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David Davis resigning as Brexit Secretary

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Snickerdoodles · 08/07/2018 23:53

Apparently David Davis has resigned as Brexit Secretary Shock.

There’s a Guardian article here with reports that he may have resigned - www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jul/08/david-davis-resigns-as-brexit-secretary-reports-say.

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annandale · 09/07/2018 17:57

Trump wouldn't be the slightest bit interested but might raise enough energy to suggest Lord Alan Sugar for PM. Or Tommy Robinson, if Miller were at the meeting.

Downtheroadfirstonleft · 09/07/2018 18:20

What has happened to politics in this country???

Talk about not being able to organise a drink up in a brewery....

yolofish · 09/07/2018 18:57

completely off topic, but cambridge anaglypta is an awesome user name. sorry, had to say that.

despairing about the fuckwits that seem to be running the country at the moment.

MissMarplesKnitting · 09/07/2018 19:03

JRM is horrendous. His views on the place of women are archaic. Actually, he's just archaic in every respect.

Boris is a Machiavellian posing as a buffoon. He's utterly untrustworthy. He may well be mixed up in the leave campaign funding/meeting the Russians part of this.

Michael Gove? Wouldn't piss on him if he was on fire. I'm a teacher. Sorry not sorry

Thinking that emigration may be a potential move at this rate....

Snickerdoodles · 09/07/2018 19:09

Any news yet on who’s replacing Boris?

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bellinisurge · 09/07/2018 19:18

Gotta be Gove. The entertainment value alone.

Childrenofthesun · 09/07/2018 19:33

Gove was looking even more smug than usual in the HoC this afternoon. I'm sure he's the puppet master.

PerkingFaintly · 09/07/2018 20:46

David Davis: In the end, there was nothing behind the swagger
politics.co.uk/blogs/2018/07/09/david-davis-in-the-end-there-was-nothing-behind-the-swagger

Somehow my brain had protected me from remembering too much about him at once. Seeing it written down altogether is painful.

Even in the midst of campaigning for Brexit, he did not actually know enough about the EU to realise members cannot independently make trade deals. He claimed the UK would make a trade deal with Germany.

And he seemed to have genuinely not grasped that Ireland is not in the UK. And not a colony.

I have no words.

bellinisurge · 09/07/2018 20:51

What a fucking idiot!

argumentativefeminist · 09/07/2018 21:05

Hunt to Foreign Sec. Least he's got his grubby hands off the NHS.

Snickerdoodles · 09/07/2018 21:14

🤦‍♀️ Wow!! Jeremy Hunt?!! I wonder who’ll be Health Secretary now.

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bellinisurge · 09/07/2018 21:17

Please please please make it Gove. This is so funny to watch.

bellinisurge · 09/07/2018 21:19

Awww, it's Matt Hancock. Spoilsport.

argumentativefeminist · 09/07/2018 21:20

Matt Hancock to Health and Social. He isn't as bad as all the rest the. Im quietly hopeful.

argumentativefeminist · 09/07/2018 21:20

*the rest tbh

Snickerdoodles · 09/07/2018 22:08

Apparently someone called Jeremy Wright is replacing Matt Hancock as the new Culture Secretary.

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PerkingFaintly · 09/07/2018 22:37

You mayn't have Damian Collins for anything.

He's doing far too good a job chairing the DCMS committee on Fake News (inc Russian misinformation), and I may have to send him chocolates and flowers and beg him to stay there.

HarveySchlumpfenburger · 10/07/2018 10:44

Always good to have a culture secretary who supports banning books in prisons. FFS.

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