The leak

[JohnD]

find out why the quality of today's politicians is so low.

Theresa's cabinet is staffed by Remainder B politicians, because the A team, the B team, and the First Reserves have mostly been sacked or resigned, or, more wisely, refused to serve.

Imagine having to put dummies like Gove and Fox in senior posts! And Buffoon Johnson!

Barrel, of, bottom, the, scraping.

 

[JohnD]

"Theresa May now sits at having had 42 government or cabinet ministers resign or be sacked since the 2017 General Election. Here’s every single one of them and why they resigned (clue, a lot of them resigned because they can’t support her disastrous Brexit deal – including two Brexit Secretaries).


2019

Gavin Williamson MP, Secretary of State for Defence. Sacked on 1 May over the leaking of national security information (the SECOND Defence Secretary to sacked! )


Chris Heaton-Harris MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State
for Exiting the European Union. Resigned on 3 April in opposition to Theresa May’s approach to Brexit (He was meant to be in charge of preparing for a no-deal Brexit )


Nigel Adams MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Wales. Resigned on 3 April in opposition to Theresa May’s approach to Brexit.


Richard Harrington MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Business and Industry. Resigned on 25 March to vote against the government whip.


Steve Brine MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Public Health and Primary Care. Resigned on 25 March to vote against the government whip.


Rt Hon Alistair Burt MP, Minister of State for the Middle East and North Africa. Resigned on 25 March to vote against the government whip.


Sarah Newton MP, Minister of State for Disabled People. Resigned on 13 March to vote against the government whip.


Paul Masterton MP, Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Scotland Office. Resigned on 13 March to vote against the government whip (the only Scottish Tory to do so and vote against a no-deal Brexit).


George Eustice MP, Minister of State for Agriculture, Fisheries & Food. Resigned on 28 February in opposition to Theresa May’s approach to Brexit.


Alberto Costa MP, Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Scotland Office. Resigned on 27 February to table an amendment protecting rights of EU citizens (the UK government opposed the amendment).


Craig Tracey MP, Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Department for International Development. Resigned 15 January to vote against Theresa May’s Brexit deal.


Eddie Hughes MP, Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Resigned 15 January to vote against Theresa May’s Brexit deal.


Gareth Johnson MP, Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Department for Exiting the European Union. Resigned 14 January to vote against Theresa May’s Brexit deal.


2018

Will Quince MP, Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Ministry of Defence. Resigned on 8 December in opposition to Theresa May’s approach to Brexit.


Sam Gyimah MP, Minister of State for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation. Resigned on 30 November in opposition to Theresa May’s approach to Brexit.


Rehman Chishti MP, Prime Ministerial Trade Envoy to Pakistan. Resigned on 15 November in opposition to Theresa May’s approach to Brexit.


Rt Hon Dominic Raab MP, Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union. Resigned on 15 November in opposition to Theresa May’s approach to Brexit (the SECOND Brexit Secretary to quit).


Shailesh Vara MP, Minister of State for Northern Ireland. Resigned on 15 November in opposition to Theresa May’s approach to Brexit.


Rt Hon Esther McVey MP, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions. Resigned on 15 November in opposition to Theresa May’s approach to Brexit.


Suella Braverman MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union. Resigned on 15 November in opposition to Theresa May’s approach to Brexit.


Anne-Marie Trevelyan MP, Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Department for Education. Resigned on 15 November in opposition to Theresa May’s approach to Brexit.


Ranil Jayawardena MP, Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Department for Work and Pensions. Resigned on 15 November in opposition to Theresa May’s approach to Brexit.


Jo Johnson MP Minister of State for Transport. Resigned on 9 November in opposition to Theresa May’s approach to Brexit.


Tracey Crouch MP, Minister for Sport, Civil Society and Loneliness. Resigned on 1 November in opposition to the government u-turning on FOBT policy.


Scott Mann MP, Parliamentary Private Secretary to HM Treasury. Resigned on 16 July in opposition to Theresa May’s approach to Brexit.


Guto Bebb MP, Minister for Defence Procurement. Resigned on 16 July.


Robert Courts MP, Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Foreign Office. Resigned on 15 July in opposition to Theresa May’s approach to Brexit.


Andrew Griffiths MP, Minister of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. Resigned on 13 July on allegations of misconduct.


Steve Baker MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union. Resigned on 9 July in opposition to Theresa May’s approach to Brexit.


Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs. Resigned on 9 July in opposition to Theresa May’s approach to Brexit.


Conor Burns MP, Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Foreign Office. Resigned on 9 July in opposition to Theresa May’s approach to Brexit.


