Ashford: Should he stay or should he go?

[AOR]

1 hour ago, Roger Mexico said:

What a snivelling little non-apology apology.  Straight from the Westminster playbook of 'not wanting to be the story'.  Without considering why he is the story.

No apology to Dr Ranson.  No apology to the public.  No apology to anyone except the CM.  No admitting responsibility, never mind blame.  Two pages of waffle plus a bit of patting himself on the back for a couple of minor improvements.  Which itself illustrates how little he's done in the last seven months.

A professional resignation letter should be short and to the  point, in 3 or 4 sentences. It's not the place to score points, argue your case or puff yourself up.

Edited May 20, 2022 by AOR

[Ham_N_Eggs]

2 minutes ago, Declan said:

No he'll be back as a minister in a couple of years. 

Yeah 2 years max in the wilderness. I wonder if he'll become a departmental member? Which minister would have him?

[Dave Hedgehog]

5 minutes ago, Ham_N_Eggs said:

Yeah 2 years max in the wilderness. I wonder if he'll become a departmental member? Which minister would have him?

They should give him the Infrastructure gig next as a punishment. 

Actually no he will just be conned by Longworth into spending billions on a Mercedes space rocket. 

[Ghost Ship]

20 minutes ago, cissolt said:

He does love a book.

Hmm...

Two on Churchill; one on Heseltine; "We, the Nation: The Conservative Party and the Pursuit of Power" by Andrew Davies; and a (royal?) biography by Sarah Bradford.

Pretty standard bed time reading...

[Roger Mexico]

2 minutes ago, Ham_N_Eggs said:

Yeah 2 years max in the wilderness. I wonder if he'll become a departmental member? Which minister would have him?

I wonder.  Cannan isn't in the same position as Quayle was.  He doesn't have a CoMin with a majority that is happy to do whatever the boss tells them.  Most of the new Ministers have their own plans for their Departments and it may be significant that this took place on Friday after the weekly CoMin on Thursday.  Perhaps a majority of the Ministers simply said that Ashford had to go.  Whether the same thing is true about Greenhow's 'retirement' may also be worth thinking about.

[Banker]

2 minutes ago, Roxanne said:

Playing the victim is exactly the sort of behaviour to be expected after their fall from grace. It will be pity party all the way from now on. 

 

Whilst little sympathy with Ashford, if his children are getting abuse then I don’t think that’s acceptable 

[Zarley]

1 hour ago, Passing Time said:

Now he should hand back his MBE. 

Never going to happen (although it should). In his mind he's the injured party, not Dr Ranson or anyone else. He probably hugs his MBE close to his heart as he cries himself to sleep each night. Diddums. 🤢

[Roger Mexico]

3 minutes ago, Roxanne said:

He has, children? 

I think there's step-children (or whatever you call children of a partner's previous relationship).  I seem to remember him mentioning having children at home at a meeting I went to.

[Zarley]

21 minutes ago, Declan said:

No he'll be back as a minister in a couple of years. 

Like Priti Nasty Patel. 

[Non-Believer]

11 minutes ago, Roxanne said:

Playing the victim is exactly the sort of behaviour to be expected

As we got from Bell (and Gelling) after the Mount Murray Report. Faux outrage over not being totally exonerated.

[b4mbi]

4 minutes ago, Manx17 said:

My god they have put the Doctor in his place. (Ashford side kick during covid)We can now kiss all our money goodbye. It will be gone on attracting  tourists.

And has Rob made it to DfE ?

[AOR]

33 minutes ago, Ghost Ship said:

Hmm...

Two on Churchill; one on Heseltine; "We, the Nation: The Conservative Party and the Pursuit of Power" by Andrew Davies; and a (royal?) biography by Sarah Bradford.

Pretty standard bed time reading self-aggrandising Zoom background bookshelf.

I'm sure we all thought about doing the same during lockdown, until we realised how actually pathetic it was. 

 

Edited May 20, 2022 by AOR

[TheTeapot]

That's some proper 'poor me' shit that letter. 

Great that he blames social media seeing as he's had his little gang of cheerleaders running an operation the whole time. 

Blame yourself for being a lying twat.

 

[Gladys]

14 hours ago, Lrk said:

Let's see what comes out in the wash then. 🙂

 

Must have been the short wash programme after keeping the dirty washing in a pile for well over a week.

He did the right thing by resigning. 

[Ghost Ship]

4 minutes ago, Gladys said:

Must have been the short wash programme after keeping the dirty washing in a pile for well over a week.

He did the right thing by resigning. 

I wonder if Lurcio ( @Lrk ) will return?

Edited May 20, 2022 by Ghost Ship