Boris Johnson faces a vote of no confidence among his own MPs today after the threshold for triggering a Tory confidence vote was hit following the lockdown Partygate scandal and its aftermath. MailOnline has more.
The PM has sent a letter to MPs pleading for them to “draw a line” under the infighting, after backbench chief Graham Brady confirmed this morning that at least 54 MPs have asked for a full ballot.
The vote will be held between 6pm and 8pm, with Mr Johnson addressing the parliamentary party before that and the results declared shortly afterwards.
The development raises the possibility that Mr Johnson’s tenure could come to a crashing end less than three years after he won a stunning 80-strong Commons majority.
However, if half of the 359 eligible MPs back him in the secret vote in theory he is safe for a year – with some insurgents fearing they have moved too early ahead of key by-elections later this month.
Tory enforcers are already gearing up to threaten and cajole the rank-and-file, with chief whip Chris Heaton-Harris sending out a round-robin message to MPs offering to do proxy votes on their behalf. Politicians have also been warned by Sir Graham that their ballots will be void if they take photographs of papers – in an effort to prevent pressure tactics.
John Penrose, a usually-loyal MP who served as the premier’s anti-corruption champion, said he had ‘no option’ but to resign as Mr Johnson had broken the ministerial code. ‘I think it’s over,’ he said.
Meanwhile, Mr Hunt – who lost the last leadership contest to Mr Johnson – tweeted saying that he will vote against the PM.
“Anyone who believes our country is stronger, fairer and more prosperous when led by Conservatives should reflect that the consequence of not changing will be to hand the country to others who do not share those values. Today’s decision is change or lose. I will be voting for change,” he wrote.
There is speculation that some senior figures might be about to quit to join the insurrection, with trade minister Penny Mordaunt seen as on ‘resignation watch’. She tweeted today that she is in her Portsmouth constituency for a D-Day anniversary commemoration – but pointedly did not offer backing for the premier.
Cabinet ministers immediately rallied round, with Rishi Sunak pledging his support, and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss saying he has her “100% backing”. Deputy PM Dominic Raab and Michael Gove also stood by him, while Jacob Rees-Mogg suggested victory by a single vote would be enough.
One senior MP who has been generally supportive told MailOnline that anything more than 100 MPs voting against the PM would be “bad”, arguing that the 150-plus MPs on the payroll are already priced in.
“He will win, but how much he wins by is the most important thing. Fewer than 100 would be good, anything more very bad. The payroll vote has to back him, so people will look at whether he’s got a majority on the back benches,” they said.
The MP also grimly recalled that other leaders, such as Theresa May, have not survived for long even after winning a confidence vote. “These things never end well. The genie is out of the bottle,” they said.
The born survivor is looking closer to going under by the day. If he does fall as a result of breaching his own idiotic lockdown rules (and lying about it) then there would I suppose be natural justice. A Prime Minister felled for attending a party is manifestly ludicrous, but then so were the rules he imposed that made doing so an offence.
Beware what may come after, though – there is little sign that others will be more sceptical of the new health totalitarianism.
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Why the panic? Because the world won’t just reset itself!
Probably so; I preferred to believe they were just on an ego driven treadmill and didn’t know how to get off. That has become less and less likely as the months crolled by.
Johnson Family and Gates …thick as thieves!
Yes……and Schwab and Soros get closer to the knock of the “Grim Reaper” as every day passes!
Because “Covid.” Because therm carries the connotation of a uniquely pernicious killer that does not discriminate. Because it’s as if Black Death hooked up with Andromeda Strain and spawned a love child named Ebola.
Heroneous Bosch (sp?) could not have put it better.
On a more mundane level you will recall that they spent months telling us that Covid does not discriminate when their own statistics were telling us that it did and how it did so.
Hieronymus Bosch (just FYI). 🙂
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In an earlier DS article today UKHSA Chief Jenby Harris let slip that (in UK) The fourth dose might have to be launched early in view of the ever spreading Omnicon.
THE fourth dose, as though already planned?
I was going to mention this in that thread but got distracted for a couple of hours.
The fifth, sixth and seventh doses etc are no doubt already planned for those poor souls who haven’t succumbed to vaxx injury and are ill educated enough to believe that the “poison death shots” will have some prophylactic or therapeutic value.
There are 20 slots on the COVID vaxx pass. Go figure.
So they must have planned all ‘666’ in advance. But why plan FAILED vaccines? Unless they have another purpose.
Worthless woman…why pay any attention to her lies?
“THE fourth dose, as though already planned?”
All warned about before the first dose was even off the ice.
AIDS?
Because panicking, sayeth Welby and Johnson, and validating the panic of others, is to love your Facebook neighbours.
as thyself?
Welby? Oil trader?
The fraud pretending to be a ‘Christian’?
Why the panic?
This is what I’d like to know too.
Either the conspiracy theorists are right and there is something much more sinister going on or we are being led by hysterical morons and self-serving opportinists who are getting enormously wealthy by prolonging this misery for as long as possible.
Knowing our luck (bad), it’s quite possibly both. After all, ventriloquists’ dummies have a ventriloquist to operate them, and he who pays the man with his hand up the sinister puppet’s backside commands all.
