David Cameron has resigned again

[Buzzer]

Can anyone think of anything Cameron has done to benefit the country as a whole rather than just his mates.

The only thing I think he can be proud of is legalising gay marriage and helping make the UK one of the top 3 countries in the world for equality in that respect.

https://rainbow-europe.org/country-ranking

 

[Guy Fawkes]

So... he said he wouldn't resign as PM if he lost the referendum, then he did. He said, on stepping down as PM, that he'd remain an MP until the next election, and now he isn't.

Not just a terrible PM, leading the UK into a wholly unneccessary referendum with all of the fallout from that, but supremely arrogant (so sure that he'd win the referendum, that he took no steps to prepare for Brexit, or to instruct his government to prepare for it), a moral coward (not staying to see the country through the difficulties he'd led them into), a serial liar (stepping down from two key positions that he'd said he wouldn't), and - time will tell - probably a money-grabber as well (if he turns out to sail into a bunch of lucrative directorships and other positions, that he'd never have got without having been PM).

If the referendum was wholly unnecessary, why did we get a different outcome to the one you clearly wanted - surely it would only be unnecessary if the result was 100% in favour of keeping things the same. The fact that the remain side lost means that there were enough people out there who were willing to vote against remain for them to win and thanks to the referendum, their voice was heard (whether the remainers like it or not)

The remainers like to over simplify the complex issues surrounding EU membership and are still ignoring those who voted against (and a lot of the reasons they may have voted for this) and instead are acting like spoilt children who didn't get their way.

 

[GT49er]

Will probably follow other ex Prime Ministers into after dinner speaking for an extortinate amount of money.

Yes, his iconic "How I laid the seeds for the demise of the EU" after-dinner blockbuster speech should go down a bomb all the way from Brussels to Berlin and back again, with knobs on!

 

[pb21]

Cameron gained power through a free market, free enterprise party.

Exactly he did, but that's not how he portrayed himself, with his 'compassionate', 'green' and 'hug a hoodie' platitudes.

He was just a PR PM.

 

[AmexRuislip]

[MENTION=6886]Bozza[/MENTION] could we please put David Cameron's name in the frame for 'PM'
(aka Mike Dean)
Would be good fun, every time someone on here says PM me!

 

[Buzzer]

Exactly he did, but that's not how he portrayed himself, with his 'compassionate', 'green' and 'hug a hoodie' platitudes.

He was just a PR PM.

There's nothing wrong with portraying yourself as compassionate, I think both Blair and Cameron are both capable of genuine compassion and socially-minded aspirations but when a privileged and wealthy man without a political principle in his body looks for power then I think that Cameron was the more honest in doing it through a party like the Tories where pragmatism is regarded as highly as ideology rather than Blair who gained power by pretending to be something he was clearly not in a party with strong socialist principles.

 

[Garry Nelson's teacher]

I'm still awaiting the Big Society!

After Brexit we have Cexit.

 

[soistes]

If the referendum was wholly unnecessary, why did we get a different outcome to the one you clearly wanted - surely it would only be unnecessary if the result was 100% in favour of keeping things the same. The fact that the remain side lost means that there were enough people out there who were willing to vote against remain for them to win and thanks to the referendum, their voice was heard (whether the remainers like it or not)

The remainers like to over simplify the complex issues surrounding EU membership and are still ignoring those who voted against (and a lot of the reasons they may have voted for this) and instead are acting like spoilt children who didn't get their way.

Whether I was in favour of remain or leave is not relevant to the point I was making. I entirely accept that, having had the referendum, and there being a majority to leave the EU, we have to live with that outcome, whether or not we voted for it ourselves. My point was about Cameron's judgement and gamesmanship.

I meant unnecessary in the sense that we have a parliamentary democracy not a plebiscitary democracy, and the appropriate way (in my view, and that of many constitutional experts who know a lot more about it than me) of putting a policy like this to the people (if Cameron believed in it, which he clearly didn't), would have been to include a concrete promise to withdraw from the EU within the broader context of a general election manifesto, alongside a range of other policies (including hopefully, a coherent set of economic, trade, taxation, migration and social policies which would be needed to manage all of the other implications of Brexit), and allow the electorate to vote on that in a general election. The only reason he did it was for internal Tory party reasons, to appease Tory members and MPs who might otherwise defect to UKIP - there was nothing pushing him to do it, and if he thought it would have ended up as a leave outcome, he probably wouldn't have done it - it was a daft gamble that he lost.

