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Tissue_Price

Vale Dave.

TheScreamingEagles

Right now I'm doing my best to not cry like a disgraced televangelist

DaemonBarber

He's a class act and will be missed

tlg86

Security like Celtic.

DaemonBarber

TheScreamingEagles said:

I'm doing my best to not cry like a disgraced televangelist

Permission for top lip to wobble; granted.

RobD

Go Cam! (in the good way!)

RobD

DaemonBarber said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

I'm doing my best to not cry like a disgraced televangelist

Permission for top lip to wobble; granted.

Phew....

grabcocque

Live scenes from inside Buckingham Palace

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVEY5AL5zzk

MarkSenior

A good PM stabbed in the back by people like Plato who a year ago went round asking people to vote for him as PM

Tim_B

In 1970 I stood there in Downing St watching Wilson leave and Heath arrive. In those days Downing St was open and you could walk in from Whitehall and down the steps at the back without hindrance.

Cameron is a class act.

nunu

MarkSenior said:

A good PM stabbed in the back by people like Plato who a year ago went round asking people to vote for him as PM

He could've campaigned for Leave. That was his own choice. Besides you don't campaign for a PM you campaign for a local MP that's why May doesn't need to call an election.

GIN1138

Will Sam Cam have any parting shots for media like Cherie did?

nunu

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-36782323

ThreeQuidder

MarkSenior said:

A good PM stabbed in the back by people like Plato who a year ago went round asking people to vote for him as PM

The tragedy of it is, he did it to himself.

Nobody made him do a half-arsed renegotiation.
Nobody made him attempt to sell his half-arsed renegotiation as the best thing since sliced bread.

SimonStClare

Class must run in the family. Sam Cam has been an exemplary PM’s wife throughout .

Sunil_Prasannan

If only he'd have remained neutral in the EUref campaign, he would still be PM.

FrankBooth

MarkSenior said:

A good PM stabbed in the back by people like Plato who a year ago went round asking people to vote for him as PM

The problem for me with so much of new labour and the Lib Dems is how so many of them only really object to Ukip and the Tory right. I simply can't understand how a Lib Dem can think Cameron has been a good PM.

RobD

nunu said:

MarkSenior said:

A good PM stabbed in the back by people like Plato who a year ago went round asking people to vote for him as PM

He could've campaigned for Leave. That was his own choice.

and the Conservative Party had no official position, so very hard to view that as a backstab.

Sunil_Prasannan

Now we're following the team coach to Wembley

MarkSenior

nunu said:

MarkSenior said:

A good PM stabbed in the back by people like Plato who a year ago went round asking people to vote for him as PM

He could've campaigned for Leave. That was his own choice.

He campaigned for what he thought ( and time will show ) was best for the country .

Pulpstar

nunu said:

MarkSenior said:

A good PM stabbed in the back by people like Plato who a year ago went round asking people to vote for him as PM

He could've campaigned for Leave. That was his own choice. Besides you don't campaign for a PM you campaign for a local MP that's why May doesn't need to call an election.

The entire referendum was his choice...

KentRising

DaemonBarber said:

He's a class act and will be missed

This.

RobD

MarkSenior said:

nunu said:

MarkSenior said:

A good PM stabbed in the back by people like Plato who a year ago went round asking people to vote for him as PM

He could've campaigned for Leave. That was his own choice.

He campaigned for what he thought ( and time will show ) was best for the country .

We'll never know what might have been, we just have to make the most of it now.

HurstLlama

ThreeQuidder said:

MarkSenior said:

A good PM stabbed in the back by people like Plato who a year ago went round asking people to vote for him as PM

The tragedy of it is, he did it to himself.

Nobody made him do a half-arsed renegotiation.
Nobody made him attempt to sell his half-arsed renegotiation as the best thing since sliced bread.

Exactly. He tried to play the Brits for fools. His downfall was entirely self-inflicted.

TCPoliticalBetting

Sunil_Prasannan said:

If only he'd have remained neutral in the EUref campaign, he would still be PM.

True.
Someone on PB did warn him in an article about that Harold Wilson matter.........

Bob__Sykes

DaemonBarber said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

I'm doing my best to not cry like a disgraced televangelist

Permission for top lip to wobble; granted.

