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It looks like Theresa May is about to face a vote of no confidence due to her betraying the British people with not carrying through with Brexit. This is going to be good. The vote is tommorow.
https://www.ft.com/content/4747d538-fdda-11e8-aebf-99e208d3e521

Theresa May is facing a dramatic vote of confidence in her leadership on Wednesday evening, after Eurosceptic MPs launched a coup attempt against the prime minister to try to seize control of the final stages of Brexit. Tory rebels have secured the 48 names needed to trigger a confidence vote and Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the backbench 1922 committee, has announced it will take place between 6pm-10pm on Wednesday. Mrs May is expected to fight for her job, but support has been draining away from the prime minister since Monday when she abandoned a planned vote in the House of Commons on her Brexit plan. If Mrs May fails to secure 158 votes - a majority of Tory MPs - she will be forced to stand down and a full Tory leadership contest would take place. Ministers loyal to the prime minister were dismayed at the prospect of a leadership challenged on Tuesday night. “If this happened it would be an act of irresponsibility, foolishness and national vandalism,” said one minister. Another minister said: “I’m certain she would fight.” Mrs May faces MPs at question time at 12pm on Wednesday and had been expected to chair a scheduled cabinet meeting where ministers will address planning for a no deal exit — an outcome made more likely by the continuing parliamentary impasse over a deal. If Mrs May lost a vote of confidence or decided to resign it would plunge the party into a formal leadership contest; there is no clear frontrunner to replace her and any contest would be highly divisive and could take weeks to play out. One cabinet minister said: “To use up the time we have left [before Brexit on March 29 2019] with this would be deeply irresponsible.” Brexit: can Theresa May rescue the deal? Mrs May toured EU capitals on Tuesday trying to win “assurances” that any use of the Irish backstop in Britain’s withdrawal treaty would be temporary, but Eurosceptic Tory MPs believe she now needs to take a different approach. She is expected to travel to Dublin on Wednesday to meet Irish prime minister Leo Varadkar, ahead of a two-day European Council meeting starting on Thursday. Mrs May claimed after a whistle-stop tour of European capitals to be “just at the start” of a renegotiation of her deal, while EU leaders insisted that there was no scope for fundamental changes. Mrs May postponed a crunch Commons vote on her deal on Monday at the last minute in the face of an impending defeat; at that moment the mood among Tory MPs towards the prime minister darkened considerably. In a sign of the growing danger to Mrs May, former cabinet minister Owen Paterson submitted a letter claiming that the prime minister had treated Brexit “miserably” and that she saw it as “a problem to be solved rather than an opportunity to be grasped”. Mr Patterson added in an interview on the BBC: “I’m just exasperated. She’s got completely stuck on this backstop.” He said that the Conservative party could oust Mrs May and elect a new leader by “mid-January”. Martin Vickers, a Tory Brexiter, said: “She is in danger. I personally know of two letters which went in last night.” Brexiters believe a new prime minister is needed to oversee Britain’s exit from the EU and are willing to see Britain leave without a formal deal on March 29. Ben Bradley, a Tory MP said that if a confidence vote was triggered then the party should “crack on, elect a new leader and deliver the Brexit that people voted for.” But a new Eurosceptic Tory prime minister would face exactly the same parliamentary arithmetic as Mrs May and the prospect of inheriting a party at war with itself over Europe. The House of Commons is a primarily pro-European legislature with many MPs warning they would attempt to block a no deal exit.
 
Torys gonna tory I suppose , but this internal squabble is not the 'no confidence' thing they ought to be worrying about the suspicion is that a Labour lead Parliamentary motion of no confidence backed by the Liberals and the various nationalists is ready and waiting for who ever's in charge of the torys .
 
