Looks Like The P M Has It Nailed Already.

[ToraToraTora]

https://news.sky.com/story/mps-reveal-whether-they-support-or-oppose-pm-11578536
So the VONC is a complete waste of time.

[Canary42]

I'm not a fan of Kenneth Clarke, but he's bang to rights when he says

[The idea that the Conservative party breaks off now and spends the next several weeks having what will be an extremely bloody and divisive battle over who is going to be its leader is irresponsible.

It's a complete waste of time. It just takes us several weeks nearer to this dreadful deadline of 29 March... while our friends on the continent look on and decide we've finally gone completely mad.]

[-Talbot-]

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?

https://twitter.com/CharlieElphicke/status/1072887664720969728

[ichkeria]

Nice to hear Alistair Campbell and Nigel Farage going at each other hammer and tongs just now.

[Old_Geezer]

Of course it's irresponsible. Should've done it months ago. But one does what one can given the present situation.

[douglas9401]

The return of Mr Elphicke at least gives Treezy something better than the 'running through wheat fields' guff to mention if she's ever grilled again about doing something naughty.

[THECORBYLOON]

Another suspended MP, Andrew Griffiths, has had the whip re-instated.

[ichkeria]

A. Change. Of. Leader. Makes. No. Difference.
Those words should be burned into the brains of the 48. And whatever handful else.
Both main parties are chasing something impossible re Brexit and the reason they are doing it of course is because no one has the courage (perhaps understandably) to stand up and say that “the people” voted for something either impossible or terribly damaging in 2016. Instead they are enslaved to this mythical “will”. It helped by the ticking bomb that is article 50, which means that we head for the exit by default if nothing else happens. Therefore it is in the interests of some to be obstructive in the hope that we will just leave anyway.

[Peter Pedant]

will they burn the ballot papers and emit white smoke whilst supporters cry 'habemus papem!"
yeah?
or 'habemus ducem' ? we have a leader in Latin to you thickos

allowing the usual suspects on AB to quip amusingly and yet crushingly: " habemus - do-what?" [ cries of what dat den etc]

[ichkeria]

Gross slander Peter.
There are some top linguists here ;-)

[THECORBYLOON]

Some "thickos" know it's "papam" and not "papem"...

[Kromovaracun]

Vote's done. She survived.

[THECORBYLOON]

117 Tory MPs have no confidence in her, will she have enough support to survive for much longer?

[Canary42]

Right, the Tory MP's second referendum on the leader has been executed, so how about a second referendum for Joe Public on EU membership.

[vetuste_ennemi]

// cries of what the dux dat den?//

[Peter Pedant]

// So the VONC is a complete waste of time.//

oh yeah papam - sorry

quid VONC donc? - wossa VONC den ? to you thickos in Latin again.

alot of pushing and shoving amongst the usual suspects and - PM remains PM - shock!

'Parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus*' as some latin once wrote ( Horace to you thickos)

( the mountains go into labour - and the result is a silly little mouse - first use of ridiculus apparently)

[Canary42]

So, 117 Tories should resign ?

[ichkeria]

Slimeball Rees-Mogg says he accepts the result and then calls on the PM to resign!!
Bizarre!

[Canary42]

It's Real-Smugg who should resign - that's 2 attempts he's failed on.

[Old_Geezer]

Hardly bizarre. The vote was won not because she has showed success as a leader but because a majority didn't want change. But having made a hash at negotiation and been pushing a bad deal, then honourably she should resign, preferably she ought to have done so before the vote when it was clear no one wanted her deal and she embarrassed herself and the UK by going back to the EU begging for changes and getting sent away with a flea in her ear.

[Zacs-Master]

The first glimmer of a bit of common(s) sense in this whole fiasco.