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Broccers wrote: ↑Mon Jun 06, 2022 8:47 pm

Zonda_ wrote: ↑Mon Jun 06, 2022 8:18 pm BBCs Nick Robinson:

History shows that PMs who "win" still end up losing - Thatcher resigned 8 days after winning, May within 6 months & Major lost to Blair in a landslide ...

It's nearly 3 years since your first post on this thread

Got to be right eventually.

My original post was in jest but since then I've rarely come to despise a politician as much as I despise Johnson.

And anyway it's my longest running post so fuck you!

He’s done worse than May, but he has no shame so he’ll stay. The shitshow carries on…

He’s happy as a pig in shit.

How many of the 148 will now resign their seats I wonder??

dinny_g wrote: ↑Mon Jun 06, 2022 10:23 pm How many of the 148 will now resign their seats I wonder??

I doubt they'll do that but they block anything he tries to do. Finally he's finished.

So it's the lowest level of support in a. Conservative VoNC in the last 30yrs - even lower than Thatcher in 1990. And yet it's a "convincing result"?

He's not going anywhere and it does seem that there are enough Con MPs that are determined to hole their chances at the next GE.

More people will actually care about love island than this

Big question is, if they throw a leaving party for Boris.

dinny_g wrote: ↑Mon Jun 06, 2022 10:23 pm How many of the 148 will now resign their seats I wonder??

You can’t simply resign as an MP so none. They do of course have alternative options open to them, e.g: resign the party whip, cross the floor.

I don’t agree with the below prediction but it seems plausible:


Boris is determined to carry on until his bitter end.

Jobbo wrote: ↑Tue Jun 07, 2022 6:32 am

dinny_g wrote: ↑Mon Jun 06, 2022 10:23 pm How many of the 148 will now resign their seats I wonder??

You can’t simply resign as an MP so none.

Did not know that. I would have thought if you resign the party whip… I’d have it taken from you… you no longer represent the party that your electorate voted for and so should resign and re-stand as an independent.

dinny_g wrote: ↑Tue Jun 07, 2022 7:41 am

Jobbo wrote: ↑Tue Jun 07, 2022 6:32 am

dinny_g wrote: ↑Mon Jun 06, 2022 10:23 pm How many of the 148 will now resign their seats I wonder??

You can’t simply resign as an MP so none.

Did not know that. I would have thought if you resign the party whip… I’d have it taken from you… you no longer represent the party that your electorate voted for and so should resign and re-stand as an independent.

It's a bit of a constitutional nonsense, but you don't technically vote for the party - you vote for the individual and if the elected MP swaps parties after being elected, the only remedy the electorate have is not to vote for them next time.

Boris is doing his bit for constitutional reform by removing as much as possible of the standards required of MPs and the Government though

Jobbo wrote: ↑Tue Jun 07, 2022 8:34 am It's a bit of a constitutional nonsense, but you don't technically vote for the party - you vote for the individual and if the elected MP swaps parties after being elected, the only remedy the electorate have is not to vote for them next time.

Boris is doing his bit for constitutional reform by removing as much as possible of the standards required of MPs and the Government though

Nonsense is right.

Although I'm sure some people vote for the individual (by brother always did - vote for the guy who promised to do most in the constituency, regardless of party - this was typically the liberal, Simon Hughes in Southwark) I's say the vast majority vote for the local person who represents the National Party they most agree with in terms of manifesto etc.

Just noticed your updated signature Dinny - right twice in 4 years, not bad!

I'm on a roll now...

Triple digit #BecauseDinny's though I'm sure...

Jobbo wrote: ↑Mon Jun 06, 2022 4:56 pm Why do none of the supporting MPs' tweets say anything genuine? All guff about the bigger picture. The bigger picture is that he does fuck all even when he's not lying and u-turning.

Nadine Dorries tweets seemed genuine, deranged but genuine

ZedLeg wrote: ↑Tue Jun 07, 2022 9:22 am

Jobbo wrote: ↑Mon Jun 06, 2022 4:56 pm Why do none of the supporting MPs' tweets say anything genuine? All guff about the bigger picture. The bigger picture is that he does fuck all even when he's not lying and u-turning.

Nadine Dorries tweets seemed genuine, deranged but genuine

She's an absolute loon, but also epitomises exactly where we find ourselves with our government these days.

All the MPs tweeting out the same copied & pasted messages in recent days is just utterly depressing.

Ascender wrote: ↑Tue Jun 07, 2022 11:35 am All the MPs tweeting out the same copied & pasted messages in recent days is just utterly depressing.

I did wonder if they were all tweeting that because it didn't give away that they were intending to vote against him.

My local MP (Andrea Jenkyns) is a Nadine Dorries-like loony. She's a hard-core Brexiteer who once managed to give herself a concussion by falling off a chair during a meeting. She tweeted this



and got rinsed in the comments.

And one of my fellow constituents posted this response

This Right to Buy bollocks? Am I on my own thinking this is a shite idea in the current climate?