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[peteblue]

Wow. Kinda surprised he took the cabinet role tbh as with his background as universities minister he knows how damaging Brexit is likely to be. Really is hard to see how the Tories survive this.

I was surprised when he took the role. I felt it may end in tears, just not so quickly. But it’s a family of strong personalities and beliefs and they are all different so perhaps not so surprising. My brother and I rarely agree on anything, and he’s a RS, it’s families........the Tories will not miss a heartbeat over this no matter how much the media try to wind them up......

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

I was surprised when he took the role. I felt it may end in tears, just not so quickly. But it’s a family of strong personalities and beliefs and they are all different so perhaps not so surprising. My brother and I rarely agree on anything, and he’s a RS, it’s families........the Tories will not miss a heartbeat over this no matter how much the media try to wind them up......

Your in cloud cuckoo land, it's both significant and symbolic, in that the Prime Minister own brother has walked away from him. It would be bad enough if it were just a minister. The context and manner it could not be worse.
Its time to take off those Brexit goggles as any sense of reality is going fast.

 

[gonetomorrow]

Those poor police cadets should have performed their first arrest today.

"Impersonating a public figure and wasting police time" would have covered it.

 

[The binman chronicles]

The Tories unbelievably have not learnt any lessons from what happened when Labour chose its populist leader. Great for your particular party but outside of it they are both pretty much hated. So this election will come down to which is the least worst for the voter.

 

[Aberblue]

Amber Rudd has just resigned from the Cabinet.

 

[Tubey]

Amber Rudd has just resigned from the Cabinet.

Too late to save her reputation. Her hypocrisy on proroguation and being willing to dance to Johnsons' insane Brexit tune to secure a cabinet job has decimated any ounce of credibility she had.

 

[Tubey]

The Tories unbelievably have not learnt any lessons from what happened when Labour chose its populist leader. Great for your particular party but outside of it they are both pretty much hated. So this election will come down to which is the least worst for the voter.

Couldn't nail it any more this post.

The only way they could have opened the door to Corbyn is by going far right with Johnson and/or Rees Mogg as PM. Idiots.

 

[Eggs]

Too late to save her reputation. Her hypocrisy on proroguation and being willing to dance to Johnsons' insane Brexit tune to secure a cabinet job has decimated any ounce of credibility she had.

...but still a blow for Johnson, interesting if this is the first of the dominos. What an opportunity for Labour, pity they too are in a mess.

 

[Tubey]

...but still a blow for Johnson, interesting if this is the first of the dominos. What an opportunity for Labour, pity they too are in a mess.

It's all self inflicted by Johnson, because he's a selfishly driven idiot. And I mean that word - he's an actual idiot.

The Tories couldn't have picked a worse leader.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

As she left the Conservative Party as well?

 

[tsubaki]

The Tories unbelievably have not learnt any lessons from what happened when Labour chose its populist leader. Great for your particular party but outside of it they are both pretty much hated. So this election will come down to which is the least worst for the voter.

For the umpteenth time, Corbyn is not a populist. He is a politician who recognises that there is something seriously wrong in this country and who has suggested a method of fixing it - a method which, I might add, was almost political orthodoxy between 1945 and 1979.

Also it is a bit much to compare Corbyn - whose election as leader in 2015 more than doubled the membership, who put the party's finances in a healthier state than they have ever been, and who got more votes in 2017 than any Labour leader has since Blair in 1997 - with Boris, who in seven weeks has caused more damage to the Tory Party than anyone in living memory.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

The Tories couldn't have picked a worse leader.

I object in the strongest protest I can muster, he is exactly what the Conservative Party needed.

 

[tsubaki]

I object in the strongest protest I can muster, he is exactly what the Conservative Party needed.

In order to kill it off?

 

[Tubey]

For the umpteenth time, Corbyn is not a populist.

Of course he is - it's far left populism as opposed to the traditional far right variant, but it is populism nevertheless.

He's literally the definition of it.

 

[tsubaki]

Of course he is - it's far left populism as opposed to the traditional far right variant, but it is populism nevertheless.

He's literally the definition of it.

He isn't, unless you adopt a definition of populism that encompasses all politicians.