I'm really quite emotional about all this. I have ranted and railed at times, but I was "with him" generally from day 1 when Howard announced he was quitting. That's 11 years ago, and that's more than a quarter of my lifetime.

What a stupid, stupid waste of a generally sound Premiership.

Thrak

KentRising said:

DaemonBarber said:

He's a class act and will be missed

This.

This, also.

KentRising

If he'd campaigned for Leave, he'd have won it by a landslide and would have been untouchable.

RobD

Thrak said:

KentRising said:

DaemonBarber said:

He's a class act and will be missed

This.

This, also.

That.

Jobabob

KentRising said:

If he'd campaigned for Leave, he'd have won it by a landslide and would have been untouchable.

He doesn't believe in leaving the EU.

Jobabob

MarkSenior said:

nunu said:

MarkSenior said:

A good PM stabbed in the back by people like Plato who a year ago went round asking people to vote for him as PM

He could've campaigned for Leave. That was his own choice.

He campaigned for what he thought ( and time will show ) was best for the country .

Quite right.

TCPoliticalBetting

ThreeQuidder said:

MarkSenior said:

A good PM stabbed in the back by people like Plato who a year ago went round asking people to vote for him as PM

The tragedy of it is, he did it to himself.

Nobody made him do a half-arsed renegotiation.
Nobody made him attempt to sell his half-arsed renegotiation as the best thing since sliced bread.

Maybe Osborne persuaded him it was the smart thing to do? Ironic?

Tissue_Price

RobD said:

Thrak said:

KentRising said:

DaemonBarber said:

He's a class act and will be missed

This.

This, also.

That.

These.

Richard_Nabavi

Well, clearly the best PM of the past half-century, apart from Maggie of course, despite a spot of trouble at the end. Still, can't be sentimental: politics is a ruthless game. On to the next one, let's hope she's as good. I'm quite optimistic, I think she's a good fit for the challenges ahead. She will be very much her own woman. It won't be Continuity Cameron in style, personnel or policy. We shall see how it turns out.

David_Evershed

Bob__Sykes said:

DaemonBarber said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

I'm doing my best to not cry like a disgraced televangelist

Permission for top lip to wobble; granted.

I'm really quite emotional about all this. I have ranted and railed at times, but I was "with him" generally from day 1 when Howard announced he was quitting. That's 11 years ago, and that's more than a quarter of my lifetime.

What a stupid, stupid waste of a generally sound Premiership.

Don't forget he was leaving anyway and would not have reach the end of this term.

nunu

HurstLlama said:

ThreeQuidder said:

MarkSenior said:

A good PM stabbed in the back by people like Plato who a year ago went round asking people to vote for him as PM

The tragedy of it is, he did it to himself.

Nobody made him do a half-arsed renegotiation.
Nobody made him attempt to sell his half-arsed renegotiation as the best thing since sliced bread.

Exactly. He tried to play the Brits for fools. His downfall was entirely self-inflicted.

Exactly. Like SeanT said in the end you don't fuck with the British.

KentRising

Bob__Sykes said:

DaemonBarber said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

I'm doing my best to not cry like a disgraced televangelist

Permission for top lip to wobble; granted.

I'm really quite emotional about all this. I have ranted and railed at times, but I was "with him" generally from day 1 when Howard announced he was quitting. That's 11 years ago, and that's more than a quarter of my lifetime.

What a stupid, stupid waste of a generally sound Premiership.

Indeed, it's a waste.

Maybe he'll be back.

Bob__Sykes

KentRising said:

If he'd campaigned for Leave, he'd have won it by a landslide and would have been untouchable.

He wanted his legacy to include securing the UK's place in Europe and killing off the issue for a generation. That was entirely noble, and probably achievable if he'd only got a bit more out of his negotiation and if Labour had a moderate likeable leader going all out to campaign for "Remain".

HurstLlama

Jobabob said:

KentRising said:

If he'd campaigned for Leave, he'd have won it by a landslide and would have been untouchable.

He doesn't believe in leaving the EU.

Then he should have said so from the outset and not given us all that I am prepared to lead us out if we don't get the right deal guff.

