Posted on 09/05/2019 3:41:36 AM PDT by Cronos
SENIOR Cabinet ministers yesterday confronted Boris Johnson to call on him to overturn his expulsion of 21 rebel Conservative MPs as the insurrection against the PM grew.
No Deal chief Michael Gove lead the charge from a series of senior figures during a tense meeting of the Cabinet in No10 yesterday
Pleading for Boris to relent on his tough punishment, they insisted he offer the expelled rebels “a way back” so they can rejoin the Parliamentary party.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock also questioned the controversial decision during the tense Cabinet meeting, and asked the PM to spell out how the rebels could “find redemption”.
Northern Ireland Secretary and ex-chief whip Julian Smith, Culture Secretary Nicky Morgan and Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd also spoke out.
One Cabinet minister told The Sun: “We have to offer them a way back, as we must remain a broad church”.
A No10 source said the PM told the Cabinet ministers he “has sympathy” for their argument but held firm, insisting the rebels would “not support our manifesto” in a snap general election.
But in a sign of the growing pressure, ex-deputy PM Damien Green published an open letter on behalf of the Tory ‘One Nation’ group which includes a number of Cabinet members demanding the whip be restored to the Tory rebels.
...In more trouble for the PM, he was challenged by several Tory MPs as he addressed a packed meeting of the 1922 Committee yesterday afternoon.
Leave backer Tim Loughton told the PM that “purges never ended well in Roman times” and he should “get them back in”.
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“Let your ‘No’ mean ‘No.”
To ask what’s being asked is to admit defeat. It’s a sign of desperation.
This isn’t an anti-Brexit story and none of the 21 MPs are globalists.
No. If you don’t like it, you can bring down the government in which case we’ll have a general election.
Brits are in a parliamentary mess that rivals any soap opera.
Add to that the mess in the Royal Family over Preach and Leach.
The Queen must feel pretty sad over the state of affairs.
Preach and Leach are not even going to Balmoral to visit because Archie is too young..ahem...
I call them rebel MPs. They disagreed with the concept of no-deal but not with the concept of Brexit itself.
They could just be spineless RINOs without any reigning principle. We have seen a lot of that going over on our side of the pond. I don’t think it is a disease native to the North American Hemisphere.
Your a Globalist and a EU pawn spreading there BS left wing media lies here .
They are Globalists .
Trump has nailed them.
Who are you trying to fool here ?
Globalist EU pawn spins the facts .
The poster been outed as a foreign EU GLOBALIST astroturfer here .
How convenient for globalists....
The Trump unmaskings continue...
Perhaps, however, the rebellion of the 21 doesn’t change that no-deal Brexit is 90% sure of happening. Brexit of some sort is nearly 100% sure of happening.
Time is running out. Imho if the bill is stuck in the House of Lords after Friday evening, then the chances of no-deal go up to 95%.
Come 15 October, Boris just needs to stall.
Here’s hoping that England-Wales leave with a no-deal Oct 31. It looks increasingly likely. I am so looking forward to it.
The EU has offered only an unacceptable short term deal.
The EU refuses to negotiate further.
A hard exit is unavoidable.
Well, they could go full-bore civil war..
Oh...wait....they don’t have any guns...or knives.
Maybe pitchforks and tar??
What this thread needs is more Billy Idol.
These 21 traitors need to go and stay gone.
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