* “you have presided over a culture of law-breaking”
* “to describe yourself as vindicated by the [Gray] report is grotesque”
* Unilateral Northern Ireland Protocol breach: “damaging, politically foolhardy and almost certainly illegal”
* “you are putting the Union itself gravely at risk”
* Rwanda policy: “ugly”
* C4 privatisation: “unnecessary and provocative”
* should not have supported the “noisy protest” ban – “when basic human freedoms are facing the threat of extinction in Ukraine”
* perpetual campaigning to create “dividing lines mainly for your advantage” in the face of economic doom
* “sensible planning has been replaced by empty rhetoric”
* “apparently trying to import elements of a presidential system of government”
* “attempts to centralise power in 10 Downing Street” will make all the above worse
* “at odds with proper decent conservatism”
* “For you to prolong this charade by remaining in office . . . insults the electorate”
Not so much a letter of no confidence as the opening shot of a leadership campaign, possibly Norman’s own.
Announced on twitter:
> I have supported Boris Johnson for 15 years, for the London Mayoralty and for PM. Very sadly, I have written to him to say I can no longer do so, for the reasons set out below.
> In a letter to the prime minister posted on social media, the MP for Hereford and South Herefordshire said Mr Johnson had presided over “a culture of casual law-breaking” in Number 10.
> Mr Norman said the prime minister’s current policy priorities were “deeply questionable” and that there were no circumstances in which he could serve in a government led by him.
> He warned any breach of the Northern Irish Protocol would be “economically very damaging, politically foolhardy and almost certainly illegal”.
… All these brave brave MP’s suddenly developing a backbone and a conscience when there future income is threatened.
… We must replace this out of touch leader with ahhh errm another out of touch leader.
Problem solved, apparently.
The parties themselves were grotesque; his response should be both an immediate sacking offence and result in him being banned from politics. Admittedly, Johnson has done a lot of awful things but the fact that he can brazenly lie to the public and attempt to gaslight us by claiming that the parties he has been photographed at did not happen, were not parties or he knew nothing about them is beyond the pail.
He says that conservatives losing the next GE would be potentially catastrophic for the country. The current government is what’s catastrophic for this country…
BoJo gets the heave ho
Someone’s afraid the Lib Dems might have a decent candidate for South Herefordshire..
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The letter is quite something.
* “you have presided over a culture of law-breaking”
* “to describe yourself as vindicated by the [Gray] report is grotesque”
* Unilateral Northern Ireland Protocol breach: “damaging, politically foolhardy and almost certainly illegal”
* “you are putting the Union itself gravely at risk”
* Rwanda policy: “ugly”
* C4 privatisation: “unnecessary and provocative”
* should not have supported the “noisy protest” ban – “when basic human freedoms are facing the threat of extinction in Ukraine”
* perpetual campaigning to create “dividing lines mainly for your advantage” in the face of economic doom
* “sensible planning has been replaced by empty rhetoric”
* “apparently trying to import elements of a presidential system of government”
* “attempts to centralise power in 10 Downing Street” will make all the above worse
* “at odds with proper decent conservatism”
* “For you to prolong this charade by remaining in office . . . insults the electorate”
Not so much a letter of no confidence as the opening shot of a leadership campaign, possibly Norman’s own.
Announced on twitter:
> I have supported Boris Johnson for 15 years, for the London Mayoralty and for PM. Very sadly, I have written to him to say I can no longer do so, for the reasons set out below.
> [[letter pg1](https://nitter.net/pic/orig/media%2FFUjLUttX0AAH6ir.jpg)] [[letter pg2](https://nitter.net/pic/orig/media%2FFUjLUttWYAAUsiV.jpg)]
— Jesse Norman, [Jun 6, 2022 · 6:36 AM UTC](https://nitter.net/Jesse_Norman/status/1533699235417403393#m)
From the article:
> In a letter to the prime minister posted on social media, the MP for Hereford and South Herefordshire said Mr Johnson had presided over “a culture of casual law-breaking” in Number 10.
> Mr Norman said the prime minister’s current policy priorities were “deeply questionable” and that there were no circumstances in which he could serve in a government led by him.
> He warned any breach of the Northern Irish Protocol would be “economically very damaging, politically foolhardy and almost certainly illegal”.
… All these brave brave MP’s suddenly developing a backbone and a conscience when there future income is threatened.
… We must replace this out of touch leader with ahhh errm another out of touch leader.
Problem solved, apparently.
The parties themselves were grotesque; his response should be both an immediate sacking offence and result in him being banned from politics. Admittedly, Johnson has done a lot of awful things but the fact that he can brazenly lie to the public and attempt to gaslight us by claiming that the parties he has been photographed at did not happen, were not parties or he knew nothing about them is beyond the pail.
He says that conservatives losing the next GE would be potentially catastrophic for the country. The current government is what’s catastrophic for this country…
BoJo gets the heave ho
Someone’s afraid the Lib Dems might have a decent candidate for South Herefordshire..