This should be interesting. Keir Starmer would make an excellent PM.
Tories won’t vote for a general election.
This will fail.
It’s a tactical move- Tory MPs either have to openly back Boris, or openly reject him. Either way is a bit of a win for Labour.
It will fail. The Tories have no honour, no morals, no spine, and no respect for the UK; so they’ll back BoJo and that will be that.
Tin-foil hat: Boris will then use his surviving this VoNC as a reason to *not* go in September.
Labours doing the right thing, no confidence motion which will be rejected by a bunch of MP’s ( 50/60 ) who have resigned from goverment for the need to change leadership.
They are nothing more than a bunch of self serving suits on over inflated salaries who eat and drink at the tax payers expence and call them selfs upper class while looking down on the rest with disdain
These people are Nothing more than scroungers and vampires masquarading as public officials with the intrests of the public at heart who do nothing more than gas light the public and parrot lies and un truths while making sure most policy decisions benefit either their wealthy friends, investors or donors or family.
Won’t pass unfortunately, as much as the country desperately needs a GE right now.
Only the most deluded tory thinks they stand any chance at a GE right now. So they won’t vote for it.
It will probably fail but I think that’s the point. Labour would love for it to pass and go to a general election; polling shows a GE would be a landslide victory for them. But predictably the Tories will vote in confidence and the VONC will fail. But it does for the Tory MPs to publicly back a PM that just last week they all pretty much said they had no confidence in.
It will give Labour easy ammo during the next GE run up period and will also make it much harder for Tory MPs to retain their seats in any future by-elections.
Either way the Tories are pretty fucked.
When the new PM is announced in September it is expected that they will call a snap election (without one they have no official mandate) and if that happens I’d be shocked if they are still PM by the time the results come in.
If it succeeds, Labour gets a general election and best opportunity they’ve ever had to remove the Torys from power.
If it fails, the Torys are seen as still supporting Johnson.
Either way the Torys look very weak.
I like this.
They will either openly back a PM who’s resigned because no one backs him, or come out against their own government.
Win win for Labour. Doubt an election will take place but interesting to watch unfold
Shame the Tories into backing Johnson.
Cute move.
Personally I have 0 confidence in any member of the House of Commons. They’re all self serving, corrupt hypocrites.
Every single one of them needs the sack and the electoral system needs rebuilding from the ground up.
Boris Johnson blocks no confidence vote in his own government tomorrow
Reminding me, a US user, that when Brits “table” something that means they put it on the agenda, but in the US to “table” something means to postpone it.
Government says no:
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> Government won’t allow confidence vote – Labour
> Boris Johnson’s government is refusing to allow time to debate a vote of no confidence in the prime minister, Labour says.
> The party tabled the motion in Parliament earlier, with the aim of challenging Conservative MPs to oust the prime minister as they simultaneously hold a leadership contest.
> Labour wanted to hold the vote tomorrow, but the party says the government won’t allow it to go ahead.
> Downing Street says confidence votes are conventionally held in governments and not individuals, such as prime ministers.
> “This is totally unprecedented,” a Labour spokesperson says. “Yet again the Tories are changing the rules to protect their own dodgy mates.
> “All the Tory leadership candidates should denounce this flagrant abuse of power to protect a discredited prime minister.”
> In a statement, a government spokesperson said: “We have given Labour the option to table a straightforward vote of no confidence in the government.
> “They have chosen to play politics by tabling a vote of no confidence in the government and the prime minister.”
The Government has refused to set aside parliamentary time for it to be debated
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This should be interesting. Keir Starmer would make an excellent PM.
Tories won’t vote for a general election.
This will fail.
It’s a tactical move- Tory MPs either have to openly back Boris, or openly reject him. Either way is a bit of a win for Labour.
It will fail. The Tories have no honour, no morals, no spine, and no respect for the UK; so they’ll back BoJo and that will be that.
Tin-foil hat: Boris will then use his surviving this VoNC as a reason to *not* go in September.
Labours doing the right thing, no confidence motion which will be rejected by a bunch of MP’s ( 50/60 ) who have resigned from goverment for the need to change leadership.
They are nothing more than a bunch of self serving suits on over inflated salaries who eat and drink at the tax payers expence and call them selfs upper class while looking down on the rest with disdain
These people are Nothing more than scroungers and vampires masquarading as public officials with the intrests of the public at heart who do nothing more than gas light the public and parrot lies and un truths while making sure most policy decisions benefit either their wealthy friends, investors or donors or family.
Won’t pass unfortunately, as much as the country desperately needs a GE right now.
Only the most deluded tory thinks they stand any chance at a GE right now. So they won’t vote for it.
It will probably fail but I think that’s the point. Labour would love for it to pass and go to a general election; polling shows a GE would be a landslide victory for them. But predictably the Tories will vote in confidence and the VONC will fail. But it does for the Tory MPs to publicly back a PM that just last week they all pretty much said they had no confidence in.
It will give Labour easy ammo during the next GE run up period and will also make it much harder for Tory MPs to retain their seats in any future by-elections.
Either way the Tories are pretty fucked.
When the new PM is announced in September it is expected that they will call a snap election (without one they have no official mandate) and if that happens I’d be shocked if they are still PM by the time the results come in.
If it succeeds, Labour gets a general election and best opportunity they’ve ever had to remove the Torys from power.
If it fails, the Torys are seen as still supporting Johnson.
Either way the Torys look very weak.
I like this.
They will either openly back a PM who’s resigned because no one backs him, or come out against their own government.
Win win for Labour. Doubt an election will take place but interesting to watch unfold
Shame the Tories into backing Johnson.
Cute move.
Personally I have 0 confidence in any member of the House of Commons. They’re all self serving, corrupt hypocrites.
Every single one of them needs the sack and the electoral system needs rebuilding from the ground up.
Boris Johnson blocks no confidence vote in his own government tomorrow
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/breaking-boris-johnson-blocks-no-27462239
Reminding me, a US user, that when Brits “table” something that means they put it on the agenda, but in the US to “table” something means to postpone it.
Government says no:
—-
> Government won’t allow confidence vote – Labour
> Boris Johnson’s government is refusing to allow time to debate a vote of no confidence in the prime minister, Labour says.
> The party tabled the motion in Parliament earlier, with the aim of challenging Conservative MPs to oust the prime minister as they simultaneously hold a leadership contest.
> Labour wanted to hold the vote tomorrow, but the party says the government won’t allow it to go ahead.
> Downing Street says confidence votes are conventionally held in governments and not individuals, such as prime ministers.
> “This is totally unprecedented,” a Labour spokesperson says. “Yet again the Tories are changing the rules to protect their own dodgy mates.
> “All the Tory leadership candidates should denounce this flagrant abuse of power to protect a discredited prime minister.”
> In a statement, a government spokesperson said: “We have given Labour the option to table a straightforward vote of no confidence in the government.
> “They have chosen to play politics by tabling a vote of no confidence in the government and the prime minister.”
The Government has refused to set aside parliamentary time for it to be debated
[Huffpost](https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/labour-bid-boris-johnson-kicked-out-denied_uk_62cd8d33e4b06e3d9bbb4441)
Wave of Sheep released a punk EP called Vote of No Confidence today. Class.