UK - Politika i društvo

This is from a source close to the rebel Tories.

Tonight’s decisive result is the first step in a process to avert an undemocratic and damaging no deal. No 10 have responded by removing the whip from two former chancellors, a former lord chancellor and Winston Churchill’s grandson. What has has happened to the Conservative party?

plachkica wrote:simbolično

Did this guy in the background cycle into the water? pic.twitter.com/8ir4Or1BXt

— Katie Martin (@katie_martin_fx) September 3, 2019

Gargantua wrote:sad je kao nejasno da li će 21 torijevaca koji su večeras glasali sa opozicijom biti šutnuti iz partije, ili će kao dobiti "šansu" da sutra ipak glasaju sa vladom i revidiraju.

Sir Nicholas Soames MP confirms to #Newsnight that he will not stand in the next general election.

“I have been told by the chief whip… that I have had the whip removed after 37 years as a Conservative MP."

“I’m not going to stand”@NSoames | @maitlis pic.twitter.com/P73srDcU4o

— BBC Newsnight (@BBCNewsnight) September 3, 2019

Quincy Endicott wrote:Izbačeni su iz partije, Soames i Stewart najavili da se neće kandidivati, verovatno ni Clarke, a Hammond da mu se napasu muda.

British democracy is sustained by a number of polite fictions: the neutrality of the monarch, the Crown in Parliament, the parity of the UK’s four nations, the binding stricture of convention, the sovereignty of parliament, the equal power of everyone’s vote. They are now being put to the flame by the government, and in the longer term it may not be possible to conjure the myths back from the ashes. Marx once remarked that the repeal of the Corn Laws saw the Tories of his day abandon every piety about the constitution and the church and reveal themselves as defenders, above all, of their rents. Johnson’s assault on Parliament and willingness to trample constitutional niceties is a similar moment of clear-eyed revelation: the Conservative Party has been denuded of its shrouds of patriotic pomp and tinsel. It could be a spur to find a better foundation for democracy than our worn-out fictions.

Quincy Endicott wrote:Izbačeni su iz partije, Soames i Stewart najavili da se neće kandidivati, verovatno ni Clarke, a Hammond da mu se napasu muda.

Amongst these 22 MPs are 10 former cabinet ministers, 21 former ministers, 2 former chancellors, a former deputy PM, a former education secretary, a former lord chancellor and a former Conservative Party chair. There can't be any precedent for expelling a group like this https://t.co/pg8AgDrOMT

— Henry Zeffman (@hzeffman) September 2, 2019

KinderLad wrote:Kako se oni igraju sudbinom sopstvene partije je u stvari najzanimljivije. Ako se slucajno desi da posle izbora odu s vlasti, infighting ce potpuno rasturiti partiju. Nije bitno sta su ti ljudi bili, nego su oni to bili upravo zato sto imaju tezinu u stranci, masa njih. Bice haos ako ne ostanu na vlasti.

паће wrote:Сад ако испадне да је овај последњи из Летваније...

Gargantua wrote:8. sednica

Amongst these 22 MPs are 10 former cabinet ministers, 21 former ministers, 2 former chancellors, a former deputy PM, a former education secretary, a former lord chancellor and a former Conservative Party chair. There can't be any precedent for expelling a group like this https://t.co/pg8AgDrOMT

— Henry Zeffman (@hzeffman) September 2, 2019