Posted on 09/03/2019 5:59:58 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Under-pressure UK PM Boris Johnson has today lost his parliamentary majority after Conservative MP Phillip Lee defected to the pro-EU Liberal Democrats.
It comes at a critical time for the ruling Tories, who could face an emergency motion to take a no-deal Brexit off the table on Wednesday.
Lee said that after a great deal of thought he had decided to leave the Conservatives amid concern over its direction since the Brexit vote.
"Sadly, the Brexit process has helped to transform this once great Party into something more akin to a narrow faction, where an individual's 'conservatism' is measured by how recklessly one wishes to leave the European Union," Dr Lee wrote.
"Perhaps, most disappointingly, it has increasingly become infected with the twin diseases of populism and English nationalism."
Four years ago, Johnson's Conservative Party had a working majority of 12 seats. After the Brexit referendum, new PM Theresa May went back to the country. Her party remained the biggest in parliament but lost its majority and had to form a government by going into a supply and confidence agreement with the Democratic Unionist Party. But that majority has been chipped away at by defections and lost by-elections.
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These people are role models for our own GOP. They see love of country as a disease.
Time for SUPER NIGEL!!! Snap elections, but first vote for a NoBrexit to see you the frauds are.
This is all calculated by Boris. He is setting them all up to take them all down and win big, big, big in the next election.
A Bernie Jet and a Bernie summer cottage?
The treachery will probably be renumerative to him or his offspring.
I don’t know the UK equivalent to K Street. The City will be grateful.
Wonder how much they paid him? <<
The standard “RINO” fee I assume..,
There is no recklessness, only an intolerable EU offer on the table, which the EU has refused to try to improve.
What do they have on Dr. Lee?
What the point of elections if the elites just do what they want anyway?
Never Trumpers British style.
English nationalism is not a disease.
..and this cino MP will shortly be escorted out of office.
I figure they had something on him.
Must be on an Epstein guest list.
“We know what you did. . “
20 May: TWEET: Nigel Farage (leader of Brexit Party)
Sadly some remainers have become radicalised, to the extent that normal campaigning is becoming impossible.
For a civilised democracy to work you need the losers consent, politicians not accepting the referendum result have led us to this.
20 May 2019
https://twitter.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1130453547819180033
same problem since the 2016 US presidential election.
I am black pilled.
We have no say, and we probably never had.
The elites do what they want...
Exactly.
Monkey Wrenchers to the bitter end.
They will burn the world down to get their way.
Their politicians are just as asinine and spineless as ours.
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