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Confidence Vote For Boris Looming?
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Can you hear that noise? No, not the boos and jeers this time.
That is the sound of the death knell for the Prime Minister.
Looks like he will be put out of our misery very shortly.
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All this before the select committee even begin their grilling over whether he lied to parliament. Far better he falls on his sword now.
Can you hear that noise? No, not the boos and jeers this time.
That is the sound of the death knell for the Prime Minister.
Looks like he will be put out of our misery very shortly.
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All this before the select committee even begin their grilling over whether he lied to parliament. Far better he falls on his sword now.
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More from Sky News.
This could be an ominous sign of things to come, says Sky's political correspondent Tamara Cohen...
"There's a story to be told about how Number 10 perhaps didn't see the levels of discontent from these longer standing MPs coming.
"They were worried that rebellion was coming from the newly elected MPs in these red wall seats, when in fact actually a lot of it has come from MPs who were elected in 2010 and 2005 who have been sitting there watching this thinking we can't support it, and Number 10 has made, from what I gather, very little effort to contact them.
"We are seeing the sorts of MPs who don't normally hear from now publicly saying extremely scathing things about Boris Johnson.
"That sends a signal that within the ranks of Conservative MPs elected not just recently but 10 years ago, 15 years ago, they do not believe that Boris Johnson - who they backed because he was a winner - can now take them to victory in the next election."
Jam or marmalade on that toast?
Where is ToraToraTora today? The RMS BorisTitanicJohnson is sinking faster than a wicker canoe and he’s nowhere to be found?
Poor show all round.
This could be an ominous sign of things to come, says Sky's political correspondent Tamara Cohen...
"There's a story to be told about how Number 10 perhaps didn't see the levels of discontent from these longer standing MPs coming.
"They were worried that rebellion was coming from the newly elected MPs in these red wall seats, when in fact actually a lot of it has come from MPs who were elected in 2010 and 2005 who have been sitting there watching this thinking we can't support it, and Number 10 has made, from what I gather, very little effort to contact them.
"We are seeing the sorts of MPs who don't normally hear from now publicly saying extremely scathing things about Boris Johnson.
"That sends a signal that within the ranks of Conservative MPs elected not just recently but 10 years ago, 15 years ago, they do not believe that Boris Johnson - who they backed because he was a winner - can now take them to victory in the next election."
Jam or marmalade on that toast?
Where is ToraToraTora today? The RMS BorisTitanicJohnson is sinking faster than a wicker canoe and he’s nowhere to be found?
Poor show all round.
The predicted Civil War is raging.
Disaster Dorries and Jeremy Hunt are slugging it out on Twitter.
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Disaster Dorries and Jeremy Hunt are slugging it out on Twitter.
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From the BBC.
Be publicly loyal if you like, but vote no confidence in secret - former minister
Former transport minister Steve Norris has a word of advice for current Tory MPs about making use of the secret ballot.
"Be as loyal as you like on Twitter and then do the sensible thing if you want to be re-elected," he says.
He says that advice applies to any Conservative MP with a majority of less than 10,000. "Otherwise you're toast," he warns.
Sage advice if you want to have a fighting chance at the general election.
Be publicly loyal if you like, but vote no confidence in secret - former minister
Former transport minister Steve Norris has a word of advice for current Tory MPs about making use of the secret ballot.
"Be as loyal as you like on Twitter and then do the sensible thing if you want to be re-elected," he says.
He says that advice applies to any Conservative MP with a majority of less than 10,000. "Otherwise you're toast," he warns.
Sage advice if you want to have a fighting chance at the general election.
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//Oh my goodness! FatticusInch, that self-appointed doyen of honesty suddenly champions dishonesty. You really couldn’t make this up. How funny!! :o)))//
Well, you were the one banging on about traitors and loyalty on another thread. I’m just letting AB users know that the BBC is showing the current mindset of a former minister from a party that obviously none of us can trust?
So to be clear, his words not mine, you’re getting confused in your feverish attempts to continue to champion the chump.
//Oh my goodness! FatticusInch, that self-appointed doyen of honesty suddenly champions dishonesty. You really couldn’t make this up. How funny!! :o)))//
Well, you were the one banging on about traitors and loyalty on another thread. I’m just letting AB users know that the BBC is showing the current mindset of a former minister from a party that obviously none of us can trust?
So to be clear, his words not mine, you’re getting confused in your feverish attempts to continue to champion the chump.
'What distinguishes David Cameron from all his predecessors and successors as a Conservative prime minister?
The answer is that in the democratic era post-Alec Douglas-Home, under whom formal leadership election rules were first introduced, Cameron is the only Tory leader not to have faced a formal challenge from his fellow MPs while in Number 10 (although technically, Ted Heath was only challenged after he left office, while he was Leader of the Opposition).
That’s quite a record, and not one that necessarily puts the party in a particularly positive light. It’s often been pointed out that the Labour Party has the opposite problem: its leaders are far too difficult to get rid of and only two of them have faced formal challenges in living memory – Neil Kinnock in 1988 and Jeremy Corbyn in 2016 – neither of which came close to removing the incumbent. But I suspect that Boris Johnson is today throwing grudgingly admiring glances at the Labour rulebook and wondering why his own party is so fond of regicide.' D.T.
Quite! and so am I.
The answer is that in the democratic era post-Alec Douglas-Home, under whom formal leadership election rules were first introduced, Cameron is the only Tory leader not to have faced a formal challenge from his fellow MPs while in Number 10 (although technically, Ted Heath was only challenged after he left office, while he was Leader of the Opposition).
That’s quite a record, and not one that necessarily puts the party in a particularly positive light. It’s often been pointed out that the Labour Party has the opposite problem: its leaders are far too difficult to get rid of and only two of them have faced formal challenges in living memory – Neil Kinnock in 1988 and Jeremy Corbyn in 2016 – neither of which came close to removing the incumbent. But I suspect that Boris Johnson is today throwing grudgingly admiring glances at the Labour rulebook and wondering why his own party is so fond of regicide.' D.T.
Quite! and so am I.
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