Writing to my MP to get Boris to resign

[DestroyerOfHouseplants]

I am thinking about writing to my MP asking him to get Boris to resign. I've had enough of his lies, his people partying, everything. Has anyone else done this? Will it do any good?

I wrote to mine a couple of weeks ago. She said that she was waiting for Sue Gray, so I have emailed her again tonight to ask what her position is now. It won't make a blind bit of difference as she is very loyal to Boris, but I want to keep turning up the volume as much as possible.

@PlanetNormal

Writing to mine would be completely pointless. I live in one of the safest Tory seats in the Midlands, and MP’s majority is several times bigger than Boris’s in Uxbridge. He knows his seat will always be safe whoever is leader so he doesn’t have to worry about Johnson’s unpopularity. He is an ambitious junior minister with his eyes on a seat in the cabinet so he is never going to rock the boat.

What a shit political system we have in this country.

I also live in a safe Tory seat.

I’ve still written to my MP because she actually is supposed to represent all constituents. I’ve said that we know he’s lying, and I wouldn’t trust the judgement of the conservatives in picking another leader and if he lies about this, what else does he lie about?

I know she will write some bullshit back, but better to speak up than say nothing.

My MP is labour and has been very vocal about how Boris has to resign, so it's pointless to contact her.

My old MP was Oliver Dowden - would have definitely contacted him if I still lived there! Hopefully lots of other people do.

@DestroyerOfHouseplants

I am thinking about writing to my MP asking him to get Boris to resign. I've had enough of his lies, his people partying, everything. Has anyone else done this? Will it do any good?

Depends on your definition of good.

If you celebrate the public health housing and homelessness emergency, well then yes - asking for Rishi Sunak to replace Boris (because that's who the 1922 committee want) would be good. He did, afterall, do very well with further inflating the unsustainable house price bubble. If you dislike would be FTB and growing family upsizers (and the homeless), then Twelve Homes Sunak's your man.

Likewise if you support taking away £20 a week from struggling families and vulnerable individuals, whilst at the same time casually writing off billions of furlough fraud. Again, Rishi Silent But Deadly Sunak is just what you need.

@DestroyerOfHouseplants

I am thinking about writing to my MP asking him to get Boris to resign. I've had enough of his lies, his people partying, everything. Has anyone else done this? Will it do any good?

Why just Boris. Shouldn't every person that attended those parties resign. After all they all broke the rules

According to bojo the people want him to get on with the important stuff like Ukraine which is yet another lie as the people pretty much want him to resign. I can’t believe other people have had to fall on their swords some for fairly minor reasons and he is there roughing it out. He also said the other font ties were judging us on our Covid success he is in la la land they think the Uk is a total joke. Sake

Countries not font ties !!

It's so important that we all do this. Though mine is JRM so please keep the pressure on me to do so and provide the response to fellow MNetters. The only positive I can say is he does respond and so far it's actually quite a personalised response. Had lots of conversations with him when he has been canvassing. Personally I like the challenge discussing with an MP with radically differing views, keeps it interesting!

Thankfully I have a decent Labour MP but if I lived in a Tory seat I'd be sending emails.

I bet half the MPs you are writing too also attended those parties

I loathe my local MP, but I don't think she is the type to have attended parties in lockdown.

There is no chance that Boris will resign. Zero.

What you SHOULD be writing to your MP about is demanding that they send a letter calling for a vote of no confidence. Only a deranged donkey could have confidence in Boris Johnson as the best leader if the country now. Less than 54 letters have been sent, out of 359 Conservative MPs. It’s pathetic and negligent: they are not representing the views of their constituents. This isn’t just about Boris Johnson, it’s about wherher the MPs work for us, or work for him.

Oh yeah he purged all the good ones and now we have a bunch of yes men loyalists where we should have representation.

And so democracy dies.

I agree that Boris is a lying cheating twonk
But if he goes who would we get???
😱

@PlanetNormal

Writing to mine would be completely pointless. I live in one of the safest Tory seats in the Midlands, and MP’s majority is several times bigger than Boris’s in Uxbridge. He knows his seat will always be safe whoever is leader so he doesn’t have to worry about Johnson’s unpopularity. He is an ambitious junior minister with his eyes on a seat in the cabinet so he is never going to rock the boat.

What a shit political system we have in this country.

Whether he will do anything or not is not the point. The point is that he can't ignore how strongly people feel about this issue. But he'll never know if people like you just don't bother to tell him!

His job, after all, is to represent all his constituents.

You’ll get a standard reply, ready prepared (couple of versions to cover different points of view) probably pp’d by an assistant.

I would, but I live in a safe Labour seat!

I’ve done this, more than once. Never had a reply.

I’ve done this previously (after Cummings). I won’t bother this time, they were incredibly vocal in support then and have been on tv this time supporting. So I’m not bothering.

Mines a complete Tory “yes” man. His voting record is a horror of right wing nastiness. I’m tempted to write but I can’t see him not supporting BJ.

@PlanetNormal

Writing to mine would be completely pointless. I live in one of the safest Tory seats in the Midlands, and MP’s majority is several times bigger than Boris’s in Uxbridge. He knows his seat will always be safe whoever is leader so he doesn’t have to worry about Johnson’s unpopularity. He is an ambitious junior minister with his eyes on a seat in the cabinet so he is never going to rock the boat.

What a shit political system we have in this country.

Please still write!

However safe the seat is, the MP would still rather be in government than in opposition. MPs need to know that 1) we judge them personally if they support Boris and 2) they cannot hold onto power even if they keep their seats.

I’ve written.

@PurpleDaisies

If nothing else, it’s quite cathartic to send an email laying out everything that is wrong with politics at the moment.

You may have just used up the internet!!

Writing to mine is like spitting on the Towering Inferno.

By the time I get a reply, Bj's baby girl could have her own kids

[quote DestroyerOfHouseplants]@CurlyhairedAssassin I think for Boris, the pen is mightier than the sword. He's the type of snobbish, arrogant, intellectual who thinks that people who march are just mobs, the hoi polloi, the great unwashed.[/quote]
Neither will impact him
I wouldn’t bother
In any event… I don’t want him to resign!

I wrote to our MP on Monday night stating that I felt his performance was appalling and he was not a fit leader. Sadly she's in the Cabinet and knows I'm a card carrying Labour member so won't agree

It’s worth reminding your (Tory) MP that they represent the wishes of the constituents and it is the constituents who decide the outcome of the ballot box!