Is There Any Event That Could Bring Down A Government With Such A Large Majority?

[dave50]

Or is it impossible?

[Khandro]

If there was any fairness, there's one almost every day!

[sandyRoe]

A military coup?

A figurehead like Farage might give it a veneer of respectability.

[Massey65]

Massive General Strikes??

[max137]

The grooming gang scandal they were all complicit in the cover up thats all  politicians police etc.

[ynnafymmi]

Probably losing a vote of confidence would do it sandy.A military coup....you been drinking old boy?

[sandyRoe]

There's more chance of me drinking again than there is of this government losing a vote of confidence.

[dave50]

So it seems it is impossible, they aren't going to vote themselves out of office no matter how much of the brown stuff hits the fan.

 

[gulliver1]

No. And they are with you for four more years plus .While the opposition party sink more and more into oblivion. lol.

[ynnafymmi]

@11.23.Well it was you that mentioned a military coup sandy.I just assumed you had been on the poteen...again.

[gulliver1]

Hope Starmer uses the next four years getting the UK back into the EU. Then when Labour get re/elected for doing just that. You can all sit back and enjoy the benefits of being back in the EU for Labours second term in office. lol.

[DTCwordfan]

gulliver - if elected PM

[sandyRoe]

In the 1970s a press baron, Mountbatten, and others from the great and the good, are said to have considered overthrowing Wilson's government.

[ynnafymmi]

Mountbatten,eh,was this the same Mountbatten who fought against the German Nazis and the Japanese Nazis,only to get murdered by Irish Nazis?

[ynnafymmi]

I would have reported that sandy,but i will let it remain up just to show all on AB your state of mind.

[New Judge]

“In the 1970s a press baron, Mountbatten, and others from the great and the good, are said to have considered overthrowing Wilson's government.”

Just a correction to that (so the story goes).

It was actually in 1968 and the “Press Baron” was allegedly Cecil King. Lord Mountbatten was not instrumental in considering it. King envisaged the disintegration of the government and the breakdown of law and order, resulting in the armed forces being mobilised to restore it. Mountbatten was invited to join the “Great & the Good” (who were not many in number) to formulate the plan and lead the forces in what would amount to a military coup.

Mountbatten refused to have anything to do with it as did almost all of the others whom King had called together so the plot (such that it was) collapsed. King (then Chairman of the Daily Mirror group) instructed its editor to publish a front page article calling for the removal of Wilson by “extra-parliamentary activity”. This led to King’s sacking as Chairman.

The Netflix series “The Crown” depicted this episode slightly differently. It showed Mountbatten being invited to lead a coup and to get the Queen’s backing. He left saying he would ponder on it and asked the participants to reconvene two days later.

At the resumption he explained to the gathered throng why a coup in the UK was absolutely impossible. The explanation is too long for here. You need to watch it (series 3 Episode 5).

There was allegedly another plot in 1974 but this did not involve Lord Mountbatten.

"The boys who were in the boat with him when he was assassinated may have been spared a fate worse than death, considering his rumoured predilection for teenage lads."

I think you need to seek some professional help, Sandy.

The boys who were in the boat when he was murdered  were his 14-year-old grandson Nicholas Knatchbull, and Paul Maxwell, a teenage boy from Enniskillen serving as crew. There were four others aboard: Mountbatten's daughter Patricia and husband John (Nicholas Knatchbull’s parents); their son Timothy (twin brother of Nicholas); and John Knatchbull's mother Doreen. They were all seriously injured, Doreen Knatchbull dying in hospital the following day.

I’m not sure when you thought Lord Mountbatten’s “predilections” may have been satisfied, but it would undoubtedly not have been during that trip.

[ynnafymmi]

"I think you need some professional help sandy".Not half NJ,if i said what sandy said, i would be suspended for a month.Seems as if there are two tiers of ABers on this site after all.

[naomi24]

Ynnafymmi, I've just seen this.  I've removed sandyRoe's dreadful comment but left NJ's excellent explanation.   You're mistaken.  Had you said it I would have removed it. No one gets preferential treatment.  

[jno]

there is a new book repeating old claims

https://www.thejournal.ie/new-book-lord-mountbatten-kincora-sexual-abuse-6706653-May2025/

I don't find it disgraceful to make such allegations; they do attract cover-ups, thugh. The ones made against Leon Brittan were false. Those against Jimmy Savile and Cyril Smith were true.

[ynnafymmi]

I would have left it up naomi just to show the mindset of people such as sandy,i presume he has now been suspended also?