Theresa May's Top Two Aides Resign

[jim360]

Live on the BBC now:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/election-2017-40231623

Interesting to note, further down the feed, that May was "told" by the 1922 Committee to go on TV and apologise to MPs who lost their seats, having said nothing about it at all over the night or when she announced her intention to form a government -- and that there are rumours that if she didn't sack these two aides then she may well have faced a serious challenge to her leadership.

What a wonderful winning feeling she must be having right now.

[ludwig]

// the 'advisors' who wrote the manifesto that has crippled the party get to walk away .. //

Their demise is probably more to do with the fact that it would have been their idea to call the election in the first place rather than the fact they wrote a bad manifesto.

[andy-hughes]

Ludwig - That may well be so, but the buck stops with the PM who has to approve both the election suggestion, and the manifesto that came out of it.

She has been seriously badly advised, and may reflect that a wider selection of views from experienced party members may have prevented this debacle.

[naomi24]

Jim at 19:19 and Krom at 19:24, but by staying put she would be doing your cause an enormous favour. No?

[Kromovaracun]

Not if my cause is a better governed country, no.

[Baldric]

Two Aides, resigned or pushed?

[jim360]

It could be said that no government is better than a bad government.

[naomi24]

Krom, but you have a Conservative government so surely with an alleged 'dingbat' at the helm, your cause for change - and your chance of change - would be better served. No?

[naomi24]

Jim, //It could be said that no government is better than a bad government. //

That could be said, but it's an impracticable (and that's being kind) option.

[jim360]

I hope you appreciate the satire, though.

[naomi24]

Satire? That's debateable.

[jim360]

May shouldn't have given us so much material to work with, even if I don't always make the best of it :)

[naomi24]

Jim, but you're not working with what she's given you. You only think you are. ;o)

[Old_Geezer]

I can't recall who but wasn't there a country that had not government​ for a while and did ok ? So no government really is better than bad, er I mean any government !

[Kromovaracun]

Naomi - That's one way of looking at it, but I don't agree with it. Having a bad, illegitimate PM is sort of by definition bad and illegitimate. I don't want that for the country, she has to go.

[Kromovaracun]

Pretty sure that country was Belgium, O_G.

[Kromovaracun]

I don't think she did. She lost the majority she went in with and now doesn't have one.

[naomi24]

Krom, you might prefer to believe that she didn't win - but she did. She's still the Prime Minister. Can't really think of any other way to explain it to you.