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Johnson holds on with 58.7% of the vote – politicalbetting.com
Johnson holds on with 58.7% of the vote – politicalbetting.com
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To take the flack for the upcoming election defeats?
To try to hang on as PM longer than TM?
Pretty good call though, Andy. Well done.
Pretty good result for that SKS fellow too. All he has got to do now is avoid having his collar felt and he's laughing kitbags.
He’s not a resigner.
So what happens to remove him this year?
Tiverton and Honiton is crucial.
If CP wins, pressure will be off. If CP loses, 1922 will be badgered to change rules to allow another go at ousting him I suspect - but how can they when Johnson has the support of a decent majority of his MPs?
They shot their bolt too early.
"It's just a flesh wound!"
(And no, I don't mean with booze).
1) He's more fucked than a stepmom on Pornhub.
2) He's been castrated tonight rather than euthanised, but the visit to vet to put him down is coming soon
https://twitter.com/PaulBrandITV/status/1533902276926005249
FPT.
Top comment from @NickPalmer
Election Maps UK
@ElectionMapsUK
Wakefield By-Election Voting Intention:
LAB: 56% (+16)
CON: 33% (-14)
IND: 3% (New)
RFM: 3% (-3)
LDM: 2% (-2)
GRN: 2% (New)
YSP: 1% (-1)
BF: 1% (New)
Via
@Survation
, 24 May - 1 Jun.
Changes w/ GE2019.
https://mobile.twitter.com/ElectionMapsUK/status/1533838241945862144
That is an awful lot of traitorous remoaners in the Tory ranks though, they should screen their candidates more. Seems reasonable. A massive number have said they don't have confidence in him as party leader and PM, so he's justified in putting the question. It'd be lost of course, it's political theatre, but it's reasonable to get them to confirm they do have confidence in him after all, if the alternative is bringing him down alongside the opposition.
Twice as many as a percentage voted against Corbyn in his Confidence vote and he was still able to fill his Shadow Cabinet with the likes of Keir etc who were willing to work with him despite that.
Edit: I was referring to 2), not 1)
A terrible result for Johnson.
An awful result for the Tories.
A disastrous result for the UK.
I had the most unaccountable feeling of inexplicable anomaly ... anyway, partly (a bit) for that, my friend won, and after some discussion it emerged that the hound had had the snip a few weeks before ...
Jason Groves@JasonGroves
Nadhim Zahawi says President Zelensky will be 'punching the air' at the PM's 'handsome' victory
https://twitter.com/PippaCrerar/status/1533904357657288705
Deep in the heart of Somerset I hear the sound of laughter and the clinking of glasses from the LD campaign room.
Twats
I'm voting SNP.
The problem for Boris seems to possibly be a possible personal sanction vote following the Privileges Committee report? 148 against him today wasn't enough to oust him, but 148 voting with Labour and the rest of Parliament could be enough to suspend him from the House couldn't it?
As it stands then the next event in the calendar is the by elections. If they’re catastrophic then it might force further discussion at the 1922.
I think Boris is brazen, but I’m not sure even he can fight on with that level of opposition for another 12 months. This is going to be a running sore.
Of course, brilliant news for Labour every week that this drags on.
He compared Johnson to May...
Not least because Boris will likely find new ways to aggravate either Conservative MPs or the voters and certainly will not learn from his mistakes so will continue the old ways of aggravating either Conservative MPs or the voters.
But still.
The LDs in T&H and Labour in Wakefield must be cracking open the bubbly tonight.
So far I have written a sentence.
They think anyone else would do worse or reverse on policies they like.
They share the (ridiculous) view that voting against the leader is treachery.
They think the party needs to unite, and know that won't happen if Boris goes (because Boris won't let it)
Not all of these reasons are sensible or up to date of course.
Lily livered Tory MPs.
https://twitter.com/REWearmouth/status/1533905852268261377
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The choice is clearer than ever before:
Divided Tories propping up Boris Johnson with no plan to tackle the issues you are facing.
Or a united Labour Party with a plan to fix the cost of living crisis and restore trust in politics.
Labour will get Britain back on track."
What's going to push another three dozen MPs to switch and to ask the 1922 to change the rules, when they weren't willing to vote against him in a secret ballot today?