Cameron Defends Decision To Call Brexit Referendum

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-38261534

David Cameron.....who ?

Oh, now I remember !

[hereIam]

He made the right decision even though he was shocked at the outcome.

[Zacs-Master]

Says the Corbyn acolyte. Ha!

[jackthehat]

What is your point, mikey?

[ToraToraTora]

it was not a choice, Lord Farage forced it.

[jim360]

Would have been nice if he's legislated the thing better, but never mind.

[ToraToraTora]

oh dear, what was removed, SGB rant was it?

[youngmafbog]

Well he said he would and he did, even if he was forced to offer it by Lord Farage.

Never liked the man but he did follow through on this one. As jim says pity he didnt word it better but then I suppose he was not expecting the result that came.

[Bazile]

Never mind Dave .

No doubt you will be joining another club - the after dinner circuit .

I see your mate Gideon is already filling his boots .

[Gromit]

Cameron was a very weak leader trying to hold together a very divided party. Not surprisingly, he wasn't up to the job and he was forced into making a great mistake.

[mikey4444]

I don't think he was forced to do anything. He choose to call a referendum.

The story goes that he was "forced" to do so by fear of Farage. But Farage had only two MPs before the Election and only one afterwards, so the threat couldn't have been very high, could it ?

What I am amazed at though, is how most of his "friends" here on AB, that voted for him enthusiastically in 2010, and the again in 2015, but now think he was a bit of a twit.

For the record, I thought he was a reasonable Tory Leader, a Tory Leaders go,
and that he did the honourable thing by resigning as he did. He was carrying out Tory policy at the time, as was most of his Cabinet, and anyway, its not his fault that we now have Mrs May in Number Ten.

After all, it could have been worse, a lot worse....we could have had Boris !

[Peter Pedant]

very good question Mikey


just think if we didnt have Brexit we wouldnt have 3T taxing us wiv difficult questions

[mikey4444]

PP.....TTT would do that in a vacum I expect ! ( smiley emoti thing )

[naomi24]

Because of the growing furore surrounding EU membership, the promise of a referendum was part of the Conservative's election manifesto. They thought it would be a vote winner - and it was - but never for a moment did they imagine the strength of feeling that existed against the EU. David Cameron was right to call it even though the result was not as he had envisaged.

[agchristie]

Mikey > he did the honourable thing by resigning as he did.

No he didn't, he spat his dummy out and washed his hands of Brexit and left it as someone else's problem.

[naomi24]

Cameron was not obliged to resign so honour isn't an issue. He wasn't willing to deal with the result of the vote. It's as simple as that.

[mikey4444]

With friends like they have here on AB, the Tories certainly don't need any enemies !

[naomi24]

You’d back Labour politicians in any circumstances, Mikey. We tell the truth. Honesty in politics is alien to you.

[grumpy01]

David Cameron promised a referendum on our EU membership.What he didn't expect was the outcome, thus no plan in place to take us out after article 50 invoked.Therefore he felt his only option was to resign but I would have expected him to have had more fight than that.