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To think today is a good day to email your Conservative MP?

103 replies

thecatfromjapan · 06/06/2022 14:43

So, in case you haven't heard, there's a confidence vote tonight for Boris Johnson.

There need to be at least 180 votes of no confidence to force him to stand down.

So far, Conservative MPs have shown surprisingly little backbone and tolerated outrage after outrage - and, of course, that means we have.

It has to stop.

I'm a Labour supporter. In theory, having Johnson stay on, dragging an increasingly fractured Party further and further down, is great.

More chance of a Labour government every day he's there.

But - here's the thing - I can't stand it any more. I can't bear what he's doing to us.

He needs to go.

Let's list what Johnson has led us to - actually, no, here is a letter from a Conservative MP that spells out just what Johnson is responsible for, and why he must go, now:

twitter.com/Jesse_Norman/status/1533699235417403393?s=20&t=9WUHqmHsvNjarF699i8wFw

If you have a Conservative MP, email them, today. Cut and Paste this letter if you are too busy to write much - the letter says it all, eloquently.

Your Conservative MP needs your help to show a little backbone - give them that help.

Honestly.

It's time.

No more.

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Morte · 06/06/2022 17:49

I’ve emailed mine just now to say keep him. I stuck “Keep Boris!” In the title to save time. We don’t need instability. Let him preside over the nightmare that is inflation and this European war, we can sort it later.

Grantanow · 06/06/2022 17:51

I would email him but he's unavailable due to his behaviour!

Snapespeare · 06/06/2022 17:53

nancy75 · 06/06/2022 14:52

Mine is Bob Stewart, I’d be surprised if the lazy sod bothers to vote at all & he certainly won’t vote against the great leader 🙄

Me too. I emailed him. We've had aome halfway reasonable discussions before on the Afghanistan evacuation. I pitched it as almost ready to vote Tory, can't do it while Johnson is PM as he lacks integrity, lied to the Queen and presided over parties in 10DS on the eve of Prince Ps funeral. He doesn't befit the great office of state.

I think Tory MPs react best to arguments that he doesn't represent Conservative values and that he lacks the moral fortitude to be PM.

Blossomtoes · 06/06/2022 17:53

I’m not emailing mine for two reasons:

  1. He’ll vote to keep him, regardless of his constituents’ views
  2. I want him to stay so the Tories are blown to smithereens in the next election and stay unelectable for a generation
Happygirl79 · 06/06/2022 17:53

I emailed my MP last week and got a stock response.. Probably dictated by Boris. PM knows he has made mistakes. He has apologised. Things will change etc etc
So I replied. 'Thank you for you stock response. You will never get my vote while that man is PM'

daimbarsatemydogsbone · 06/06/2022 17:54

If your MP wants your vote, s/he needs to grow a spine and vote no confidence.
And if that MP doesn't - you will not vote for them.
I didn't (and wouldn't) vote for my MP as she is a Tory so she doesn't care what I think.
Of course I could lie.......

Puzzledandpissedoff · 06/06/2022 17:55

I already have
Frankly it's a waste as she's a Tory with even fewer principles than most, but there's little point in moaning if we're not prepared to speak up on issues

Like others I believe Boris will survive this one, but time will tell

DirtyteaCup · 06/06/2022 17:57

Where are they meeting?
I live 5 minutes from the Houses of Parliament

worth popping out about 8pm I wonder

HewasH2O · 06/06/2022 17:58

How about the Tory MP who does not have an email address & doesn't use social media in any form? He will only accept post.

Sirius3030 · 06/06/2022 17:59

stepuporshutup · 06/06/2022 14:59

Imo it does not matter if he stays ir goes because Starmer has not a chance of ever being PM.

So now is your chance to get rid of the buffoon.

Odessafile · 06/06/2022 18:00

@SafeMove not all labour supporters are 'tories are scum' types in the same way not all tories are ERG cultists.

Happygirl79 · 06/06/2022 18:00

I totally blame the Conservative MPs. They need to grow a pair and man up. They are supposed to be acting for their constituents but they are not listening. They are acting for themselves.
I told my MP in my last email that I had lost respect for the Conservative party as they seem to be enabling Boris Johnson in his bad behaviour and they therefore must be just as bad. I did use the word 'lapdogs' too. I am disgusted.

mum2jakie · 06/06/2022 18:03

DirtyteaCup · 06/06/2022 17:57

Where are they meeting?
I live 5 minutes from the Houses of Parliament

worth popping out about 8pm I wonder

The vote is from 6-8pm today. Results out by 9

comfortablyfrumpy · 06/06/2022 18:03

I emailed mine, not sure it will make a blind bit of difference though. She seems a staunch supporter.
But at least she knows there's one vote she won't be able to count on in the next election. Hopefully there will be a lot more....

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thecatfromjapan · 06/06/2022 18:41

Little bump.

Please email.

Still worth it.

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ChicCroissant · 06/06/2022 20:57

I am surprised but pleased to say that my MP has tweeted that he has voted against Johnson. Good on him! I know that my MP stuck to the rules at some personal cost so Johnson's parties probably tipped him over the edge. Crossing many body parts for the results very shortly.

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thecatfromjapan · 06/06/2022 21:30

That's good to hear, ChicCroissant.

Well, 148 Conservative MPs voted against Johnson.

Not enough - but well done, them.

So ... he limps on, for now.

An affront to anyone who thinks a Prime Minister should behave with integrity.

🤷‍♀️

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DowningStreetParty · 07/06/2022 06:06

I can’t believe that so many Conservative backbench MPs voted to support someone like Boris. Without the payroll MPs, what is he possibly offering backbenchers except trouble, voter alienation and defeat?
if fixed term Parliaments have now been repealed they should be very worried.

WhatdoImean · 07/06/2022 08:12

If you discount the payroll (i.e. assume they all voted FOR Johnson - not convinced, myself, but that is the expectation), then only about 40 backbenchers supported him, and 148 voted against him.

To use a phrase... he is a dead man walking

ivykaty44 · 07/06/2022 08:28

I can’t believe that so many Conservative backbench MPs voted to support someone like Boris.

for some it will have been a tactical vote to keep Loopy Luz out

ni point in replacing one nutter with another

Puzzledandpissedoff · 07/06/2022 10:25

Without the payroll MPs, what is he possibly offering backbenchers except trouble, voter alienation and defeat?

Who says that that the 40 non-payroll MPs who backed him weren't promised they'd be joining it? For that matter who says those who didn't back him weren't promised something too, but didn't believe him or consider it worth it?

Trading favours for votes is hardly new, and it's not as if Boris has enough principles to resist it

Happygirl79 · 07/06/2022 18:07

I don't think we've heard the last of this. Boris will find his life extremely stressful now. The public in general have lost faith in him. And so have 2 out of 5 of his MPs. Despite his request for everyone to move on from this it won't happen until he is gone

LadyDanburysHat · 08/06/2022 15:48

My MP got back to me to say he would vote as his constituents wanted. He has since publicly said he voted against Boris. I'm quite surprised, but pleased he did.