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What Is Your Prediction?
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Boris to win, with a small majority.
08:59 Mon 06th Jun 2022
YMB, I think you object more strongly to 'green' policies than most, and as I said before, all parties are adopting a very similar theme, so in that respect it makes no difference. I tend to agree with you to an extent but isn't the be all and end all of the political world, and since objection really is futile, I really think we have to look beyond that.
Its not just the Green Policies though is it.
As I have said before Johnson seems to be running 'New Tory' and I dont want Blair like policies, neither do I want unfettered immigration and I certainly dont want an economy run by the highest taxes ever.
And no, I wont roll over because you think objection is futile. Where would the world be if everyone did that?
As I have said before Johnson seems to be running 'New Tory' and I dont want Blair like policies, neither do I want unfettered immigration and I certainly dont want an economy run by the highest taxes ever.
And no, I wont roll over because you think objection is futile. Where would the world be if everyone did that?
Zacs-Master,
History is against your wishful thinking. More from Sky News.
Win or lose - confidence votes rarely end well for Tory PMs.
Two and half years ago he won an 80 seat majority, but Boris Johnson is now facing a vote that could see him toppled.
In her latest update, our political editor Beth Rigby says the number of MPs who are on the government payroll - cabinet ministers, junior ministers, parliamentary private secretaries - is between 160 and 170.
Assuming most of them back the prime minister, he should be able to meet the 180 votes he needs to win.
But even if he wins, how damaged is he? As Beth explains, when previous Tory PMs have survived confidence votes it is rarely the end of the matter.
Margaret Thatcher lasted a few days after losing a confidence vote - Theresa May six months. John Major went into an election and lost.
As Chris Bryant might say, he’s toast.
History is against your wishful thinking. More from Sky News.
Win or lose - confidence votes rarely end well for Tory PMs.
Two and half years ago he won an 80 seat majority, but Boris Johnson is now facing a vote that could see him toppled.
In her latest update, our political editor Beth Rigby says the number of MPs who are on the government payroll - cabinet ministers, junior ministers, parliamentary private secretaries - is between 160 and 170.
Assuming most of them back the prime minister, he should be able to meet the 180 votes he needs to win.
But even if he wins, how damaged is he? As Beth explains, when previous Tory PMs have survived confidence votes it is rarely the end of the matter.
Margaret Thatcher lasted a few days after losing a confidence vote - Theresa May six months. John Major went into an election and lost.
As Chris Bryant might say, he’s toast.
I have bought other factors into it, couple above. And this is not new from me, yes I disagree entirely with his unworkable green polices that will cause misery for many just so he can virtue signal, but there are many other policies I dont regard as Conservative and have stated on these pages (and not cake gate or whatever).
It's kind of irrelevant what I think anyway, Johnson has lost Middle England and that is how you win Government. He is now a busted flush all of his own volition.
It's kind of irrelevant what I think anyway, Johnson has lost Middle England and that is how you win Government. He is now a busted flush all of his own volition.
//I suspect that many/most of them will be thinking ahead to the next election, with the real question in their minds actually being "Do we stand much hope of winning if Boris is still PM?".//
They forget that without Boris they wouldn't be sitting where they are. Life-long Labour voters, despite being terrified by the prospect of Corbyn in the chair, wouldn't have voted for May - and they didn't vote for the Conservatives - they voted for Boris because he was the only one who had the guts to carry out the will of the people and get Brexit done - and Brexit is what this is all about. At the next election they shouldn’t be surprised if they're looking for jobs - and it will serve them right if they are. I utterly detest disloyalty and I'll shed no tears for the self-serving - or for the inevitable reduced majority. The damage the fools are doing to the government will be what it is.
They forget that without Boris they wouldn't be sitting where they are. Life-long Labour voters, despite being terrified by the prospect of Corbyn in the chair, wouldn't have voted for May - and they didn't vote for the Conservatives - they voted for Boris because he was the only one who had the guts to carry out the will of the people and get Brexit done - and Brexit is what this is all about. At the next election they shouldn’t be surprised if they're looking for jobs - and it will serve them right if they are. I utterly detest disloyalty and I'll shed no tears for the self-serving - or for the inevitable reduced majority. The damage the fools are doing to the government will be what it is.
Labour voters may have thought that, faced with the big job, Mr Johnson would get it together putting aside his image as a jack-the-lad booze hound with a carefree attitude to work, the truth and public perception.
He's shown none of that to be true and so may be gone sooner rather than later.
Party central drones posting tripe on the internet will have to get blindly behind somebody else in jig time.
He's shown none of that to be true and so may be gone sooner rather than later.
Party central drones posting tripe on the internet will have to get blindly behind somebody else in jig time.
Ich, I don't believe it should be solely down to loyalty at all - and I didn't say that. I'd defy the most loyal of Conservatives to remain loyal to the traitors that were May and Cameron - but I think Boris has done a pretty good job in the most difficult circumstances - and that's why his party should remain loyal to him.
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