Thread by @Quincun36705461

We have cause to be grateful to #Sunak, yes grateful. For he has done what no one else, not #Boris' friends, allies or supporters, could.
He has finally woken the sleeping giant.

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#Sunak has been a very silly boy. Even after everything #Sunak did to him, #Boris was content to sit quietly in the backbenches as a loyal #Conservative. But tonight, there was a turning point, the letter to the Privileges Committee. Finally #Boris had had enough.

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The trigger was the Honours List, what #Boris might well have seen as closure: recognition of those who had been loyal to him and good servants to the nation. But all #Sunak could do was see #Boris in the light of his own behaviour and personality.

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So #Sunak decided that #Boris needed to be cast into outer political darkness. And #Sunak decided to wreak his spite on those #Boris had nominated, using weasel words and his proxy #Forsyth to carry out this despicable act.

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The weasel words and evident lies enraged #Boris as it did #Dorries & #Adams. #Sunak used the disconnect between the Fixed Term Parliament Act & the notice period MPs serve when being vetted for ennoblement, to allow a 'lapse'.

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MPs must relinquish their seats to take up a seat in the Lords and the set period of time for this did not fit with the disruption to the GE schedule as both #Boris & #Truss did not serve the full term - due to #Sunak.

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#Sunak must have known that #Forsyth had removed names from the list but sat on this knowledge. #Boris was trying to be helpful to him, to avoid by-elections, by the formality of renewing the vetting so the MPs didn't have to resign until a GE date was clear.

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#Sunak's attempt to finesse having backfired & his lies becoming evident through his own words, #Sunak then had 3 unnecessary by-elections to deal with as #Dorries, #Adams & #Boris then resigned.

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#Dorries & Adams had no alternative. Under Parliamentary rules MPs can't resign on a whim, yet to take up their seats in the Lords, they cannot remain in the Commons. Simples. This was what #Boris tried to avoid, as a loyal #Conservative.

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The next cut was the Kangaroo Court findings, where #Boris had been led to expect politburo levels of justice where he was to be found guilty of nothing and banned from Parliament for a period which meant he would have to resign his seat.

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Again this was following the rules. That was bad e
nough, but the news that #Sunak was going to thro him to the wolves, i.e. the Privileges Committee, even to the extent of collaborating with #Labour to see him permanently banned, was the final straw.

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This explains the letter #Boris' lawyers submitted to the Committee at midnight last night. Unusual yes?
His letter told the kangaroos to publish or 'be damned' promising further comments once they did.

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The continuing harassment by enemies in his own Party - #Sunak & co - & their allies - #Starmer & #Labour, to say nothing of the #blob, finally aroused his ire. #Sunak's obvious intent to enable the #blob to banish #Boris from the House for life, lit the fuse.

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#Sunak could have avoided this: #Boris was planning to play the 'white man' & hitherto showed no sign of the petty vindictiveness so characteristic of #Sunak. The little Chancellor has finally done something we could not do.

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#Sunak should watch "Tora, Tora, Tora"!

#Boris had good reason perhaps for sitting back and letting politics get on without him - new baby, new family, the need to pay the bills..... He had shown no sign of wanting to pick up political cudgels despite everything.

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So, when this is all over, perhaps #Sunak will realise that he had "awoken a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve."

#Boris is angry, very angry & #Sunak & others will rue the day. #Boris is now motivated.

"Hasta la vista, baby!"

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