Boris Johnson's future in peril as Conservative Party hit with double election losses

[onthedarkside]

 

London (CNN)  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffered a hammer blow to his authority on Friday after his party lost two parliamentary by-elections in a single night, raising new questions about his leadership.

 

Labour's Simon Lightwood won the West Yorkshire seat of Wakefield, in northern England, with a majority of 4,925 on a swing of 12.7 percentage points from the Conservatives to Labour.

 

Moments later, Liberal Democrat Richard Foord won the Tiverton and Honiton by-election in Devon, western England, with a dramatic swing of almost 30 points. The Conservatives had held the seat with a majority of more than 24,000 votes, so the win was one of the biggest ever majorities to be overturned at a UK parliamentary by-election.

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Thursday's by-elections were triggered by high-profile resignations of Conservative lawmakers -- one who admitted watching porn inside the chamber of the UK parliament, and another found guilty of sexually abusing a teenage boy.

 

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https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/24/uk/uk-election-defeats-johnson-gbr-intl/index.html

 

 

 

[champers]

Boris is in Rwanda for a Commonwealth summit so plenty of his "loyal" cabinet colleagues will feel free to plot against him. One, the party chairman, has resigned already.

[Chomper Higgot]

He’ll not resign, which is good news for opposition parties.

[baboon]

2 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

He’ll not resign, which is good news for opposition parties.

Yep, he just shrugged off another disaster. Let him drag his cowardly party down with him...

[Excel]

I would not at all be surprised if on Wednesday he slips out of his back door for his weekly audience with the Queen and advises her that he is resigning as he will have had a few days by then to hear from his cabinet members that the has lost their support. That way this old Etonian criminal does not have to face the barracking forces from both sides of the chamber at PMQs.  Even the lying Boris is not stupid enough to throw his dummy out completely and call a snap election as the Tories would be looking at a history making loss of seats.  But that is only my opinion.

[Kwasaki]

Lots of Boris haters out there and protest voters but he still has support from close colleagues.

 

Right from the start my opinion was once you go inside No. 10 and shut the door during a pandemic which was the first time something like that affected the world since the 2nd world war you should be able to do what you like, you and all others inside are running the country.

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1 hour ago, Kwasaki said:

Lots of Boris haters out there and protest voters but he still has support from close colleagues.

 

Right from the start my opinion was once you go inside No. 10 and shut the door during a pandemic which was the first time something like that affected the world since the 2nd world war you should be able to do what you like, you and all others inside are running the country.

So, all the people who were in number 10 once the door was shut never went out for the duration to mingle with the common folk? Is that how it worked? How spacious do you think number 10 is?

[Bluespunk]

3 hours ago, Kwasaki said:

he still has support from close colleagues.

The co-chair of the Conservative party resigned his post in the cabinet and many others within the party are yet again calling on him to go. Pressure is being put upon the . 1922 committee to change its rules and allow another no confidence vote. 
 

Now johnson may, and I do mean may, have support from his close colleagues; indeed he may well survive all this but his support has, and is continuing to be, seriously eroded within Parliament and the country. 

[Excel]

1 hour ago, placeholder said:

So, all the people who were in number 10 once the door was shut never went out for the duration to mingle with the common folk? Is that how it worked? How spacious do you think number 10 is?

There are delusional people on here who still think the Tardis was real obviously ????

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18 minutes ago, Bluespunk said:

The co-chair of the Conservative party resigned his post in the cabinet and many others within the party are yet again calling on him to go. Pressure is being put upon the . 1922 committee to change its rules and allow another no confidence vote. 
 

Now johnson may, and I do mean may, have support from his close colleagues; indeed he may well survive all this but his support has, and is continuing to be, seriously eroded within Parliament and the country. 

It was certainly strange that lots of his supporters maintained that since he won the no-confidence vote, his strength was undiminished.  Even though history clearly shows that isn't the case. One even bet me that Johnson was going to be leading the Conservatives into the next election.

[Kwasaki]

9 minutes ago, Bluespunk said:

The co-chair of the Conservative party resigned his post in the cabinet and many others within the party are yet again calling on him to go. Pressure is being put upon the . 1922 committee to change its rules and allow another no confidence vote. 
 

Now johnson may, and I do mean may, have support from his close colleagues; indeed he may well survive all this but his support has, and is continuing to be, seriously eroded within Parliament and the country. 

I agree and cutting many of my views short dealing with the pandemic was hi-jacking along with the cake ???? he was on a hiding for nothing over rules and when the witch hunt media began the course is sadly set. 

[shackleton]

Boris has been getting away with more escapes than Houdini 

He is more Teflon than Thailand 

His time is coming ????

