The shadow home secretary David Davies Davis today resigned pointlessly, and nobody really noticed. He said: 'Laws have eroded British civil liberties for years, and my resignation won't make the slightest bit of difference to that.'
When someone reminded Mr Davis that he wasn't a member of the Government, and so had no influence on passing or changing any laws, he said :'Uh-oh, forgot about that one! I suppose a House of Commons cleaning lady resigning would be as effective as me doing it. Oh well .....'
This is not the first meaningless resignation in recent times, former Prime Minister Tony Blair stepped down after years of doing nothing at all, except for grovelling to American Presidents, and some never even realised he was actually the Prime Minister, so David Davis's departure will make even less headlines than that. And when the last 4 American Vice-presidents left office, nobody even knew their names.
But former party chief Charles Kennedy said: 'At least Mr Davis is in a party that people have heard of, I don't even know myself who I was leading. Was it the Democratic Liberals or something?' And Conservative leader David Cameron said: 'David who? Never heard of him.'
Plaid Cymru will be serving lunch in the Commons today, and the SNP will be supplying the drinks.
