Archery1969 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 14, 2023 10:37 pm
If I were Sunak, then I would call a meeting with all the Tory MPs and tell Braveman and all her supporters to cross the floor to join the opposition or resign their seats.
If there don’t then I would threaten them all with calling an early general election right on Xmas.
They can either ditch her and swear under oath support for Sunak or fuck off.
I wasn't interested in politics in 1995, but from what I recall, the Tory party weren't in the mess they are now when John Major made his put up or shut up speech. Sunak is too weak to do anything like that. I'm just baffled by Braverman preferring to be leader of the opposition than a minister in government.
She claims there was a written agreement between the two of them, I hope she's gonna publish it.
Despite you having been rejected by a majority of party members during the summer leadership contest and thus having no personal mandate to be prime minister, I agreed to support you because of the firm assurances you gave me on key policy priorities. These were, among other things:
- Reduce overall legal migration as set out in the 2019 manifesto through, inter alia, reforming the international students route and increasing salary thresholds on work visas
- Include specific "notwithstanding clauses" into new legislation to stop the boats, ie exclude the operation of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), Human Rights Act (HRA) and other international law that had thus far obstructed progress on this issue
- Deliver the Northern Ireland Protocol and Retained EU Law Bills in their then existing form and timetable
- Issue unequivocal statutory guidance to schools that protects biological sex, safeguards single sex spaces, and empowers parents to know what is being taught to their children.
This was a document with clear terms to which you agreed in October 2022 during your second leadership campaign. I trusted you. It is generally agreed that my support was a pivotal factor in winning the leadership contest and thus enabling you to become prime minister.
I suppose that explains why she felt she could say what she wants, do as she pleases, write newspaper articles without permission and stick two fingers up to Downing Street. Looks like she pushed her luck too far.