Backbench Tory MPs hopeful of rule change to oust Theresa May

[Denzil_DC]

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Members of the Conservative backbench group of MPs will meet again on Wednesday to decide whether to change the party’s rules to permit another challenge to her leadership within weeks, after the last vote narrowly went in her favour by nine to seven.

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Charles Walker, vice-chairman of the 1922 Committee, criticised Conservative rebels who have refused to back the prime minister’s deal and accused them of unfairly “laying the blame all on her shoulders”.

“We are playing fast and loose as a party at the moment,” he told BBC Radio 4’s World at One. “There are colleagues who have suggested the prime minister should go, the prime minister has said that she wants to leave early in her premiership, but she doesn’t want to leave this god almighty mess ... We all need to take personal responsibility for the fact that we are still in the EU and that we are in government. This idea that a new prime minister [will] all be sweetness and light is for the birds.”

He suggested some of the 34 Conservative MPs who refused to vote for a deal might be better off defecting to another party.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/may/07/backbench-tory-mps-hopeful-of-rule-change-to-oust-theresa-may

Since rearranging the deckchairs hasn't produced results and their most recent engagement was a wipe-out, they're now considering making the captain walk the plank and encouraging mutinous crew members to bail out into a lifeboat with the next battle heaving into view on the horizon.

Here's Charles Walker on Sky News in a greyly apocalyptic mood:

Link to tweet

Haggis_UK #FBPE 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @Haggis_UK

Charles Walker(VChair 1922 Committee) - On the balance of probability we may end up remaining.#PeoplesVote #FinalSay #alloutpolitics

[Ghost Dog]

1. Forget constituency votes. Across the UK the majority now want to remain in the EU

(and be in a position to help reform it).

The Tory Party could well split over this. And the Labour Party should.

Then there might be a chance to get Proportional Representation.

[T_i_B]

2. I would respectfully suggest...

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...that anti-May Tories concentrate their energies on finding a credible alternative as Tory leader. Because at the moment they don't have that. Without a credible alternative to Theresa May it's difficult to see what they are going to achieve.

And while we are on the subject, Andrea Jenkyns really isn't showing the Conservative party in a good light at all with daft stunts like this at PMQ's.

https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/uk-news/2019/05/08/tory-mp-calls-on-theresa-may-to-quit-at-prime-ministers-questions/

Theresa May has faced a direct call from a Conservative MP in the House of Commons to step down and hand over to a new Prime Minister.
Brexit-backing Andrea Jenkyns told Mrs May that she had “failed” in EU withdrawal negotiations and forfeited the trust of the public.
The full-frontal assault at Prime Minister’s Questions came as pressure increased on Mrs May to name a date for her departure, while cross-party Brexit talks with Labour dragged on without a conclusion.