Three axed ministers CRIED

[Stake]

Source: The Sun

There is one final niggle: the continuing loss of the Conservative’s party’s intellectual firepower. Nick Herbert, one of the most creative ministers, is following Cameron’s big ideas man Steve Hilton out of government. To lose one bold but temperamental radical may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness. Cameron will need to channel their sense of urgency if he really is to change Britain by 201

Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/politics/4523203/Three-ministers-CRIED-while-the-PM-was-sacking-them.html

[Kolesar]

1. Figuratively speaking, of course

I was afraid this would be about some obscure county in rural Ohio.

[LeftishBrit]

2. This is the Sun, so may or may not be true!

But I daresay they weren't happy. If they are so upset at losing their Ministerial positions, while retaining their status and pay as MPs, how do they think all the people feel who've been sacked as a result of the drastic public service cuts, and are now being treated as 'benefit scroungers'?

And I am ready to cry myself at the thought of Jeremy Hunt as Health Secretary; I didn't think they could come up with anyone worse than Lansley, but I was wrong!

[dipsydoodle]

4. Huffpo is quoting the Spector

David Cameron 'Made Ministers Cry' When He Fired Them http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/09/05/david-cameron-made-minister-cry-when-he-fired-them_n_1857741.html

And this outfit is quoting the Telegraph : http://www.politicus.org.uk/news/david-cameron-made-three-ministers-cry-when-he-sacked-them_647 The Telegraph's own link has been disappeared.

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. The start of the Telegraph's piece is still visible on the Google 'preview'

It seems to take its 'information' from the Spectator article, though.

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22burst+into+tears%22+%22cameron%22+%22telegraph%22&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB fficial&client=firefox-a

"The revelations, in this week's edition of The Spectator magazine ..."

And that's where the pro-Tory quote in the OP is from: http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2012/09/how-cameron-made-ministers-cry/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-cameron-made-ministers-cry

[dipsydoodle]

3. if he really is to change Britain by 201..........

Fighting off the Romans no doubt.

[AlbertCat]

6. I wonder how many people got the Oscar Wilde reference....

"To lose one bold but temperamental radical may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness. "