Dorries Predicts General Election If Sunak Wins

[FatticusInch]

She likes stirring the pot! She does the Ipposition Partues jobs for them.

//Nadine Dorries: With Rishi Sunak we will be in general election territory within weeks
Former culture secretary Nadine Dorries has claimed that if Rishi Sunak were to win the Tory leadership race the country will be in "general election territory within weeks".
Mr Dorries, who is backing Boris Johnson in the race to become the country's next prime minister, claimed that the privileges committee would focus on the former chancellor if he were to be elected as the next Tory leader.
Last night, Mr Johnson and Mr Sunak were said to be locked in talks as speculation mounted over whether the pair could strike a deal.
Sir James Duddridge, a friend of Mr Johnson, said the former prime minister had the support of the 100 MPs required to reserve his place in the vote.//

Here’s her Tweet too:

/If Rishi Sunak were to win, the focus of the privileges committee I am absolutely certain would move straight onto Rishi Sunak and what he knew - in order to embolden Labours call for a general election. With Rishi we will be in general election territory within weeks./

Oh I do so hope she’s right! It’s now the only option that will suffice.

[Peter Pedant]

They have the party apparatus and unity to fight an election campaign and win it.
Labour just have to turn up to a GE and there will be a landslide

[FatticusInch]

Well, well, well….

//Goldsmith says it is 'morally unavoidable' not to have a general election
It is "morally unavoidable" not to have a general election, Conservative peer Zac Goldsmith has said.
Lord Goldsmith, who was previously MP for Richmond Park before he lost his seat at the 2019 general election, said in a statement he did not see how the country could have a third new prime minister without it "going to the country".
The comments come after Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer criticised the "ridiculous, chaotic circus" taking place at the top of the Conservative Party as he repeated his call for a general election.//

He must be right, Boris nominated him for his peerage after all, didn’t he?

[ichkeria]

Meanwhile ...
Rishi Sunak - 146 MPs
Boris Johnson - 57 MPs
Penny Mordaunt - 24 MPs

[FatticusInch]

Johnson has more, they’re just not declaring it publicly because they’ve got no moral conviction to back their sycophantic a***-licking, the know the public will turn on them.

[ZebuSanctuary]

// Sir Keir Starmer... (cut)... repeated his call for a general election.//

// Lord Goldsmith... (cut)... said... (cut)... a third new prime minister without it "going to the country".//

Whatever their thoughts, the new Tory leader is the only one empowered to call a GE!

[ZebuSanctuary]

// Meanwhile ...
Rishi Sunak - 146 MPs
Boris Johnson - 57 MPs
Penny Mordaunt - 24 MPs //

That leaves a further 130 votes to be cast. Given the current levels of vote share, Boris is on 25%. This would give him an extra 33 votes. Not enough to break the required 100 mark. Should this trend continue, Rishi would be PM by 3pm tomorrow.

[perseverer]

From the fixed term act

The Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 set a five-year interval between ordinary general elections. General elections are scheduled to take place on the first Thursday in May in every fifth year. The next general election is scheduled to take place on 2 May 2024.
The Act includes two mechanisms that could lead to early general elections. The Act specifies that early elections can be held only:
if a motion for an early general election is agreed either by at least two-thirds of the whole House or without division; or
if a motion of no confidence is passed and no alternative government is confirmed by the Commons within 14 days.

In other words, a PM cannot just call a general election.

[FatticusInch]

// Sir Keir Starmer... (cut)... repeated his call for a general election.//

// Lord Goldsmith... (cut)... said... (cut)... a third new prime minister without it "going to the country".//

/Whatever their thoughts, the new Tory leader is the only one empowered to call a GE!/

Let’s wait and see what happens with the markets and the public mood after Halloween.
After all, you don’t really wanna make a ToraToraTora-esque nailed-on cert prediction just yet, do you? Lol

The mood and events are febrile…..wait for the furore from the Tory Party membership alone when Rishi Rich gets the nod, it’ll be funny to watch.

[Old_Geezer]

So, is she suggesting that Sunak doesn't really want to be PM despite wielding the knife and trying for the job twice ? Or is the claim that he's only looking for that vast annual payoff one can claim as an ex-PM ?

[ZebuSanctuary]

// The next general election is scheduled to take place on 2 May
2024//

Is it not, the maximum term of a UK Parliament five years from the first day it sits in parliament?

Given that the last general election took place on 12 December 2019, after all the back slapping, 5 days later the House reconvened.

Therefore theoretically, wouldn't parliament be automatically dissolved on Tuesday 17 December 2024, thereby allowing for a GE?

[THECORBYLOON]

The 2022 Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act repealed the Fixed-term Parliaments Act.

[perseverer]

Apologies, you are quite right, i must have been asleep when the fixed term act got repealed!

[Paigntonian]

The dreadful woman should be ignored.

[ZebuSanctuary]

> 19.04 Duly noted!

[ZebuSanctuary]

// wait for the furore from the Tory Party membership alone when Rishi Rich gets the nod //

The membership make up less than 1% of the UK populous. It's not a representative cross section of the voting public.

[FatticusInch]

Oh I know the percentage…..but the demographic too.
When Rishi wins the blue-rinse brigade will suffer collective alopecia.There’ll be much wailing and gnashing of teeth at Tory HQ but also at Che Dorries.

[Paigntonian]

Zebu: Blindingly obvious that Tory Party membership is not representative of the country as a whole, just as Labour Party membership is not representative. Why should it be?

[Paigntonian]

There isn't going to a general election now or in the next year. Period.

[Hazi-Hammenuhoth]

Boris, Rishi or Penny- any of them would be a better option than Truss or that Starmer.

[Paigntonian]

And Pimply there'll be no 'national strike' by which I think you might mean a general strike. People won't be able to afford strikes.