Cameron Triggers Bye-Election

[Gromit]

Must be eager to go and cashin like Tony Liar. Might be hampered by being one of the worse Tory Prime Ministers for 50 years.

[MargoTester]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-37342152

[Fanriffic]

Good riddance to bad rubbish. The guy was a tool.

[ichkeria]

I quite liked Cameron, but it's hard to see his PM-ship as anything other than a failure.
Will have the ignominy probably of having his disastrous year and a bit after winning an outright majority unfavourably compared with the 5 years of coalition with the Lib Dems.
His greatest "achievement" will probably be seen by the Eurosceptics as the cataclysmic EU referendum, the problem there being that he was a "Remainer" so any praise there is likely to be muted. Most of the swivelling classes couldn't stand him :-)
He'll be seen as someone who gambled but lost.
I'm sure he'll get by :-)

[Kathyan]

"Former UK Prime Minister David Cameron is to stand down as an MP, triggering a by-election in his Oxfordshire seat of Witney. Mr Cameron, who resigned as prime minister after June's EU referendum, said he did not want to be a "distraction" for new PM Theresa May. He had said he would continue as an MP until the next general election." I don't understand this. If he is standing down as an MP and triggering a bye election, how can he continue as an MP until the next election?

[Gromit]

Kathmandu,
He can't. - Another u-turn that categorised his Premiership

[Gromit]

Kathyan
Apologies for Kathmandu. Bleeding predictive text.

[Old_Geezer]

He can't be that bad. He got us out of the EU even if the process has yet to be kicked off.

[Kathyan]

Oh sorry, I did not read that correctly! No problem Gromit, I hate predictive text, although sometimes it can be really funny.

[AB Editor]

Thank god. What a belly-flop of a political career.

[anotheoldgit]

Murdo

/// "one of the worst Tory Prime Ministers for 50 years."

Given the competition (Heath, Thatcher, Major, May), that's no mean feat! ///

A new Leftie in our midst, our mikey will be pleased.

[Old_Geezer]

Shout all you like, they are morally binding and no politician who values their career or political party is going to ignore the result. So yes, by holding the referendum he most certainly got us out.

[AB Editor]

Murdo, you're right. What a shame.

[ichkeria]

"by holding the referendum he most certainly got us out. "

It wasn't what he wanted, though, so it is debatable whether that counts as an "achievement"
If we do leave it'll be Theresa May or her sucessor(s) who will be judged on how they "got us out".

[Old_Geezer]

Some are born to achieve, some greatly achieve, and some have achievements thrust upon them.

[THEMOTLEY1]

Love the title, Bye Election, so fitting under the circumstances, By-election just wouldn't have been the same, even though it is correct.

[jno]

The OED says by and bye are both okay.