UK Conservatives to demand clear departure schedule from PM May

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

WORLD NEWS APRIL 24, 2019 / 12:33 PM / UPDATED 32 MINUTES AGO

UK Conservatives to demand clear departure schedule from PM May

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain’s Conservative Party will demand a clear timetable for Prime Minister Theresa May’s departure but will not change the rules governing leadership challenges, the chair of the party’s influential 1922 Committee said on Wednesday.

May survived a confidence vote in December and under the party’s rules cannot be challenged again for 12 months. But many of the party’s lawmakers and members have become increasingly frustrated over her handling of Brexit and have called for a way to force her out sooner.

The executive of the so-called 1922 Committee, which groups Conservative lawmakers, met on Tuesday and then again on Wednesday to discuss whether to change the leadership rules.

“We determined there should not be a rule change to remove the 12 month period of grace during which a second confidence vote cannot be held,” Graham Brady, the committee’s chair, told reporters after the meeting.

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[Turbineguy]

1. Yes, many of us would like to know exactly

the day and hour of our death.

[unblock]

2. so they want her gone even though they don't like any plan to make it happen,

because they want out of the eu even though they don't like any plan to make it happen.

got it.

[Salviati]

3. They're like a bunch of toddlers having a meltdown.

They don't know what they want, but it sure as hell isn't going to be anything that you can provide for them.

[T_i_B]

4. Let me put it this way

Many of them want Theresa May gone, but they don't have any halfway decent alternatives to take over from her.

Saner Tories like Phillip Hammond are not acceptable to the Tory rank and file, and the likes of Boris Johnson are not acceptable to anyone else.

Theresa May is one of the very worst prime ministers this country has ever had, but the alternatives to her as leader of the Conservative party are far worse. What a dreadful state of affairs for Britain!

[unblock]

5. and yet the people can't seem to kick the tories out, either.

not doubt may is inept, but at the same time, she's been given a task she really can't win. the basic goal of her tenure in office is to shoot the uk in the foot.

either she fails to accomplish it, or she succeeds.

talk about a lose-lose proposition.


the real hero is the person who can somehow engineer a second vote and then have brexit called off altogether. but there doesn't seem to be a path to such a sensible solution.

[Denzil_DC]

6. May is entirely responsible for framing Brexit as the impossibility it is.

Nobody forced her to insist that "ending freedom of movement" was front and centre of her strategy.

Nobody forced her to interpret "leaving the European Union" as meaning the hardest of hard Brexits.

Nobody forced her to install totally incompetent slugs as key players in her cabinet and hang onto them until they hit their own endstops.

Nobody forced her to isolate herself and spurn any attempts by other parties and those on the Remain side to seek some sort of acceptable and workable compromise.

Nobody forced her to call a snap election that eroded her already slim majority and contributed to the current deadlock.

She did all that, and the pitfalls that have arisen are a direct result of that, and were totally predictable.

As T_i_B touches on above, the main reason why May is surviving as Tory leader is the same reason she got the post in the first place. No one else really wants to take on the job in the current circumstances, and the alternatives to her are either too wishy-washy and relatively sane for the Tory headbangers or too barking right-wing to attract majority support.

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. Shouldn't a clear schedule for cleaning up Brexit come first?

At the moment, neither they nor May have a clue if anything will happen before Oct 31st, or when it might. Or what she'll try to do if nothing is settled when getting close to that date.