UK Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon resigns - UPDATE: Chief Whip Williamson appointed

Zellia · Nov 2, 2017

Another Tory shambles? Someone pass me the popcorn!

Jackpot said:
Another home run by May!

Tories ever the party of meritocracy? Hahaha, pull the other one, it has bells on.

DeadJoshWalking · Nov 2, 2017

So many sickening things about this development, first you've got the chief whip pretty much publically blackmailing himself into a cabinet position, then you've got all sides of house acting like this should be the end of it because Fallon's left the cabinet...he's still an MP! What standards do the armed forces deserve from a minister than his constituents don't deserve from an MP?!

Dan · Nov 2, 2017

DeadJoshWalking said:
So many sickening things about this development, first you've got the chief whip pretty much publically blackmailing himself into a cabinet position, then you've got all sides of house acting like this should be the end of it because Fallon's left the cabinet...he's still an MP! What standards do the armed forces deserve from a minister than his constituents don't deserve from an MP?!

There are members of Parliament who have done a lot worse than Fallon and remained an MP.

Geoff · Nov 2, 2017

Mewn said:
Another Tory shambles? Someone pass me the popcorn!

Tories ever the party of meritocracy? Hahaha, pull the other one, it has bells on.

It's not completely ridiculous. Thatcher, Major, Hague - all came from if not poor then decidedly average backgrounds. It's only recently that the Eton and Harrow crowd regained their positions.

DeadJoshWalking · Nov 2, 2017

Dan said:
There are members of Parliament who have done a lot worse than Fallon and remained an MP.

Ones who publicly admitted that their behaviour made them unfit for another position in the government?

Noroi_Kisaragi · Nov 2, 2017

I guess you could say....this claim was something for him to Fallon

Dambrosi · Nov 2, 2017

Noroi_Kisaragi said:
I guess you could say....this claim was something for him to Fallon

Unfortunately, the name is pronounced "fah-lun", so the joke doesn't quite work.

Better to laugh at the Tories eating each other alive instead.

Dan · Nov 2, 2017

Dambrosi said:
Better to laugh at the Tories eating each other alive instead.

Makes a change from the last two years of Labour doing so..

Dan · Nov 2, 2017

the "it must have been more...."