And So It Begins....

Minister off 👇

"You and your cabinet have decided that a deal - cooked up with a Marxist who has never once in his political life, put British interests first - is better than no deal" https://t.co/or7d24tCAy

— Tamara Cohen (@tamcohen) April 3, 2019

Cabinet Resignation of The Year

Cabinet Resignation of the Year, shared by Dominic Raab and David Davis - ⁦⁦@FraserNelson⁩: “The first 2 Brexit Secretaries of 2018” #SpecAwards pic.twitter.com/cSjgWkaYB1

— Tom Newton Dunn (@tnewtondunn) November 28, 2018

Politicians definitely have some screws loose, grinning over an award for resigning is nothing to be proud of!

BoJo's Resignation Speech After PMQ

Boris Johnson’s resignation speech confirmed now for after #PMQs

— Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) July 18, 2018

Will it be a lion, or a mouse that roars?

The PPS's Are Revolting

BREAKING Scott Mann MP becomes the seventh member of the Government to quit over Theresa May's Chequers deal in the nine days since it was published https://t.co/OlFSrZONjb

— Christopher Hope (@christopherhope) July 16, 2018

Toast Is Served!

Dear PM ... Rudd resignation pic.twitter.com/4kW1ajtTvB

— Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) April 29, 2018

Going, Going..Gone!

"My appointment has become a distraction" says Toby Young's as he quits https://t.co/QO4MirZ7gk https://t.co/XXl4bMbbof

— Nick Robinson (@bbcnickrobinson) January 9, 2018

Corbyn's Resignation Timetable Is Fake News!

#bbcbreakfast is trending after @jeremycorbyn said stories suggesting he has a timetable for stepping down as @UKLabour leader are #fakenews pic.twitter.com/5sAlWWQsQ7

— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) February 9, 2017

Fear not, stories about Jeremy Corbyn's resignation timetable are fake news.

He doesn't have a timetable, his resignation will be totally unstructured and chaotic without any form of planning whatsoever!

Cameron's Medieval Tendencies

Cameron has managed to cover himself in the sticky smelly stuff, as a result of his resignation honours list, described by Tim Farron as a list "so full of cronies it would embarrass a medieval court.”

One of the most controversial names on the peerages’ list was Laura Wyld, the head of Prime Minister’s Appointments, whose job at Downing Street involved helping nominate individuals for honours before they are vetted by Whitehall committees.

What was Cameron thinking?

Adam Smith's Resignation and The Invisible Hand

Politicians can be rather a loathsome bunch of individuals. Aside from breaking election promises and habitually lying to the voters, they treat each other with contempt (especially when they try to save their own skins).

Such is the treatment meted out to Adam Smith, Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt's special adviser, who has been forced to quit in order to try to save Hunt's skin.

For why has he been forced out?

The enormous row (that is growing in strength and ferocity) over contact between Hunt's office and News Corporation re the BSkyB bid. Emails released on Tuesday showed that Adam Smith had been in contact with the company about its takeover bid.

Smith therefore has been sacrificed, in the hope that Hunt won't need to be.

It is of course ironic, and very instructive (as to how politicians stab each other in the back), to see that last night Number 10 insisted that Smith would not go.

Doubtless Number 10 will blame Smith's departure on an "invisible hand", but we know better don 't we children?

Here is Smith's "resignation" statement issued (and I assume written) on his behalf:

"While it was part of my role to keep News Corporation informed throughout the BskyB bid process, the content and extent of my contact was done without authorisation from the Secretary of State. 

I do not recognise all of what Fred Michel said, but nonetheless I appreciate that my activities at times went too far and have, taken together, created the perception that News Corporation had too close a relationship with the department, contrary to the clear requirements set out by Jeremy Hunt and the permanent secretary that this needed to be a fair and scrupulous process. 

Whilst I firmly believe that the process was in fact conducted scrupulously fairly, as a result of my activities it is only right for me to step down as special adviser to Jeremy Hunt."