Iain Duncan Smith resigns

[London Irish]

And regarding Ian Duncan-Smith, if anyone thinks he's resigned because he's had an epiphany and become a social democrat with thoughts of the disadvantaged high in his mind then you're wrong. He's resigned so that he can position himself against Osborne, pure and simple. IDS doesn't have a conscience. IDS couldn't care less about the disabled.

Correct - IDS is to the right of Osbo, though there is not a lot in it.

 

[JC Footy Genius]

Hand it back all you want Tory boy, your bunch of posh tw-ats are going down in flames right now, fair play if you come up with anything funnier than that

Well that's easy ... government in waiting

 

[Buzzer]

Correct - IDS is to the right of Osbo, though there is not a lot in it.

I think I disagree. I am not sure Osborne is that much of a political idealogue. He's just a run of the mill posh boy turned politician. I don't think he's particularly right-wing although he's certainly not the One Nation Tory he claims to be. IDS is a different beast entirely. He may well have been the Tory leader who cut the ties between the Monday Club and the Conservatives but I think his brand of Conservatism would sit comfortably with the average Monday Club supporter.

 

[London Irish]

Well that's easy ... government in waiting

You are my perfect Tory - smug, complacent and bubble-wrapped in your own little world Lord, I wish they were all like you

 

[JC Footy Genius]

You are my perfect Tory - smug, complacent and bubble-wrapped in your own little world Lord, I wish they were all like you

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

we did !!

I did chuckle at your "Clapham Junction is in Battersea" post you managed to slip in mid-journey. You're never off duty when it comes to correcting people on their London geography

 

[glasfryn]

Well that's easy ... government in waiting

where are the pringles
looking at the Marr show this morning, papers really do not like Gideon, he will be the next one to go
then its bye dave

EDIT
said it on here for ages Europe will be the one that causes the bloodbath,it always has and always will

 

[lawros left foot]

where are the pringles
looking at the Marr show this morning, papers really do not like Gideon, he will be the next one to go
then its bye dave

EDIT
said it on here for ages Europe will be the one that causes the bloodbath,it always has and always will

And, they still have over two months of blood letting, back stabbing, and score settling, before the referendum, and, then even better, they have the fallout of the result, which is going to be carnage, whichever way it goes.



I can't wait

 

[Beach Hut]

IDS was made a scapegoat for this whole debacle over cutting disability benefits which is totally wrong anyway

 

[pb21]

IDS on the Marr show now.

 

[alfredmizen]

I did chuckle at your "Clapham Junction is in Battersea" post you managed to slip in mid-journey. You're never off duty when it comes to correcting people on their London geography

That is quite a localised bee in my bonnet though HT , not so much a London geography correction as a naming one , I come frome just down the road and it really Pisses off the locals who have lived in battersea all their lives to have yuppy newcomers telling them they now live in Clapham , take a look at this
http://www.lovebattersea.org.uk/

 

[pb21]

FWIW, after watching him just then, I do think his resignation wasn't in primary response to the referendum and the potential aftermath, but current government policy, which he doesn't agree with.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Bloody hell Iain !, Andrew Marr, don't sit of the fence old chap !!!!!, BRAVO !!!!!

 

[highflyer]

Disagree with him on most things. He's been part of the problem for years and hard to have sympathy for someone that suddenly realises that the tories are not actually all about social justice. But refreshing to hear a politicial giving straight answers and good to see the farce of an 'economic policy' starting to unwind (as was inevitable). That may well have been a Dougie Howe moment.

 

[alfredmizen]

Disagree with him on most things. He's been part of the problem for years and hard to have sympathy for someone that suddenly realises that the tories are not actually all about social justice. But refreshing to hear a politicial giving straight answers and good to see the farce of an 'economic policy' starting to unwind (as was inevitable). That may well have been a Dougie Howe moment.

More a Geoffrey hurd moment I think

 

[highflyer]

More a Geoffrey hurd moment I think

Ouch yes. Still early for me.

 

[JC Footy Genius]

Impressive stuff from IDS and he clearly (convincingly) set out his reasons for his actions. Not Europe, Not Leadership related.

 

[gregbrighton]

The Tories are an utter shambles.

 

[Ernest]

Cameron sitting at home this weekend wishing they hadn't stuck the knife into the Lib Dems and he would be happily sitting as PM with no referendum on the horizon

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Impressive stuff from IDS and he clearly (convincingly) set out his reasons for his actions. Not Europe, Not Leadership related.

Did he then follow up his interview by 'my dear'ing and inappropriately touching the next female guest, like he did last time?

He has a reputation in the party of being quite thick (much to the horror of colleagues after he became leader). He sounds quite good when he's had a line of coke (or whatever woke him up last time - and I was very complimentary about him at the time, at least till he started flirting with his settee-mate). Then he seems to lose his shit and do or say something monstrous. Very strange man