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Cameron quitting as MO

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Cameron standing down as an MP at next GE.

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

I really wish the beeb would put a bit more thought into how they write reports.

This is the first sentence of the report: 'Former UK Prime Minister David Cameron is to stand down as an MP, triggering
a by-election in his Oxfordshire seat of Witney.' as if to say he's quitting now & we'll have a by-election in a month or so
but then go on to say later in the article he's staying as an MP until the next GE. Therfore he won't be triggerring a by-election.
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Poor reporting from the beeb. I saw the headline and though he was stepping down immediately, but unless May decides on a snap general election, he's still there till 2020.
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Beeb had amended their article saying he's going immediately
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He's 49. What the hell is he going to do for the next 30 years?!
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Write his memoirs & wait for the Lordship to arrive in the post
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Eugene Wrayburn wrote:He's 49. What the hell is he going to do for the next 30 years?!
Be paid handsomely being on the boards of all the companies he gave favours to while in office, with a few speeches thrown in here and there to top up the holiday funds. Not even sure this is a serious question?
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jared_7 wrote:
Eugene Wrayburn wrote:He's 49. What the hell is he going to do for the next 30 years?!
He'll get a Ghost Writer to pen a biography of one of his supposed political heroes.
If it'll be Paul McGrath or Billy Bonds is as yet undecided.
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Eugene Wrayburn wrote:He's 49. What the hell is he going to do for the next 30 years?!
Write a shit book and do speaking engagements at dinners for boring, rich ex-Bullingdon cunts that make the world a slightly worse place with each breath they take.
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Nice cushy "ambassadorial" role for PWC, GSK & BP
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Latest is he's in a bit of strife over Libya. Another Chilcott inquiry on the way, perhaps? :roll:
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jared_7 wrote:
Eugene Wrayburn wrote:He's 49. What the hell is he going to do for the next 30 years?!
Be paid handsomely being on the boards of all the companies he gave favours to while in office, with a few speeches thrown in here and there to top up the holiday funds. Not even sure this is a serious question?
Disco. Like Bolger, Shipley, Moore, Palmer, and fuck knows who else.
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I reckon he'll donate all his money to charity and read to sick children in Syrian hospitals.
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Does America require a new envoy to the Middle East yet? Or is Blair still at it? Seems like Cameron has all the necessary credentials. Or pehaps he could just do the North African route...
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& here is the British Parliament's official report on Libya (with an introduction by an unnamed journalist)

Yes, folks, the claim that 'we' had to 'do something' to protect the people of Benghazi from massacre by Gaddafi was an Iraqi WMD-style fraud with comparable consequences. The report below is an awesome embarrassment to virtually every journalist who commented on the 2011 Libya war, barring a few noble exceptions like Seumas Milne, and of course John Pilger, who both challenged the massacre claims. When we repeatedly challenged the claims in 2011 we were endlessly smeared as 'Gaddafi apologists' and 'defenders of genocide', and so on:

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/p ... tAnchor023
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Which Tyler wrote:Nice cushy "ambassadorial" role for PWC, GSK & BP
.....and possibly greasing the wheels for EDF..?.
Private Eye were suggesting that the costs of decommissioning the 58 reactors they own (8 in the UK) would financially ruin the company. Hence all the threats.
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