Even More Running Scared .

[gulliver1]

More Tory MPs are standing down at the next GE. A total of 49 are quitting rather than face the embarassment of defeat.I suppose the big swing to Labour at Rutherglen has got them thinking of changing their careers.

[gulliver1]

Can't see  Lord Snooty's name amongst the 49 names . Can't wait to see him sprawled out on the opposition benches.

[Gramps82]

Title of post is Running Scared. Perhaps this refers to the poster who is scared to answer any question posed to him.

[gulliver1]

PP 11.10  Troll,,,, reminds me of song my Gran used to sing years ago think it was called "Mocking birds hill" 🤣

[jno]

bobb, surely it doesn't stop being news just because it happens quite a lot? It's not literally an everyday occurrence, it doesn't usually seem to happen in this volume before an election, and it relates to the governance of Britain; that feels like valid news to me, and the sort of thing you'd find in newspapers. (Possibly not all the right-wing ones on this occasion.)

[gulliver1]

Jno 11.53 . Taken from The Daily Telegraph..

[webbo3]

Is there a link?^

[gulliver1]

......"Roy Orbison"......

[anneasquith]

What is it they say ' don't feed the troll '. And yet there posts continue to attract attention , it's like a daily fix for some 🙃

[gulliver1]

I fail to see why mentioning that 49 Tory MPs are frightened of loosing their jobs could attract so many nasty answers.

[bobbinwales]

Jno... its 2 mps. Hardly news. The numbers from all parties is growing as we near the election. Yes 49 is alot... but as  a % is it alot??

[webbo3]

\\I fail to see why mentioning that 49 Tory MPs are frightened of loosing their jobs could attract so many nasty answers.//

They might be worried about giving their fingerprints when going on holiday to Europe.

[bobbinwales]

True Anne.... including gulliver.  Never mind roy or isoniazid gulliver... the song cheap thrills springs to mind

[bobbinwales]

^Roy orbison. Weird autocorrect

[gulliver1]

BIW  12.34 Let me do the maths for you. 49 Tory Mps are standing down ....not 2 ..OK.

[gulliver1]

The likes of Oliver Dowden ,Grant Shapps and Penny Maudaunt Havent got to think of standing down. Their own constituents will do it for them at the GE.

[mushroom25]

one of the 49 is Chris Grayling, who is standing down because he's ill. even his prospective opponent Gina Miller had the good grace to wish him well under the circumstances.

[Canary42]

Does anyone have the average figure for MPs not renewing at a GE?

 

To assume the present ones are doing it to avoid embarrassment is speculation of the most fairytale kind.

[gulliver1]

I should think the main reasons these Tory MPs are standing down is when they read in the press news like every one of the 44  red wall seats they won at the last election are forecast to return to Labour. Plus a further 22 so called blue seats  that were held by the Tories in 2019 to fall to Labour,  perhaps this is why so many are standing down.

[Peter Pedant]

49 British useless sheep sory, MPs on their bottoms isnt trolling

it's the  truth !

[Peter Pedant]

Does anyone have the average figure for MPs not renewing at a GE?

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