What a waste of 2 and a half years she’s been.

no one else wanted to take responsibility for brexit - she was the only one and tried to go thru with it

all of the men who cooked brexit up, resigned from their position:
Brexit Secretary David Davis and Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson resign
Nigel Farage announced his resignation as leader of UKIP
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn lost a vote of confidence among his parliamentary party
Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab, his Cabinet colleague Esther McVey and several junior ministers resigned their posts

so if anyone, blame politicians that started this mess in the first place and didnt/couldnt go thru with it

of course theresa may has problems trying to push brexit, considering most people who voted for brexit either changed their mind or dont know how they would vote now - couple that with lack of political support and you've got a shit show

UK obviously isnt ready to leave EU and everyone underestimated how huge of an undertaking that would be and all of the consequences involved
 
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What a waste of 2 and a half years she’s been.

Don't blame her blame her party .


Who is she going to replace on the list of the top 10 "Greatest Britons of All-Time"? This is how it was selected as chosen by the people of Great Britain in the BBC's 2002 poll.

01. Winston Churchill
02. Isambard Kingdom Brunel
03. Diana, Princess of Wales
04. Charles Darwin
05. William Shakespeare
06. Sir Isaac Newton
07. Elizabeth I
08. John Lennon
09. Horatio Nelson
10. Oliver Cromwell


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01. Sir Isaac Newton
02. Charles Darwin
03. Michael Faraday
04. James Clerk Maxwell
05. Edward Jenner
06. Alexander Fleming
07. Joseph Lister
08. James Watt
09. Alan Turing
10. Sir Ridley Scott


And with that, Britain gave humanity:

* Modern Science
* Evolutionary Biology
* Electromagnetism
* Vaccines (Smallpox)
* Antibiotics (Penicillin)
* Antiseptic Surgery
* Steam Engine (Huge Improvement)
* Computer Science
* Alien and Blade Runner
 
LMAO @ anyone in this thread blaming TM as opposed to having the brains to realise brexit was always going to be an unworkable shitfest no matter who was in charge.
 
Maybot has spent the last 2 years sabotaging and delaying the whole process.
She even went behind the back of her own cabinet and appointed Brexit secretaries , hence various resignations.
Its taken her 2 years to sign us to a deal that chains us to the EU in every conceivable way , instead of getting a Canada ++ deal .

less than 24 hours before her deal would be voted on , she pulled the plug on the vote because she knew she would lose..
 
Who is she going to replace on the list of the top 10 "Greatest Britons of All-Time"? This is how it was selected as chosen by the people of Great Britain in the BBC's 2002 poll.

01. Winston Churchill
02. Isambard Kingdom Brunel
03. Diana, Princess of Wales
04. Charles Darwin
05. William Shakespeare
06. Sir Isaac Newton
07. Elizabeth I
08. John Lennon
09. Horatio Nelson
10. Oliver Cromwell

Well I'd rate her above the patron saint of the emotionally incontinent at 03. , but them I wouldn't have put 'Ladydiprincessofhearts' near the top 10 million greatest Britons so that's not saying to much .
 
Well I'd rate her above the patron saint of the emotionally incontinent at 03. , but them I wouldn't have put 'Ladydiprincessofhearts' near the top 10 million greatest Britons so that's not saying to much .

Ya why is Diana on a list with the some of the greatest minds and leaders in world history? Because she found the right guy to marry? And even then could not keep him happy,?
 
LMAO @ anyone in this thread blaming TM as opposed to having the brains to realise brexit was always going to be an unworkable shitfest no matter who was in charge.

An unworkable shitfest made worse by the fact that the dullard cunt called a snap election (that no one wanted, or asked for) during one of the most politically divisive times in recent memory, ruining a Tory majority in the process and ruining any chance of getting a somewhat united front heading into Brexit negotiations. Complete naivety and ludicrous misunderstanding of why labour strongholds voted for Brexit, not realising those same areas would never, ever vote Tory.

She relied on a bribe to the DUP to even govern, making her beholden to their demands too, who she also later alienated over Brexit.
 
