AMBER RUDD HAS GONE!!!!!

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They just mentioned a man who used to be NI secretary I think it was

As AR replacement

I didn't catch his name though

Hopefully she will be able to do some good on the back benches when it comes to voting on the Brexit dog's dinner deal.

I really feel uneasy about this because I thought she was a good, level-headed politician and the cabinet was better off with her in it.

Labour voter here who also agrees with the above.

Totally complicit as is May. Glad she's gone.

I really believe that TM is being kept in post by various prominent cabinet ministers until Brexit either sinks or swims, like a human shield. The various people falling by the way are just collateral damage.

Now, where did I leave me tinfoil fedora?

I don’t feel sorry for her at all.
She failed spectacularly and had to go.
TM is a complete failure and needs to go next.
We need a general election.

She is a loathsome and thoroughly unpleasant woman with a disgusting voting record. I live near Hastings and she is hated locally. Overheard when she was out campaigning during the election eyeing up a block of sheltered housing flats and dejectedly asking her entourage “Shall we bother?”
Couldn’t be happier that a Tory MP is actually taking the fall for telling lies for a change.

'I think it's a shame' !!!
What - that someone caught lying twice in three days about her actions has resigned? Really?

I think it is a shame that you have reached the point that you are prepared to accept outright liars as members of the government. No doubt there are more than Amber Rudd but if, when they are caught, we simply let them get away with it what are we saying about honesty and integrity being values we expect our leaders to hold to?

I'm assuming that the press have been gunning for her in particular because she made some comment earlier on this week about the decision to stay part of a customs union still being on the table.

I'm not keen on the conservatives but think AR going is not good news. Could potentially swing the balance of views with the cabinet towards the hardest of Brexit. Suspect Gove may find a way to squirm his way back to more influence. Revolting man.

I’m no Conservative either btw but she was one of the few in this Government who seemed credible.

Wonder if Paul Dacre has any former fireplace salesmen in mind?

Brokenshire? Or Brokenshite, cause that’s about as useful as he was in NI...

So the Guardian got a scalp.

But. At what cost?

Although it makes Theresa May look like the dreadful, mean-streaked waste of space that she is I suppose.

She was one of the few tories who seem to have even a modicum of common sense, I really dont think that this is a good thing especially when you see the list of potential replacements.

TM is so desperate to cling on to her job despite her many fuck ups that she will cheerfully throw anyone under the bus. Very short sighted when her own position is so precarious and she will need all the support she can get very soon. Personally I wouldnt be at all surprised if we got yet another GE before the brexit deadline.

We will have a general election very soon, I can't see May surviving this.

I think it's right that she has resigned in the circumstances (whether those circumstances were of her own making or whether she's a convenient scapegoat, who knows).

But I still think it's a shame - we are at a crucial point in our nations history which will define us for decades, our government is fragile and fragmented, the current incumbents are a right shower and we have no opposition party worth a damn.

As much as I hate to use the phrase, we NEED a strong and stable government at the moment, what with the shitstorm that is Brexit about to go down.

What we've got is fuck all. We can't afford to be pissing about rearranging the cabinet every other month.

I'm not saying she should have stayed. It's just another frustration and distraction that we could do without.

I liked AR when she stopped overnight the ridiculous grants paid to green energy firms, our electricity bill is more than half as much again thanks to that, coul have been much worse without her. So many contributed to Windrush especially the gov that brought the workeRs here in the first place and every one since.

They just mentioned a man who used to be NI secretary I think it was

Brokenshire. Recently off as very ill. Does seem to be respected. But, if that's the case, he needs to stay on as NI brief.

She's gone and it's about fucking time. Good riddance.

I don't like her much so quite glad she's gone. And I've also really gone off Teresa May and would be glad to see the back of her too.

Yes, I can see why she went but this is far more than Rudd's problem.

Fairly dim Brexiteer Penny Mordaunt (and former 'close friend' of Boris) is a bloody Secretary of State. Gove is rising up again from the lawn.

But, also note Rory Stewart's coming up the ranks as a very pissed off, and very intelligent, Prisons Minister.

Agree with expatinscotland

I also think there will be a general election before Christmas Ive thought this for a while.

" Overheard when she was out campaigning during the election eyeing up a block of sheltered housing flats and dejectedly asking her entourage “Shall we bother?"

Emma Dent Coad
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Apr 26

I've just been informed that Tory council candidates walked out of a hustings in the area after a young man questioned their response to Grenfell. Let me be clear - if you cannot talk to your residents, you should not be on the council.

I think if there was an election Labour would have a good chance if only they could get rid of Jeremy Corbyn. But no chance of that.

Pity it is no Diane Abbott