FOUR Tory MPs have thrown in the towel
 

Nadine Dorries standing down as MP with immediate effect
In a tweet moments ago, Nadine Dorries wrote: "I have today informed the chief whip that I am standing down as the MP for Mid Bedfordshire, with immediate effect.

"It has been an honour to serve as the MP for such a wonderful constituency but it is now time for someone younger to take the reins."

This will trigger a by-election in her Mid Bedfordshire constituency.

Nadine Dorries has served in parliament since 2005, and has served in government since 2019 when Boris Johnson took office.

She was promoted to the Cabinet in September 2021, serving Culture Secretary until Mr Johnson left Downing Street in September 2022.

Her standing down as MP means that a by-election will now take place in her constituency.

At the 2019 general election, she won 59.8% of the vote, or a majority of 24,664, meaning it was a relatively safe Conservative seat.

However, with Tory party currently struggling in the polls, opposition parties will no doubt fight hard to take that seat.

https://news.sky.com/story/politics-...-blob-12593360



dont let the door hit you on way out Nadine

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She's obviously not done it because of this...

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/b...full-x77j5dhq9

Also, Nads this morning on TalkTV

https://twitter.com/i/status/1667183710561615880

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Blue on blue action. Delicious.

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I wonder if Johnson will go for the seat?

On a related note, I see Conor Burns has been ambushed by a knighthood - just goes to show if you continually spout sycophantic nonsensical rubbish about cakes, your toadying will be rewarded…

(OB lurking hopefully) ;)

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These people who get Knighthoods or Peerages and were just friends/minor staffers for a Prime Minister, how do they not feel embarrassed by it? At least with long-standing MPs there is an element of public service being rewarded and something to be said for experience in the Lords. We may not always agree and see them as politically motivated but at least in their minds there is a justification.

But to go around as a 'Sir', 'Dame' or 'Lord' and put yourself in a category with people who earned it because your mate was PM? Just shameless.

Shaun Bailey. Failed candidate for London Mayor and a London Assembly member. He is now a Peer!

This as well:

It's just all so shameless and pathetic. Our political and media class is just one big club using the instruments of the state to back-slap and reward each other. Sir David Attenborough worked for years producing programs and advocating for the environment to get his Knighthood, Sir Simon Clarke MP has been an MP for six years but he was mates with Johnson so gets the same reward. Imagining having the arrogance to be a Knight for that, pathetic.

I am not even annoyed at Johnson. He used his last bit of power to reward his allies, which always happens, I am annoyed by the people that accept it when deep down they must know they don't deserve it.

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Why should they not be proud of their achievements? It is the literal embodiment of the British state. Who knows who, who is related to who, etc.

You don't think they backed Johnson because he was the best man for the job, did you?

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looks like mad nad spat her dummy out and resigned as her move to lords got blocked and Johnson's dad got blocked too quite rightly so

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Now Bo Jo go goes too …

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65863267

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wow 2 utter usless tories MP's gone in same day Johnson must been found guilty in inquiry no shock there

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You may take a different view after a short period of a Labour government.

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this is worse government ever OB

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It funny how Sue grey and a fellow colleague who both found against Boris, now have jobs with Liebour

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you do know the inquiry had a tory majority dont you

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:rofl:

The highest inflation, the biggest drop in living standards, predicted drop in house prices,

I'll take my chances OB over this shower.

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you forgot public services totally on there knees too and the gap between super rich and the rest of us never been bigger

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Oh if we really wanted to do so, we could indeed be here all night, with OB doing his most glorious Comical Ali impersonation.

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I'll save him the job.

Other countries have high inflation too/Starmer was more guilty than Johnson/Trade deals with the US and India will happen in X + 5 years/You just need to believe more/Stop talking the country down, you're to blame/Labour-loving Sue Gray is the reason why Johnson resigned/People are just jealous of Mad Nad's book sales.
:D

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I have ideas but I think out of respect we should give OB the floor for one evening. It's disappointing I guess. We were so close to greatness, if we ignored reality.

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OB is not rushing to take the floor as all his pro-Johnson rants on Cable Forum did not secure an OBE, whilst Johnson's hairdresser picked one up. Plus he's got a lot of recordings to watch! :D

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All joking aside, how bad must the report be, that Johnson felt he had to resign? This, from a man whose default mode is to bluster through and deny everything…

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He’s probably realised there’s more money to be made elsewhere anyway. The sooner he is out of the Commons the sooner he’s into the Lords.

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Agreed. Presumably the report says he did mislead Parliament on mote than one occasion.

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He was twice sacked for lying before he became PM. In his view he probably has succeeded - hs's been PM , written books, taken the country out of the EU.

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The real reason why he's quit:-
https://twitter.com/BritainElects/st...994407446?s=20

To reappear in a safe Con seat after Rishi loses the next election. Then to reappear as leader of the bunch of inbreds. Tbh not sure any Con seat would be safe with him standing.

