Chaos in Government

[Alfresco]

Seems like they were looking for an excuse to jump ship. If you quit the cabinet you should leave the party. Good riddance to them.

[jon1959]

Seems like they were looking for an excuse to jump ship. If you quit the cabinet you should leave the party. Good riddance to them.

I doubt there is any principle involved.

They stayed and enabled Johnson for months and years whilst he behaved in exactly the same way.

It is down to political calculation. Pincher and the latest round of lies is just the excuse. And the by election results which spooked all wings of their party.

Three quarters of Tory backbenchers voted against Johnson in the recent ballot. They are about to win total control of the 1922 Committee and change the rules so the confidence vote can be re-run. Johnson will lose and his loyalists will go down with him.

The Tories are calculating their best chance of winning the next election or limiting the damage. Enough of them now think that means changing the leader and hoping the public have short memories.

Their problem is there is no obvious alternative. As a non-Tory watching their implosion will be a small compensation for the continuing disaster of this incompetent, lying, corrupt government. The smallest of silver linings!