[RayC]

4 hours ago, Kwasaki said:

 

Right from the start my opinion was once you go inside No. 10 and shut the door during a pandemic which was the first time something like that affected the world since the 2nd world war you should be able to do what you like, you and all others inside are running the country.

So as PM he shouldn't be held responsible and accountable for his actions? 

[Kwasaki]

38 minutes ago, RayC said:

So as PM he shouldn't be held responsible and accountable for his actions? 

No as PM he should do whatever he wants to get things done for the good of the people in the country. 

[alien365]

All that I see is a media obsessed with removing Boris from power as the brexit referendum didn't go their way. I'm in the UK at the moment and I've never seen anything like it. 

[pacovl46]

Me likey likey! ????

[candide]

26 minutes ago, alien365 said:

All that I see is a media obsessed with removing Boris from power as the brexit referendum didn't go their way. I'm in the UK at the moment and I've never seen anything like it. 

Could it be It's because the impact of Brexit starts to be observed?

 

[transam]

12 hours ago, baboon said:

Yep, he just shrugged off another disaster. Let him drag his cowardly party down with him...

"Cowardly Party", where has the cowardly party come from, explain yourself....?

[Red Forever]

38 minutes ago, Kwasaki said:

No as PM he should do whatever he wants to get things done for the good of the people in the country. 

Trouble is that he got "things done for the good of" himself.

This racist, homophobic, lying tub of lard is facing the just end of his 14 years  (London Mayor, Foreign Secretary included) of incompetence.

 

[Red Forever]

40 minutes ago, alien365 said:

All that I see is a media obsessed with removing Boris from power as the brexit referendum didn't go their way. I'm in the UK at the moment and I've never seen anything like it. 

"A media obsessed with removing Boris"!

Don't you know what the Wail, Scum, Excess and Torygraph have been banging on about?

[transam]

I did have a good laugh that the "Liberals" won the seat, a Party that has never done anything but hang-on. It would have been worrying if it were Labour, but the thought of Kier & and the bar maid sidekick would be a step too far for many....????

 

PS. At my watering hole, was having a weeee discussion about Boris, this bloke kept going on and on about his choice of hairstyle, that was it, nothing else, but I reckon there are many that judge Boris by his hair cut, sad but true.....????

[transam]

4 minutes ago, Red Forever said:

Trouble is that he got "things done for the good of" himself.

This racist, homophobic, lying tub of lard is facing the just end of his 14 years  (London Mayor, Foreign Secretary included) of incompetence.

 

Total Tosh, stop reading The Guardian, try The Sun or Titbits, has bigger pictures.....????

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1 hour ago, Kwasaki said:

No as PM he should do whatever he wants to get things done for the good of the people in the country. 

So, are you claiming that whatever Boris Johnson does politically, he's doing it for the good of the UK? Or are you just making some empty generalization about the obligations of a PM?

[Grecian]

12 minutes ago, Red Forever said:

Trouble is that he got "things done for the good of" himself.

This racist, homophobic, lying tub of lard is facing the just end of his 14 years  (London Mayor, Foreign Secretary included) of incompetence.

 

You don't see the irony of calling someone a racist and a homophobe then abusing them for being fat?

Your words are direct evidence of bigoted behaviour. Can you come up with direct evidence Boris is what you claim?

[Loiner]

27 minutes ago, Grecian said:

You don't see the irony of calling someone a racist and a homophobe then abusing them for being fat?

Your words are direct evidence of bigoted behaviour. Can you come up with direct evidence Boris is what you claim?

The left and the woke are at it all the time. They throw around a few insults from their safe spaces, while hiding behind a wall of hypocrisy. They don't realise it's all water of a duck's back anyway.

[dunroaming]

17 hours ago, champers said:

Boris is in Rwanda for a Commonwealth summit so plenty of his "loyal" cabinet colleagues will feel free to plot against him. One, the party chairman, has resigned already.

Oliver Dowden was one of Johnson's most loyal supporters but even he couldn't keep defending the lying, cheating despicable Prime Minister any longer. 

 

Johnson won't resign and listening to the numerous press conferences he is giving, it is pertinent to note that not once has he acknowledged that the reason for the failure at the by-elections is anything to do with him.  No doubt that there will be the inevitable plotting behind locked doors, but it will work much better for Labour and the Lib-Dems for him to remain screwing the Conservative Party from the front. 

[CharlieH]

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[Kwasaki]

LBC radio UK,  Boris is carrying on with the job in hand. 

Go go Boris. ????????

[kidneyw]

Time for a "knees up" at the back of Number 10 and regroup.

[Thingamabob]

Calm down. They're just two low turnout by-elections. Nothing to get excited about.