[Closed] IDS has resigned...

IDS to UKIP FTW

Is that good or bad or just being dramatic? 😛

Most likely in protest that the cuts didn't go deep enough.

He is an odious little man

I don't believe it.

Looks like an evil garden gnome.
Good riddence and the swear filter would go mental if I used exactly what I thought of him

I'm struggling to believe he hasn't got some ulterior motive.
Leadership bid soon?

I think the correct phrase is a "Jeremy Hunt"

Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith resigns, citing concerns over changes to disability benefits

Just the rest of them to go.

Just the rest of them to go.

Yeah right, I can't believe IDS has any sliver of a concience, more likely he has something expensive lined up for an alternative career

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You have spelt 'cuts' wrong.

Maybe he wants to be untainted by this car-crash budget so he can return as a Tory leader contender?

at least we know how to celebrate

Holy crap. It looks like he has.

Wow. This could have some serious repercussions!

Good press release, but I still can't believe that he means a word of it, unprincipled little c***

Tories are being a more effective opposition to the government than the Labour Party at the moment.

Time to jump ship in preparation for the new king coz the current pro-EU PM and gang will soon go. 😛

wwaswas - Member
Tories are being a more effective opposition to the government than the Labour Party at the moment.

Labour Party is just taking the working class for a ride ... 😛

There are fireworks going off up the road. Coincidence? 😕

How have we ended up with politicians that even in resigning we don't believe their motives? Me included.

So he's resigned because he's not happy that they cut disability benefit. What a tory c**t.

Moment of clarity?

but yes, i suspect it's a strategic move to position for leadership - distance himself from another toxic policy that they may well be forced to u-turn on. pig facker has already said he's going within this term, Gideon will get shot down as his credibility is eroded by missing all economic targets he has set and, unlike the states, the uk wouldn't seriously considering electing a buffoon of a hair cut - mayors one thing, but really, running the country....

IDS leadership intentions ? Na, he's tried that if you remember.

It's OK he's been unemployed before,

I have been unemployed twice in my life so I have already done this (lived on the equivalent of £53 a week). I know what it is like to live on the breadline.

Of course he didn't mention that he was forced to slum it living on his father in law Baron Cottlesoes estate at the time

http://games.usvsth3m.com/iain-duncan-smiths-realistic-unemployment-simulator/

Skeletons about to come out of the closet?

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/ids-loses-legal-challenge-to-keep-universal-credit-101013025.html

from reading that statement it reads that he's bothered about the timing - that it was presented in the budget at the same time as the tax cuts, not that he was asked to make them in the first place... if you didn't like being asked you could have said no Ian, but you have neither balls nor brains so you went and did it, now you resign?

Rusty is right, there is probably something else going on, can't see it being a leadership bid of his own because he isn't that smart or connected? unless he's putting the boot into gideon to make sure his preferred rival has a better shot

Jesus, that's damaging words for the govt and lends credibility to all the criticism of this budget.

Trust me, this is going to be massive.

sofaboy73 - Member
... the uk wouldn't seriously considering electing a buffoon of a hair cut - mayors one thing, but really, running the country....

[b]As long as it is not Labour or pro-EU party[/b] coming back I am fine buffoon or not. 😛

Tory party too right wing for IDS?

IDS leadership intentions ? Na, he's tried that if you remember.

never under estimate the sense of over entitled self worth and delusional belief of his importance IDS has. it would be a tough sell, but i wouldn't put him past him 14 years on. he was thatchers eyre apparent after all and there's a lot of the torys that would like to continue the shirt to increasingly right wing - euro referendum and so on

either that, or as others have highlighted, possible scandal coming up??

i can't for one moment think, as the architect of welfare to work and universal credit, he would be having an attack of consciousness!

O.o

His statement reads like he's had an epiphany. Road to Damascus type of thing. However this is Iain Duncan-Sith. I sense a disturbance in the force...

It'll be so he can spend more time with his friends Michael, Boris and Nigel.

scotroutes - Member
Skeletons about to come out of the closet?

My mate was hired as an IT problem solver when IDS was trying to get universal credit back on track a few years after it was started
He said it was a disaster, the big IT companies had shafted then on the contracts and would never finish and the timetable set by IDS was completely impossible to meet, this was all passed back up and then completely ignored. Basically it was always going to be a costly distaster, especially for those most in need.
My mate left in frustration pretty sharpish, when he realised that no one would listen.

Now IDS has quit, I hope they stopped his payments from the government promptly.

I'm of the view that he should have gone down the glass of brandy and revolver route, instead of writing a letter. The selfish bastard.

I'm struggling to believe he hasn't got some ulterior motive.

Brexit

I'm of the view that he should have gone down the glass of brandy and revolver route, instead of writing a letter. The selfish bastard.

Along with the large proportion of the government....... we can dream

Conscience or a political move because of his stand on Brexit and dislike for Gideon?

Hmm, people with no collective memory of what IDS has been saying for years shouting 'I know **** all but will jump on any tory bashing bandwagon' in 'jumping on bandwagon' shocker!

http://www.spectator.co.uk/2014/01/the-return-of-compassionate-conservatism/

Has to be political, discredit the pro-EU tories, and position himself for the future.

open warfare within the party over Brexit, disability dissension and a majority of 12, though turkies don't usually vote for christmas it's interesting times ahead.

Hmm, people with no collective memory of what IDS has been saying for years shouting 'I know **** all but will jump on any tory bashing bandwagon' in 'jumping on bandwagon' shocker!

[url= http://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/one-in-five-benefit-related-deaths-involved-sanctions-admits-dwp/ ]Here's a reason why I'm glad to see IDS go.[/url]