to get MORE people into the workforce? Cos now they want to restrict facilities to enable that...

[@raulpinto7543]

She's a minister without portfolio. We could start by banning ministers without a core service.

[@andrewphillips9142]

How ironic her current position is when previously she was the SoS for DWP so she was in charge of the Criminal , uh, I mean 'Child' Maintenance Service. She should be in prison.