Current Affairs The next Tory (strong and stable) leader is Boris Johnson

[summerisle]

 

[Tin-Tin]

Stephen Fry has had enough

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

People like Nadine Dorries make me think we should be allowed to hit women.

?wtf
I mean wtf
Either genius or penis

 

[Wizard]

Stephen Fry has had enough

The reaction to that tells a lot

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Tories will still win next election. Finer margin like. Will be all about ‘woke politics’ instead of whether people can afford to eat. Confidence in the electorate has plummeted in recent years.

The country infrastructure continues to crumble, a health service collapsing, a justice system collapsing, they key difference now, people in work and do the right thing each day who now can't afford to live either. It's the one problem many electorate won't tolerate is this cost of living. Work does not pay. I get the sense more than ever before the Tories are now just seen as the Party of the very wealthiest, hasn't it always, but there is growing resentment towards Conservative government and Party.

 

[tsubaki]

The country infrastructure continues to crumble, a health service collapsing, a justice system collapsing, they key difference now, people in work and do the right thing each day who now can't afford to live either. It's the one problem many electorate won't tolerate is this cost of living. Work does not pay. I get the sense more than ever before the Tories are now just seen as the Party of the very wealthiest, hasn't it always, but there is growing resentment towards Conservative government and Party.

The massive increase in media effort from their backers should tell you everything about how popular they actually are.

Piers Morgan is apparently on £50 million over three years (ie: to just after the likely date of the next election), GB News had £60 million funding this time last year and there has been no slackening off in the number of bots / "influencers" pushing their message on social media. The Express, S*n and Mail never stopped being in election mode after 2019. All of the above are pushing out pro-Tory messaging (whether directly in terms of "back Boris" or indirectly in terms of going after "woke madness"), as are the majority of paid commentators online and in traditional media.

That is on top of them getting more than half the private money that goes into national politics (£5.05 million out of over 9 million) in the last quarter of last year, almost all of which comes from the rich.

In essence what they are doing is trying to build sandbag defences ever higher rather than dealing with the high tide they have created; they'll fail eventually but the question is how much damage will they do beforehand.

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

The massive increase in media effort from their backers should tell you everything about how popular they actually are.

Piers Morgan is apparently on £50 million over three years (ie: to just after the likely date of the next election), GB News had £60 million funding this time last year and there has been no slackening off in the number of bots / "influencers" pushing their message on social media. The Express, S*n and Mail never stopped being in election mode after 2019. All of the above are pushing out pro-Tory messaging (whether directly in terms of "back Boris" or indirectly in terms of going after "woke madness"), as are the majority of paid commentators online and in traditional media.

That is on top of them getting more than half the private money that goes into national politics (£5.05 million out of over 9 million) in the last quarter of last year, almost all of which comes from the rich.

In essence what they are doing is trying to build sandbag defences ever higher rather than dealing with the high tide they have created; they'll fail eventually but the question is how much damage will they do beforehand.

Slow but steady switch off from those traditional media Piers Morgan is nothing without Susanna... Jubilee was as good example, myself travelled from West coast of Wales to NEC and everything inbetween, was amazed how little public celebration (bunting) there was. Readings watching those media's you would have thought the entire country was in awe! Still the overriding factor is cost of living, just as the run on the banks in 2008, being in government when your electorate feels their pockets being pinched does not end well.

 

[Eggs]

…no confidence vote confirmed between 6pm - 8pm today.

Out damn Spot.

 

[dublinbluenose]

So the crowds werent shouting Boo-ris it was actually Boo

Be a lot of face saving in the next few days

 

[Kurt.]

He’s toast

 

[Abertonian]

What a great start to the week.

Of course all his bootlickers out saying he got the big decisions right, presumably they mean him appointing themselves into whatever illusion of grandeur they've been placed into. Hard to think of a governance issue he got right.

Utter buffoon, they deserve him we don't. Lets hope that their self preservation instincts kick in with 2 by elections to come this month.

 

[Marius57]

Of course he will survive tonight.

But will be one of the weakest PMs in history and will struggle to achieve much with 100 of his own MPs against him.

He will continue to re write the rules to suit him and to try and strengthen his position.

By-elections will show the public feeling. He will be gone before next election.

 

[Tin-Tin]

Win win really. Either he goes or he plods on and decimates the Tory party and they will struggle to bounce back in the near future

 

[longers]

Is it even good if he goes ? Tories are the most unpopular they have been in ages, last thing i want is them somehow regaining a foothold under a new leader when it seems nailed on they lose the next election with the current one