AIBU to be both happy and concerned over IDS resignation

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Iain Duncan Smith has resigned citing concerns over disability benefit reforms.

I am partly happy.

However feeling concerned over who will replace and thinking if he was concerned over the changes who was putting the current ones through and what will happen now?

It's all political posturing. I'm happy he's stepped down, but I ain't going to be taken in by his honey coated words and follow him into voting leave the EU.

He doesn't really care. And he has an agenda to push. Still a vile man.

Vertigo, you mean this?

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/pip-cuts-nicky-morgan-disability-benefits-question-time-video-a6938261.html

Well worth watching for a laugh. Disingenuous woman, or what? Now they're pretending it was an idea they were running up the flagpole. Well no-one fecking saluted. Except for creeps like Nicky Morgan - whoever she is.

hmmm.

watching

She's probably hoping she's bagged IDS's job since taking one for the team. In an utterly, pant-wettingly shaky, creepy, stuttering and ineffectual way.

That deserves to go viral. Maybe set it to music.

Mayhem the referendum is about leaving the EU, not Europe. We'll still be in Europe either way.

This is Iain Duncan Smith. He is dishonest about pretty much everything. He lied about his education, lied about his army rank, misrepresented his experience of being unemployed and falsified research, so whatever reason he gives is like everything else he does, dishonest and self-serving.

My best guess is that it is an excuse to walk away from the cluster fuck of Universal Credit.

It is possibly significant that a Freedom of Information request was upheld in relation to DWP papers on the implementation of Universal Credit which Smith had been fighting tooth and nail for four years.

If/when the documents are published, it may show that his claims that the project was on time and on budget were questionable to say the least.

She's probably hoping she's bagged IDS's job since taking one for the team. In an utterly, pant-wettingly shaky, creepy, stuttering and ineffectual way.

Unlikely, it is a pretty toxic job. The job is like Minister for Northern Ireland was in the Thatcher/Major years, a political deadend for has-beens, never weres and ministers in disgrace that gets you dog's abuse from all sides.

No one will be queuing up for that gig, especially as they'll have to pick the peanuts out of the Universal Credit turd.

Stephen Crabb is the replacement.

A man who voted against the publication of a report into hunger and food bank usage and against the government taking action to reduce food bank usage, all whilst he was a trustee for a food bank charity.

Oh he sounds like a keeper.

Voting record www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/11768/stephen_crabb/preseli_pembrokeshire/votes sorry don't know how to link from phone!

father in law is an incredibly good landlord (eg when one half of an elderly couple in one of the village houses dies he halves the rent rather than see the survivor evicted
Presume he is wealthy enough with fat enough profit margins (ie owns property outright rather than with interest only mortgages) to be able to do that.

Let's not discount the halo polishing effect....im sure that has a price beyond rubies 😒

Crabb has a long history of anti gay activity and has endorsed gay cure events.

Crabb has a long history of anti gay activity and has endorsed gay cure events
That's never gonna fly, not in this day and age

ilovesooty you got any links to further info about that?

Joffrey I can't link on my phone but Pink News has the information.

Cheers, sooty - I found it.

Well he's a vile piece of work, eh?

What is it with homophobia and Welsh Tory MPs? Can't bloody help themselves! He joins this berk who claims that he can't be homophobic as he fought a gay boxer. The old, ' I'm not homophobic I've fisted a gay man in the ring' rebuttal.

^^^
Heh. Heh heh heh.

That's going to keep me sniggering for quite some time.

Happy to see anything hurt GO but deeply worried they are plotting something horrible, well even more horrible than usual....

Surely this is the last straw for GO?

Written by someone who hasn't a clue about the LEAVE campaign.

There are many groups campaigning for LEAVE. The Electoral Commission will announce, some time before 15 April 2016, which of those many groups that are campaigning for LEAVE will become the officially designated LEAVE campaign. This will give that chosen LEAVE group privileges but will also subject them to spending limits.

Until the officially designated LEAVE campaign leader is chosen, there are a whole host of LEAVE groups out there, some of which work in conjunction with the others, such as:

Leave.EU,
Labour Leave
Better Off Out
No2EU
SayNo2EU
Vote Leave
4 Britain
as well as GO

IDS is associated with the Vote Leave campaigning group, not primarily with GO.

So to think his resignation would spell the end of the GO campaign is just ridiculous.

Last straw for GO as in: Last straw for George Osborne.

Nothing to do with the GO movement.

They're going to have a wonderful slate for leadership - buffoon, psychopath and yesterday's man.

This has made me really laugh. Thanks!

Spring I think ice meant GO = George Osborne

Bye bye, you horrible fucker.

I would love every single member of the tory party to resign & disappear forever. Can't stand them. One of my freelance jobs puts me in situations where I speak to members of the public who are hit by cuts. To say it can be heartbreaking is an understatement. I work alongside some high profile people, on excellent salaries, and they HATE the conservatives & what they've done to this Country & want them gone. It's so refreshing to not see the "i'm alright Jack" attitude.

Does anyone think Universal credit will be scrapped now?

Village - I do wish it would.

However I think the implementation (bumbling and shambolic as it is) has gone too far for it to be reversed now.