Dick Still Standing

[Stickybottle]

No intention of going anywhere she says :

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-60319838

If she is going to continue she needs to start rising to the challenges

[jno]

choux, the mayor can tell the commissioner what to do, but can't do anything about it if he/she fails to do it. Hiring and sacking is the job of the central government. I suspect she's been shamed into stepping down; alternatively, there may be a peerage on the way, but it'll be none of Khan's doing.

About all the London mayor is responsible for is transport.

[novalis]

Breaking news - she is stepping down,

[calmck]

Think she has just gone

[Togo]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10499677/Cressida-Dick-expected-step-Met-Commissioner-Sadiq-Khan-tells-quit.html

[grumpy01]

Perhaps she will help Bernard Hyphen-Howe if he becomes head of the NCA.

[Gromit]

// Perhaps she will help Bernard Hogan-Howe if he becomes head of the NCA. //

Perhaps Dick herself will become head of the NCA. Failure is always rewarded by this Government.

[choux]

jno, did I say that Khan had told Dick to resign/stand down? No, I didn't. I am just grateful that he apparently has put pressure on her.

[MONEILL45]

The first rat to leave the sinking ship.Hopefully many more will follow.

[Gromit]

Khan told Dick last week that he was unhappy with her performance, but I doubt it was that little push that made her go.
Priti Patel has been getting lots of ear ache from Conservative MPs, I reckon Patel has had enough and told her to go.

[Stickybottle]

She does not look overly upset in her resignation speech

As good a time as any to be moving on I would say

[sunny-dave]

Good God - you have to be spectacularly bad at your job to be worse than Priti Useless - but somehow CD managed it.

[choux]

Gromit, from the BBC link:
'Damaged confidence'
She said in a written statement: "It is with huge sadness that following contact with the mayor of London today, it is clear that the mayor no longer has sufficient confidence in my leadership to continue.

"He has left me no choice but to step aside as commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service."

[Ellipsis]

In the spirit of the OP ...

Dick prematurely ejaculated from top job

[Peter Pedant]

Yes she has gone
Sadiq Khan on U-tube - doing no u-turn baby
he says " I told her to go and now she has"

[Peter Pedant]

Prior to a claim for constructive dismissal perhaps?

if you recollect the Mayor of London said on election I can work with X and X resigned a few mins later
and a few months later collected six figures for constructive dismissal

and that Mayor of London boys and girls you know as one Boris Johnson

cant remember the now very rich Mr X

[ I love it when Abers maunder 'wot all dat mean den! - maunder on proles! ]

[tonyav]

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/mayor-explains-why-met-chief-quit/vi-AATHFcq

[Ellipsis]

Will do, thanks, you little bourgeoisie you ...