 

[nicko31]

Divided the country because he couldn't deal with the divisions in his own party. A terrible legacy I'm afraid Dave

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

His resignation speech outside No 10 didn't take long, he only listed a couple of things he was proud of and they were the same couple of things that Corbyn praised him for in the commons.
A totally useless PM in a totally useless and divided government.
Only Cameron could sack Gove and then reinstate him.

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

Cameron was responsible for Brexit, but Major oversaw Black Wednesday and the ludicrous railway privatisation that separated track and trains.

On the plus side he had us simultaneously amused and appalled by the Edwina Currie business. Cameron and the pig's head wasn't much of an effort by comparison.

 

[Theatre of Trees]

Worse than Heath? Than Callaghan? Than Macdonald or Eden or Chamberlain? Nah. Cameron's not even close to being the worst. He's strictly mid-table mediocrity.

Not sure, most of the others had a crisis forced on them and made the wrong decision(s) in dealing with it. Cameron had nothing like that and was the victim of his own inept manoeuvring. I'm just thankful he never had to deal with a proper crisis. It says something that May got shot of nearly all his cronies in her first few days in office.

 

[BLOCK F]

Blimey, the usual over the top remarks from the usual gang, re a PM who was no where near the disaster they portray him to be.
For what it is worth, I think he was absolutely correct to resign as PM once the electorate voted for Brexit.

 

[GT49er]

Frankly, from David Cameron even two resignations isn't nearly enough!

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Cute pig. The one on the left however is a complete swine.

 

[Guinness Boy]

Whether I was in favour of remain or leave is not relevant to the point I was making. I entirely accept that, having had the referendum, and there being a majority to leave the EU, we have to live with that outcome, whether or not we voted for it ourselves. My point was about Cameron's judgement and gamesmanship.

I meant unnecessary in the sense that we have a parliamentary democracy not a plebiscitary democracy, and the appropriate way (in my view, and that of many constitutional experts who know a lot more about it than me) of putting a policy like this to the people (if Cameron believed in it, which he clearly didn't), would have been to include a concrete promise to withdraw from the EU within the broader context of a general election manifesto, alongside a range of other policies (including hopefully, a coherent set of economic, trade, taxation, migration and social policies which would be needed to manage all of the other implications of Brexit), and allow the electorate to vote on that in a general election. The only reason he did it was for internal Tory party reasons, to appease Tory members and MPs who might otherwise defect to UKIP - there was nothing pushing him to do it, and if he thought it would have ended up as a leave outcome, he probably wouldn't have done it - it was a daft gamble that he lost.

Great post, agree entirely.


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[Norman Baker suck my lozenge]

Showing his true colours,The Brexit vote was a win double,we get to leave a corrupt organisation and get rid of this spiteful piece of filth,happy days.

 

[Uh_huh_him]

Not sure, most of the others had a crisis forced on them and made the wrong decision(s) in dealing with it. Cameron had nothing like that and was the victim of his own inept manoeuvring. I'm just thankful he never had to deal with a proper crisis. It says something that May got shot of nearly all his cronies in her first few days in office.

This.

Completely failed to deliver on his promises to get rid of the debt
All of the big decisions he had to deal with, he handed over to the electorate.
Useless.

 

[Pavilionaire]

Has to go down as one of the most disastrous pms ever, no meaningful legislation, more u-turns then a day out go karting and delivered us the shit-show of Brexit.

Thanks a bunch Cameron

Harsh. His tenure can be separated into two distinct eras:

1. Coalition - decent whilst at the helm, at his best in a 'chairman of the board' role.
2. Tory Government - lost the plot completely, calling the EU Referendum was arguably the worst political decision ever taken by a British PM.

 

[Not nick rhodes]

Has to go down as one of the most disastrous pms ever, no meaningful legislation, more u-turns then a day out go karting and delivered us the shit-show of Brexit.

Thanks a bunch Cameron

I actually thought he has done a pretty good job. 100 x better than the demented loon in charge of labour.