Chris Green MP, Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Department for Transport. Resigned on 9 July in opposition to Theresa May’s approach to Brexit.


Rt Hon David Davis MP, Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union. Resigned on 8 July in opposition to Theresa May’s approach to Brexit (despite being the Brexit Secretary supposedly in charge of it).


Rt Hon Greg Hands MP, Minister of State for International Trade. Resigned on 21 June.


Phillip Lee MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Justice. Resigned on 12 June in opposition to Theresa May’s approach to Brexit.


Rt Hon Amber Rudd MP, Home Secretary. Resigned on 29 April, accepting the responsibility for Theresa May’s hostile environment policy and the Windrush Scandal (but is already back in government).


Rt Hon Justine Greening MP, Secretary of State for Education. Resigned on 8 January.


Rt Hon James Brokenshire MP, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. Resigned on 8 January due to health grounds.


2017

Rt Hon Damian Green MP, First Secretary of State. Resigned on 20 December after being found to have lied.


Rt Hon Priti Patel MP, Secretary of State for International Development. Sacked on 8 November over secret meetings with the Israeli government.


Christopher Pincher MP, Comptroller of the Household. Resigned on 5 November over allegations of inappropriate behaviour.


Sir Michael Fallon MP, Secretary of State for Defence. Resigned on 1 November over allegations of inappropriate behaviour."

https://www.snp.org/just-how-many-ministers-have-been-sacked-or-quit-theresa-mays-government/

this list issued 1st May 2019, it may already be out of date

You won't recognise some of the names, because they were drawn from so far down the second division.

 

[JohnD]

Wikipedia has a slightly different list, and says "She has currently had 47 resignations" and qualifies it saying "This is a list of resignations from the second government formed by Prime Minister Theresa May. Since forming a Conservative minority government on 11 June 2017,"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_resignations_from_the_second_May_ministry

Understandably, it's difficult to keep track.

 

[Notch7]

And yet more MPs have actually left the Labour party to start a new party than Tory.

Is there something toxic in Labour?

Perhaps it isnt the broad church the leader claims it is

 

[transam]

And how do YOU know that actually happened?

Of course there is another question that isn't being asked because of these diversion tactics...

If the UK is such a 'world leader' (and apparently everyone is queuing up to give us those wonderful trade deals), how come we don't have the technological know how to set up our own 5G network?

Ball cocks

irrelevant to the leak caper

 

[Notch7]

UK is such a 'world leader

Well said

 

[ban-all-sheds]

A bit of advice Notch - not everybody here is as challenged as you, and so will see what a pathetic bit of selective quoting you did there.

 

[sodthisforfun]

A bit of advice Notch - not everybody here is as challenged as you, and so will see what a pathetic bit of selective quoting you did there.

Go on, be a sport and challenge yourself. See if you can spend a week getting your point over without the personal insults. It IS possible you know!

 

[Notch7]

A bit of advice Notch - not everybody here is as challenged as you, and so will see what a pathetic bit of selective quoting you did there.

I do appreciate you taking time to provide your most insightful advice, which everybody on this forum knows how valuable that is

 

[Notch7]

Theresa May now sits at having had 42 government or cabinet ministers resign or be sacked

And yet there she is, still prime minister.

 

[ellal]

A bit of advice Notch - not everybody here is as challenged as you, and so will see what a pathetic bit of selective quoting you did there.

That's what you get from 'flip flop' notchy...

Although one could be forgiven for thinking that a certain group of disparate 'users' take it in turns to post their 'thoughts' via passed around usernames

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Go on, be a sport and challenge yourself. See if you can spend a week getting your point over without the personal insults. It IS possible you know!

The problem is that there are people here who are so thick, or so disgusting, that it is simply impossible to accurately describe just how thick, or how disgusting, they are without using terms which they find insulting.

 

[Ihavenojob]

The problem is that there are people here who are so thick,

B-A-S

or so disgusting,

B-A-S

that it is simply impossible to accurately describe just how thick, or how disgusting, they are without using terms which they find insulting.

B-A-s-hole again

 

[sodthisforfun]

The problem is that there are people here who are so thick, or so disgusting, that it is simply impossible to accurately describe just how thick, or how disgusting, they are without using terms which they find insulting.

Here's a pretty picture of a duck for you.

 

[Notch7]

The problem is that there are people here who are so thick, or so disgusting, that it is simply impossible to accurately describe just how thick, or how disgusting, they are without using terms which they find insulting.

Its lucky us thick and disgusting people are on here...........it gives you a focus to vent your anger.

If it was kept bottled up, anything could happen.