UK Politics Mega-thread - Page 599

On July 06 2022 23:39 KwarK wrote:

As I understand it there are two kinds of no confidence vote. You can hold a parliamentary motion of no confidence at any time, no rules (parliament can’t make rules to bind itself). If Boris loses that then Lizzie fires him. Those are very public, you can see how everyone votes, and they result in general elections. People don’t generally do those, no one has lost one of those in about 50 years.

Then there’s the internal Tory party no confidence polling to remove a leader. That’s the one they did a few months ago that they don’t want to do again. Tory party rules say they can’t. It’s nothing to do with parliament, it’s party policy and done in private with secret ballots.

They can always do a parliamentary motion of no confidence but they’re less likely to do that if MPs think they might lose their seats in a subsequent election. They’d much rather do it in house and convince Boris to resign.

On July 07 2022 05:23 Zaros wrote:
He fucking sacked Michael Gove! what the hell lol. He is not in a position to sack anyone.

On July 06 2022 05:35 Dangermousecatdog wrote:
Not really sure that any potential candidates to replace Boris is any better than him to be honest.

On July 07 2022 06:36 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
Chief Whip is a major part of the cabinet isn't it?

https://twitter.com/Simonhartmp/status/1544796759645454342

On July 07 2022 06:45 Zaros wrote:


He is Welsh Secretary, saying he handed his resignation to the cheif whip.