AuroraSaab
Squire
Hadn't realised he'd left parliament a couple of years ago. The half decent ones get fed up I suppose.
Who will be the next Tory leader?
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Hadn't realised he'd left parliament a couple of years ago. The half decent ones get fed up I suppose.
newfhouse
pleb
Purged.
What’s astonishing is that most of those that opposed Johnson‘s leadership (Stewart, Gauke, Grieve et al) either left or were ejected, yet within three years 148 of his own MPs voted against him. That’s quite a conversion rate.
deptfordmarmoset
Über Member
No, but it's possible to quantify vested interests.
AuroraSaab
Squire
It certainly is. To be booed by Royalists waving Union flags is quite something too I suppose.
newfhouse
pleb
Hard for them to ignore the queen sitting alone at the funeral of her husband, while Johnson was recovering from his partying the night before.
i have no love for the monarchy but even I was moved by those images.
Rusty Nails
Country Member
How does one get to 75% then? Is it based on the assumption that everyone on the payroll voted for him? How many MPs are on the payroll?
I hope that the figure is correct because it is bad for Johnson, but I suspect a lot of people on the payroll will have voted against him safe in the knowledge they will never be found out. Most of them are pretty certain to stay on the payroll no matter who the leader is.
slowmotion
Active Member
Mr Stewart is pretty impressive. I'll admit that that is not that difficult against "the background".
PaulB
Active Member
In my lifetime, I've never seen a British government in power that has no doctrine to speak of beyond vacuous rhetoric but then, this rabble is a construct of Brexit, an aberration rooted in stupidity, lies and deceit so I suppose their current incoherence is logical. Their next 'leader' will be another puppet of the right-wing press and their riches/power-grab mentality.
deptfordmarmoset
Über Member
Those are the assumptions. If all those in government pay voted for their paymaster, that leaves 75% of backbenchers voting against Johnson. Of course, the assumptions can neither be proved nor be reliable.
In passing, how comes bus stop P in Parliament Square knew the result in advance?
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Badger_Boom
Member
Having read about Johnson I'm only surprised it took that long.
cookiemonster
Veteran
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Beebo
Guru
But usual protocol would be for a member of the government to resign if they were voting against the sitting PM. Which is why the assumption is made that those who didn’t resign ( a few did) voted for Johnson.
Ian H
Legendary Member
That was in the old days, when MPs and ministers had standards.
