Amber Rudd resigns and then returns (and resigns again)
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Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Have we always been obsessed with ensuring the same turds get the top jobs, surely more of a gap between "resigning in disgrace" and another appointment to cabinet used to exist?
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
That, or a shortage of otherwise suitable candidates.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
The party positively encourages them. What Rudd did was absolutely in line with Tory policy - "treat them like shit, make their lives miserable, but try not to get caught". And of course, if they get caught, there's some for-public-consumption show of half-hearted condemnation, then just as soon as they think the coast is clear, they're cheered back into the front ranks, having taken their lumps in the wilderness for doing what had to be done.
It's pretty vile, and shows just how cynically unconcerned the whole shower are for the crap they dished out - on Windrush, and everything else. Same with Duncan Smith, same with McVey lying in parliament - you can almost hear the sniggers as they mouth the necessary platitudes.
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
There are 300 odd of them, they can't find another mug to stand quietly and let the civil service do the jobs behind them?
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Most of that 300 are either mindless organ banks or too toxic to ever be allowed into the public eye.
can't believe the awful Rudd is back in the game, shows how desperate May must be - can you imagine, for instance, getting fired from Dixons for calling a customer a c**t, then being rehired a few months later? it's the perfect analogy even if I say so myself
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
When no one else will take the job you give it to the candidate who will
like you mean Dixons would rehire you if sacked? I think not
This is just utter desperation
This is just utter desperation
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Well spotted
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
No. When was that? 1918?
Argonia
Happy go licky
Rudd has fucking criticised the UN probing the poverty which is endemic in the UK. Fucking bollockheads.
Amber Rudd condemns UN poverty report in combative return to frontline politics
Amber Rudd condemns UN poverty report in combative return to frontline politics
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
It uses 'political language' apparently. Well, you're a politician so that's probably something you should be able to deal with. Also a response to the actual content of the report might be appropriate in the circumstances.
Trouble is the likes of Rudd probably play well with the tory faithful. That quote that's doing the rounds about how people in Hastings just want a nice place to claim dole and shoot up, that's probably how a lot of people in her constituency genuinely feel. I'm not sure publicising that remark is going to damage her in the way people think it will. It may be abhorrent to us as decent people, but there are plenty of people who aren't remotely decent. Especially in the home counties.
not-bono-ever
meh
It takes a special kinda person to want to take on a role like this in a toxic administration- they are losers - maybe not financially or whatevs - but there is something unhealthy and unsatisfied gnawing away at them inside.
The Octagon
Stop...Hammertime
The edit to the title kinda screws friendofdorothy there 
friendofdorothy
Solidarity against neoliberalism!
depressing but not surprising.The edit to the title kinda screws friendofdorothy there
GarveyLives
Well-Known Member
She is still complaining:
"The work and pensions secretary, Amber Rudd, plans to lodge a formal complaint with the UN about the damning report on austerity in Britain by its special rapporteur on extreme poverty, Philip Alston ..."
Amber Rudd to lodge complaint over UN's austerity report
"The work and pensions secretary, Amber Rudd, plans to lodge a formal complaint with the UN about the damning report on austerity in Britain by its special rapporteur on extreme poverty, Philip Alston ..."
Amber Rudd to lodge complaint over UN's austerity report
"Rudd is said to be particularly frustrated by Alston’s accusation that the government was responsible for the “systematic immiseration of a significant part of the British population”.
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