What will Tories do if Theresa May refuses to say when she’ll quit as PM? Strike?
Hilarious: Conservatives used up all their “no confidence” options in supporting Mrs May. Now they want her to go but have no way of ejecting her.
The UK’s anti-trade union party might end up adopting trade union tactics to rid itself of its unwanted leader if all else fails.
Tories are holding an emergency meeting of the National Conservative Convention on June 15, when around 800 senior Tory activists will vote on a “no confidence” motion against Theresa May.
But the vote will be non-binding. The Conservative Party blew its chance to force Mrs May out when MPs supported her during party and Parliamentary “no confidence” votes in December 2018 and January this year.
So, if she refuses to be pushed out, what will they do?
It seems the only options left to them are those used by trade unions – tactics which Tories have loudly and consistently deplored.
Perhaps we’ll see them impose a “work to rule” protest in which ministers will only be in their offices from 9am until 5pm. That would be amusing, considering Parliament often sits until 10pm or later.
Maybe they’ll even go on strike. That would be very exciting, wouldn’t it?
The chairman of the Tory backbench 1922 committee, Sir Graham Brady, is already being described as a “shop steward” (see below). I wonder how he feels about that?
The whole fiasco highlights the hypocrisy of the Tory position – not simply in having supported Mrs May for the sake of holding onto power, which was the meaning of the December and January confidence votes.
It also shows the poverty of their argument against unions, now that union-style behaviour is all that is left to them.
Tory activists have confirmed the date for an unprecedented new no-confidence vote against Theresa May.
The ballot of around 800 activists will be held on Saturday 15 June, local chiefs have been told.
The vote will not be binding, but activists believe it will pile pressure on the Prime Minister to quit.
She is already meeting Sir Graham Brady, the shop steward for Tory MPs, today as pressure mounts for her to name a date for her departure.
The vote will be held at an emergency meeting of the National Conservative Convention, the forum for senior Conservative activists across the country.
It was triggered after more than 65 chairmen and women of local Tory associations signed a petition demanding the summit.
Source: Date CONFIRMED for Tory activists’ no confidence vote against Theresa May – Mirror Online
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If they did go on strike, there would probably be an increase in their work days – all that sleeping on the benches must get very tiring! Lol
They could always give us a General Election – but they’re frightened of that now that all their lies, their corruption, their dishonesty and their incompetence are laid bare for all to see.