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gulliver1 | 07:00 Fri 24th Jun 2022 | News
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The people have spoken, Boris and his party have lost two important by elections. Boris's own MPs were too frightened to get rid of him so the public have taken over and are going to do it for them.
Also the resignation of Oliver Dowden sent the Tories a message.
No Tory seat is safe anymore. These By election results will seep like poison through the Tory parties blood stream The exuses will start to be heard . But statistics are hard to ignore. This could be the beginning of the end of power for the Tories for decades. I hope.
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In British politics there are now two blocs, the Tories and the anti-Tories. Take Tiverton. In the last two elections, Labour came second there. But in this by-election, they lost their deposit as their vote share dropped by 16 per cent. This isn’t because voters in rural Devon are particularly unpersuaded by Keir Starmer but because anti-Tory voters...
11:44 Fri 24th Jun 2022
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08.40 You keep on defending Boris Naomi, until
The Cavalry arrives in the shape of TTT to have the best excuse of all...."It's just mid-term Blues" lol.
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Didn't the Tories take a hammering at the .
Municipal elections in May this year also? .
Deskdiary
//FattichusInch at 8.33.

There wouldn’t be much
looking over the shoulder where I live - in 2019 the incumbent won with 55% of the vote, and it has been a Tory held seat since the constituency was formed in 1974.//

Lol, that was 3 years ago, when the electorate voted to keep Corbyn out, not Johnson in.
In those 3 years there’s been scandal after scandal from a PM mired in controversy his whole life.
Last nights results prove that as for whatever happened previously in Tory seats, all vets are off, his whole party know it and his MP’s gave him the heads up 3 weeks ago but he paid no attention.
A slew of high profile resignations and now the party chairman has chucked his hand in too.
Time you woke up and smell what you’re shovelling.
*bets not vets
That's because unlike you and your unthinking, Boris-obsessed, cohorts, Gulliver, I wont be happy to see this country on its knees - and all in the cause of spite. You would happily throw this country to the dogs - the dogs that are right now holding it to ransom. Clever? No. Pathetic.
naomi24
//That's because unlike you and your unthinking, Boris-obsessed, cohorts, Gulliver, I wont be happy to see this country on its knees - and all in the cause of spite.//

Lol, spite? You mean the sort of spite and contempt the Johnson government had for this country as they partied it up as we endured lockdown, fearful of being stopped and questioned by the Police whilst visiting sick relatives or checking on friends?
They were puking and punching each other in drinking binges, we were worried about which 10 people could attend the funeral!
You really must wake up to the fact that Johnson and his government have brought this country to its knees, then tried to change the rules so that they’re never held accountable for it.
Ironically, Boris laughed at you more than he did me, you fight to keep him there as he drags this country’s highest office through the mud.
This country is already on its knees, and almost going to the dogs,had you not noticed? Because of a liar and a cheating Pm, that the public wont stand for.And what comes out of Boris's mouth this morning more bribes, reminding people of £ 1200 of help. SAD response,but the only one he can come up with.
'Partygate' is as far as your intellect takes you, fatticusinch. For you it serves its purpose I suppose.
^That to you too, Sandra.
I’m not shovelling anything FattichusInch - previous posts will show I’m not exactly enamoured with Johnson, but to suggest yesterday’s losses are a barometer of what will happen at the next GE is fanciful at best.

The thing that I can never understand is why the likes of Gulliver want BJ gone now. Surely logic dictates he’s the Labour’s best weapon, doesn’t it?
Boris is to thick to see that partygate would be his downfall.And it appears you did also. :))
From Sky News feed.

'Time to wake up': Former Number 10 chief of staff says Tories on track for major general election defeat
Another stinging assessment of the night's events here from Gavin Barwell, a former Number 10 chief of staff.
Mr Barwell, who served under Theresa May's administration, does not specifically call for Boris Johnson to go - but the implication is clear.
Saying it is "time to wake up before it is too late" in a tweet about Oliver Dowden's letter of resignation, he suggests "the Conservative Party is sleepwalking to defeat at the next election".
"Seats that have been Conservative for decades are at risk," he says.

Just so we’re clear, for the likes of Deskdiary and others, these are the words of staunch dyed-in-the-wool Tories who have held office in government.
//these are the words of staunch dyed-in-the-wool Tories who have held office in government. //

Haha! The traitor that was Theresa May was one of those too. :o)
Another gullivista love in, mid term by elections are irrelevant as they always have been, ask St Tony. Nothing has changed, Tories still win in 2024. Nothing to see here.
Just add fuel.

Tory MPs who want Johnson out will wonder whether they mistimed confidence vote
Sky's political editor Beth Rigby says Oliver Dowden's resignation will prompt questions about whether Conservative MPs who want Boris Johnson gone mistimed their vote of no confidence in his leadership.
"This the exact reason why some senior Tory MPs calling for PM to resign wanted to have that confidence vote after the by-elections," she writes.
"The by-election results have triggered a cabinet resignation and the first open criticism of Boris Johnson by a cabinet minister over partygate, while signalling to MPs that no Conservative seat is safe."
Breaking their own records too!

The results show voters are ready to cast ballots tactically to remove Conservatives
Analysis by Sky's election analyst, Professor Michael Thrasher
These were awful results for the Conservatives, among their worst by-election defeats since 1945.
The biggest collapse took place in Tiverton and Honiton. The outcome there establishes a new record – the largest Conservative percentage majority overturned in a byelection.
It replaces Shropshire North in top spot, confounding Conservatives who mistakenly thought that things couldn't get worse after that mauling.

Care to revise your earlier assertion Deskdiary? Lol
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Tiverton and Honiton by election result......is
The biggest majority overturn in voting history.

And the two by-elections were called because one Tory was jailed for sexually assaulting a boy and another resigned for watching for porn in the House of Commons.

What puzzles me is the Tories who seem obsessed with Johnson remaining as leader. Are they really saying that no-one else in the party has the drive, intelligence, charisma (and integrity) to run the country?
Bad results as expected........no big deal.

//Also the resignation of Oliver Dowden sent the Tories a message.///

This is the "big deal" a well respected member of the Tory Party resigning, does not bode well for the forthcoming weeks in the Conservative Party........THAT is the big deal.

^^^^ agreed

But if the anti-Tories want a Lib/Lab/SNP stitch-up at the next GE they are welcome to it - little good would it do.

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