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Maybot has spent the last 2 years sabotaging and delaying the whole process.
She even went behind the back of her own cabinet and appointed Brexit secretaries , hence various resignations.
Its taken her 2 years to sign us to a deal that chains us to the EU in every conceivable way , instead of getting a Canada ++ deal .

less than 24 hours before her deal would be voted on , she pulled the plug on the vote because she knew she would lose..

ok, where are the largest proponents of brexit now (farange, johnson, corbyn)? whats their role in all of this ? they riled up the general populace on false claims and got what they wanted (vote to leave EU) and then faded into obscurity without providing any of the solutions as to how to actually go thru with it (only shifting the blame to others)

blaming it all on theresa may is ludicrous - brits got no one else to blame but themselves

enjoy this shitshow of your own making

of course EU isnt going to bend over on UK demands - they're protecting their own interests, and UK has used up all of its good will from decades of complaining about EU and its politics (UK whined about most EU decisions for the better part of last 10 years, always being at odds with France/Germany)
 
An unworkable shitfest made worse by the fact that the dullard cunt called a snap election (that no one wanted, or asked for) during one of the most politically divisive times in recent memory, ruining a Tory majority in the process and ruining any chance of getting a somewhat united front heading into Brexit negotiations. Complete naivety and ludicrous misunderstanding of why labour strongholds voted for Brexit, not realising those same areas would never, ever vote Tory.

She relied on a bribe to the DUP to even govern, making her beholden to their demands too, who she also later alienated over Brexit.

Every reputable politician, business leader, industry association, our allies and economists said that brexit was a bad idea and would lead to chaos.

And here we are.

The sheer arrogance of leave voters astonishes me.
 
Who is she going to replace on the list of the top 10 "Greatest Britons of All-Time"? This is how it was selected as chosen by the people of Great Britain in the BBC's 2002 poll.

01. Winston Churchill
02. Isambard Kingdom Brunel
03. Diana, Princess of Wales
04. Charles Darwin
05. William Shakespeare
06. Sir Isaac Newton
07. Elizabeth I
08. John Lennon
09. Horatio Nelson
10. Oliver Cromwell


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01. Sir Isaac Newton
02. Charles Darwin
03. Michael Faraday
04. James Clerk Maxwell
05. Edward Jenner
06. Alexander Fleming
07. Joseph Lister
08. James Watt
09. Alan Turing
10. Sir Ridley Scott


And with that, Britain gave humanity:

* Modern Science
* Evolutionary Biology
* Electromagnetism
* Vaccines (Smallpox)
* Antibiotics (Penicillin)
* Antiseptic Surgery
* Steam Engine (Huge Improvement)
* Computer Science
* Alien and Blade Runner

She's going to grab the sceptre and call upon the power of Mayskull

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Every reputable politician, business leader, industry association, our allies and economists said that brexit was a bad idea and would lead to chaos.

And here we are.

The sheer arrogance of leave voters astonishes me.

But that doesn't change the fact that May, who got leadership because of Brexit, has literally made it worse in every conceivable way since "taking power". That's undeniable and something she even apologised for. She was caught with her trousers down listening to two know nothing advisers rather than her own party, a complete and utter lack of leadership.

Brexit may have been the wrong choice, but do you think Cameron or Corbyn would have made SUCH a mess with it? I honestly don't think so.

People in this thread are trying to make out it's the party that has the problem and May's just the unlucky twat in the middle, the problems with the party are because of May's disastrous leadership (at a time when they're dealing with the fallout from being split over Brexit ofc). She was handed a poison chalice, I won't argue that, but she didn't just down the fucker, she asked for more.
 
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What a waste of 2 and a half years she’s been.

Actually she's quite the patriot imo. Negotiated a deal she never wanted for the sake of the country and takes the blame now.

IMO Britain needs to go full hard Brexit and suffer all consequences included. If you guys decide in a couple of years that it was a bad decision, you are free to apply again.

My greatest fear is that Boris takes over, revokes Art. 50, invokes it again with two more years then on the clock and tries to get a "better" deal by taking the EU hostage.
 
TM really tried. She wasnt for brexit....neither was boris johnson until he saw a chance to become pm. Now the assholes who messed everything up hasthe nerve to shit on her
 
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