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Ian Duncan Smith Resigns !
http:// www.bbc .co.uk/ news/uk -politi cs-3584 8687
I was mistaken ! It wasn't Nicky Morgan that had to fall on her sword.......its was IDS !
I was mistaken ! It wasn't Nicky Morgan that had to fall on her sword.......its was IDS !
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Thanks for the info mikey. Shall be prepared to take in the gory details in The Indy in the morning.
22:35 Fri 18th Mar 2016
AOG,
Fraud of the mobility and blue badge schemes were not under the remit of IDS to sort out. Both are granted to people who already receive certain benefits, they are not a benefit in themselves. And abuses of either scheme is not an excuse to cut them for people who genuinely do qualify.
IDS is not unpopular for his views on Europe, he is unpopular for his previous record as a minister. Wasting £40 million on a computer system that didn't work, the bedroom tax, the Universal Credit fiasco etc.
Fraud of the mobility and blue badge schemes were not under the remit of IDS to sort out. Both are granted to people who already receive certain benefits, they are not a benefit in themselves. And abuses of either scheme is not an excuse to cut them for people who genuinely do qualify.
IDS is not unpopular for his views on Europe, he is unpopular for his previous record as a minister. Wasting £40 million on a computer system that didn't work, the bedroom tax, the Universal Credit fiasco etc.
Gromit has it right. This resignation is nothing to do with disability, and everything to do with Europe. IDS is a famously fervent Eurosceptic.
It's massively disloyal to his leaders, positioning the PM and Chancellor as heartless, stupid or both, and himself as the opposite, all in an attempt to get more Brexit votes later in the year. As a double win, he is now free to argue for Brexit without the bother of having a ministerial position to distract him.
It's massively disloyal to his leaders, positioning the PM and Chancellor as heartless, stupid or both, and himself as the opposite, all in an attempt to get more Brexit votes later in the year. As a double win, he is now free to argue for Brexit without the bother of having a ministerial position to distract him.
He could ... but just read your own words back. "He didn't need to resign, and give Dave this huge problem" ... but he did resign and give Dave this huge problem. Given that the PM is in the Bremain camp, that has to be good for the Brexiters and there was no better time for this particular Brexiter to resign in order to inflict maximum disruption to the other side.
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