Boris No Confidence Vote to be announced at 8am

https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/kirklees-tory-mps-throw-weight-24154126

My local idiot Tory MP Mark Eastwood has decided to back Boris. Disgusting man.

 

Assuming that every MP on Twitter is telling the truth (big if), Boris should p¦ss this vote. Unfortunately.

 

Though she was right when she tweeted that the Tory Government had left us horribly underprepared for a pandemic. Quite the admission from a Government minister.

Almost as if she's forgotten that here Vote Leave / UKIP Government is actually operating under a Tory badge.

 

It's a stain on the country that someone like her has a job in cabinet, sadly, she's not the only one.

 

Tbf she was probably Pi33ed when she said that and will have denied saying it or that’s not what she meant and gave up teen different accounts of it since .
She’s not the brightest on the candelabra and she gets on everyone’s wicks

 

China loving Hunt would be a shocker Not much to choose out of mind....My own MP backs Boris on everything. The definition of a suck up.

 

If he gets quite large section voting against him, it could be that the pressure starts increasing on a daily basis and within a couple of months he is gone.

With that in mind, Labour should be gearing up in preparation for a possible Gen Election and taking the ideal opportunity to install someone capable of winning an election as I don't think Starmer is upto the task. Someone like Darren Jones would get my vote.

 

There's no way the Tories are calling a snap election anytime soon whether Boris survives or not. They'd get slaughtered. They'll try and string this Parliament out as long as they can in the hopes that memories fade.

 

Today feels very hard to read. There's been nowhere near the levels of support that May had when she faced a vote and the voices that are making the media are bizarrely aggressive and combative against their own MP's. Just about all (Dorries and Raab never count in my view) the cabinet support has been largely in text form, not tending to be in front of the tv media if they can avoid it.

The message parroted by several tory enablers has been that 1 vote is enough. I think there's certainly concern that a good number may vote against him. But they do tend to create very low bars in order to create an illusion they've cleared them easily.

It actually wouldn't surprise me if Johnson lost this. I don't think he will, but I could easily see 140+ voting against him. It then becomes a case of what then? I don't see Johnson leaving until he's forcibly evicted from Downing Street. And if he feels he has 12 months grace, I suspect he'll go into full campaigning overdrive to save himself, even if it destroys the Conservative party.

 

Could we actually see some form of 2019 rerun? Where he's egging people on to vote for a GE without trying to call one himself. Remember, given the fixed term parliament act, a majority of MPs have to vote a GE through. You could bizarrely have the government of the day voting down its PM to avoid a GE knowing the party faced oblivion.

 

They got rid of the Fixed Term Parliament Act, he can call an election whenever he wants.

 

I'd completely missed that. Was that one of the bills that forced through at ridiculous pace before the last parliament closed? I know the Lords had lost their spine on the bills that were particularly heinous, but didn't realise that was possibly one of them.

The tories do have problems then!

Edit.... just seen it was repealed in March.... no wonder I missed it!

 

Their plan, I’m guessing, is to just call an election any time they are polling well to keep the 5 year term ticking along indefinitely. Hope it spectacularly backfires and Labour gets in uses it against them.

 

The best hope of change is for them to keep him in place. So let’s hope they keep him. They and we as a country deserve our full 5 years of Johnson.

 

To be fair, it's one of the changes they've made that moderately make sense. I thought it was a cynical move by Cameron to maximise the time he had in power. But obviously, in switching it back, there is a want to have more power to trigger a GE for his own personal gain. I'm guessing the legislation will revert to how it was and he simply needs to stand up and call it and there isn't a single thing his backbenchers can do to stop him.

 

We knew who we were voting for.

 

The opposing parties should donate their campaign budgets to Led By Donkeys.

 

They should beg them to run media for them if they have even a modicum of common sense.