Beware the March of IDS

[SueEllen]

Oh only that...

My electric bill is around £200 per month, so there I am done - I can't live on 53 quid per week, but a posh Tory MP whose suit should be more expensive than all my cloth combined said he could ...

Granted he did the right thing to resign, but he should have done it long time ago, but better late than never

I'm laughing.

I use to live in the cold.

[AtW]

I'm laughing. I use to live in the cold.

I am from Siberia, I like it hot

[darmstadt]

I think there's probably a bit more behind it such as: Iain Duncan Smith lost court battle to suppress publication of potentially embarrassing DWP memos, days before resignation | UK Politics | News | The Independent

And then there's the 8.45 million he signed off for this load of old bollocks while cutting the funds to some really rather helpful schemes: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/w...kplace-pension

[SueEllen]

I don't think those are the issues as he's a good liar and is able to get bad things attached to junior ministers who are sacked.

There is apparently more tulip happening in the next year that will appear so it's reckoned he or whoever took over from him only has 12 months max in the job.

[AtW]

"Iain Duncan Smith resigned from the cabinet because he was frustrated that Downing Street and the Treasury refused to consider controversial cuts to universal pensioner benefits, it has been claimed."

"Senior figures inside the DWP said the PIP reforms were the “least worst” option handed to the department. The Guardian understands that one of the possibilities being discussed was a cut to benefits for disabled children that would have saved £0.5bn. "

Iain Duncan Smith quit due to Treasury refusal to consider pensioner cuts | Politics | The Guardian

[jamesbrown]

"The Guardian understands that one of the possibilities being discussed was a cut to benefits for disabled children that would have saved £0.5bn. "

Competence is the salient issue here. Anyone that juxtaposes a cut in CGT next to one in disability benefits (let alone for disabled children ), and can't see the tulipstorm coming their way, probably shouldn't be in gov't. Doing it once was bad enough, but this is the second time in as many budgets, and it points to a serious lack of competence.

[AtW]

Competence is the salient issue here. Anyone that juxtaposes a cut in CGT next to one in disability benefits (let alone for disabled children ), and can't see the tulipstorm coming their way, probably shouldn't be in gov't. Doing it once was bad enough, but this is the second time in as many budgets, and it points to a serious lack of competence.

Tory Scum Gidiot thought that he'd get a lot of credit for increasing taxes "on the rich" and then buy back those middle class votes by increase thresholds (in the future!) a bit, whilst cutting tiny payments to disabled (even children were considered!)

[NigelJK]

I can't live on 53 quid per week

You're not supposed to. It's a payment hold you over until you find work.

Also it's worth remembering that no politician spends their own money, it's our money that we entrust to them to spend wisely. For my money the reds always prop up their own pet projects and the blues always feather their own nest for when they 'resign'.
IDS was always touted as the best Tory PM we never had.

[SlipTheJab]

I forgot to resign over benefit cuts last year, confirms Duncan Smith

[DimPrawn]

It's just a distraction by the Tories, to deflect attention from the EU, immigration and Brexit.