Resignation

[maggiebee]

Home Secretary just resigned.

[emmie]

she should have stayed, don't let the bstards grind you down......

[waterboatman]

She should have stayed. She was given the wrong information by her staff, the one the gave her that information should be reprimanded.

What is wrong with getting rid of illegal immigrants?

[emmie]

nothing, they should have a mighty crack down, its what was promised.

[waterboatman]

Exactly!

[Bazile]

It wasn't having targets for illegal immigrants that made her go though ,was it

[Ken4155]

Yet another MP caught lying! They're all the same - Tory, Labour, Lib-Dem, Monster Raving Loony - if any of them told me today was 30 April, i'd have to check the bottom right hand of my screen before i believed them. They're not just liars, they're bare-faced liars who look you in the eye while telling these porkies.

[Peter Pedant]

// It wasn't having targets for illegal immigrants that made her go though ,was it//

well it was for stating that there werent targets

a bit philosophical for AB
OK very philosophical for the usual suspects whoever they may be
she didnt go because there were targets ( there were )
she went because she told a cttee there werent targets (when there were - boing - lie! )

If you are at a spare moment look up Loeb's theorem - or Lob's theorem

[Peter Pedant]

// She was given the wrong information by her staff,//

is a reason to go or else it becomes a catch-all excuse

I mean when the germans bombed london, 1940
Mr Chamberlain ( for it was he) couldnt look up to the sky vomiting death and say " Dat funny dat [chav accent geddit?] Herr Hitler said he wouldnt bomb London when I met him at Munch or Manchester or wherever it was"

[Jackdaw33]

Just for historical accuracy, the Blitz didn't start until 3 months after Chamberlain resigned.

[ToraToraTora]

no idea why, this fiasco was started under Alan Johnson in 2009.

[Jackdaw33]

Rudd has taken the rap for the sheer incompetence of her civil servants. No need to resign, she was merely misinformed.

[Peter Pedant]

just for accuracy: erm

Chamberlain didnt die until that October - did he
ca rectum - so he had cancer whilst he was negotiating - so he COULD have looked skyward and said....
I didnt say he was pm when he might have said it
( prime minister that is! not dead)
thank you for reading

I agree with all of you

Oh - resignation - Amber Rudd commented - "well they come and they go" ....
resignedly - see ?
I cant resist a one liner

[jno]

Hopkirk, the problem with having targets is meeting them. You want to lock up 100 burglars this year? If there are 500 burglars, you're failing. If there are only 50, you have to lock up 50 innocent people to meet your target. You might think targets for illegal immigrants are easier to meet, since there are (allegedly) so many of them. None the less, they've been deporting legal ones in pursuit of their target, and that's what caused the scandal.

wbm, I don't think she was misled by staff. She said there were no targets. A letter turned up in which she herself was discussing them with May. She must have "forgotten".

[ichkeria]

"
Just for historical accuracy, the Blitz didn't start until 3 months after Chamberlain resigned. "

Still in the War Cabinet though of course for several months after his resignation as PM.

[Bazile]

That's right ,blame the civil servants for May's policy

[Jackdaw33]

I await with interest the name of her replacement.

[10ClarionSt]

"A leaked document has revealed....." Who is leaking these documents? Would it not have been appropriate to show the documents to the Home Secretary first, to remind her, or make her aware of, the errors she was making in her statements? I don't know if that would have saved her, but what sort of civil service are we paying for when things like this happen?

[bednobs]

all of these leaks are from people who have signed the official secrets act. They should be arrested (if they can ever be found)

[Bazile]

Her memory seems to have been selective - very selective
Some might say she lied