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

[thecatfromjapan]

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.

I wrote to my MP to say they should vote against Johnson. They've replied to say they listened to everyone etc. But they have not revealed how they actually voted.

I feel completely offended that my representative thinks that is OK as a reply. It’s a formula email that would work for anyone who contacted them about the vote- for or against. Finishes with:

‘I will not defend the indefensible and I remain deeply troubled by the events described in the Sue Gray report. Following the vote, I now expect the PM to renew his focus on delivering the commitments made in the 2019 Conservative manifesto alongside steps to help address the rising cost of living, reduce NHS waiting lists and continuing support for Ukraine.’

I mean should an MP not have some fucking integrity and say whether they do support or do not support their own party leader?

This brainless MP is extremely likely to have voted whatever the party told him to, as that’s the usual style, but it’s the not admitting to it that gets to me. I feel like they are laughing at us.

The sign off above sounds like a straight cut and paste from Tory HQ. I have never felt so cynical about Conservative politics.

Mine has, extraordinarily, gone on the record to tell us that he voted against Johnson, which I thought would never, ever happen, especially as he’s one of those people who stands behind the top bench at the 1922 alongside Graham Brady, and votes in exactly the opposite ways you’d expect a decent human being to in all other votes.

Maybe we do have the power to influence them after all. I shall continue to email him whenever necessary - though I suspect he’ll revert to the government line now.

That’s good Taran.

I feel like there should be some kind of moral integrity test that MPs are forced to take before they become MPs. This one would never have passed it in a month of Sundays, it’s shocking.