CarlottaVance

Richard_Nabavi said:

Well, clearly the best PM of the past half-century, apart from Maggie of course, despite a spot of trouble at the end. Still, can't be sentimental: politics is a ruthless game. On to the next one, let's hope she's as good. I'm quite optimistic, I think she's a good fit for the challenges ahead, and will be very much her own woman. It won't be Continuity Cameron in style, personnel or policy. We shall see how it turns out.

Agree - I think Mrs May's work ethic will stand us in good stead, and God help any ministerial slackers.

runnymede

Good riddance to a man who first tried to bounce the public into voting away their future, then tried to scare and bully them into doing so. He disgraced his office and his departure is a very good thing.

TheKrakenAwakes

For a moment watching David Cameron with his family on the steps of Downing Street I felt quite sorry for him...then I pulled myself together and thought, what a complete and utter arse you have to be to have let yourself get to this position...in a moment that sympathy evaporated

Ishmael_X

Tissue_Price said:

RobD said:

Thrak said:

KentRising said:

DaemonBarber said:

He's a class act and will be missed

This.

This, also.

That.

These.

And those.

Because "I agree" would be making it too easy.

frpenkridge

Earl of Rosenburg !!!! The immortal Kaye Burley.

MarqueeMark

TCPoliticalBetting said:

ThreeQuidder said:

MarkSenior said:

A good PM stabbed in the back by people like Plato who a year ago went round asking people to vote for him as PM

The tragedy of it is, he did it to himself.

Nobody made him do a half-arsed renegotiation.
Nobody made him attempt to sell his half-arsed renegotiation as the best thing since sliced bread.

Maybe Osborne persuaded him it was the smart thing to do? Ironic?

Looking forward to his diaries covering the past few months...

David_Evershed

TCPoliticalBetting said:

ThreeQuidder said:

MarkSenior said:

A good PM stabbed in the back by people like Plato who a year ago went round asking people to vote for him as PM

The tragedy of it is, he did it to himself.

Nobody made him do a half-arsed renegotiation.
Nobody made him attempt to sell his half-arsed renegotiation as the best thing since sliced bread.

Maybe Osborne persuaded him it was the smart thing to do? Ironic?

So it is Osborne who caused his downfall.

TheKrakenAwakes

runnymede said:

Good riddance to a man who first tried to bounce the public into voting away their future, then tried to scare and bully them into doing so. He disgraced his office and his departure is a very good thing.

Time will tell if he was telling the truth

IanB2

FPT:

John_M said:

One thing we can confidently predict: PMQs are going to return to dreary, earnest questions with tractor statistic replies.

This will actually be a good thing. Cameron's habit of ignoring the question and turning PMQs into an Oxford Union debating-society 'game' - which was precisely the opposite of what he promised he would do with PMQs when he was LOTO - was one of his least attractive features.

Brom

runnymede said:

Good riddance to a man who first tried to bounce the public into voting away their future, then tried to scare and bully them into doing so. He disgraced his office and his departure is a very good thing.

Agreed. the little Englanders had the last laugh. see ya Dave!

HurstLlama

Richard_Nabavi said:

Well, clearly the best PM of the past half-century, apart from Maggie of course, despite a spot of trouble at the end. Still, can't be sentimental: politics is a ruthless game. On to the next one, let's hope she's as good. I'm quite optimistic, I think she's a good fit for the challenges ahead. She will be very much her own woman. It won't be Continuity Cameron in style, personnel or policy. We shall see how it turns out.

Yup, I'll agree with that.

JackW

Richard_Nabavi said:

Well, clearly the best PM of the past half-century, apart from Maggie of course, despite a spot of trouble at the end. Still, can't be sentimental: politics is a ruthless game. On to the next one, let's hope she's as good. I'm quite optimistic, I think she's a good fit for the challenges ahead. She will be very much her own woman. It won't be Continuity Cameron in style, personnel or policy. We shall see how it turns out.

Agreed.

I shall give the new May administration a fair wind ....

Wind being my specialty ....

David_Evershed

KentRising said:

If he'd campaigned for Leave, he'd have won it by a landslide and would have been untouchable.

Agreed. And we would have a better Brexit team with Remain ministers like Johnson, Gove and Leadsom in position.

