By Tony O’Reilly-
Threats from Conservative rebels planning a takeover of the powerful backbench committee that could force the prime minister from office are planning unethical tactics to achieve their mission.
Rivals of Johnson are planning to fully occupy seats in the 1922 Committee in order to plot his removal from office, but hope to do so by using dirty tricks to allow a new vote of no confidence in Johnson within 12 months. Tory rebels are hoping to seize all 18 positions that are up for grabs.
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The goal of mounting a dominant campaign to change the rules and seek to oust the prime confirms how low the party is prepared to go in order to try and boot the prime minister out after a disastrous double byelection loss and his plans to seek an extra term in office. Johnson is now viewed by many in his party as a liability, despite his interpretation of the last failed coup attempt to end the tenure of his premiership as a new mandate to continue his governance.
Steve Baker,(pictured0 who was largely instrumental in orchestrating Theresa May’s downfall is planning on leading the plot in ousting Boris Johnson by joining the backbench group that sets the rules for leadership contests . He wants to stand in the 1922 committee elections and eventually achieve his goal of ending Boris Johnson’s political career.
Under the current rules, the Prime Minister is safe from another leadership challenge for a year after narrowly surviving a vote on June 6, but frustrated rebels are apparently “getting ruthlessly organised” in their bid to get Johnson out.
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Among those considering a run for 1922 Committee seats are five Tory MPs who have been critical of Johnson’s handling of the Partygate scandal.
The privileges committee investigation into whether Johnson misled parliament over Partygate is hoped by Johnson’s enemies to be the final trigger for the downfall of the prime minister, the Guardian reports.
Using immoral means to try and achieve removing the prime minister will be one of the party’s biggest problems since it will expose its very unprincipled mode of operation which could sink the party further down the drain. The tories are becoming to comfortable with changing or breaking rules, an act they can’t justify even to get rid of a leader they may no longer want.
The idea of bending the rules will only show the conservative party to be going down a dark path of misconduct in which the only principle for them is power and abuse of power- one which corrupts absolutely, and can only produce a leader whose position is birthed from a corrupt process he or she subscribed to.
Rebels hoping to force the prime minister out who was elected by a large majority and kept in by a large majority when the no confident vote took place, can at best use the number game through party politics to ironically show the party’s number to be up if they go down that road.
Yes, Johnson’s reputation among the British public is rapidly declining, though the political magician has always found a way to weather bad storms in his career. The problem with this storm is that it is growing wild by the day.
Thursday’s disastrous byelection results in Wakefield and Tiverton and Honiton showed how quickly the public has lost faith in this prime minister, and how likely the conservative party will lose the next major election that takes place.
The ruling party’s real best option is to hope Johnson steps down on his own accord if the privilege committee rules that Johnson misled the party, or pray for Johnson and his team of supporters to wave a magic wand that comes up with fresh new smart policies that appeal to voters.
They can start by improving the country’s recently shamed Met Police which has been forced into special measures following a series of scandals, and transform the corrupt culture that has led to the hiring of some criminals into a force designed to keep the public safe.
With the UK defence spending projected to reach 2.3% of GDP this year due to UK defence industry investment and £1.3bn of extraordinary support for Ukraine, the British public also want to see the standard of living of its citizens rise significantly to match and surpass rising inflation.
UK inflation rose to a four-decade high in May from 9% to 9.1 %, after nation wide increases in the cost of everything from fuel and electricity.
Meanwhile, exam board A Q A staff expected to mark GCSE and A level exams, have voted to strike, complaining bitterly about their wage rates, but they are forced to endure unsatisfactory standards of living whilst the country spends a fortune supplying weapons for war. An effective government supporting an expensive war is expected to keep labour workers and valuable employees happy at the same time.
Partygate exposed a lack of responsibility at the highest level of government , but the real task facing the government today is that of showing responsibility in transforming the country right across the board.
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