Sack Chris Grayling MP before he ruins another Dept

Every department he is put in he fucks it up, He ruined the Work and pensions, he ruined the prison system by getting rid of 10,000 prison officers which where paid off very well only to be ask back a couple of years later, and now he is ruining the transport system, he is useless as a MP and must go NOW

Wikipedia makes these comments about him On 28 May 2010, Grayling was sworn to the Privy Council in the 2010 Dissolution of Parliament Honours List.[30][31] Grayling served as Minister of State, Department for Work and Pensions, from 2010[32] until 2012, before being promoted to the Cabinet, on 4 September 2012, as Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice. As minister at DWP he was responsible for jobcentres. A controversial minister at the despatch box, measures were introduced to reduce costs, leaving 100,000 staff redundant in offices around the country. In the context of a "Broken Society" he accused some families of being habitually unemployed, generation after generation, living in sink council estates in the inner cities. Grayling was advocated for cuts to the DWP budgets in order to constrain welfare spending.

The policy later informed treatment of prisoners, refusing the right to vote, and clamping down on abusive behaviours in jails. He announced work programs for prisoners, encouraged an end to the "something for nothing culture". More people than ever were found fit to work as part of a package of measures in £5 bn program to make work for the long-term unemployed.[33]

Justice Secretary
Sworn in as Lord Chancellor on 1 October 2012 at Westminster Abbey,[34] he was elected an Honorary Bencher of Gray's Inn on 11 December 2012, due in part to his lack of legal qualifications. He was the first non-lawyer to have served as Lord Chancellor for at least 440 years. (It was reported that the last such non-lawyer was the Earl of Shaftesbury in 1672–73;[35] but the Earl was admitted to Lincoln's Inn in 1638.[36]) Grayling's appointment was widely seen as a return to a more hard line approach than that of his predecessor, Clarke.[37][38] Indeed, Grayling pursued a "tough justice" agenda, including ending automatic early release for terrorists and child rapists,[39] ending simple cautions for serious offences,[40] and introducing greater protections for householders who defend themselves against intruders.[41] The leading human rights barrister Lord Pannick described Grayling's performance as "notable only for his attempts to restrict judicial reviews and human rights, his failure to protect the judiciary against criticism from his colleagues and the reduction of legal aid to a bare minimum."[42]

Prisoner reforms
One of Grayling's first acts at the Ministry of Justice was to commence a project to change the way offenders were rehabilitated in an effort to cut reoffending rates. Under a system of "payment by results", private companies as well as charities were to play a greater role in looking after offenders on licence in the community.[43][44] Grayling's ban on books being sent into UK prisons has been widely criticised by the Howard League for Penal Reform and the literary establishment, including Philip Pullman, Mark Haddon, Anthony Horowitz, Susan Hill and Emma Donoghue.[45] The ban was described as obscene by Shaun Attwood of the TV show Banged Up Abroad who read over a thousand books in prison and credited books for being the lifeblood of rehabilitation.[46]

The move was defended as being not about a ban on books being sent into prison, but about parcels being sent in, as giving prisons access to the latter would almost certainly increase the amount of contraband getting into the prison estate.[47] On stepping down from his role as Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons Nick Harding criticised Grayling for "robustly" interfering with the contents of reports and Graying's department for using financial controls to influence what was inspected, thereby threatening the independence of the Inspector's role.[48]

Prison benchmarking and staff cuts
A prison "benchmarking" programme was introduced in 2012 by Grayling to reduce the costs of public sector prisons to match comparable private sector prisons, along with associated new core standards intended to result in prisoners having similar amounts of time spent outside their cells across similar prisons.[49] Prison officer numbers were reduced from about 23,000 in 2012 to about 18,000 in 2015.[50]

In 2015 the Justice Select Committee, following a year long prison inquiry, were critical of Justice ministers for apparent complacency about a 38% rise in prison deaths since 2012. The committee concluded that efficiency savings and staffing shortages had made "a significant contribution to the deterioration in safety" in prisons.[51][52]

A 'tough justice' agenda: court reforms
Grayling's proposed cuts to legal aid were widely criticised by the legal profession. In May 2013, 90 Queen's Counsels signed a letter sent to the Daily Telegraph that branded the cuts "unjust", as they would seriously undermine the rule of law.[53] 6 January 2014 saw the first strike in British history by barristers and solicitors in protest at the cuts.[54] In February 2014, he introduced the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 to the House of Commons.[55] The Bill included measures to outlaw "revenge porn".[56] In October 2014 Grayling unveiled the Conservative Party's proposals[57] for reforms to human rights in order to curb the European Court of Human Rights' influence over British court rulings, whilst honouring the text of the original Convention on Human Rights in a British Bill of Rights and Responsibilities.[58][59][60] In December 2013, Alan Turing was granted a pardon by the Queen, after a process initiated by Grayling in his capacity as Lord Chancellor.[61][62][63] April 2015 saw Grayling introduce mandatory flat-fee court charges for magistrates courts, the lowest fee being £150 for a guilty plea. Lawyers feared that defendants may plead guilty to avoid falling into debt, and the president of the Law Society described the change as a threat to fair trials. The charges for crown court are up to £1,200.[64]

Justice department security failure
In January 2015, data relating to three fatal police shootings including details of marksmen and the deceased's family were lost in the post by the Justice Department. According to The Guardian it was particularly embarrassing for Grayling as the Government was claiming it needed to access personal data to deal with terrorism and could keep it securely. The data included details of the Mark Duggan shooting incident which had triggered the 2011 England riots.[65]

Fathers 4 Justice protests
On multiple occasions in 2014 and 2015, Fathers 4 Justice protesters targetted Grayling's constituency home in Ashtead, Surrey in January and October 2015.[66][67][68] Other incidents include a weekend protest camp set up outside his house by four protesters.[69]

Leader of the House of Commons
After the 2015 general election, Grayling was appointed Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Council. Michael Gove, who replaced Grayling as Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor,[70] was reportedly unimpressed with Grayling's "innovations".[71]

Transport Secretary
Grayling was appointed as Transport Secretary by new PM Theresa May in July 2016.[72][73] In December 2016, he blocked a move by the London Mayor Sadiq Khan to give control of the metro services run by Southeastern to TfL. A leaked letter revealed that in 2013, Grayling wrote to then-London Mayor Boris Johnson saying that he opposed such a move because it could put those services "in the clutches of a Labour mayor". The leak led to Grayling being accused of putting his party's political interests over those of the public and commuters, as well as members of his own party calling for his resignation.[74]

Grayling was criticised for injuring a cyclist by opening the door of his ministerial car without looking in the Westminster area in October 2016.[75][76]

Following criticism of a major rail timetable change, which resulted in the resignation of Charles Horton, Chief Executive of Govia Thameslink Railway[77], Grayling faced a vote of confidence in the House of Commons on 19 June 2018, with the resulting division 305:285 in Grayling's favour.[78]

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