That’s why I’m happier for bozo to remain PM, anyone else would be better at implementing their evil plans.
And, you never know, he might just try a maverick one man rebellion in a Bullingdon Boys caper to save his skin.
“That’s why I’m happier for bozo to remain PM”
Stockholm Syndrome strikes again!
It’s really not! Nobody is saying he’s great – merely that most/all of the likely alternatives are worse!
No argument – the answer is get rid if them all!
I’d say it’s more realpolitik than Stockholm Syndrome
Something very sinister is in the offing. Watch this 8 minute video and you’ll get some idea about where they want to take us. https://rumble.com/vppv0h-dr.-luis-de-benito-shares-part-of-his-report-on-the-mac-address-phenomenon-.html
Yes.. I’ve seen that before Rowan, and I agree with you, something along those lines is most definitely in the offing..
There are no “Conspiracy Theorists” – just a demonic, genocidal Globalist Conspiracy!
“Conspiracy” is now a blatant fact, not a theory!
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Excellent article, but Toby surely by acknowledging that the government is using propaganda to deliberately manipulate the public and maintain the pandemic, you are confirming your belief in a hidden agenda? They aren’t accidentally lying through their teeth are they?!
Exactly. Wake up Toby!!!!
Too late now.
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Got to justify their share of the Tsunami of Covi, lockdown and now vaccine, government advertising propaganda funding.
No mention of the ‘case number’ being a product of increased testing of people who aren’t ill.
What a surprise…
There are some very devious minds working on these headlines..
Perhaps the nudge unit is writing them to save the journalists the bother?
Dear Daily Express,
Give Britain the best gift this Xmas – stop publishing your toxic, mendacious, pathetic excuse of a “newspaper”…..FOREVER! The world would definitely be a better place.
Now fuck off!
Daily Express! The perfect Cat Tray Liner!
*blinks*
It’s real……
“a similar threat from omicron appears to be scaring the politicos”
No. What’s scaring them is the Big Lie being exposed, leading to political disgrace or worse. How long does this have to go on for before you admit they are NOT LOOKING FOR A WAY TO END THIS.
The threat scaring the politicians is the Righteous Anger of the bulk of the population when they finally realise they’ve been taken for fools.
The more they have been taken in the angrier they will be so it can only get worse as the politicians only hope is to spin it out for as long as possible until . . .
My and my mates used to include a compulsive liar, he would lie even when there was no possible benefit. We asked ourselves ‘why?’
Jordan Peterson does a good take on Hitler, pointing out that chaos and destruction might have been the aim all along, rather than something he fell into at the end. There’s certainly an increasing recklessness in the lies and tyranny that is less and less rational all the time.
I’ve got that lecture on digital file.
Can’t remember the details but it reconciled how his lunatic behaviour becomes more understandable when we stop confusing his ultimate aims with his implementation of the war. As example how he (or his minions), in the face of oncoming defeat, divertet precious resources into the Final Solution rather than the front line.
It concludes, if I remember correctly, that his final War Aim was No Surrender, hence the total destruction of Germany.
Yup, that’s the one. I believe he (JP) has become something of a sceptic.
Ordo ab chao.
Australia – now saying that getting the virus is necessary in order to build immunity and ending the pandemic … the more people who get the virus (inevitable) the quicker this will end …
https://twitter.com/risemelbourne/status/1473866052433895426
As many here have been saying from late Spring 2020 onwards.
Nothing new here …see Yeadon et al 10 months ago.
If only the dumb majority could read.
Ok for the slow of learning, one more time:
It’s not. About. A virus.
I keep repeating that even on here but the same charts and graphs are still churned out.
Because prolonging the fear porn is the only way to get even the sheep to accept, nay now even demand, the desired digital ID – without which their project fails.
Victory over covid will only be declared when enough fools are jabbed.
Never forget, we have right on our side, – we wouldn’t ever use kids as human shields, we didn’t mandate lockdowns and the inevitable consequential suffering therefrom, we didn’t unleash the untold mental harms to infants and babies caused by the execrable mask diktats, etc etc.
Hold the Line.
People are beginning to realise they’ve been lied to repeatedly.
One aspect Toby has missed is last winter was a gigantic scam, where 70% of respiratory death was allocated to CCP Virus. This year after the vaccine roll out that figure is a more realistic 25%. There was mass hospital spread last Dec/Jan and Alli Pearson is reporting the same again.
All the stats have some political angle but the same problems in the NDS are as clear this year as they were last year. Also LAST years ruinous winter shutdowns were totally without need, that should always be said.
A new high of ‘cases’ again today but the number of tests conducted in Northern Island is not included although ‘cases’ are. This is two days in a row that the number of ‘cases’ has been reported but the tests have been underreported. Hence difficult to calculate positivity. I smell a rat and a big one at that!
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/whats-new/record/5027b6f4-5796-4c9c-84ba-184499cfae45
We’re also never told about the double, triple and quadruple repeat testers. The deliberately erroneous implication is that every positive is a “new infection”, when it obviously isn’t.
