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Previously on "BoJo to face confidence vote…."

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  • d000hg
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    Originally posted by WTFH View Post
    It sounded like they were having a party last night outside No10. During the news there were a few Abba tracks (including Money, money, money) along with others, although the Tory run impartial broadcaster tried to muffle the tunes.
    I had assumed all the noise was protestors. Quite a few in the background of every OB I saw.

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  • WTFH
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    It sounded like they were having a party last night outside No10. During the news there were a few Abba tracks (including Money, money, money) along with others, although the Tory run impartial broadcaster tried to muffle the tunes.

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  • SueEllen
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    Originally posted by vetran View Post
    I wonder if they'll throw a leaving party for Boris?
    Another legal party in front of a gate?

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  • vetran
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    Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post
    FTFY.

    It reminds me of a short story where the protagonist goes to visit the president - in prison. "Your president is in prison?" "Oh yes, we imprison all politicians upon election - it saves so much time and money".
    so close

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics...cked-by-judges

    Michael Mansfield QC said the offence of waging an aggressive war had effectively been assimilated into English law.

    The Chilcot inquiry’s conclusion that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and undermined the United Nations required the prosecution of Tony Blair, Mansfield told the high court.


    The aim of the case was to force Blair – as well as the former foreign secretary Jack Straw and the former attorney general Lord Goldsmith – to answer for their actions in court.

    Mansfield argued that the international crime of a war of aggression had been accepted by then UK attorney general Sir Hartley Shawcross QC in the 1940s, at the time of the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war crimes.

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  • NotAllThere
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    Originally posted by DealorNoDeal View Post
    ...as well as being 1st PM to caught breaking the law
    FTFY.

    It reminds me of a short story where the protagonist goes to visit the president - in prison. "Your president is in prison?" "Oh yes, we imprison all politicians upon election - it saves so much time and money".

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  • DealorNoDeal
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    Originally posted by jamesbrown View Post
    Still, the rebels obviously did shoot their load too soon - completely disorganised...
    Had it been coordinated, they may have waited until after the forthcoming by-elections.

    Bojo will have to pull off another first (as well as being 1st PM to break the law) because no previous Tory leader has gone on to win a GE after winning a confidence/leadership challenge.

    That's assuming he makes it to the GE which is still far from certain.

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  • vetran
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    I wonder if they'll throw a leaving party for Boris?

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  • AtW
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    I guess he can now forget about all those promises he made today, like those about "cutting taxes"

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  • jamesbrown
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    Originally posted by SimonMac View Post



    Problem is he doesn’t care if it’s one vote or one hundred, he won that’s all he cares about. He was never a populist prime minster. He never cared about those that don’t like him, he’s going to pander to the people who either still support him, or dislike the alternative to him. Which unfortunately is still a hell of a lot of people.
    Yes, I think I said that.

    But the Cabinet and/or Chief Whip will have to give him the bad news, eventually. Still, the rebels obviously did shoot their load too soon - completely disorganised because it isn't coming from one wing of the party, it's all over and they have completely different ideas about what comes next (small state, supply side reform, low tax vs. large state, high tax, pseudo-socialism).

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  • SimonMac
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    Originally posted by jamesbrown View Post

    Oh, make no mistake, 41% of your party having no confidence in you is a dismal, dismal outcome for Boris. Authority crushed. That said, he's as brazen as they come, so it will take the Cabinet or Chief Whip to do the deed, eventually.
    Originally posted by SueEllen View Post
    He did worse than a certain Mrs May so he's a dead man walking.
    Problem is he doesn’t care if it’s one vote or one hundred, he won that’s all he cares about. He was never a populist prime minster. He never cared about those that don’t like him, he’s going to pander to the people who either still support him, or dislike the alternative to him. Which unfortunately is still a hell of a lot of people.

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  • SueEllen
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    He did worse than a certain Mrs May so he's a dead man walking.

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  • jamesbrown
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    Originally posted by SimonMac View Post
    211 to 148

    the guy is invincible, or so he will now think
    Oh, make no mistake, 41% of your party having no confidence in you is a dismal, dismal outcome for Boris. Authority crushed. That said, he's as brazen as they come, so it will take the Cabinet or Chief Whip to do the deed, eventually.

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  • jamesbrown
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    Originally posted by jamesbrown View Post
    223 voting confidence to beat the dismal Theresa. Personally, I think it will be around 200 confidence, 154 no confidence.
    Looks like I was marginally pessimistic.

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  • SimonMac
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    211 to 148

    the guy is invincible, or so he will now think

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  • AtW
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    Every single MP who voted against or for Boris also broke the rules

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