Yeah I stole that title.
Has a government ever whipped it's MPs to vote against a manifesto pledge before?
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Yeah I stole that title.
Has a government ever whipped it's MPs to vote against a manifesto pledge before?
Turns out it was back frack or get ****ed up by the whips.
Given the reports, appears to be that the government got spooked, told the whips to step it up a notch, chief whip said **** no cya later and violence ensued.
What scenes, surely she is a gonner after this.
I loved the UK version of House of Cards years ago. These shenanigans are even beyond that and that was fiction apparently.
It's extraordinary.
Probably a majority that was too big, the pandemic, losing Boris, the war, choosing the wrong leader, the reckless budget..
It's incredible what is happening at the moment. I thought calls for her to go were preposterous a few days ago. Now I can totally understand them
You just wonder what they will feck up next.
I wonder what the protocol would be on Liz Truss resigning and handing over to Rishi Sunak and perhaps the commitment of a GE within a year or whatever?
I'm not saying that will happen or would be morally acceptable (although I would be okay with it). I just mean in the sense that if someone resigns from a job theyve taken, the job is often given to whomever wasnt first offered it?
There must be some kind of protocol in place?
I may be way off but I presumed they’d need another leadership battle? So that they eventually get to rishi v loon and then the loon takes charge for a couple of months.
I don’t see how anyone could now take the job and there not be a GE on the cards soon though
Is there any way that the monarch can intervene, and withdraw the permission previously given for the Tories to form a government?
And there we go:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Boris Johnson expected to run for Tory leadership.<br><br>(This is not a drill). <a href="https://t.co/1ZrwrIlfw7">https://t.co/1ZrwrIlfw7</a></p>— Pippa Crerar (@PippaCrerar) <a href="https://twitter.com/PippaCrerar/status/1583091983937318912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 20, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>