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Theresa May's time is up

A BBC journo just made the point that Thatcher won a no confidence vote with more votes than Theresa May (204 I think he said) but still resigned over it.

She did get 204 votes, but 152 voted against her, so only won by 52, whereas May won by 83, Thatcher needed a 15% majority & was 4 votes short at only 54.8%, so as SpackleFrog posted, it was going to a second round, which the cabinet convinced her, she wouldn't win.

The rules have changed, so May only needed to win by a single vote.
 
Had to laugh at McDonnell's Tweet...

Shocking result for Theresa May. Even having offered to go before the next general election she still has a huge 117 Tory MPs, a third of her party, voting against her and not having confidence in her. Wow.

He clearly forgets that Corbyn LOST his VONC by 172 - 40.
 
Had to laugh at McDonnell's Tweet...

Shocking result for Theresa May. Even having offered to go before the next general election she still has a huge 117 Tory MPs, a third of her party, voting against her and not having confidence in her. Wow.

He clearly forgets that Corbyn LOST his VONC by 172 - 40.
you're not comparing like with like, as the labour vonc had no constitutional significance iirc, whereas in the case of the conservative party it is the opening salvo in a leadership contest.
 
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'I have tried to fuck off in the national interest. This is the best fucking off we can achieve. Jeremy Corbyn still hasn't told us how he would fuck off...'

Boris Johnson's take on it* last night was my favourite. The gist of it was that now May can go back to Europe and tell them 'Look, the British Parliament has told me to fuck off harder than you have told me to fuck off, so you have to offer me a better deal, cos otherwise my electorate will tell me to fuck off even harder still. If you don't, I might tell you to fuck off ... er, please.'

I would question the logic of this.

*I mean the lying one he said out loud, of course, not the one he actually thinks.
 
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