The David Cameron Resignation Thread

[WaffenThinMint]

13 months without a Lib Dem brake and all hell breaks loose.

Anthony Eden will be chuckling.

 

I'm sure the politics of the British Isles will survive quite comfortably without another 13 years let alone 13 months of your shower of Tory brown nosing & serial noncing irrelevances to the festering body politic.

[ayrmad]

Priti Patel at 20's, ffs, surely I've got as much chance as that halfwit of being the next PM.

[Deanburn Dave]

The EU decision and the departure of Cameron will lead to carnage in the Tory party. Messier than a babies nappy after it's eaten it's first daal curry.

[Ivo den Bieman]

Sam Allardyce in as caretaker whilst the Queen and the UK board look for a viable long term replacement

[Savage Henry]

To be fair to Cameron, it was a ballsy move. He knew his legacy would be rubbish end if he lost either of the referenda. And it has been.

[Deanburn Dave]

Ruth Davidson probably wishing she had stayed quiet........she could have been PM by default.

[Deanburn Dave]

Tories fighting to be PM is like a group of bald men fighting over a comb.

[Tamdunk]

To be fair to Cameron, it was a ballsy move. He knew his legacy would be rubbish end if he lost either of the referenda. And it has been.

His legacy will be fucking a pig in a west ham villa top.

[KnightswoodBear]

Sam Allardyce in as caretaker whilst the Queen and the UK board look for a viable long term replacement

 

'Arry, surely?

 

Jermaine Defoe and Nico Krankjar in as emergency cabinet loan signings.

 

edit:  Nico's a furriner, so he's out.  Crouchy in.

[Sherrif John Bunnell]

'Arry, surely?

 

Jermaine Defoe and Nico Krankjar in as emergency cabinet loan signings.

 

Tal Ben Haim as Chancellor.

[Savage Henry]

'Arry, surely?

Jermaine Defoe and Nico Krankjar in as emergency cabinet loan signings.

edit: Nico's a furriner, so he's out. Crouchy in.

No chance. He made far too much cashing in on bungs from a dodgy agent based in the south of France. He would have voted remain (for a fee).

[KnightswoodBear]

No chance. He made far too much cashing in on bungs from a dodgy agent based in the south of France. He would have voted remain (for a fee).

 

Triffic referendum, triffic.

[Mr Bairn]

I suspect that when we look back on David Cameron's time in office he'll be rather fondly remembered as a good prime minister who made one fatal mistake.

 

He inherited an economy that was in dire straits, made some painful and bloody but ultimately necessary Thatcheresque cuts and managed to restore the economy into a fairly good place when compared to other European countries. Brexit has undone much of that though and our economy is back to the panic levels of the latter part of the previous decade, if not even worse.

 

The interesting thing now is that if Corbyn stays on, you're likely going to have a very right wing Eurosceptic Tory party against a very left wing Socialist Labour party. The people of Britain tend to vote for whoever can capture the centre ground. Boris Johnson could do so based on personal vote but if it's a Theresa May or a Michael Gove or god forbid a Nicky Morgan then the 2020 election could be fought between two candidates as far apart on the spectrum as any in decades. This could allow for a mini revival of the Liberal Democrats, or perhaps record levels of apathy

[Bishop Briggs]

Ruth Davidson probably wishing she had stayed quiet........she could have been PM by default.

 

How? She would need to find a MP in a safe Tory seat to resign. The constituency association would have to select her and that's not guaranteed.

[Skyline Drifter]

I suspect that when we look back on David Cameron's time in office he'll be rather fondly remembered as a good prime minister who made one fatal mistake.

 

He inherited an economy that was in dire straits, made some painful and bloody but ultimately necessary Thatcheresque cuts and managed to restore the economy into a fairly good place when compared to other European countries. Brexit has undone much of that though and our economy is back to the panic levels of the latter part of the previous decade, if not even worse.

 

The interesting thing now is that if Corbyn stays on, you're likely going to have a very right wing Eurosceptic Tory party against a very left wing Socialist Labour party. The people of Britain tend to vote for whoever can capture the centre ground. Boris Johnson could do so based on personal vote but if it's a Theresa May or a Michael Gove or god forbid a Nicky Morgan then the 2020 election could be fought between two candidates as far apart on the spectrum as any in decades. This could allow for a mini revival of the Liberal Democrats, or perhaps record levels of apathy

This more or less. I appreciate it's not a popular view in Scotland but for me Cameron's government, both with and without the Lib Dems has gone an awful long way to setting right the economy and fixing a lot of ills. I think he's done a good job and I liked the way he fought (and won) to keep Scotland in the UK. Proof will be seen in the time to come but I suspect he got the best deal he could feasibly have gotten out of Europe too. Unfortunately he's been committed to giving the most important decision on the future of this country to a vast population of people who largely don't understand the issues, nor how they can be solved if indeed there are problems and instead relied on a "Keep Johnny Foreigner Out" rhetoric that appealed to the basest values of middle England in particular.

 

Unfortunately he'll end up having been at the helm when the UK left the EU and probably the knock on effect of the break up of the UK itself. He doesn't deserve that legacy. For me the membership of the EU is far too important to be left to a 45m population who haven't got the slightest clue how it actually works. There is a reason why almost all the politicians, statesmen and business leaders thought we should stay, and it's not just because it lines their pockets. The future is going to be very different and for me unlikely to be in any way better. Very disappointed.

[Joey Jo Jo Junior Shabadoo]

The next PM will be the Davie Moyes of British political history.

Michael Howard II.

[vikingTON]

As a Britnat No voter who cheerleaded the outcome of the last referendum, you're really not in a position to lecture on which decisions are 'too big' to be determined by an idiotic population.

[Sooky]

Cameron has done a lot of good during his time as PM. He successfully led a coalition government when everyone said it would collapse. Against all odds, he then increased his majority and won a Tory majority for the first time since 1992. He successfully defended Scotland's place in the UK and he was a champion of same-sex marriage, defying many of his party.

If this referendum had a swing of about 2%, he'd have kept us in the EU and - I reckon - would go down as a fairly successful PM in modern history when he stepped down of his own choosing.

Unfortunately for him, this was one gamble too far. This is also all he'll be remembered by.

[MarkoRaj]

This more or less. I appreciate it's not a popular view in Scotland but for me Cameron's government, both with and without the Lib Dems has gone an awful long way to setting right the economy and fixing a lot of ills. I think he's done a good job and I liked the way he fought (and won) to keep Scotland in the UK. Proof will be seen in the time to come but I suspect he got the best deal he could feasibly have gotten out of Europe too. Unfortunately he's been committed to giving the most important decision on the future of this country to a vast population of people who largely don't understand the issues, nor how they can be solved if indeed there are problems and instead relied on a "Keep Johnny Foreigner Out" rhetoric that appealed to the basest values of middle England in particular.

Unfortunately he'll end up having been at the helm when the UK left the EU and probably the knock on effect of the break up of the UK itself. He doesn't deserve that legacy. For me the membership of the EU is far too important to be left to a 45m population who haven't got the slightest clue how it actually works. There is a reason why almost all the politicians, statesmen and business leaders thought we should stay, and it's not just because it lines their pockets. The future is going to be very different and for me unlikely to be in any way better. Very disappointed.

You just agreed with a troll.

The tories have done nothing to fix the economy. We are further in debt than we were when they took over.

Cameron will be remembered as a pig fucking posh twat who did f**k all for anyone apart from his big business mates, just like his predecessors

[Cerberus]

Dave's legacy-