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I think it’s probably the fact that after almost everyone else realised Johnson is a bumbling liar (and also a lazy adulterous poltroon), OB keeps defending him 100%, and insists everyone else is mistaken, and any evidence to the contrary is a conspiracy.

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Never mind you'll be rid of him soon...
https://www.bracknellnews.co.uk/news...next-election/

Be all those poxy immigrants moving in I should think.

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I’ve got a leaked first draft of his resignation statement.

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I didn't

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from twitter

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I didn't either. I'd have preferred acupuncture with rusty 6" nails. Also it's surprise Seph seems to be feigning surprise about Boris being a bumbling liar, I thought he was better than that.

You forgot it was the cake what did it.

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Nigel Adams quits with immediate effect.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-65860705

The Tories now face three by-elections on some fateful future date, I’m guessing probably after the summer recess.

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Even on current polling they should hold two of them. Labour and Lib Dem’s might vote tactically but still.

Anyway this is a third potential troublemaker for Sunak gone. Don’t really think he needs to worry about MPs whose loyalty to Johnson trumps their loyalty to the party or country.

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Did they feed Larry viagra?

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She will be laughing all the way to the bank, given that she will have a claim on half of the mansion they’ve just bought, as well as half of the millions of “earnings” he’s making on the US speech circuit.

She’s got him right where she wants him.

And then there’s the child support, that he’s an expert in paying…

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Like a white Meghan Markle.

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All I can say is HOORAY I see Bill Cash is not standing at next election.

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Do you think White Meghan likes to drag her sofa onto the street when the sun comes out?

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:confused:

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I dont get it either :shrug:

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Is it a cryptic reference to the Oprah Winfrey TV interview setting from a couple of years ago?

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I guess my pop culture references are 10 years out of date …

White Dee

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Read into this what you like. From the Political Editor of The Times, Steven Swinford.
https://twitter.com/Steven_Swinford/...78929234898944

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I doubt they’d move a by election writ today even if they could. They don’t have to do it for several weeks. And there’s a recall petition underway in Rutherglen & Hamilton West at the moment that is likely to result in Margaret Ferrier getting sacked, requiring a by election that will result in a massive SNP-Labour scrap in Scotland. Orchestrating that by election on the same day as the Tory ones would be the Tories’ best hope of lessening the political hit they will sustain just for these three contests taking place at all.

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Two weeks ago, Sky News says Sunak and Johnson met but left with different understandings of the agreement. Johnson thought Sunak had agreed to wave through his nominees whatever Holac said whilst Sunak thought he would agree to whatever Holac recommended.

The list of new peerages did not include eight of Mr Johnson's nominations.
https://news.sky.com/story/politics-...ament-12593360

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Johnson "misunderstanding" something that was to his advantage?

<shocked face>

How bad were the eight that got rejected, when a 29 year old got a peerage?

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It doesn't bear thinking about! One was his dad I think.

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I think the only positive thing that comes of out this is how corrupt & entitled the current "Tory" Party is. They are literally shining a high intensity spotlight on what the Party has become.

Labour are sitting back and applauding ...

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Lest we forget...

Baron Johnson of Marylebone

A just reward for his nine years in Parliament...

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Never underestimate Johnson. You don't become a PM by being a buffoon even if you pretend to be one.

Could it be that his father and the other seven are in the mix so that the Committee throws them out? In doing so, it might make it makes it harder to throw the others out like the 29-year-old intern.

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He has officially resigned. Sunak sources claim they’d block his return as an MP.

And so ends one of the most embarrassing episodes of British political history. Without irony, ITV News just ran a piece on the death of Berlusconi with faux outrage at points acting as if that type of leader oozing cronyism and corruption couldn’t happen here.

In a way you can’t really blame Johnson, he’s acted entirely rational and with self-interest throughout. His allies rail against the “Establishment” without irony, when if it wasn’t for that establishment, what school he went to, what university he went to, he’d be absolutely no-one. No newspaper columns, so puff pieces on the state broadcaster about the affable buffoon on Have I Got News for You.

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Q. Siri, what does a banana republic look like?
A. Will this cleared nomination to the House of Lords do?

https://www.cableforum.uk/board/atta...7&d=1686595436

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I do blame him. He's single handedly screwed the country, with his 'getting things done'. But he and his few knighthooded buddies will be all right. The rest of the riff raff can do one as far as he's concerned.

Buck stops with the electorate, they voted for this fraud and they must now take the consequences, for decades. Those that didn't and saw through him, bad luck.

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He didn’t do it single handedly - there’s no reason to give him credit he doesn’t deserve. He served his paymasters at the Telegraph, friends who orchestrate loans for him because he’s a financial risk, and potentially foreign intelligence services well as their puppet. Not to mention the dark money that flows through the Conservative Party coffers.

The country is indeed screwed, however that goes back decades of economic mismanagement, generating inequality and the circumstances that made it easy for Johnson to rise up.

