Menzies Campbell resigned!

[tortoiseSHELL]

Justnow!

story here

With immediate effect! Why so swift?

Love the fact that it's Vincent "Price" Cable and Simon Hughes kindly sharing that news with the world...of course they had nothing to do with Ming's "decision"
Still, at least they have not had to hand back £8.3 million in donations because the giver was ruled clinically insane, eh what?

[sigh]

Nice to see more backstabbing among those nice people in the Lib Dems. Really, I despair.

This is a bit odd isn't? I wonder if he has been up to something dodgy?

Effie, as a lifelong Lim Dem supporter (if not voter, for tactical reasons = I've never lived anywhere where they even had a chance) even I'd admit that they fight like mongoose vs rattlesnake at every opportunity

My suspicion is that it's simply that DC had a good day in Parliament last week, and thye felt they were slipping back, adn MC wasn't the leader to take them forward.

marina, too right about the bringers of the news!

Next Simon Hughes will be elected. Just f*cking great.

I reckon he's just been stabbed in the back by the young Tories Turks who ousted Kennedy and put him in instead.

(and I speak as a Lib Dem voter from a long line of Lib Dem voters)

strange - no-one saw that coming did they?!
quick resignations mean one of two things usually - they are in poor health, or they have been up to something they perhaps shouldn't

Bring back Paddy, that's what I say. More trained killers in Parliament.

Bye, Ming!

Any chance we might see Charles Kennedy back?

or they've been stabbed in the back by a load of iffy men in sandals (recycling Julius Caeser jokes)

Who?

It's been on the cards for ages surely - but the "with immediate effect" is certainly

yes effie - that is the third option

We want the Paddster
He'd have Simon Hughes for breakfast

but resigning with immediate effect is quite unusual isn't it?

Absolutely. Send him to the Tory HQ with some cheeswire and a black mask

I agree marina!

And he didn't make the announcement himself...

maybe he is very unwell?