RobD

runnymede said:

Good riddance to a man who first tried to bounce the public into voting away their future, then tried to scare and bully them into doing so. He disgraced his office and his departure is a very good thing.

Not even a kind word for delivering on the referendum.

Cyclefree

Bob__Sykes said:

DaemonBarber said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

I'm doing my best to not cry like a disgraced televangelist

Permission for top lip to wobble; granted.

I'm really quite emotional about all this. I have ranted and railed at times, but I was "with him" generally from day 1 when Howard announced he was quitting. That's 11 years ago, and that's more than a quarter of my lifetime.

What a stupid, stupid waste of a generally sound Premiership.

It is quite something how many British Tory PMs have - in the end - been destroyed by the EU issue: Thatcher, Major, Cameron i.e. all of them since Heath who took us in.

And how many other Tory leaders/would be leaders have had to or felt they needed to define themselves around the EU issue: Clarke, Portillo, IDS, Hague.

It is odd that the EU issue has been so toxic for the Tories when - arguably - it is Labour voters who have felt more of the disadvantages of being in the EU.

Discuss.........

Bob__Sykes

One aspect of these PM changeovers I enjoy is the shots from the Buck House courtyard, rarely otherwise seen - having walked through there and briefly into and back out of the Palace myself when I went to a Duke of Edinburgh's Award garden party as a teenager - before the days when anyone could get a ticket to go in and look around in the summer hols.... :-)

Pulpstar

Dave was a real gambler as PM.

If he'd have won the EURef then he'd have been (rightly) triumphant.

But the bigger the stakes are, the more there is to lose.

And when you bet the farm and lose, is that really deserving of sympathy ?

IanB2

Jobabob said:

KentRising said:

If he'd campaigned for Leave, he'd have won it by a landslide and would have been untouchable.

He doesn't believe in leaving the EU.

Had he been able (by overcoming his prior faux scepticism) to run a more positive Remain campaign, not solely based on trying to frighten people on the economy, and also authorised a more robust demolition of the nonsense being spouted by the Tory leaver brigade, he would also still be PM, having won the referendum, as was always his intention.

TheScreamingEagles

TCPoliticalBetting said:

ThreeQuidder said:

MarkSenior said:

A good PM stabbed in the back by people like Plato who a year ago went round asking people to vote for him as PM

The tragedy of it is, he did it to himself.

Nobody made him do a half-arsed renegotiation.
Nobody made him attempt to sell his half-arsed renegotiation as the best thing since sliced bread.

Maybe Osborne persuaded him it was the smart thing to do? Ironic?

Osborne didn't want Cameron to offer a referendum in the first place.

FF43

One thing I approved of about David Cameron is that he kept his children away from publicity, unlike Tony Blair. So I guess they find set pieces like their father's departure speech difficult. They look completely traumatised in the photos.

AndyJS

Cameron is a nice man but as a country we have to move on from being governed by the 7%.

RobD

AndyJS said:

Cameron is a nice man but as a country we have to move on from being governed by the 7%.

The first I've heard of the 7%?

RobD

Also is the main PB site down?

KentRising

Richard_Nabavi said:

Well, clearly the best PM of the past half-century, apart from Maggie of course, despite a spot of trouble at the end. Still, can't be sentimental: politics is a ruthless game. On to the next one, let's hope she's as good. I'm quite optimistic, I think she's a good fit for the challenges ahead. She will be very much her own woman. It won't be Continuity Cameron in style, personnel or policy. We shall see how it turns out.

Too young (31) to remember Major's term much, so Cameron is certainly the best PM I can remember, by a long way. Blair and Brown both dreadful in their same and different ways.

Due to Blair v Brown, I grew up thinking the PM must always be at odds with the CofE. Dave and Osborne showed how it should be done. Grown-up government.

SimonStClare

Ma’am, lock the front gates while you still have control.

Brom

MarqueeMark said:

TCPoliticalBetting said:

ThreeQuidder said:

MarkSenior said:

A good PM stabbed in the back by people like Plato who a year ago went round asking people to vote for him as PM

The tragedy of it is, he did it to himself.

