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What does it take to get a Labour Minister to resign?
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They seem to cling on like limpets, whether its gross incompetence or sleaze, you just can't rid of them!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4946566.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4946566.stm
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Although with Clarke it WAS more Tony's fault, he did tell Tony. And Tony didn't act tbh.
Charles Clarke however should go. His excuse that he doesn't want to resign because he has to put things right is laughable. Such monumental fuck-up can only have one consequence: the door.
Right on the button, or should that be trigger. :thumb:
Clarke...well he will survive, i cannot see them forcing him out or him resigning. He will survive to create policy another day.
Hewitt? Well, if she doesnt do something drastically for her image she is so gone! Jeered at a speach she gave, resoundly disliked for her attitude of more bosses less nurses and cheaper, cheaper, cheaper attitude towards NHS equipment. She may not do anything wrong apart from put her foot in her mouth but she wont survive if her image doesnt get sorted.
I agree. Clarke should go but as useless as he is the affair isn't in itself a reason for Prescott to go. Although if Prescott lies to his wife having an affair behind her back can the public trust him? But Prescott should go because he's useless not because he's had an affair.
But what happened to Labour’s campaign against Tory sleaze? What about Blair boasting that Labour would be ‘whiter than white’? Hypocrites...Labour sleaze, Ron Davies, the infamous ‘moment of madness’ and before the last election he was found lurking about in a motorway layby dogging hotspot. There's Mandelson (twice) and Blunkett (twice) - Tessa Jowell who's husband quite believably never told her about an easy few hundred grand to pay the mortgage for one of their luxury properties. And lets not forget Cherie Blair getting a conman to help her get a good deal on some flats... :rolleyes:
But like Tugger has said above, if he abused his position to give his mistress perks then he should go.
It's hardly letting Criminals escape... although 90% of the folks in the commons are criminals.
Carrington's about the only one I can remember in recent memory (and that's 1982 and the Falklands)
Bit cynical about whether he resigned due to principle or because he'd been demoted from Foreign Secretary to Leader of the House...
If they release anybody they might re-offend right?
If they release a foreign prisoner who say committed a murder and there is a risk of them re-offending then surely that risk exists regardless of what country they are in?
To me it seems as if the whole argument has roots in the racist assumption that it's worst for a British person to be their next victim rather than someone from the prisoner's home country.
Principles didn't stop him justifying the bombing of the same country on the same ground a few months earlier either... hence my allegedly comment...
Not that overt, and not racism per se.
It isn't the colour os skin that is the issue for deportations, it's the fact that they might kill/rape/rob someone you know.
This has nothing to do with reducing crime and everything to do with politics.
As for the claim that Labour offered the deceased Peter Law a peerage not to stand against his own party, I notice that the Labour Party denied it. Which probably means it's true.
And the only Labour politician who resigned on a principle was probably Estelle Morris, who left education because she said she wasn't the best person for the job. I wish Ruth Kelly could have made such a candid admission sooner.