After nearly half of Conservative backbenchers revolted against ‘Plan B’ yesterday, Boris has agreed that if any further restrictions are imposed between now and the New Year Parliament will be recalled. But it is probable that if he attempts to impose ‘Plan C’, i.e. a national lockdown, not only would he face an even greater rebellion, but it would trigger a leadership challenge. That means ‘Plan C’ is unlikely – for now. MailOnline has more.
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps confirmed this morning that the premier has bowed to demands that Parliament must be recalled for a vote before any further restrictions are brought in.
During the pandemic most curbs have been introduced by ministers and then only approved by MPs retrospectively, something that has added to the fury of sceptics.
One Cabinet source warned that the only way Tory MPs would support a tightening now was after “very clear evidence that Omicron is leading to hospitalisations and deaths”.
The mutiny suffered by Mr. Johnson was close to the record insurrection that hammered Theresa May’s Brexit deal in 2019 – and greater than the biggest rebellions faced by David Cameron, Sir John Major and Margaret Thatcher.
Thirteen MPs who have attended Cabinet under four premiers defied Mr Johnson, including Dame Andrea Leadsom, David Davis, Liam Fox and Chris Grayling. Some 26 Tories first elected in his 2019 landslide victory revolted.
Louie French, the newest Tory MP who was elected in a by-election less than two weeks ago, also went against the government whip.
The numbers were more than enough to wipe out the government’s huge 80-strong majority had Keir Starmer not ridden to the rescue.
The vote came less than two hours after the PM made a last-ditch attempt to quell the rebellion by telling a meeting of the 1922 Committee of backbenchers that he had “no choice” but to impose new curbs.
The grim week for Mr Johnson looks set to get worse, with the Tory struggling to cling on to the previously rock-solid seat of North Shropshire in a by-election tomorrow, triggered by the resignation of Owen Paterson in the sleaze furore.
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my MP never opposes whatever draconian plan the so called experts tell the ineffective and despotic PM to implement. He says he’s a Tory – he’s certainly not my idea of a Tory. I hope the Lib Dems win North Shropshire to put even more pressure on Tory MPs to remove our tyrant Johnson. Maybe a different leader would tell Whitty Vallance et al to go play with themselves on the M25.-
You should add Sir Desmond Swayne to that list. Saw a tweet from him saying he was put down as an abstention which was incorrect and his name has now been added to the list of those voting against. I was surprised to see his name missing.
Well if anyone wants to email them, here’s a list. It excludes Dr Julian Lewis who is paper only!
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And yet what Boris refuses to see, is that he DOES have a choice!
There’s none so blind that they will not see.
Very convenient that the night before the vote someone (allegedly) died of/with/hit by a bus and tested positive with Omicron.
Boris should stay on but under threat of constant rebellion over Covid restrictions. Too many potential wanabees for PM would talk a good talk during the election campaign before reverting to type immediately afterwards. For instance, our current Health Secretary is an improvement on his predecessor ( who couldn’t be) but he has cowtowed to pressure from SAGE and we are now back on the brink of lockdown. It takes an extraordinarily strong character to stand up against all of the vested interests seeking to lock us up. The only individual I can think of who possessed the right qualities for dealing with this situation is no longer with us. No, No, No. Whitty and Vallance would both be wetting themselves!
Why didn’t Desmond Swayne vote?
Let’s not forget that a certain former Labour party leader also opposed. Credit where credit is due. This is not left against right any more. It is right against wrong and people of previously differing opinions must unite!
Good to see all the names above of those who voted against tyranny, and hats off to them. I feel however it might be good to have a list of all those who voted in favour, possibly with accompanying photos. In the days to come this would prevent wasting bullets shooting the wrong people.
Boris should note that a LOT of the ‘rebels’ are those who voted for him back in the 2019 leadership election, and thus he could be in serious trouble if the Tory MPs who don’t like him and voted for Hunt think they do better with a change than keep Boris is.
Hard to say, given those who supported the Plan B stuff would want someone from their (Blairite/Cameroon) side, not the ‘true conservative’ side. I suspect they believe Boris has been scared into going native on COVID and may keep him in place…for now.
All that is needed now is for Carrie to announce her affair with Elon Musk!
Plan C will happen ‘for the good of the country’, with the backing of the Labour Party as it’s ‘above party politics ‘ and done ‘with a heavy heart.’.
Johnson just following his orders.
