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Davis resigns as Brexit Secretary
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"......David Davis' resignation last night as Brexit Secretary seems to have presented Theresa May with a quandary - how to find someone just as hapless to take his place. Readers could be excused for thinking that finding an incompetent replacement for a Tory minister would be as easy as finding turds in a septic tank, but Davis' particularly vacuous incompetence stands out even in the party of chaos. May had a rare moment of honesty when, in appointing Dominic Raab to replace him, she said 'nothing has changed' - managing both to tell the truth and to remind everyone of her own particular disasters during last year's general election campaign. Twitter responded with a rush of examples of Raab's arrogance and unpleasant views on women and the poor - he voted against making homes fit for human habitation, called British workers the laziest in the world, advertised for people to work for him for free and has an alleged liking for the idea of bringing back workhouses - and his own recent demonstrations of incompetent ignorance. The overall opinion of social media users commenting on the appointment could probably be summed up in this pithy tweet: This the new Brexit Secretary, Dominic Raab. He thinks people using food banks are experiencing "cash flow problems". The Tory Party: 1 **** out, 1 **** in. #GE2018Now pic.twitter.com/0nqfQyhCp1 — EL4C (@EL4JC) July 9, 2018 However, most striking is that Theresa May herself seems to have held a similar opinion, at least at one time. In 2011 the Guardian, as pictured above, reported that May had attacked Raab in Parliament for his unpleasant views about women - strongly enough that he: slump[ed] in his seat before trying to laugh it off with colleagues. The appointment of arrogant and unpleasant people to Cabinet positions is nothing new for the Tories - if you bob in a barrel full of rotten apples, what else are you going to come up with? But for May to be forced to scrape the absolute bottom of that barrel to replace someone who made his frequently-empty chair look competent shows how weak and desperate she is....." |
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why is this twitter 'thing' important - there's nothing about this in the telegraph with this bias or slant?
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perhaps they could shut down twitter - would that help
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And there we have an example from dave of how we should learn to understand the dishonesty of many remainers , not all I suppose but it is a defining characteristic
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fek me now Boris has quit
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off to polish a turd too, ...
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Coup in progress !
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Max respect Boris! Good lad
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"Boris Johnson has resigned as Foreign Secretary amid a growing political crisis over the UK's Brexit strategy.
He is second senior cabinet minister to quit within hours following Brexit Secretary David Davis's exit. His departure came 30 minutes before Theresa May is due to address Parliament about her new Brexit plan, which has angered many Tory MPs. In a statement, No 10 thanked Mr Johnson for his work and said a replacement would be announced shortly. |
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Won't be long before the only people left in the bunker at Number 10 will be Gavin Barwell (lost his seat in the General Election, having called the decision to leave the EU evidence of 'hate') and Olly Robbins (unelected, spent last two years preventing David Davies from taking part in negotiations with the EU, previously an adviser to the Labour Party, and once claimed that 'not everything the Soviet Union did was bad').
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Get May out asap
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2018 election 2/1 now, down from 11/2 after Davis' announcement and 7/1 earlier in the day.
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9 minutes and counting !
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Theresa on the Parliament channel now.
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What I really like is the way Johnson's first allowed Gove to stab himself in the front, and only then choosing to resign.
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Can't believe the front of May today.
Brass necked it to perfection. She'll be gone soon. |
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What kind of Jeremy Hunt will they get to replace Boris?
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Jeremy bloody Hunt
 I thought May couldn't outdo the mess from the weekend and today, but she turns up with that gem Hilarious |
