Thread: FAO Conservative Parliamentary Party. The membership aren’t thick or out of touch. YOU gave us the two people who you thought were the best of the bunch. We were forced to make a choice between the two and we knew what we were doing. We preferred Truss’s economic plan as being the one most close to true Conservative principles. It was debated at length and we rejected Sunak’s commitment to the failing orthodoxy

There is the stomach-churning possibility that whilst publicly claiming not to be in agreement, May will in fact make amendments to the deal to satisfy Corbyn both of them hiding behind the cover of a rigged ‘indicative’ votes process which provides justification for amended deal And the 1922 Exec just allowed this possibility by their appalling failure to act. I’m so sick of his godforsaken shower.

Why do I think @SteveBakerHW would make a damn good Prime Minister? Below, some selected quotes from his recent discussion with @bbcnickrobinson . In my view a hugely talented, deep-thinker. Passionate about politics putting people in the driving seat and making lives better. “I trust ordinary British people, they work hard, they care for one another and are capable of making their own decisions. We are condescending to them all together too often - ignoring the votes of ordinary people is to trespass their rights as individuals.”

I have poured every spare cent of emotional energy into being a Cllr in the last 4 years which has included literal tears and sweat (albeit not blood) on many many occasions. It was nice to be told tonight that I deserved to be re-elected and I’d done a good job....it was depressing to hear that the same person would not vote for me, neither would his wife, nor his son. He said although he voted Remain, he fully accepted the referendum result and he is so disgusted at the arrogance of Westminster politicians who have done everything to override...

A lot of people seem to be (deliberately?) missing the point about Dominic Grieve a) it’s not about him having a different point of view, it is that he stood on a manifesto promising to leave the CU and SM yet has done everything to support a position that it entirely to the... contrary b) one of the important checks and balances in a FTPT system is your local association who selects you- after all they spend their time keeping you in place and are in tune with local feeling c) this fashion for saying “we are broad church” needs to be carefully analysed

@real_NoahLewis @SteveBakerHW Because she wrote up and negotiated her withdrawal proposals (poss with Merkel) behind the backs of her DexEU ministers of state. She bumped her Cabinet into agreeing them at Chequers by giving them 24 hours to read them and agree or resign. @real_NoahLewis @SteveBakerHW She had to do it that way because her cabinet, ministers and party wouldn’t have agreed to her version of Brexit had she properly included and consulted them - hence the consistent voting down of this Withdrawal Agreement

If Parliament and the establishment doesn’t get its act together and start better reflecting the result of the referendum, a significant section of the 17.4 million are likely to look to all sorts of ways for the system to be reformed and overhauled. Some of that will be positive and benign. However, there is a significant risk that other causes will be unwelcome, unhealthy and negatively disruptive. Parliament cannot ride roughshod over manifesto promises and a clear message that was delivered by an enormous vote.

THE GENERAL PUBLIC ARE NOT STUPID [thread] They know the establishment loathe the result of the referendum

It’s taking some people a long time to understand & come to terms with the fact that there is no middle ground or compromise with the EU. It always has been Leave or Remain. That’s why the UK-EU relationship was in tension, that why the topic is contentious, that’s why we had a referendum. That is why the only reasonable interpretation of the Leave vote is that people voted for no deal.