Tories in denial and suffering ‘Stockholm syndrome’ with Boris Johnson, says senior MP | ‘We will lose the next election on current trajectory’, warns Tobias Ellwood
Tories in denial and suffering ‘Stockholm syndrome’ with Boris Johnson, says senior MP | ‘We will lose the next election on current trajectory’, warns Tobias Ellwood
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If Johnson stays the Tories will lose, the most the Tories will lose is their majority, also two years is along time in politics.
Dam right they will lose, everyone’s lost respect for BoJo and now the tories for not doing more to get him out.
Labour should be capitalising on this.
> “The party is increasingly in a difficult place. This is going to be a testing summer, polling is now saying we could lose 90 seats,” Mr Ellwood, chair of the defence committee, told Sky News.
> “And we still seem to be in denial. It’s time to shake off this partisan Stockholm Syndrome, I believe,” added the senior Tory MP, who first called on the PM to go in February.
While putting the current count of committed Johnson junkers at 25 Tory MPs, with 34 public borisceptics, they quote one Tory MP’s “educated guess” that the number of no-confidence letters currently stands at 35 to 40 of the 54 required.
The article concludes with a denial from Mr Honesty Incarnate:
> Last month Mr Johnson denied reports that he had called the senior MP “that c*** Ellwood”.
Boris has to stay at all costs.
The Tory defeat will be pleasing.
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Fingers crossed. I just worry about how much more damage the useless lump and his cronies will have done by then.
That’s really what it comes down to in the end. You’ll read a lot about the efforts of Johnson to appease his backbenchers and remain in control, but it is now impossible to preserve his personal position and the success of the Conservative Party.
Personally I think it’s excellent that Johnson is staying, because it gives the best chance of the Conservatives losing the next election. The worst case scenario would be Johnson going and their successor managing to claim some kind of undeserved clean slate.
the tories dont want rid of him since he is doing and facilitating what the tories want. and they know they dont have anything more palatable to use as front man. just look at how the corpo urinalists literally putting rishy washy in shining lights in every picture, to know how bad the options are.
they are just gambling they can pin all the negative feeling on him, then get a fresh face to rinse and repeat.
He’s not wrong. But they’re worried about triggering a vote of no conference without a clear successor. If they trigger and he survives then they’re stuck with him for 12 months. Come summer 2023 he’ll be gearing up for election season and they’ll be even more hesitant to change.
The Tories stand a very good chance of winning. We’re living in a failing state and the Tories are the party of failure.
It’s an extremely simple calculus. If they stick with Boris, they lose at the next election. If they have a leadership election, they may end up with Boris anyway, and there’s a a non-trivial chance the party implodes and we end up with an early election – which they will lose.
The best option for a Tory MP right now is to cling on and hope something changes.
At this point I’d rather he embarrassingly clings on and leads them to defeat
LMFAO as if we would listen to this twat.
Boris is here to stay and will win next election.
This is coup attempt and backstabbers showing themselves as main plotters.
Bit sick that electability is the only metric that matters to this guy.
There is no “The public don’t like him but I believe in his ideas, competence and track record” because… it’s Boris Johnson.
Rich or poor, right or left, a government that does what ever short term focus groups like best will piss of anyone who actually cares.
So we are left with “electability” and that’s all you need to see to know something went wrong.
I’m not sure about the ‘Stockholm syndrome’. My MP is a doctor, a Tory in a safe seat who stands behind Patel’s attitude in immigration but in his email reply to me said:
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>However, there is a much bigger issue at stake which is of trust and integrity in high public office. The most serious charge against the Prime Minister is that of knowingly misleading parliament. Given the scale of rule-breaking in No.10 and across Whitehall that has now been confirmed by the Sue Gray report, I find it difficult to accept that the Prime Minister was unaware. His repeated assurances in Parliament that there was no rule-breaking lack credibility.
I understand fully that he’s only saying this because he’s concerned about his own job.
Hopefully Tobias isn’t wrong. I don’t know anyone that will be voting Conservative again anytime soon
How big will the swing be to lose this next election
Boris Johnson must RESIGN before any more damage is done to conservative party.
Tories never seem to manage more than two terms…
You know what would help you in the election? Actually helping people.