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Bad Dog

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8. I heard it on The Last Leg

Reply to Ken Burch (Original post)

Sat Mar 19, 2016, 09:06 AM

Mar 2016

Adam Hills cracked open a bottle of champagne, and yes IDS is a terrible person who was the architect of these cuts. Yet even he is not so awful that he would sanction them along with tax giveaways for the very rich, which is what Osborne did.

It says something when a rightwinger like IDS thinks Cameron and Osborne's policies are just too harsh.

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Iain Duncan-Smith has resigned after public outcry against proposed disability benefit cuts. [View all] Ken Burch Mar 2016 OP

Surprised it took this long. He was an embarassment. nt TheDormouse Mar 2016 #1

IIRC, he was such a dead loss as Tory leader he had to resign without ever fighting an election Ken Burch Mar 2016 #2

We've been discussing it a bit here: Denzil_DC Mar 2016 #3

Nadine Dorries has been having a Twitter meltdown about it all. Denzil_DC Mar 2016 #4

Nadine Dorries and IDS deserve each other LeftishBrit Mar 2016 #7

An exchange of letters. Denzil_DC Mar 2016 #5

This is as though Paul Ryan or Rick Santorum resigned over a policy being a teensy bit too harsh LeftishBrit Mar 2016 #6

I heard it on The Last Leg Bad Dog Mar 2016 #8

IDS's replacement is Stephen Crabb. Denzil_DC Mar 2016 #9

Aaand beware, journos - already there's mischief afoot on his Wikipedia page: Denzil_DC Mar 2016 #10

Wow - 50 edits to his page between the election and last night; over 100 today muriel_volestrangler Mar 2016 #11

Cameron's Geoffrey Howe moment? forest444 Mar 2016 #12

British politics right now.... T_i_B Mar 2016 #13

Sorry to hear that, TiB. forest444 Mar 2016 #14

That would be/is the worst in terms of division and electorally suicidal tendencies LeftishBrit Mar 2016 #15