That’s my thinking too. I don’t think that anyone can trust the numbers, that are of course in any case seized upon by the MSM without providing any context.
Good point. I know of people who have had repeated tests, even some who test themselves several times a week.
I’ve never been tested once!
Getting there ,…still someway to go …try Googling “Genocide” by stealth injection.
Worth noting again that if it weren’t for obsessive testing, we wouldn’t be aware of anything unusual. The pandemic would have been regarded as over last year, at the latest.
Another example of how new technology, in the hands of technocrats and obsessive do-gooders, has made our lives far worse.
Last week, needing a taxi home, I got through to their call centre to be told one and a half hour wait.
Knowing this to be “computer says” I rang twice more until finally getting through to local persnel.
“Hi, this is ‘KV’, seems I can’t get home until 6pm?”
‘No problem K, there’s a car clear round the corner, I’ll send it over’.
Pulling rank you might say? No, it’s just knowing that ‘the system’ operates for it’s own benefit, not mine.
A point worth repeating: During the winter wave last year, the ratio of active COVID cases to people with COVID in hospital was below 30. As of yesterday, it has risen to 128. Weren’t it for the mass testing of healthy people, we’d be looking at the hospitalisation numbers (at worst) and would think “Well, thank God, it’s over!” (since Spring 2021).
The Drosten PCR test is not “technology”, it is a totally deliberate computer modelled fraud and cannot identify any infection of anything.
I think that the government is very frustrated that not enough people have died yet, and are getting impatient. They’re trying to hurry things along.
Not to worry, the “booster “will hurry things alongs” just fine!
Because the blob can’t let go of the power it seized over this non pandemic.
We must take it back, fight them.
Dave Spart of Watford!
NEIL: What do you mean, revolution?
RICK: Blood runs! Flags wave! Come on, everybody, throw down your tools and knock down the barricade. Come on, run into the Winter Palace. Run into the Winter Palace and stand on tables, waving bits of paper at each other! Yes! Yes!! Hello, are you the Czar?!
“Scamdemic”.
Steve Bannon – the war against the ‘unvaccinated’ is about to begin.
I think from MSM articles and Government pronouncements and pleadings over the past week it’s already well under way!
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/steve-bannon-war-unvaxxd-about-commence?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=369
I think you have to be very careful around people like Steve Bannon.. I feel some of them are repeating a headline they want to see happen..
Because Doris said so, obviously.
Two points:
1) I am given to understand than in non stable viruses when they “evolve/ change” they become more transmissible & less virulent or they can be passed between hosts more easily and are less likely to kill the host.
They do not as Mr Ferguson above implies become less virulent & less transmissible at the same time.
Any observed reduced transmissibility amongst the unvaxxed is as likely to be due to the huge number of unvaxxed who are immune due to previous infection & recovery.
The numbers of naturally immune are something the authorities are studiously avoiding knowing about, which is a huge big clue stick on its own.
The stats are illuminating… ONS Data…
UK Deaths (all causes)
2019 = 11 months Jan to Nov – 483,381
2020 = 11 months Jan to Nov – 552,016
2021 = 11 months Jan to Nov – 528,985
Taking into account the age-related deaths, there is really nothing out of kilter here.
Even more startling in our neck of the woods ( a city of 254,000 souls ), the figures are :
Deaths (all causes )
2019 = 11 months Jan to Nov – 2,349
2020 = 11 months Jan to Nov – 2,383
2021 = 11 months Jan to Nov – 2,392
You do the maths and ask yourself that?
And here’s the burial and cremation figure for Cornwall 2015 to 2020.. 2020 being the year when so many in the county lost there livelihoods because of the killer pandemic..
Absolutely key data – reflected across the country.
There was no “killer pandemic”.
Beware the vaccines!
Must watch 2 minute video.. listen to what she says right at the end.. so why the hell why you force people to have it unless there was another reason..
https://twitter.com/i/status/1474038884711415816
There is a God.. watch German Health Minister blackout at conference..
https://twitter.com/i/status/1474097826384781312
There needs to be an additional bit of context :
Even at its worst, this virus never caused the destruction and death that was claimed – so this latest information reduces impact to truly negligible levels.
(and no – it isn’t the vaccines – see S.A.)
I have no fear of ‘covid’, a positive test for cancer, dementia, heart disease, diabetes would be another story
If anyone want’s to see what the mRNA clot-shots actually do to a person’s immune system this 14-minute video by Dr. Nathan Thompson, Illinois, United States is a must see.
This doctor did blood tests on a patient before and after this patient received shots 1 and 2 of the “vaccines”. The results this doctor displays clearly show that the clot-shots destroyed the patient’s immune system. The shots left the patient in such a diminished state that a common cold or a bite from a common insect might possibly kill him.
Check this link if you want to see the shameless lying imbecilic types that anti-vaxxers are up against. It’s Politicfact, factcheckers that has the gall to claim that Dr. Nathan Thompson interpreted the blood test results wrongly.
If you are undecided about the “vaccines”, watch that video. It will ensure you give the clot-shots a wide berth.
2020: Covid induces fear in the general public.
2021: Covid induces fear in the lie-peddling politicians and health experts.
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