Cable Forum - Government & Post Election Discussion

Quote from The Sun:

Theresa May has become the first Tory leader in 185 years to face an emergency grassroots vote to oust her.

The PM is to be hauled in front of a snap meeting all 800 constituency chairmen and senior activists in June, who will decide whether to demand her resignation for failing to deliver Brexit.

Mrs May was last night informed that the threshold for a petition to enforce the extraordinary meeting has been passed.

The development is another bitter blow to the embattled Tory leader, who only just fended off a fresh bid last week by Brexiteer Tory MPs to remove her.

It is the first time in the Conservative Party’s 185 year history that rank and file activists have forced an Emergency General Meeting to discuss the party’s leadership.

Seeing as the MP's bottled it looks like the grassroots are rebelling.

Hugh	30-04-2019 09:44

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Originally Posted by heero_yuy (Post 35992785)

Seeing as the MP's bottled it looks like the grassroots are rebelling.

They can rebel all they want, but they can’t get rid of her...

A leadership contest can be triggered in two ways: If 15% of Conservative MPs write to the Chairman of the 1922 Committee saying they no longer have confidence in the leader of the Conservative Party*, or if the current leader resigns.

*and that can only be done once every 12 months, and it took place 4 months ago

papa smurf

30-04-2019 09:55

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Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 35992786)

But they didn't know what they were triggering, but now they have more information they deserve a second vote or even a third until the right outcome is achieved, that's how the newly defined model of democracy works ,isn't it ?

Damien

30-04-2019 10:09

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Yup the Tories are pretty good at restricting their membership from influencing the leadership, I bet the Parliamentary Labour Party wish they had that!

Besides it's the correct system. The membership is like 125,000 people. So few people should not have the influence to unseat the PM.

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Originally Posted by papa smurf (Post 35992790)

Yup. The power of the confidence vote only lasts 12 months so they'll get a second vote at the end of the year. At which point she'll probably go.

papa smurf

30-04-2019 10:15

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Originally Posted by Damien (Post 35992793)

Until they change the rules ;)

Damien

30-04-2019 10:16

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Originally Posted by papa smurf (Post 35992795)

Unless they change the rules ;)

Yeah they can do that. It's all internal Tory rules so they can do whatever they want really.

papa smurf

30-04-2019 10:20

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Originally Posted by Damien (Post 35992796)

Yeah they can do that. It's all internal Tory rules so they can do whatever they want really.

I think they will find a way to oust her ,she's killing the party off.

Hugh	30-04-2019 16:12

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Originally Posted by papa smurf (Post 35992797)

I think they will find a way to oust her ,she's killing the party off.

I think it's a combined effort from Gove, Grayling, Rees-Mogg, Davis, Fox, BoJo, Francois, et al - she's not doing it on her own...

Mick	01-05-2019 09:10

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Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 35992837)

I think it's a combined effort from Gove, Grayling, Rees-Mogg, Davis, Fox, BoJo, Francois, et al - she's not doing it on her own...

Oh yes she is.

We all know Hugh, you got issues with the above, given you actually joked not that long ago, about that they all should be assassinated.:dozey: :rolleyes:

Hugh	01-05-2019 09:59

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Originally Posted by Mick (Post 35992884)

Oh yes she is.

We all know Hugh, you got issues with the above, given you actually joked not that long ago, about that they all should be assassinated.:dozey: :rolleyes:

I have issues with people who would ruin the country for their own ends, yes - I already apologised for that bad taste joke.

Mick	01-05-2019 10:58

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Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 35992897)

I have issues with people who would ruin the country for their own ends, yes - I already apologised for that bad taste joke.

We are ruining the country, staying in a corrupted and con job union, that we can totally prosper outside of it and a totally independent country, but that is not for this thread.

1andrew1

01-05-2019 12:17

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Originally Posted by Mick (Post 35992903)

We are ruining the country, staying in a corrupted and con job union, that we can totally prosper outside of it and a totally independent country, but that is not for this thread.

Yet another person advocating England leaves the UK. :D