Tuesday 8 November 2011

Individual ministerial responsibility - what price ?

Liam Fox was forced to resign over errors of judgment, because he carted a friend around with him and invited him to meetings at which he had no right to be. As far as we know, defence and foreign policy were nor compromised and national security was not in jeopardy. But he had to resign.

Theresa May now seems to have committed a series of political sins far worse than those of Fox. I have counted these so far :

1 Relaxing immigration checks without telling anyone.
2 Thus placing national security uner threat.
3 Thus denying official Conservative policy to 'get tough on immigration'
4 Issuing confusing instructions to the Borders Agency
5 Being out of touch with what is going on with immigration control
6 Clearly being under-briefed about what is going on when answering questions.
7 Performing hopelessly under questioning in parliament
8 Arguably, buck passing.

If I were Liam Fox I think I'd feel a tad discriminated against.

Of course, Cameron can't afford to lose two right-wingers in one season !

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