Iain Duncan Smith blames 9/11 attacks for helping ruin his career as Tory leader

Last Updated: October 8, 2015By

Leadership flop Iain Duncan Smith has blamed the 9/11 atrocities for his failed bid to be Prime Minister.

The top Tory made the claim as he launched an extraordinary attack on Tony Blair – saying he ‘milked’ the situation for all it was worth.

More than 100 Tory activists applauded Mr Duncan Smith’s comments at a packed fringe meeting at their party conference.

Fresh from a speech celebrating welfare cuts , he claimed Mr Blair’s focus on foreign policy contributed to his failure to get a foothold as party chief in 2001.

“The day before I got elected the twin towers were struck,” he told the crowd last night.

“So first of all we got no lift on my announcement. It had to be buried the following day, hardly anybody was paying attention.”

Mr Duncan Smith lost a no confidence vote just two years after becoming leader and was replaced by Michael Howard.

Source: Iain Duncan Smith blames 9/11 attacks for helping ruin his career as Tory leader – Mirror Online

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21 Comments

  1. lanzalaco October 8, 2015 at 1:25 am - Reply

    thats just crazy as the more he comes out with sounds like some type of personality disorder. I think there has to be more context, such as a link to the transcript of his speech. or is this some type of conservative party tradition for ex-leaders to state a bit about their history.

  2. NMac October 8, 2015 at 5:59 am - Reply

    Clearly Duncan-Smith has conveniently forgotten all about the “Betsygate” affair, where he “manufactured a fictitious job for his millionaire wife and claimed additional expenses for a job that didn’t exist. Without doubt this man should have been fully investigated by the Fraud Squad, and both he and his millionaire wife put before the Courts.

    • Mike Sivier October 8, 2015 at 10:50 am - Reply

      As it was, wasn’t he cleared over Betsygate? If so, you shouldn’t really be mentioning it.

      • NMac October 8, 2015 at 7:28 pm - Reply

        The matter was only “investigated” by the so-called parliamentary committee on standards & privileges and an Tory Party internal inquiry. It should have been thoroughly investigated by the Fraud Squad.

  3. marcusdemowbray October 8, 2015 at 6:46 am - Reply

    “Projection” is sometimes an indicator of mental and/or emotional disorder, and this seems to be a clear case of projecting his failure onto someone or something else, rather than accepting his own incompetence as a manager. Oddly it is someone whose influence has long since become irrelevant!

    No offence intended to people with mental/emotional problems, just this one particular diseased tyrant, Herr Dumkopf-Schmitt.

  4. chriskitcher October 8, 2015 at 7:19 am - Reply

    Well at least some good came out of 9/11.

  5. Jenny Hambidge October 8, 2015 at 7:53 am - Reply

    my heart bleeds for him. Did he vote to go to war in Iraq?

    • Mike Sivier October 8, 2015 at 10:54 am - Reply

      Yes indeed, according to They Work For You:
      “Iain Duncan Smith consistently voted for the Iraq war
      “TheyWorkForYou has automatically calculated this MP’s stance based on all of their votes on the topic. You can browse the source data on PublicWhip.org.uk.
      “Key votes about the Iraq war:
      “On 18 Mar 2003:
      “Iain Duncan Smith voted against saying that the case for war against Iraq has not yet been established, Show full debate
      “On 18 Mar 2003:
      “Iain Duncan Smith voted that the Government should use all means necessary to ensure the disarmament of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction leading to the UK joining the US invasion of Iraq two days later.”

  6. marcusdemowbray October 8, 2015 at 8:10 am - Reply

    Does anyone know when the UN representative is coming to UK to investigate the welfare reforms? Cheers.

    • Mike Sivier October 8, 2015 at 10:59 am - Reply

      Sometime this month, I think.

  7. Bumblebee.zzzz October 8, 2015 at 8:41 am - Reply

    “So first of all we got no lift on my announcement. It had to be buried the following day, hardly anybody was paying attention.” Oh well George Smith your’e getting bloody loads now..but All for the wrong reasons tut tut tut, the lives you have destroyed the people who have died as a direct result of your policys!!! torie filth!!

  8. che October 8, 2015 at 9:28 am - Reply

    This man defies belief. (apologies for calling him a man)

  9. Michael Broadhurst October 8, 2015 at 10:37 am - Reply

    everythings always somebody else’s fault but his own.vile,odious,lying,murdering scum
    of a man.

  10. James October 8, 2015 at 11:47 am - Reply

    IDS is obviously not a well man.

    • Chris Kitcher October 8, 2015 at 2:18 pm - Reply

      Seriously I’ve thought for a long long time that IDS is a very mentally sick person.

      • NMac October 9, 2015 at 6:14 am - Reply

        More like a nasty sadist and a NAZI sympathiser.

  11. marcusdemowbray October 8, 2015 at 12:01 pm - Reply

    Thanks Mike, I thought it was fairly soon. The fact that they are promising more cuts and changes, and that CaMoron was speechifying about an END to poverty could be of interest to UN!

  12. mrmarcpc October 8, 2015 at 4:48 pm - Reply

    He will blame anything but himself won’t he, he is a joke of a man, the reason he failed as tory leader was because he is absolutely bloody useless and couldn’t lead a band procession, let alone a party or a country, everyone knew he was a joke back then but yet people have backed him in his current position, have they short memories or are just thick f**kers as per usual!

    • lanzalaco October 9, 2015 at 4:52 pm - Reply

      no, they actually want this guy in power, so what does that really say when you think about it ?

  13. Michael Broadhurst October 8, 2015 at 8:32 pm - Reply

    i’d like to make him less of a well man.

  14. AndyH October 10, 2015 at 9:23 pm - Reply

    I thought it was because he was boring, creepy and insanely right wing (sorry I should replace ‘was’ with ‘is’).

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