Boris Johnson loses Commons majority as Tory MP defects

Politico ^ | 9/3/19

[Meatspace]

LONDON — The governing Conservative party lost its majority today as one of its MPs defected to join the anti-Brexit Liberal Democrats.

Phillip Lee sat on the opposition benches on Tuesday as Prime Minister Boris Johnson stood to deliver a statement in the House of Commons. The move increases pressure on Johnson, whose majority was already looking shaky, but does not automatically trigger an election because that would require a separate vote.

[buckalfa]

So that MP was channeling his inner Juan McCain?

[JohnBrowdie]

“He shares our commitment to prevent a disastrous no-deal Brexit, and to stop Brexit altogether.”

tools get used.

[Red Badger]

TINO.................

[cotton1706]

Or Jim Jeffords!

[glorgau]

Someone went wobbly.

[Truth29]

And what was Phillip Lee offered for this betrayal? There are oceans of influence and money available to sellout the British people.

[Hieronymus]

I’m pretty sure that a substantial portion of the Tories went wobbly before I was born—and I’m almost 50.

If Boris can purge them, get an election called, and win, we will have witnessed a miracle.

[relee]

Does that make Boris the shortest PM in history?

[dp0622]

I hate to be the pessimist of the bunch but Boris is gonna get ####ed by more people.

And the British people will get ####ed the most in the end.

Kinda disgusted with that country at this point.

At least a lot of the powers that be.

[lee martell]

Confusing from an American perspective.
It looks like one step forward, followed by three steps backward. Perhaps this partially explains Theresa May’s situation.

[DoodleDawg]

Conservatives still hold 310 seats out of 650 in Parliament. How does losing one seat lose his majority? Johnson had a coalition before, he should still have it shouldn’t he?

[NormsRevenge]

‘RINOs’. They don’t respect borders.

Give em heck, Boris.

[NormsRevenge]

‘RINOs’. They don’t respect borders.

Give em heck, Boris.

[OttawaFreeper]

Weren’t they close to a hung Parliament at the time of the last election?

[Beagle8U]

Jumping Jim.

[SamAdams76]

We got them on both sides of the Atlantic, apparently.

[Magnum44]

The new world order is as alive and well in Great Britain as it is here in the US...

[Kevin C]

Apparently there are several vacancies.

[Ohioan]

One suspects the basic ongoing problem--there as here--are school systems that do not identify with the ongoing continuity of a nation, community or even family aspirations. The West has lost any sense of natural--as opposed to Leftist fantasy--purpose.

The lack of a sense of ongoing national purpose is poisoning all the foundations of heritage.

William Flax

America: Based On Experience & Reason

War On An American Future