David Cameron resigns

[Andy_Ross]

Oh. I didn't know you could do that.

Yup, Prime Minister isn't an elected post, it's whoever can command a majority of votes in the House.

 

[gypsyjackson]

Cameron changed the rules on calling early elections, it's difficult to do now. It's one of the first things he did when the coalition got in to protect his government from having the rug pulled by his coalition partners.

And some would say vice versa - LD popularity plummeted pretty quickly (due to their voters generally thinking they were to the left of Labour), so Cameron could potentially have called an early election and gotten rid of them.

 

[catsmate]

Give those two blokes a Scutum, a Gladius,and a Pilum and send them up to Hadrian's Wall........

See if they can find the Legio IX Hispana while they're there.

 

[catsmate]

yo don't knock it, at least its not that foreign weather.

Exactly. All that sunshine, warmth and lack of rain. It probably causes cancer...

 

[catsmate]

I thihk closing the borders is moot anyway. Refugees are starting to cross the Channel by boat.

Trump^TM brand floating fences.

 

[Andy_Ross]

See if they can find the Legio IX Hispana while they're there.

Nijmegen?

Don't tell me, you read The Eagle if the Ninth when you were a youngster?

 

[catsmate]

Nijmegen?

Don't tell me, you read The Eagle if the Ninth when you were a youngster?

Actually no, I skimmed the book a few years ago but they're a fixture in ISOT sci-fi.

And Nijmegen is old hat; Palestine or Armenia are now the cutting-edge of speculation about where they died.

 

[Andy_Ross]

If they died, they may gave just bern disbanded.

 

[Degeneve]

I don't know whether this quote is really from Winston Churchill but in Cameron's case it sounds really true:

“The trouble with committing political suicide is that you live to regret it.” (https://twitter.com/i_intelligence/status/747156999222235136 )

 

[Francesca R]

Theresa May has edged out Boris Johnson at the bookies.

(Yes the bookies don't have a good recent track record)

 

[TubbaBlubba]

Theresa May has edged out Boris Johnson at the bookies.

(Yes the bookies don't have a good recent track record)

BoJo never dies!

 

[Garrison]

Theresa May has edged out Boris Johnson at the bookies.

(Yes the bookies don't have a good recent track record)

Which may come as a relief to Boris, who I'm pretty sure is right up there with John Major in winning when he expected to lose and having no clue what to do with the victory(seriously look at the 1992 election, the Conservatives really expected to lose).

 

[catsmate]

There's only one real choice: Iain Duncan Smith.

 

[Francesca R]

(seriously look at the 1992 election, the Conservatives really expected to lose).

There is a fun fact about that election, the Major-led Tories won the most votes in general election history

 

[GlennB]

Theresa May has edged out Boris Johnson at the bookies.

(Yes the bookies don't have a good recent track record)

Glad I took 8-1 about May when it was available. Meanwhile, apart from 2020 itself, 2016 is favourite for the date of the next GE.

 

[angrysoba]

There is a fun fact about that election, the Major-led Tories won the most votes in general election history

1992 had a high turnout. If I recall correctly John Major was famed for his electric charisma and really galvanized the electorate.

 

[Francesca R]

It woz the Sun wot won it, Neil Kinnock was a turnip-head on their front page IIRC with "If Kinnock wins today will the last person out turn the lights off"

Not my fault I would have voted Kinnock but I was 17 . . . .

ETA not a turnip. This is why eye-witness testimony is so bad.

http://www.sunnation.co.uk/s3/sunnation-prod/uploads/2015/03/if-kinnock-wins-today.jpg

 

[gypsyjackson]

It woz the Sun wot won it, Neil Kinnock was a turnip-head on their front page IIRC with "If Kinnock wins today will the last person out turn the lights off"

Not my fault I would have voted Kinnock but I was 17 . . . .

ETA not a turnip. This is why eye-witness testimony is so bad.

http://www.sunnation.co.uk/s3/sunnation-prod/uploads/2015/03/if-kinnock-wins-today.jpg

The Turnip was Graham Taylor.

If I recall correctly, the P3 that day or the day before was 'if labour wins, this is what you'll get on P3', accompanied by a somewhat more mature lady than they are reputed to feature.

 

[MikeG]

There's only one real choice: Iain Duncan Smith.

He has his talents. They don't include being a party leader. The Tories don't have a long list of people they gave a second chance of leadership to........in fact, I can feel a Trivia Quiz question coming on.

 

[Darat]

He has his talents. They don't include being a party leader. The Tories don't have a long list of people they gave a second chance of leadership to........in fact, I can feel a Trivia Quiz question coming on.

Or being able to run a government department!