Another Tory MP resigns

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Rufus Stone

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7,678 posts

62 months

Saturday 10th June 2023
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12180831/...

This is starting to look orchestrated.

scratchchin

S600BSB

5,959 posts

112 months

Saturday 10th June 2023
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How many more do we need to boot the fkers out...

GetCarter

29,575 posts

285 months

Saturday 10th June 2023
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Some more will get drunk tonight and say they are going to do it... fa fa fa Johnson was a hero etc.

...and will wake up tomorrow and decide that the salary and the power and... funnily enough.

Got another +/- 16 months in the trough... let's bleed it for all we can get. They know they'll lose their seat, but might as well fk the rest of us for as long as they can.

ETA: Did I ever mention I don't like or trust this lot?

Edited by GetCarter on Saturday 10th June 14:29

Vanden Saab

14,701 posts

80 months

Saturday 10th June 2023
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S600BSB said:
How many more do we need to boot the fkers out...
As i predicted last night, drip drip.. Anyway you are asking the wrong question. The correct question is how many MPs have to resign before Rishi is forced to resign himself. There is a certain irony that this in a different form is what did for Boris.

bitchstewie

54,532 posts

216 months

Saturday 10th June 2023
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Vanden Saab said:
As i predicted last night, drip drip.. Anyway you are asking the wrong question. The correct question is how many MPs have to resign before Rishi is forced to resign himself. There is a certain irony that this in a different form is what did for Boris.
I think more than this.

It was by-elections anyway if Dorries and Adams had got their peerages.

Outside of a few sad Johnson loyalists the public just see this as throwing toys out their prams and rats in a sack infighting.

They don't much care for it IMO.

Countdown

41,675 posts

202 months

Saturday 10th June 2023
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I'm genuinely curious as to why they would resign, especially if they arent being given cushy appointments elswhere.

Surely they're just giving up a cushy £80k a year plus "expenses"?

valiant

11,180 posts

166 months

Saturday 10th June 2023
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Vanden Saab said:
As i predicted last night, drip drip.. Anyway you are asking the wrong question. The correct question is how many MPs have to resign before Rishi is forced to resign himself. There is a certain irony that this in a different form is what did for Boris.
Rishi won’t resign.

Yep, there’s a few Boris loyalists who may quit but the majority will stay and I think if Rishi’s back is really against the wall then he’ll simply call a general election as a ‘fk you’ to all those in the party plotting against him knowing most of the Boris ultras will lose their seats.

Blue62

9,305 posts

158 months

Saturday 10th June 2023
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Vanden Saab said:
As i predicted last night, drip drip.. Anyway you are asking the wrong question. The correct question is how many MPs have to resign before Rishi is forced to resign himself. There is a certain irony that this in a different form is what did for Boris.
It’s not clear how much support Boris now has within the party, even before the outcome of the inquiry his base was looking thinner, but there’s no doubt Rishi will be feeling the heat. I imagine his team will be rallying round, but I can’t see any forced resignation in the near future, though I could see him threatening to go to the country.

Vanden Saab

14,701 posts

80 months

Saturday 10th June 2023
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Blue62 said:
Vanden Saab said:
As i predicted last night, drip drip.. Anyway you are asking the wrong question. The correct question is how many MPs have to resign before Rishi is forced to resign himself. There is a certain irony that this in a different form is what did for Boris.
It’s not clear how much support Boris now has within the party, even before the outcome of the inquiry his base was looking thinner, but there’s no doubt Rishi will be feeling the heat. I imagine his team will be rallying round, but I can’t see any forced resignation in the near future, though I could see him threatening to go to the country.
30 odd majority? How close do you think the tory party will allow it to get to zero before acting?

valiant

11,180 posts

166 months

Saturday 10th June 2023
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Vanden Saab said:
Blue62 said:
Vanden Saab said:
As i predicted last night, drip drip.. Anyway you are asking the wrong question. The correct question is how many MPs have to resign before Rishi is forced to resign himself. There is a certain irony that this in a different form is what did for Boris.
It’s not clear how much support Boris now has within the party, even before the outcome of the inquiry his base was looking thinner, but there’s no doubt Rishi will be feeling the heat. I imagine his team will be rallying round, but I can’t see any forced resignation in the near future, though I could see him threatening to go to the country.
30 odd majority? How close do you think the tory party will allow it to get to zero before acting?
Do you really think that yet another leadership contest would be in the best interests of the Tory party at the moment?

