27 favourite reactions to Boris Johnson’s confidence vote
As you’ll no doubt know, Monday’s vote in the Parliamentary Conservative Party was a win for Boris Johnson – technically, at least.
NEW: Boris Johnson wins a vote of confidence, but boy the numbers are difficult for him: 211 to 148https://t.co/KkPrXlFWHt
— Chris Mason (@ChrisMasonBBC) June 6, 2022
To put it another way –
148 of his own Party MP’s want him out. 😮
Dead man walking! pic.twitter.com/bFtGN68MZn— Reece Dinsdale (@reece_dinsdale) June 6, 2022
Johnson gave an interview from Downing Street, ruling out a snap election.
PM Boris Johnson says he is “not interested in snap elections” after he survives Tory confidence votehttps://t.co/KGe6sVKK0F pic.twitter.com/QQSvURifbR
— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) June 6, 2022
We’re not sure Brenda from Bristol can relax just yet.
"I'm certainly not interested in snap elections"
Snap election late July, folks. Strap in.
— Sooz Kempner (@SoozUK) June 6, 2022
Tweeters cast their own votes.
1.
People having confidence. pic.twitter.com/ikhhoorTBD
— Richard Coles (@RevRichardColes) June 6, 2022
2.
40% of Conservative MPs don’t think Boris Johnson is fit to serve as your Prime Minister. These are the people who know him best. #NoConfidence
— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) June 6, 2022
3.
He still lied, broke the law, showed total disrespect for others sacrifices. This vote changes nothing… and that is exactly the problem.
— Deborah Meaden 🇺🇦 (@DeborahMeaden) June 6, 2022
4.
Remove the “payroll” vote – and look at the free vote from backbenchers. Almost 75% of all Tory MPs not dependent on his patronage voted against him. This is the end for Boris Johnson. The only question is how long the agony is prolonged. @RestIsPolitics
— Rory Stewart (@RoryStewartUK) June 6, 2022
5.
Maybe sending out Nadine Dorries to call the Conservative backbenchers a bunch of ambitious pricks wasn’t such a brilliant media strategy after all.
— Ash Sarkar (@AyoCaesar) June 6, 2022
6.
One again I think the nations only hope lie in finding the Zoltar machine that started this terrible nightmare and undoing Boris Johnson’s wish. pic.twitter.com/CsQgol6g9F
— Matthew Highton (@MattHighton) June 6, 2022
7.
Don't worry – I have enough confidence in me to make up for the 148 Tory MPs who don't have any.#NoConfidenceVote#BorisMustGo
— Parody Boris (@Parody_PM) June 6, 2022
8.
TORY MPs. Guarantee a Labour government by showing full confidence in a balloon full of custard. @TwopTwips
— sw11ssss (@Swissss) June 6, 2022
9.
Excited to hear Jacob Rees-Mogg explain that when you use imperial measurements, 148 is actually less than 117
— Liam Thorp (@LiamThorpECHO) June 6, 2022
10.
Imagine if you were on a plane and the pilot announced "we've had a vote over at air traffic control and 59% of them have confidence that I can land this thing!"
— Joe Wells (Neurodivergent Moments Podcast Out Now) (@joewellscomic) June 6, 2022
11.
Today is the anniversary of D-Day. 4400 allied soldiers dead on the first day but it ultimately culminated in the liberation of Europe.
80 years from now Boris's no-confidence vote, B-Day, will probably be referred to in the same hushed, reverential terms.
— THE SECRET TORY 🗽 (@secrettory12) June 6, 2022
12.
Even as we speak, Nadine Dorries is frantically Googling ‘is 148 more than 211’.
— Damien Owens (@OwensDamien) June 6, 2022
13.
Anyone now backing Johnson is either a useful idiot or an actual idiot or a member of his government which ticks boxes 1 and 2.
— Otto English (@Otto_English) June 6, 2022
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More than 2 in 5 Tory MPs have no confidence in @BorisJohnson. The Tory toaster is a bit slow, but he’ll be toast soon enough.
— Chris Bryant (@RhonddaBryant) June 6, 2022
