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pecksniff

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He did just win his party leadership vote. But:

First, the good news for Boris Johnson. Most of his MPs support him continuing as prime minister.

Now, the very bad news. More than 40 per cent of them - 148 - have declared they have no confidence in him continuing as leader.

While the prime minister, in a strictly arithmetical sense, won the vote, politically it is a devastating result which deals a hammer blow to his chances of survival.

When the confidence vote was called this morning, Number 10 were hopeful that the rebellion could be kept below the psychologically important figure of 100.

At the very least, they hoped that fewer than 133 would call on him to go, thereby ensuring the PM did better than Theresa May when she faced her own confidence vote in 2018.

However, after a string of MPs went public to declare they wanted him out, the rebellion was at the upper end of their worst case scenario.

So what does it mean in practice? Johnson will survive for now, but his prime ministerial authority is gone, making it next to impossible for him to perform a major reshuffle or force contentious legislation through parliament.
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It's truly surprising to see that he's survived as long as he has
 
pecksniff said:
Well, he's often called the British Trump, and the parallels are obvious.
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Except when Johnson exits, he will completely exit without a y additional support after the fact
 
ll74 said:
Except when Johnson exits, he will completely exit without a y additional support after the fact
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The most compelling analogy with Trump is astonishment that a thing so utterly loathsome and ugly got so far in the first place.
 
He’s got a Keith Richards survivor quality and is quite clever, so i wouldnt count him out yet.

I think he baited the non-confidence gang into a vote before they were ready to provide/make ready a viable conservative leader alternative.

This gives him a year to rehabilitate his popularity or force a snap election before the opposition can be ready.

With inflation, ukraine, etc going on…. Voters likely wont change for the sake of change.
Trudeau did the same thing in canada and eked out another term.
 
No one in Johnson's party will acknowledge his existence once he's out
 
He fared less well than Theresa May did on her no-confidence vote, and May only lasted another few months.

Not sure who the Tories have waiting in the wings.
 
Wrong Element said:
He fared less well than Theresa May did on her no-confidence vote, and May only lasted another few months.

Not sure who the Tories have waiting in the wings.
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Exactly… if the tories can shut up and get back to business, they have a chance of finishing out their term

If his internal enemies want to try and sacrifice boris, it could go worse if he calls a snap election.

I think he’s holding all the cards.

Not a great hand, but he’s still got the hammer.


( what the rest of us need to think about is the liklihood of biden and johnson ratcheting up the war to distract us from inflation to save their political asses….sound familiar?)
 
rockcasbah said:
Exactly… if the tories can shut up and get back to business, they have a chance of finishing out their term
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But they don't have any business. There does not appear to be any Tory agenda right now. They're not trying to get anything done. They are only defined by being Not Labour.

It is much the same with our GOP. Four years in power, and the only thing done worth mentioning was a tax cut.
 
I assume you believe Labour has an “agenda” beyond getting elected?

ahahahaha!
 
The tory party are bereft of decent people. Bo jo made sure of that.
But short of him being found dead in a closet with no pants a big black dildo up his ass and hanging by an old school tie with an orange in his mouth. They can't get rid as who is there that is not tainted with the bojo stench
 
oggbashan said:
It did. For extreme socialism that the electorate rejected. Boris's election success was more about 'anyone but Corbyn' than a vote for Boris.
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Isn't there any socialist option a Brit can vote for, without wasting your vote on some no-hope third party?!

Fourth party, I should say. Forgot about the LibDems. But they ain't no more socialist than the Tories.
 
If Corbyn had been more reasonable, the Labour party could have been mildly socialist. But he wanted the full thing - public ownership and nationalisation of many industries and spending on that instead of the country's problems.

When Covid came, he wouldn't have had the money the Tories spent on furlough etc. He would have spent it all.
 
I think the partygate scandal is nonsense and will blow over as soon as a new scandal is cooked up.

Politicians drinking too much when they weren’t supposed to?

I am shocked.
 
rockcasbah said:
I think the partygate scandal is nonsense and will blow over as soon as a new scandal is cooked up.

Politicians drinking too much when they weren’t supposed to?

I am shocked.
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In that particular case, the scandal would be the same if they were drinking milk.
 
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