# David Davis resigns as Brexit secretary **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [July 8, 2018, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-davis-resigns-as-brexit-secretary/817538 "2018-07-08T23:13:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2018, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-davis-resigns-as-brexit-secretary/817538/61 "2018-07-10T08:54:39Z")
> [@gracer](#): > > Believing nothing is absolutely the way to go, but laughing at the bunch of them spinning is pretty much all we have left. Laughing? I think you mean despairing. ---
**Author:** ![gracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8e7dd6/32.png) [@gracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gracer)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2018, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-davis-resigns-as-brexit-secretary/817538/62 "2018-07-10T09:08:36Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > Laughing? I think you mean despairing. After rock-bottom despair comes an eery, maniacal laugh. Listen carefully and you’ll hear it all around you… ☹ Edit: No, wait… I think the sound may have been the despair ringing in my ears. Not sure. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2018, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-davis-resigns-as-brexit-secretary/817538/63 "2018-07-10T10:17:57Z")
> [@Malden\_Capell](#): > > My suspicion is the two wings of the Tory party are so disgusted with each other they’d love to boot the other half out. And the reason they’re still in power at all is because Labour have exactly the same problem. > [@dalej42](#): > > Jeremy Hunt did such a wonderful job screwing up the NHS, so I’m sure he’ll be a great foreign secretary On the bright side, it’ll mean he’s out of the country more often. > [@Baron\_Greenback](#): > > Nigel Dodds - the compromise candidate! In the same way that “I can’t decide whether to have vanilla ice cream or chocolate ice cream so instead I’m going to gnaw my own arm off” is a compromise. Just yesterday I was saying to someone “I agree with Theresa May that this country needs strong, stable leadership. Wouldn’t it be nice to have some?” ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2018, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-davis-resigns-as-brexit-secretary/817538/64 "2018-07-10T11:17:53Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > And the reason they’re still in power at all is because Labour have exactly the same problem. I said at the head of Brexit that if they wanted to have any form of internal cohesion, while going through the ordeal, they were better off to toss the traditional parties and form coalitions around pro- and anti-Brexit politicians. Keeping the parties as they are just reduces the leading party from ~50% of Parliament to ~25%. Obviously, tradition makes that a difficult thing to arrange, but Brexit was a large enough issue that it would have been worth setting aside the old standards for a 2 year special arrangement. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2018, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-davis-resigns-as-brexit-secretary/817538/65 "2018-07-10T12:04:10Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > It’s foolish statements like that that have let him get so far. Don’t underestimate him. Mogg has a better brain by far than many - you don’t get an Upper Second at Cambridge without brains - and you underestimate him at your peril. Don’t be fooled by his accent: just as Boris plays the fool, so he plays the toff. But like Boris he’s as cunning as a weasel. Yes. A weasel. Not a man. This is what you meant to say, yes? Sure, let’s fill the cabinet with alleged hominids with the exact intellectual capacity of stoats and polecats. What could go wrong? ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2018, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-davis-resigns-as-brexit-secretary/817538/66 "2018-07-10T12:14:21Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#): > > Yes. A weasel. Not a man. This is what you meant to say, yes? No. Please don’t put words in my mouth. > [@](#): > > Sure, let’s fill the cabinet with alleged hominids with the exact intellectual capacity of stoats and polecats. What could go wrong? The sad thing is that all these people really are intelligent. But they lack common sense - especially so in Boris’ case. They lack the touch of the real world. All they want is power. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2018, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-davis-resigns-as-brexit-secretary/817538/67 "2018-07-10T13:15:45Z")
This exchange on Twitter is amusing me today: > [@Jeremy Hunt](#): > > Massive wrench for me to leave health - I know some staff haven’t found me the easiest Health Sec but the NHS, and particularly patient safety, has become my passion & it really was the greatest privilege of my life to serve for so many years > [@Dr Mat Hoskins](#): > > We literally hate you. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2018, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-davis-resigns-as-brexit-secretary/817538/68 "2018-07-10T16:05:44Z")
2 Tory MPs resign as Vice Chairmen of the Tory Party, Ben Bradley and Maria Caulfield. Both resignation letters mention Brexit and the Chequers deal, so this was obviously planned to embarrass May even though these are very minor positions. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-davis-resigns-as-brexit-secretary/817538.md?page=3)