Arf. Ash Sarkar let loose on Williamson and Johnson.
maybe Keir should promise the cunt a peerage if he fesses all
Tory MP defects to Labour
One of the 2019 intake of Tory MPs has walked out of the party to join the Labour benches.
Christian Wakeford, who took the red wall seat of Bury South in the last election, had already called for Boris Johnson to go, revealing he had put in a letter of no confidence last week.
But he has now quit the party and joined Labour.
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Boris Johnson is facing a bumpy day after a group of Conservative MPs who won seats in traditional Labour heartlands in 2019 reportedly launched a plot to remove him from Downing Street.
But what do we know about these MPs? Most of them represent so-called âred wallâ seats - areas in the Midlands and northern England where the Labour Party traditionally enjoyed strong support until the 2019 general election.
A meeting of these MPs has been dubbed the âpork pie plotâ because it was hosted by the MP for Melton, Alicia Kearns .
Why pork pies, you ask? Because Kearns represents Rutland and Melton, the home of Melton Mowbray pies. She was elected in the 2019 general election with a majority of 26,924 votes.
There is speculation that she could bid for the leadership, but colleagues of Kearns deny that she is leading a rebellion.
Bishop Auckland MP Dehenna Davison has also been named as a plotter by the Daily Mail. The Conservative MPâs seat had been held by Labour since the 1930s.
A third name in the mix is Bury South MP, Christian Wakeford. He made headlines in November last year when he admitted swearing at fellow Tory MP Owen Paterson at the height of a row over parliamentary standards.
Conservative Chris Loder is also among the new Tory MPs allegedly plotting.
âI want to make sure that decency, honour and integrity are returned to the heart of government and I think that would be a good shared objective, rather than the distraction of briefing out about rebellion ringleaders,â the West Dorset MP said.
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Keir not really landing a blow in PMQs here, just being batting off with the Sue Gray enquiry
What he should ask is was the PM warned by any member of his staff that the drinks event was a bad idea - get it on the record
He did, Boris flatly refusing to answer the questions directlyâŚ
David Davies stuck the knife in
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Turns out this particular dickhead co-sponsored a bill to make it mandatory for any MP changing party affiliations to face a by election
I wonder if he will be good to his word, or will he weasel out of it
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Bloody hell - Iâm into season 3 of Black List atm, and with all these carrying sons, lying and reckless stupidity is almost as good to read about.
Loved the story of the Tory who switched sides having supported a bill forcing a local election when folk switch sides.
Perhaps Boris needs to look around for the Raymond Reddington equivalent in UK - there must be one.
FFS NOT Cummings!!!
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Have these people not seen House of Cards?
Blackmail is the Chief Whipâs main weapon! And before you say âah, this is just a work of fictionâ I would say that Michael Dobbs wrote what he knew.
Ted Heathâs government was notorious for running a âdirt bookâ. I doubt the practice has ended.
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The biggest mistake the Tories made in recent times was giving the little black book to Gavin Williamson - that vicious little shit would have no qualms about using the contents, hence why they had to wait until he fucked up so comprehensively that even he accepted he should be fired.
They are still paying for it and it is now going to cost Boris a knighthood just the keep the wanker quiet
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I think there is a big difference between saying: âtoe the line or your political career will sufferâ and saying âtoe the line or I am going to starve your elderly constituentsâ.
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Yes - however, neither should be used.
In this situation it would be akin to a manger threatening to wreck your career because you want to raise a grievance about them to HR - this is victimisation and unlawful under UK employment law
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Love the headline. You just know heâs talking bullshit.
Actually it will be pretty accurate - he will be nowhere near it, His chief of staff will have said to the spads - see if you canât change their minds, wink wink
The Spads would have gone off and got stuck in
Its the Godfather, Capos and soldier principle - deniability
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Agree with that, though itâs the whips rather than the spads whoâd be doing the nasty stuff. Thatâs what theyâre there for.
There is, but theyâre also being threatened with personal life shit too, and I would expect that similar threats (e.g. depriving constituency) have been made in the past.