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Re:David Cameron announces resignation by parenthesis on Friday June 24, 2016 @05:30AM (#11968178)
Every prime minister has their "Suez":

David Cameron: losing the EU referendum

Gordon Brown: The financial crisis

Tony Blair: Iraq

John Major: Black Wednesday; Tory party "sleaze"

Margaret Thatcher: The poll tax

James Callaghan: The Winter of Discontent

… etc.

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Re:David Cameron announces resignation by danieltillett on Friday June 24, 2016 @05:53AM (#11968292)
All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.

Enoch Powell

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