Tory party needs stability and calm not another internecine war that will take months and piss the country off even more so than it is now and we’re not actually that far from entering the election period.


S600BSB

5,959 posts

112 months

Saturday 10th June 2023
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Vanden Saab said:
S600BSB said:
How many more do we need to boot the fkers out...
As i predicted last night, drip drip.. Anyway you are asking the wrong question. The correct question is how many MPs have to resign before Rishi is forced to resign himself. There is a certain irony that this in a different form is what did for Boris.
Spot on.

abzmike

9,132 posts

112 months

Saturday 10th June 2023
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Zahawi and Sharma apparently on the brink … but what’s their game? To collapse the government and force a leadership election that will solve nothing, or an early GE they’ll be wiped out in? Resigning to support another guy that’s resigned is a very odd thing to do. Or do they think annihilation is assured and they’ll get the old band back together in opposition? These guys are minted, I can’t see them finding much joy in opposition as opposed to power.

texaxile

3,384 posts

156 months

Saturday 10th June 2023
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S600BSB said:
Vanden Saab said:
S600BSB said:
How many more do we need to boot the fkers out...
As i predicted last night, drip drip.. Anyway you are asking the wrong question. The correct question is how many MPs have to resign before Rishi is forced to resign himself. There is a certain irony that this in a different form is what did for Boris.
Spot on.
Will it achieve the same result though?.

Ashfordian

2,162 posts

95 months

Saturday 10th June 2023
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Vanden Saab said:
S600BSB said:
How many more do we need to boot the fkers out...
As i predicted last night, drip drip.. Anyway you are asking the wrong question. The correct question is how many MPs have to resign before Rishi is forced to resign himself. There is a certain irony that this in a different form is what did for Boris.
No more MP's have to resign.

If the Conservatives lose all three of these seats (they are going to definitely lose Uxbridge) then the knives will be out for Rishi from within his own party. Two of these should be very safe seats, but at the moment who knows what the electorate will do as this is a safe way of giving the party a kicking.

Jonny_

4,268 posts

213 months

Saturday 10th June 2023
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Our local MP. Gives useless toadying aholes a bad name. I hope he suffers an extended and debilitating dose of the sts.

Jockman

17,988 posts

166 months

Saturday 10th June 2023
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I’m starting to get the same feeling in my gut as I did in 1996 / 97.

The only difference is I don’t feel as engaged with Starmer now as I did with Blair then.

pequod

8,997 posts

144 months

Saturday 10th June 2023
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Jockman said:
I’m starting to get the same feeling in my gut as I did in 1996 / 97.

The only difference is I don’t feel as engaged with Starmer now as I did with Blair then.
100% agree. If only the Opposition was the 'obvious' answer to our current dissatisfaction????

Dingu

4,212 posts

36 months

Saturday 10th June 2023
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pequod said:
Jockman said:
I’m starting to get the same feeling in my gut as I did in 1996 / 97.

The only difference is I don’t feel as engaged with Starmer now as I did with Blair then.
100% agree. If only the Opposition was the 'obvious' answer to our current dissatisfaction????
Well sadly it’s the only answer as most of the brainless electorate just vote the same every election without actually considering their options. That allied to FPTP leaves us with the shower we have (cross parties).

E63eeeeee...

4,451 posts

55 months

Saturday 10th June 2023
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It obviously can't be a bad thing. Replacements might be non-Tories, or even sensible reality-based Tories. Anyone know if they're still requiring candidates to swear allegiance to Brexit?

Jockman

17,988 posts

166 months

Saturday 10th June 2023
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Dingu said:
pequod said:
Jockman said:
I’m starting to get the same feeling in my gut as I did in 1996 / 97.

The only difference is I don’t feel as engaged with Starmer now as I did with Blair then.
100% agree. If only the Opposition was the 'obvious' answer to our current dissatisfaction????
Well sadly it’s the only answer as most of the brainless electorate just vote the same every election without actually considering their options. That allied to FPTP leaves us with the shower we have (cross parties).
There is now a third scenario of a hung parliament. Coalition could be the new normal now that the SNP may have handed Labour a wee bit of good fortune.