Nobody made him do a half-arsed renegotiation.
Nobody made him attempt to sell his half-arsed renegotiation as the best thing since sliced bread.

Maybe Osborne persuaded him it was the smart thing to do? Ironic?

Looking forward to his diaries covering the past few months...

Judging by what he's like in public I doubt he tells the truth in his diaries either

Theuniondivvie

https://twitter.com/Queen_UK/status/753257907572109312

RobD

RobD said:

Also is the main PB site down?

No, just slow....

IanB2

David_Evershed said:

KentRising said:

If he'd campaigned for Leave, he'd have won it by a landslide and would have been untouchable.

Agreed. And we would have a better Brexit team with Remain ministers like Johnson, Gove and Leadsom in position.

How can anyone seriously put "better" in the same sentence as Johnson and Leadsom? Without being followed by the words "out of it"?

Cyclefree

Bob__Sykes said:

KentRising said:

If he'd campaigned for Leave, he'd have won it by a landslide and would have been untouchable.

He wanted his legacy to include securing the UK's place in Europe and killing off the issue for a generation. That was entirely noble, and probably achievable if he'd only got a bit more out of his negotiation and if Labour had a moderate likeable leader going all out to campaign for "Remain".

Possibly. I'm beginning to wonder if the referendum was lost for Remain long before the renegotiation, that it was used as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity by many voters to give an "Up Yours" to a way of governing that lots of people had been sotto voce grumbling about for years, a feeling that government (both British/EU) had become a conspiracy against the people rather than the servants of the people.

TCPoliticalBetting

TheScreamingEagles said:

TCPoliticalBetting said:

ThreeQuidder said:

MarkSenior said:

A good PM stabbed in the back by people like Plato who a year ago went round asking people to vote for him as PM

The tragedy of it is, he did it to himself.

Nobody made him do a half-arsed renegotiation.
Nobody made him attempt to sell his half-arsed renegotiation as the best thing since sliced bread.

Maybe Osborne persuaded him it was the smart thing to do? Ironic?

Osborne didn't want Cameron to offer a referendum in the first place.

"Osborne didn't want Cameron to offer a referendum in the first place."
Which would have led to either a massresignation, blocking of bills or Leadership challenge and defeat at GE2015.
The strategy and tactics for this referendum had Osborne's hand all over them apart from the bits Cameron decided. Between the pair of them they lost the referendum and the manner of their campaign forced Cameron to resign.

DanSmith

Richard_Nabavi said:

Well, clearly the best PM of the past half-century, apart from Maggie of course, despite a spot of trouble at the end. Still, can't be sentimental: politics is a ruthless game. On to the next one, let's hope she's as good. I'm quite optimistic, I think she's a good fit for the challenges ahead. She will be very much her own woman. It won't be Continuity Cameron in style, personnel or policy. We shall see how it turns out.

Blair clearly better than Cameron.

rural_voter

Pulpstar said:

Dave was a real gambler as PM.

If he'd have won the EURef then he'd have been (rightly) triumphant.

But the bigger the stakes are, the more there is to lose.

And when you bet the farm and lose, is that really deserving of sympathy ?

He can't have realised it was betting the farm at odds of roughly 50% or he wouldn't have taken it ... would he?

Defeated in the end by voters in Sunderland, Stoke, Merthr Tydfil, Tredegar and other faraway places of which we [in Number 10 and west Oxfordshire] know little.

Paul_Bedfordshire

CarlottaVance said:

Richard_Nabavi said:

Well, clearly the best PM of the past half-century, apart from Maggie of course, despite a spot of trouble at the end. Still, can't be sentimental: politics is a ruthless game. On to the next one, let's hope she's as good. I'm quite optimistic, I think she's a good fit for the challenges ahead, and will be very much her own woman. It won't be Continuity Cameron in style, personnel or policy. We shall see how it turns out.

Agree - I think Mrs May's work ethic will stand us in good stead, and God help any ministerial slackers.

That is one of the best things about her. You won't find her playing video games in the Downing Street flat.

Most men these days dont seem to mature out of adolescence properly

Richard_Nabavi

Pulpstar said:

And when you bet the farm and lose, is that really deserving of sympathy ?

