Current Affairs The Conservative Party

[ToffeeTim]

117 MPs in a minority government not supporting the PM is a farcical situation.

What a mess.

 

[PhilM]

out the door you go, Theresa

In the short-term (very short term) she's survived but I think they (back benchers) will be throwing pressure at her through the night and over the next few days.

Also, you need to consider that approximately a hundred of those 200 are paid votes, so it's about 100 hundred who actually freely chose to support her.

 

[Khalekan]

Just look at the absolute state of them. The country in turmoil and they're sat around banging the desks.

Like schoolkids.

 

[davek]

Terrible result for May but it keeps her in place.

The Tory-on-Tory knife fight continues.

Which is nice.

 

[dannyboy]

Like schoolkids.

Overgrown Eton boys still thinking they're at school. All a big game.

 

[tsubaki]

Chris Grayling: "She got more votes tonight than she did in the leadership election of 2016"

 

[dublinbluenose]

Does she have a mandate now to go and stick it up to the greedy EU now

 

[Carl O'Ancelotti]

Of course the issue is the electorate. At what point do people look at the mess our leaders have made of this world and say "you know, perhaps we shouldn't vote for this scum".

When they have a credible alternative to vote for.

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

So she got a kicking, and her Brexit deal is going to get voted down, yet she says she wants to fight on, typical tory.

 

[tsubaki]

When they have a credible alternative to vote for.

Who gets to define what is credible, though?

 

[GwladysBlue]

At least it keeps Mogg, McVey or Johnson out as PM.

 

[edge]

In the short-term (very short term) she's survived but I think they (back benchers) will be throwing pressure at her through the night and over the next few days.

Also, you need to consider that approximately a hundred of those 200 are paid votes, so it's about 100 hundred who actually freely chose to support her.

Mogg just said this on TV amazing really when you think about it , those with money/jobs involved vote to keep it that way.
Says a lot about Tories if you pay them the will vote for you
No matter what the issue is.

 

[OnlyBlueWillDo]

Yeah but it’s because he won’t take any EU nonsense and he’ll help labour to a win , so you think he’ll do a good job but then lose an election ? I think he’d do a terrible job but who knows who he’d get on in the election I mean Brexit won

He’d stand up to the EU, which is more than what May has done, I think she’s embarrassed the whole nation the way they’ve played her like a fiddle, Churchill or Thatcher she certainly ain’t.

 

[dannyboy]

So she got a kicking, and her Brexit deal is going to get voted down, yet she says she wants to fight on, typical tory.

She won't walk away. She is in complete denial. Honestly, the only way she will be booted out is if there is a general election.

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

She won't walk away. She is in complete denial. Honestly, the only way she will be booted out is if there is a general election.

I think what shows what kind of woman she is, is a lot of stuff she is ploughing on with she doesn't even bother discussing with her cabinet.