Of course it’s not off the bloody table.
Parliament can be recalled in moments via Zoom. Even if every Tory backbencher voted against measures, the sheer number of money-grubbing spineless non-entities with government jobs, plus all the Labour scum means that he’d still get his vote through.
As for a leadership challenge…. No-one serious wants the leadership right now… we’d end up with a farce where Philip Davies and Steve Baker ran for the leadership and Boris wiped the floor with the pair of them, because Davies could never get a fair shake in the media and Baker is about as much use as a marzipan mallet.
Plus, Boris is a massive fucking liar, and wouldn’t think twice about abandoning his promise, because ’emergency’, ‘national interest’, ‘save our NHS’, ‘don’t kill granny’.
It’s a total shitshow, they can do whatever they want, and if you think anything that we wouldn’t want is off the table, I really don’t know what to tell you.
That just says it all about the leadership prospects in this country. Nobody should want leadership, you’re supposed to step up. That’s why it’s called leadership
Is the London march still happening on Saturday?
I’m going – and bringing 3 others
Going.
Anything in Edinburgh?
yep
Plan C is ‘Plan Sea’ for the tsunami they keep telling us about.
Johnson said that he “had “no choice” but to impose new curbs”. We always have choice in what we do!
When someone says they have ‘no choice’, it really means they have no backbone and no sense of responsibility.
The idea of ‘no choice’ is akin to having only one single mainstream narrative. It is akin to compromising our immune system with gene-based jabs such that it cannot ‘think’ for itself. It is akin to accepting ‘mandatory’ as unchallengable – and tyranny as undefeatable.
Of course, the people running the show may have made an offer that he couldn’t refuse.
An ‘offer’ may well have been made. But an offer ‘that he couldn’t refuse’ is just the less painful choice for him. So there is still choice.
My suspicion is that the psychopaths who are running this show have told the UK to catch up with Austria, Germany etc. – and to do it quickly.
Maybe Bozo was being honest in stating he had “No choice.”
He either did as he was told or he faced the Magafuli ‘heart attack.’
After nearly half of Conservative backbenchers revolted
Shouldn’t that read After only half of?
Don’t insult the intelligence of your readers. It’s well understood that tptb will do whatever they’ve planned whenever they want, people and their representatives be damned.
I’d say the whole of government ought to resign, if it’s a matter of sleaze.
Over the months these articles read like a commentary on a sinking ship. You can take solace in the fact it hasn’t sunk yet, but it’s still sinking.
The WEF people think they can become captain, but it’s sinking for them too.
Some recent four month periods of all-cause mortality in England & Wales.
> Dec-Mar 2014-15……….200,806
> Dec-Mar 2016-17……….205,450
> Dec-Mar 2017-18……….218,165
> Dec-Mar 2019-20………202,845
> Apr-Jul 2020……………230,039
> Dec-Mar 2020-21………234,016
UK started jabbing on 8th December 2020 – so, the deaths through our first winter with the jab were WORSE than the original four months of C-19.
Not that there is much difference between these periods anyway – mean average of the six = 215,220.
However, last winter only about 3-4m were jabbed – now it must be about 53m.
So, four points to ponder:
1. It is entirely likely that right from the beginning, we have made a massive fuss over not very much.
2. Jabbing doesn’t really help…….in fact it looks like it could be making things worse
3. The British government is now using Omnicron as a patsy for what may occur later this winter if millions of jabbed people catch ordinary cold/flu and the jab has compromised their immune system.
4. If Omnicron genuinely constituted a ’tsunami’ of death that Johnson claims, then why has the third jab been prioritised and NOT the reopening of Nightingale units.
The last question is the Toby Young vs James Delingpole debate.
The vaccines were never going to change anything (for the better) for a disease that mainly effects (kills) the dying (aged & comorbidity) !
All statistics vaccinated v unvaccinated are worthless nonsense, no vaccine can cure death, no vaccine will fix obesity or cancer or immunosuppressed or old age!
And what’s the point of boosters if it takes 14 days before they are “effective” the infection rate will peak before then & kill anyone vulnerable.
The point being, as it has been reported by depiffel himself the vaccine doesn’t prevent transmission or infection, the vaccines only claim to fame is that it reduces severity of disease!
Reduces severity of disease in the vast majority of those jabbed, who were never going to be vulnerable to severe disease! People are dying mostly of old age with covid & nothing can prevent it.
