Ding, dong, IDS is gone!

[davidgillon]

Seriously considered opening bottle of champagne. Settled for white wine as the rest of the Tories are still there.

Comments

[davidgillon]

There's multiple levels of stuff going on, he actually says he'd have been happy with the cut itself, it's using it to fund a tax cut for the wealthy that sticks in his craw (and that they really should have gone after pensioners instead). But, he's never liked the Chancellor since Osborne said IDS wasn't smart enough to be a minister, and he's also one of the leaders of the Tory anti-EU camp, whereas Osborne and the PM are the leaders of the pro camp.

[capri0mni]

GAH!! *facepalm*

I'll hold off on celebrating on this end, until I know he won't be replaced by someone worse...

[davidgillon]

He's been replaced by a guy called Crabb, who no one has heard of, since he was Welsh Secretary. He has a working class background, very rare for a Tory, unfortunately it's a "we had to choose between food and clothes, but my mother pulled herself up by her bootstraps..." kind of story.

[capri0mni]

hmpf. In my experience, the people who tell those sorts of stories about themselves tend to be the least empathetic.

[jesse_the_k]

Frex Clarence Thomas

[capri0mni]

Exactly!