Not really. He's got to the very top. He's been party leader for ten years. He was due to depart in the next couple of years anyway. OK, it's not quite the exit route which he'd pencilled in, and it's no doubt a blow to his pride, but he and his family are hardly going to be scrabbling around struggling to pay the bills. It's politics: anyone who goes into it and gets near the top knows that the rug can be pulled from under their feet at any time. He must also have come to the point where it was all getting to be just too much, insulted from all sides whatever he did. He deserves a nice long expensive holiday with Sam.

AndyJS

RobD said:

AndyJS said:

Cameron is a nice man but as a country we have to move on from being governed by the 7%.

The first I've heard of the 7%?

The privately educated. Nothing wrong with them as people but the other 93% deserve better opportunities.

DecrepitJohnL

KentRising said:

Richard_Nabavi said:

Well, clearly the best PM of the past half-century, apart from Maggie of course, despite a spot of trouble at the end. Still, can't be sentimental: politics is a ruthless game. On to the next one, let's hope she's as good. I'm quite optimistic, I think she's a good fit for the challenges ahead. She will be very much her own woman. It won't be Continuity Cameron in style, personnel or policy. We shall see how it turns out.

Too young (31) to remember Major's term much, so Cameron is certainly the best PM I can remember, by a long way. Blair and Brown both dreadful in their same and different ways.

Due to Blair v Brown, I grew up thinking the PM must always be at odds with the CofE. Dave and Osborne showed how it should be done. Grown-up government.

Blair and Brown were not really at odds over policy, just on resignation dates. For bare-knuckle fights over the fundamentals of economic and (and European) policy, you have to go back to Conservative governments, esp Thatcher vs Lawson.

HurstLlama

Now, looking to the future; does anyone know what TM's attitude is to cats? We saw a picture on here earlier with Cameron seeming to discuss policy with Larry on his lap (a photo, which had it been publicised a month ago, might have swung the referendum result his way). Which way will the new Prime Minister swing? Will she be pro-Larry or will she be the Cruella de Vill as per that slot-gobbed, money-grabbing, old trout a la Mrs Blair.

TCPoliticalBetting

Cyclefree said:

Bob__Sykes said:

DaemonBarber said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

I'm doing my best to not cry like a disgraced televangelist

Permission for top lip to wobble; granted.

I'm really quite emotional about all this. I have ranted and railed at times, but I was "with him" generally from day 1 when Howard announced he was quitting. That's 11 years ago, and that's more than a quarter of my lifetime.

What a stupid, stupid waste of a generally sound Premiership.

It is quite something how many British Tory PMs have - in the end - been destroyed by the EU issue: Thatcher, Major, Cameron i.e. all of them since Heath who took us in.
And how many other Tory leaders/would be leaders have had to or felt they needed to define themselves around the EU issue: Clarke, Portillo, IDS, Hague. It is odd that the EU issue has been so toxic for the Tories when - arguably - it is Labour voters who have felt more of the disadvantages of being in the EU. Discuss.........

May be it is more to do with Conservatives having pride in the country as an independent nation therefore sovereignty matters more to them.

Pulpstar

DanSmith said:

Richard_Nabavi said:

Well, clearly the best PM of the past half-century, apart from Maggie of course, despite a spot of trouble at the end. Still, can't be sentimental: politics is a ruthless game. On to the next one, let's hope she's as good. I'm quite optimistic, I think she's a good fit for the challenges ahead. She will be very much her own woman. It won't be Continuity Cameron in style, personnel or policy. We shall see how it turns out.

Blair clearly better than Cameron.

That's a very low comment.

FrankBooth

Cyclefree said:

Bob__Sykes said:

DaemonBarber said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

I'm doing my best to not cry like a disgraced televangelist

Permission for top lip to wobble; granted.

I'm really quite emotional about all this. I have ranted and railed at times, but I was "with him" generally from day 1 when Howard announced he was quitting. That's 11 years ago, and that's more than a quarter of my lifetime.

What a stupid, stupid waste of a generally sound Premiership.

It is quite something how many British Tory PMs have - in the end - been destroyed by the EU issue: Thatcher, Major, Cameron i.e. all of them since Heath who took us in.