The jabs are a means to an end ie passports for us and a nice little investment for them
And depopulation.
So far the jabs have killed more people than Omnicron.
Its like the BBC are gagging for Plan C, havent watched BBC for months, but the few minutes today were, to a Minister, are you going to implement Plan C and Where are out Boosters?
The jab junkies want their boosters. And their pushers are happy to comply.
I don’t know what a Computational Biologist is, but it sounds impressive.
The 5th Doctor – Ep. 12: Computational Biologist Dr. Jessica Rose Reveals Shocking VAERS Issues
I’ve never heard of her before, but she’s fighting on the right side.
She has been outspoken for a while. She has published with McCullough and done interviews with Trish Wood (podcasts) – well worth a listen.
American Heart Association’s warnings deemed unsafe by Twitter..
https://www.rt.com/news/542078-twitter-heart-association-unsafe-vaccines/
I was going to say.. you just couldn’t make this up.. but its so obvious you can..
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2021-12-14/covid-propaganda-roundup-american-heart-associations-vaccine-warning-censored
resist defy do not comply … catchy!
https://twitter.com/i/status/1467529035593003012
‘Its beginning to look a lot like fascism everywhere you go …’
The new Christmas number one …
https://twitter.com/beverleyturner/status/1470654199725756418
I have a whole album for you:
Ten days to go and excitement is building for lockdown! Celebrate with a new compilation of 19 infectious Christmas tunes to inject some life into the non-event of the year *
1. Slade – Merry Xmask Everybody
2. Chris Rea – Staying Home For Christmas
3. Mel & Kim – Coughin’ Around The Christmas Tree
4. Aled Jones – Virus In The Air
5. Dean Martin – Baby, It’s Covid Outside
6. Pogues & Kirsty MacColl – Fairytale Of New Variant
7. Bruce Springsteen – Omicron Is Coming To Town
8. Wizzard – I Wish It Could Be Covid Everyday
9. Boney M – Mary’s Boy Child / O Mi Cron
10. Mike Oldfield – In Dulce Jabilo
11. The Beach Boys – Little Saint Prick
12. Mud – Lockdown This Christmas
13. Cliff Richard – Davidstow And Wine
14. Jonny Mathis – When A Child Is Born (Jab It Mix)
15. Wham! – Lost Christmas
16. Bing Crosby – Shite Christmas
17. Cliff Richard – The Saviour’s Day (Yes, Where Is He?)
18. Christmas Carol Medley – God Test Ye Merry Gentlemen/Hark The Herald Angels Ping/Furlough The Star/ O Come All Ye… Read more »
Lolz. Is it ok that I prefer Michael Buble’s version of Feliz Covidad?
Good King Wenceslas Went Out – and caught Covid.
As shepherds washed their socks by night, all seated round the tub,
The Angel of the Lord came down – and handed out face masks.
Silent Night – everyone’s dead of Covid.
I’m Dreaming of a Whitty Christmas
Once in Royal Javid’s City, come on down to the vaccination bus!
Plan C will be revived, Mengele Gove will find a way and Kim Jong Johnson will pretend he isn’t eager to impose it.
Is Plan ‘C’ dead in the water?
I can answer that for you Toby, and the answer is NO; it is not dead and it is alive and well and will be introduced and forced through at the earliest opportunity.
I would give it until January 15 2022.
He knows. That’s why it says “for now”.
Toby’s conversion away from the “cock up” theory is almost complete. He has acknowledged that pretty much everything that us “conspiracists” have been warning about is correct and likely to come to pass. He’s just not quite ready to accept it’s been planned. He’s shifted to the “perfect storm” explanation.
Give him time. He’s almost there.
The Fat Controller is all geared up for a January 5th lockdown, make no mistake.
At this point, anyone who can’t see where this is going is a total moron lol.
Even Dan Hodges finally seems to have figured it out lmfao. The Cult membership is trying it’s best to get him back into the fold via Twitter mobs. I can here the planks being thrown onto the pyre from here if they fail !!
Ross Clark predicted this, just before COP26, that Kim Jong Johnson would impose a lockdown straight after it was finished and Johnson has been preparing the ground for one, ever since it finished.
For fun I brought forward this comment to Jan 4th. NonCompliant seems to have failed to see where this is going.
Answer is a simple no. Con-Lab alliance will ensurer it will be up and running.
All hail Sir Sneer Smarmer, saviour of tyranny.