Vote of no confidence

[RatRolyPoly]

Sorry if there's already a thread about this, but what happens if Labour call a vote of no confidence in the government?

I'm reading some rolling updates about what's going on in parliament today, and every woman and her dog seems to be saying they would support Labour if they called a vote of no confidence in the current government. So if Labour actually did it... then what?

It is going to be interesting. I'm no Tory but it was very very silly of them to have made the divisions in the party so plain last week now they're going to look like massive hypocrites if they vote in her favour. I actually really felt for her, she is just trying to do her job and because she's a woman she is being bullied from every angle. :(

In theory:
If a Vote of No Confidence is successful, Parliament rejects the government (executive / cabinet / whichever phrase you want to use) that emerged from Parliament at the last election.
The MPs have a short window to agree a new government from amongst their number. If they cannot, a general election is called.

In reality:
If the VONC is successful, you can assume party unity (with the exception of Tory rebels) will prevent a new government forming. Corbyn won't have enough backing to construct a Labour government even with other party support. And, despite the theory, there won't be a government free of party bias from the great and good in the Commons and Lords; so well head pretty quickly to an election. There may be an interim caretaker gov't while the election occurs.

Teressa May fought tooth and nail to be PM, despite the known challenges. You can be generous to her and regard her as the one who stepped up - but it's not like she was the only one fighting for the role.

During her time in office, she has frequently shown poor leadership. Ignoring the ins and outs of brexit as a policy; she held an unnecessary election which culled her abilities to negotiate a deal, then spent months saying this is the best deal for Britain before pulling the vote at the 11th hour. Why? If it's as good as it gets, waiting makes no sense - and merely kills all your credibility.

However, when the leadership challenge went on, Corbyn should have been there challenging the suitability of the Tories to govern. Instead, silence. Now he's deciding to stir the pot again. Too little too late. Gives a lot of credence to the view that he wants to moan from the sidelines and not lead Labour into having to sort the mess out.

None of them are coming out of this looking like anything other than (delete as applicable): useless / opportunistic / contradictory / pathetic / actually-quite-stupid / feeble

Place marking to understand thisnall better. Seems like we are just lurching from one disaster to the next.

There should be an option called something like:
"No confidence in this government, but considerably less in anything Jeremy Corbyn leads"