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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 07:08 AM Original message |
David Davis 'is to resign as MP' |
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emad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 07:14 AM Response to Original message |
1. David Cameron's days are now numbered. |
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moggie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 08:35 AM Response to Original message |
2. It looks like a safe seat for Davis |
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truebrit71 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 09:05 AM Response to Original message |
3. Good for him. A shame that a tried and true conservative had to be the one to stand up for civil... |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 09:13 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. If the official Tory position had been more ambivalent, I could see that |
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truebrit71 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 09:18 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. I think he will achieve what I outlined in my post...a much stronger position within the party.. |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 10:55 AM Response to Reply #5 |
7. I don't understand "he stuck his neck out when nobody else would" |
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truebrit71 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 03:30 PM Response to Reply #7 |
14. "he stuck his neck out when nobody else would" ...which other conservative MP's resigned.. |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 03:39 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. Resigning because your party supports the same view as yourself |
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truebrit71 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 03:55 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. The legislation passed correct? So regardless of whether you were on his "side" or not.. |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 04:09 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. So you expect all opposition politicians to resign from the Commons |
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truebrit71 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 04:27 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. What will he acheive? See may other posts about this... |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 04:49 PM Response to Reply #19 |
22. But that's not an achievement |
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T_i_B (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-13-08 06:37 AM Response to Reply #22 |
23. Kelvin Macenzie standing? |
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emad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 02:12 PM Response to Reply #5 |
11. "if I were David Cameron I would be shitting myself"...Bullseye! |
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truebrit71 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 03:32 PM Response to Reply #11 |
15. He may very well be doing this out for some of the right reasons.. |
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non sociopath skin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 04:37 PM Response to Reply #4 |
20. It has "publicity stunt" written all over it ... |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 04:43 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. Clegg said Davis told him last night, after the vote |
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fedsron2us (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-13-08 10:18 PM Response to Reply #20 |
24. Maybe but it has been gifted to him |
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non sociopath skin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-14-08 06:18 AM Response to Reply #24 |
25. As is anyone who expects a Tory government to repeal it. |
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fedsron2us (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-14-08 07:34 AM Response to Reply #25 |
26. Which Tory Government would that be |
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non sociopath skin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-14-08 08:38 AM Response to Reply #26 |
27. I can't speak for the Guardian ... |
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LeftishBrit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 10:28 AM Response to Original message |
6. Just wow |
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Anarcho-Socialist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 01:17 PM Response to Original message |
8. I suspect it's a message to David Cameron |
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moggie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 01:25 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. Set Paxo on him! n/t |
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tjwmason (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 01:45 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. The Tories have both authoritarian and libertarian wings |
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emad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 02:15 PM Response to Reply #8 |
12. Nope, new Shadow Home Secretary Dominic Grieve told Snow |
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Anarcho-Socialist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 02:59 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. On the Channel 4 interview |
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