And how many other Tory leaders/would be leaders have had to or felt they needed to define themselves around the EU issue: Clarke, Portillo, IDS, Hague.

It is odd that the EU issue has been so toxic for the Tories when - arguably - it is Labour voters who have felt more of the disadvantages of being in the EU.

Discuss.........

Blair was also undone by Foreign Policy don't forget. It doesn't usually kill politicians with the electorate but it can be a b***** within parliamentary parties.

RobD

HurstLlama said:

Now, looking to the future; does anyone know what TM's attitude is to cats? We saw a picture on here earlier with Cameron seeming to discuss policy with Larry on his lap (a photo, which had it been publicised a month ago, might have swung the referendum result his way). Which way will the new Prime Minister swing? Will she be pro-Larry or will she be the Cruella de Vill as per that slot-gobbed, money-grabbing, old trout a la Mrs Blair.

Or May might turn out to be similar to the Cat Lady from the Simpsons

David_Evershed

Theuniondivvie said:

https://twitter.com/Queen_UK/status/753257907572109312

No need for the UK tag.

She is The Queen.

Cyclefree

I hope Cameron learns from Major rather than Blair how to be an ex-Prime Minister.

JosiasJessop

HurstLlama said:

ThreeQuidder said:

MarkSenior said:

A good PM stabbed in the back by people like Plato who a year ago went round asking people to vote for him as PM

The tragedy of it is, he did it to himself.

Nobody made him do a half-arsed renegotiation.
Nobody made him attempt to sell his half-arsed renegotiation as the best thing since sliced bread.

Exactly. He tried to play the Brits for fools. His downfall was entirely self-inflicted.

No. It was inflicted by the EU obsessives within his own party who demanded a referendum. Many of the same guys who stabbed Major in the back.

Sad to see you're not being in the least bit gracious today, and that your dislike of Cameron still shines through.

Carolus_Rex

HurstLlama said:

Now, looking to the future; does anyone know what TM's attitude is to cats? We saw a picture on here earlier with Cameron seeming to discuss policy with Larry on his lap (a photo, which had it been publicised a month ago, might have swung the referendum result his way). Which way will the new Prime Minister swing? Will she be pro-Larry or will she be the Cruella de Vill as per that slot-gobbed, money-grabbing, old trout a la Mrs Blair.

She won't care to get fur all over that designer apparel. Larry's next serious moult will be his last in Downing St.

And as for hacking a furball up into the shoes...

Sunil_Prasannan

David_Evershed said:

Theuniondivvie said:

https://twitter.com/Queen_UK/status/753257907572109312

No need for the UK tag.

She is The Queen.

Da Queen, actually

glw

Cyclefree said:

Possibly. I'm beginning to wonder if the referendum was lost for Remain long before the renegotiation, that it was used as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity by many voters to give an "Up Yours" to a way of governing that lots of people had been sotto voce grumbling about for years, a feeling that government (both British/EU) had become a conspiracy against the people rather than the servants of the people.

Yeah a referendum about the EU (loathed to at best tolerated by 90% of people) is like giving someone the first punch. Too bloody right the public weren't going to miss out on that opportunity.

RobD

AndyJS said:

RobD said:

AndyJS said:

Cameron is a nice man but as a country we have to move on from being governed by the 7%.

The first I've heard of the 7%?

The privately educated. Nothing wrong with them as people but the other 93% deserve better opportunities.

Right. I'm fine if it's done on merit. I wouldn't want someone worse being PM just because they aren't privately educated, for instance.

PlatoSaid

HurstLlama said:

Now, looking to the future; does anyone know what TM's attitude is to cats? We saw a picture on here earlier with Cameron seeming to discuss policy with Larry on his lap (a photo, which had it been publicised a month ago, might have swung the referendum result his way). Which way will the new Prime Minister swing? Will she be pro-Larry or will she be the Cruella de Vill as per that slot-gobbed, money-grabbing, old trout a la Mrs Blair.

Cameron did refer to Larry as 'it' rather than 'him'

Tut tut tut

KentRising

May is QEII's 13th PM, being appointed on 13th day of the month....

JackW

DanSmith said:

Blair clearly better than Cameron.

