Officially known as the Conservative Private Member’s Committee, "The 22” is an influential backbench of Tory MPs. The group was originally a private dining group, made up of new Tory MPs elected in the 1922 General Election – where it takes its name. The group has grown to become an important ball part of the system that Conservative MPs use to express views on party leadership, and now plays an important role in the election of a leader to the party.

If 15% of Tory MPs write to the chairman of the backbench committee – currently Graham Brady – a leadership challenge is triggered. As there are currently 360 Conservative MPs sitting in Parliament, 54 Conservative MPs would need to submit letters to the 1922 Committee to trigger an automatic leadership vote.

If Boris wins the vote he can't be challenged again for a period of twelve months.

Boris Johnson grilled by Line of Duty team in spoof video viewed by 5m

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...d-by-5-million

:haha:

The wine parties were an offence to and a ridiculing of the public that was under lockdown and had extremely limiting rules to bear. These meetings and his participation are disgusting. His weaseling and hiding behind that "investigation" and his obvious lying to get away with it, is both disgusting and ridiculous.

He should not be allowed to just leave. He should be chased away, with a boot in his lower back and eggs and stones flying after him. Enough is enough. His time is up.

That Corona coincided with Brexit, is not his fault, and we will never know if and how Brexit would have worked out without Corona. But on too many occasions he now has told opportunistic untruths. He must go.

^ Fully agree :yep:

And so they bloody well should!

Saw some minutes from the British Parliament and my first thought was If lived in UK I would say What a cirkus it has turned into.

Markus

A Conservative backbencher who accused Downing Street of trying to "blackmail" MPs seeking to oust Boris Johnson is to meet police to discuss his allegations.

William Wragg said he will be speaking to a Met Police detective in the House of Commons early next week, after requesting a meeting with the force.

The MP, who wants the prime minister to quit, said he wanted to leave any probe to "experts" rather than No 10.

Downing Street said it had not seen any proof of the behaviour he alleges.

A spokesman said on Friday they were not investigating the allegations but would look "carefully" at any evidence presented to them.

Chris Bryant, who is chairman of the Commons Committee on Standards, said he had spoken to about a dozen Tory MPs in the past few days who had made similar allegations of whips threatening to withdraw funding for their constituencies, including for campaigning and infrastructure such as bypasses and schools.

"I've even heard MPs alleging that the prime minister himself has been doing this," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

He described the alleged behaviour as "misconduct in public office" and said it was a matter for the police.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-60093893

Here's an If question

What will happen with Boris, if the police find enough proof that he have tried to blackmail and/or threaten other members of the Tory party ?

Markus

Kicked out of office after a Parliamentary vote of no confidence.

I presume, the police want to have a chat with him based on following

"He described the alleged behaviour as "misconduct in public office" and said it was a matter for the police."

I doubt that blackmail and threat is legal whether you are a politician or not.
(if they find enough evidence-He is innocent until proven guilty)

Markus

The guy (as was predicted by many) has become a laughing stock not only in the UK but also on the world stage.

Can an elected Politician in the UK Parliament be impeached or do you not have such a thing ?

Markus

No such thing as impeachment as far as I'm aware...the simple method would be a vote of no confidence.

Birthday party, eh? 30+ guests, and celebrations in his private rooms with staffers not even belonging to Down It Street, eh? MET police strongly blasting away against the Boris's claims on what happened, eh?

Has the political funeral for him already been fixed in the calender? If not, its getting about high time, I think. He's done. A blond scalp will soon be served on the BBC's newsroom desk. Im sure this time the anchorman will smile and not hide is amusement, they have some open bills with him, or not...

Downing Street, the gift that keeps on giving.

In a stream from the British Parliament I could hear Boris refusing to resign

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/uk-politics-60134104


I guess he can do that-but if the Parliament vote for a kick-the Prime minister-out-Then he has to leave doesn't he ?

If he still refuse-Will it then be the police who has to remove him ?

I hope he know when he has lost and leave.

Markus

Boris has been proven to be a liar many times over the years, it is in his DNA.

He will dig his heels in until the very end.

The Sue Gray report is expected to be released later today and after a short period of time to allow MP's to read it there may yet be a vote of no confidence in him by his fellow Tory MP's

Should he lose that vote he will be obliged to resign but not a moment before.

The latest revelation...

Not sure what to make of this.

Its clear, similiar things are tried in Germany as well. Long term unemployed who refuse jobs, are pushed to nevertheless take offered jobs by reducing their benefits.

In case of the UK it might be even more pressing an issue since there are shortages of workers in certain areas that UK citizens did not want to do and left to seasonal workers and job migrants from abroad that now have been banned to enter or to work in the UK. I must not tell you about the shortages of truck drivers, as an example, further worstened due to Corona quarantines.

In principle I agree with such steps. It cannot be that the community has to pay for the daily bills of somebody who is offered work that would allow hiomn to come up for the costs of his living, but that he doe snto want, expecting to live at th cost of the others.

I would even go a step further, for reasons reaching beyond this imminent context, and exclude people who live of social wellfare and get general benefits like unemployment money from voting rights. Same for prisoners: voting rights are cancelled as long as they are in prison. A prisoner is no citizen in my book, but a prisoner. His citizen rights are temporarily disabled for as long as he is a prisoner.

It cannot be that people who live at the cost of the community are even allowed to vote for conditions and politicians that continue and maybe even widen their personal profits form this scheme. If you accept state aid you are under (moral) obligation to do your best to cut this period as short as possible. Once you are back in any kind of work you make aliving of you then can use this as a platform for looking for another, more wanted follow-on job. But if you are unemployed, the priority is to bring you into work again so that you do not cost the community more than absolutely inevitable.

I did over a dozen jobs in my life. Most of them were not really pleasant, or satisfying, and none of them turned me into a welathy man except just one, and I did not do them because I wanted to do them, but because it was what was available to me at those times. If I could have done and worked so, I can demand others to do the same.