If you want to blame one man for Brexit you might as well blame Nick Clegg. That idiot tipped the first domino.

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He was already elevated, he is my co-patriot frog now!

"Sir frog daddy Johnson" he was just taking the piss.

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https://twitter.com/Steven_Swinford/...69969317281795

what a shock NOTTTTTTTTTTTT

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For many but not all on this Forum, it was not a surprise. The question is can he be penalised or is it just his reputation that takes a well-deserved hit?

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Thing is the people that worship the likes of Boris and Trump, will see this as a badge of honour.

To many voters lying is clever, denial and personality is everything. Blame everything on 'the Blob', 'Big state' etc with no evidence , they'll love it.

I'm all for an IQ test before you're allowed to vote.

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Has anyone got the perfect Shakespeare quote about Boris?

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What is past is prologue.

He’ll be back, he hints….

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In the Strangers Bar…

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"Neither a borrower nor a lender be."

"And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse."

"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

"One may smile, and smile, be a villain."

"I am one who loved not wisely but too well."

"Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it."

And my favourite...

"I dote on his very absence."

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'Infamy, infamy , they've all got it in for me ! '

( sorry, maybe that was the Carry On version Shakespeare's prose...)

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"Look like the innocent flower but be the Serpent underneath it" (Macbeth)

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well at least not a lender, sounds like something a tv spiv would say but seeing as I can find no reference looks like it's one of mine!

Moving on to the bard isn't there something in The Tempest about take me to the party and Titus Andronicas about the ambush of our friends being strong

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Not sure what he's trying to achieve here? Is it a last-minute damage limitation exercise?
https://news.sky.com/story/boris-joh...ittee-12901862

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He’s just being awkward because he can.

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probably trying to delay they publishing report he knows he banged to rights and the vast majority of public know it

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Indeed. The feeble minded will find no cake crumbs of comfort here. The rest of us understand that the issue is not cake but misleading Parliament. It's pretty obvious what the Conservative-dominated investigation has established. ;)

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What does it matter now he's resigned as an MP? I'm fed up of hearing about it and have moved on. I suggest others do the same.

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It matters because it sets precedents and limitations on behaviours that breach the Rules of the House of Commons.

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Including Boris? If only...
He's made it very clear he's coming back, prob after the next election when the Tories are desperate in opposition and will grab at anything, even it means falling further into the gutter. He just needs a safe seat, not sure there will be many of those with him standing.

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The search term “Corbyn” appears 200 times in the last 2 years If I generously concede 10% of those references to non-Jeremy’s it points towards the British public having very long memories and being slow to move on.

I’m quite happy to keep going about Boris as he is the personification or corruption and cronyism in the Conservative Party regardless of whether he holds elected office.

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Nadine Dorries still hasn't resigned. Is she staying on so that the by-election occurs in September to create maximum inconvenience for Sunak? Or has she had a re-think about quitting?

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Probably re-thinking quitting. She has minimal influence over the by-election timetable.

I think there will be 4 by elections in October (assuming she does quit) - the three Tories, plus Rutherglen & Hamilton West if the recall petition succeeds.

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Looks like the Tories are in a hurry after all … the most likely by-election date is 20 July. However, Mad Nads as of this morning still hasn’t actually quit.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65898515

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Yes, if I was Sunak I'd want the by-elections out of the way asap so I can put the ghost of Johnson behind me and focus on the next general election and fighting Starmer and not internal battles.

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I kind of feel sorry for Dorries. Not a fan of hers and don't think she deserves a peerage but to get hers blocked after being an MP for 18 years and a cabinet member for a lot of that when a 29-year-old 18-month advisor to Johnson gets one must be a slap in the face.

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If she had said this then I would have felt sorry for her. However, she said the decision showed working class people could not get into the Lords.

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Obviously the Committee saw something we’ve not re: Dorries.

The whole process is entirely undeserving and a joke in a 21st century democracy. I don’t see why I 29 year old person of a limited skillset and experience should be excluded from the gravy train.

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The most sordid part of this whole grubby process is that these are very same people who said we had to Leave to rid ourselves of unelected bureaucrats.

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She was a Cabinet member for one year - her previous position was not Cabinet Level (Minister for Patient Safety, Suicide Prevention and Mental Health (2019–2021)).

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Ouch!
https://www.theguardian.com/politics...0834349c1d6517

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https://www.theguardian.com/politics...ttee-to-resign

Fair play to Boris here. Not satisfied with trashing his own reputation, the economy, and Britain’s standing on a global stage he’s decided he might as well take the Conservative Party down with him.

Delicious.

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Just the usual dead cat technique going on here.

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And another one gone
And another one gone
Another one bites the dust …

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65941710

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Cocaine and just 3 women?

Come on Michael Gove, you easily better that!

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Wow!Anyone seen the Laura Kuensberg interview with Gove.What a weasel he is..