Couldn't you have given us a 45 minutes warning of that comment?

Sunil_Prasannan

Cyclefree said:

I hope Cameron learns from Major rather than Blair how to be an ex-Prime Minister.

Major called LEAVERs rude names during the Campaign, didn't he?

Bob__Sykes

Do we have to be subjected to Nick Witchell wittering on? Fair enough for coverage of the Queen's birthday or something, but this is politics. It just happens to be at the Palace...

RodCrosby

frpenkridge said:

Earl of Rosenburg !!!! The immortal Kaye Burley.

To be fair, it was Jayne Secker.

BannedInParis

DanSmith said:

Richard_Nabavi said:

Well, clearly the best PM of the past half-century, apart from Maggie of course, despite a spot of trouble at the end. Still, can't be sentimental: politics is a ruthless game. On to the next one, let's hope she's as good. I'm quite optimistic, I think she's a good fit for the challenges ahead. She will be very much her own woman. It won't be Continuity Cameron in style, personnel or policy. We shall see how it turns out.

Blair clearly better than Cameron.

Chilcott was *last week*, man.

saddened

MarkSenior said:

A good PM stabbed in the back by people like Plato who a year ago went round asking people to vote for him as PM

Give it a rest, it's not as if she's unique in that.

RobD

BannedInParis said:

DanSmith said:

Richard_Nabavi said:

Well, clearly the best PM of the past half-century, apart from Maggie of course, despite a spot of trouble at the end. Still, can't be sentimental: politics is a ruthless game. On to the next one, let's hope she's as good. I'm quite optimistic, I think she's a good fit for the challenges ahead. She will be very much her own woman. It won't be Continuity Cameron in style, personnel or policy. We shall see how it turns out.

Blair clearly better than Cameron.

Chilcott was *last week*, man.

The referendum was less than three weeks ago.............

PlatoSaid

RobD said:

HurstLlama said:

Now, looking to the future; does anyone know what TM's attitude is to cats? We saw a picture on here earlier with Cameron seeming to discuss policy with Larry on his lap (a photo, which had it been publicised a month ago, might have swung the referendum result his way). Which way will the new Prime Minister swing? Will she be pro-Larry or will she be the Cruella de Vill as per that slot-gobbed, money-grabbing, old trout a la Mrs Blair.

Or May might turn out to be similar to the Cat Lady from the Simpsons

More Catbert, I suspect.

glw

AndyJS said:

RobD said:

AndyJS said:

Cameron is a nice man but as a country we have to move on from being governed by the 7%.

The first I've heard of the 7%?

The privately educated. Nothing wrong with them as people but the other 93% deserve better opportunities.

On average they ought to make up no more than 7% of MPs, ministers etc. Not bag most of the top jobs. Until that's fixed don't expect the public to like them.

Paul_Bedfordshire

Cyclefree said:

Bob__Sykes said:

DaemonBarber said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

I'm doing my best to not cry like a disgraced televangelist

Permission for top lip to wobble; granted.

I'm really quite emotional about all this. I have ranted and railed at times, but I was "with him" generally from day 1 when Howard announced he was quitting. That's 11 years ago, and that's more than a quarter of my lifetime.

What a stupid, stupid waste of a generally sound Premiership.

It is quite something how many British Tory PMs have - in the end - been destroyed by the EU issue: Thatcher, Major, Cameron i.e. all of them since Heath who took us in.

And how many other Tory leaders/would be leaders have had to or felt they needed to define themselves around the EU issue: Clarke, Portillo, IDS, Hague.

It is odd that the EU issue has been so toxic for the Tories when - arguably - it is Labour voters who have felt more of the disadvantages of being in the EU.

Discuss.........

I would say Heath was also destroyed by the Europe issue. Firstly if he hadn't gone into the EU the industrial strife would not have been as bad and secondly he was out by a handful of votes - and would probably have got them if senior tories including a former cabinet minister were not advising people to vote Labour in the 74 elections.

The majority of Tory MPs voted to stay out and Heath only got the legislation narrowly through with the help of Labour Europhiles like Woy.

That poisoned the party for 41 years, dividing it into Europhiles and Eurosceptics. That is over now and the intellectual energy can be focused on more useful things.