Johnson no confidence vote - how do you think it will go?

[Meg]

@swimfeeders

Hi

It is a numbers game.

If Boris survives tonight he cannot be challenged again in the next year.

He has a good chance of winning tonight.

If the vote had been held after the by-elections and he had lost them he would be much more at risk of losing a no confidence vote.
Getting rid of Boris does not mean s general election.

@swimfeeders
Hi Swimmy , putting aside the 12 months thing which isn’t set in stone, the 22 committee set the rules and are at liberty to change them .
The point I was making was that if Johnson is seen by an MP to no good as a PM, that applies as much today as in 3 weeks time and to any ‘thinking’ MP with integrity putting country before self there is no need to wait for the byelections (which any MP living in the real world knows the Tories are almost certain to lose) before giving BJ a swift boot under the behind.
Waiting 3 weeks to vote shows indecisiveness and a lack of integrity by any Tory MP who has witnessed Johnsons appalling lack of judgement and attention to his job since he became PM.

[Maree]

@Bread

It matters a great deal who replaces him - there isn’t anyone who would win an election like Johnson did. If we have another general election it would be another coalition government that would get nothing done, just like Cameron and the Lib Dems.

Who would you vote for as Prime Minister ? Starmer ? Hunt ? Ellwood - they are more morally bankrupt than Boris Johnson and thats who you would most likely end up with.

You can keep calling him a corrupt liar and morally bankrupt as much as you like - we knew this before he got elected in 2019 - look what happened.

EDIT

And look here !

Sue Gray pictured singing into same karaoke machine made infamous by Partygate report at alcohol-fueled Whitehall gathering

It doesn’t matter what Sue Gray, Starmer or anyone else did, it doesn’t make what Johnson did any better and is just whataboutery

And there’s the small matter of keeping a PM who lies to Parliament

Asking to name alternatives is also just a diversionary tactic, to give chance to attack the alternatives as a smokescreen for keeping Johnson

I know I can keep calling him a corrupt liar and morally bankrupt as long as I like, thanks, and I fully intend to !

And I think anyone who voted for him knowing full well he was a morally bankrupt corrupt liar and landed us with him as PM at dangerous and difficult times was as bad as he is and equally responsible for the consequences

[summer]

So the media finally got their way… its hilarious how the labour party are saying well it might be he will win the vote mathematically but it wont be a real win… what ??

I voted for him Maree and I will continue to support him I don’t consider him to be morally bankrupt or a corrupt liar and I will continue to say that as long as I like

[Artangel]

@Bread

There isn’t anyone better than him to replace him with. Hunt would be a catastrophe and so would Gove

Bread, I totally agree. Those two would be totally unsuitable. You only have to look at Jeremy Hunt’s eyes!!
As for Liz Truss, the one who thinks she’s a ‘stateswoman’ posing like she’s the Prime Minister already!! No way would l vote for the Conservatives, if she was the leader.

[Bread]

Youre going to be really upset then when he wins the next election.

[Artangel]

@Maree

What will happen at the no confidence vote?

I know there’s one thing for sure… this forum is going to be dead quiet later this evening, whilst they are waiting for the outcome of the vote!

[Muddy]

As expected he got it
148 voted against him

[Omah]

Boris Johnson wins a confidence vote by Tory MPs 211 to 148.

Bad news for BJ - he’s a dead man walking - he’ll probably be gone before year-end.

[Vlad]

Well I wasn’t expecting that…now for those who mouthed off to the press big time will be expecting a Night of the Long Knives

[Maree]

@Artangel

@Maree

What will happen at the no confidence vote?

I know there’s one thing for sure… this forum is going to be dead quiet later this evening, whilst they are waiting for the outcome of the vote!

Well, you can’t say we don’t live in interesting times

I feel a bit sorry for the Queen, she soon got knocked off the news headlines😯

[Maree]

@Vlad

Well I wasn’t expecting that…now for those who mouthed off to the press big time will be expecting a Night of the Long Knives

A lot more voted against him than I expected so I’m pleased with that but they’ll definitely need to watch their backs, and their fronts!

[Maree]

@Bread

Youre going to be really upset then when he wins the next election.

Yup, I really will be because I’ve got twenty quid on at Ladbroke for Tugendhat being the next PM🤣

Other than that, upset not quite the word, disgusted and revolted maybe

[Vlad]

I had money on him being ousted,

[Maree]

Aw! But that was always an outsider, do you bet on 3 legged nags too?

Go Mr Tugendhat

[spitfire]

@Bread

It matters a great deal who replaces him - there isn’t anyone who would win an election like Johnson did.

FGS, it was a single issue vote, folks were pissed off with the Brexit situation, have you forgotten that?

[Bread]

Looks like another EU rejoin coup just failed miserably. A few genuine cases of people not happy with Johnson (Davis, Baker) but when Starmer says on the day of the vote he will “renegotiate with the EU”, Hunt saying we should join the single market and also Dan Hannan now saying the same thing, its obvious what was going on.

The 5th column never went away … its still very much alive and determined to undermine the people. Powered by media hysteria over cake, on reflection this could not have been more obvious.

Starmer just committed political suicide while Johnson looks to be safe until the next GE at least. Starmer has lied and lied over his position over Brexit - it’s over for him now, the red wall will never vote for him

[Bread]

You just want to be in the EU.

[Bread]

More tory MPs voted for Boris Johnson than the total of all labour MPs.

Just saying …

[Cinderella]

In the lead up to 2016 election am sure Jeremy Hunt said he would vote leave in a second referendum.
Yeah, right!

[Bread]

If he is PM that’s what we would get, a rigged referendum.