DAN WOOTTON: Grassroot Tories are now rising up to protest the coup against Boris Johnson. After the anti-democratic Westminster plot to destroy him, party members MUST be allowed a vote on whether he should stay on as PM
While you won’t hear about it on the BBC or Sly News, something truly extraordinary is currently happening within the Conservatives.
The grassroots of the party are rising up to express their immense displeasure at the brutal Westminster coup against Boris Johnson – a transformative and popular Prime Minister elected in a landslide election less than three years ago that enabled him to deliver Brexit, before being brought down following an unrelenting MSM campaign.
In a protest that is plunging the leadership contest between Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak into crisis, 10,000 fully paid-up members – that’s five per cent of the entire party so far – have signed a petition demanding they be given a chance to vote on whether Boris should stay as Prime Minister.
And the revolt is growing today, with Boris ally and major Tory donor Lord Cruddas promising to pump his money, not into the party coffers, but rather the campaign to save BoJo.
‘The grassroots of the party are rising up to express their immense displeasure at the brutal Westminster coup against Boris Johnson (pictured)’
The chances of the so-called Boris ballot campaign succeeding remain remote but, if members are denied the chance to vote on whether Boris should have been dumped, the damage to the Tories could last for a generation.
This entire mess was so achingly predictable.
I have been warning of the consequences of giving into the anti-Boris/Brexit despising MSM all year, both in this column and on my nightly GB News show, and, sure enough, buyer’s remorse is now sweeping through Tory MPs, with many of the weasels who wielded the knife admitting they’re made a massive mistake.
The Sunday Times reported at the weekend how red wall backbenchers have been ‘inundated’ with ‘furious’ emails from voters, with one Conservative telling the newspaper: ‘I think we may have f***ed up.’
No sugar, Sherlock!
Additionally, a junior minister who quit is reported to have said during drinks at Parliament following the blue-on-blue attacks of Truss vs Sunak: ‘Is it too late to withdraw my resignation letter?’
A female MP added: ‘Shouldn’t we just bring back Boris?’
‘The revolt is growing today, with Boris ally and major Tory donor Lord Cruddas (pictured) promising to pump his money, not into the party coffers, but rather the campaign to save BoJo’
Believe me, there was no such sentiment after the resignation of Theresa May.
It’s been abundantly obvious for months that the only victor in Tory MPs undermining a democratic landslide vote to depose a historic PM after less than three years is the coalition of hell of Labour, the Lib Dems, the SNPs and the Greens being plotted by Keir Starmer his puppet master Tony Blair.
Co-organiser of the campaign for a Boris ballot David Campbell Bannerman, a former Tory MEP, told me today they intend to keep the pressure on Conservative high command.
He said: ‘We have not yet heard back from the party on a Boris ballot, so we are about to launch heavyweight legal action through Lord Cruddas to protect members’ interests. We have MPs now coming on board to back the ballot, and we will be following up directly with members and associations shortly. We think a separate yes/no Boris ballot – whether to accept his resignation or not – is fair, democratic and doable. We are seeking to avoid spoiled ballots and high loss of members if a Boris ballot is not held.’
A spokesman for Boris remained coy about the campaign today, telling reporters: ‘You heard the Prime Minister say his farewell address to Parliament. He gave advice for his successor. Beyond that, obviously I can’t comment on what the Prime Minister may choose to do once he ceases to be Prime Minister.’
Some aides believe Boris, who will be flush with cash within a few months out of Number 10, could start plotting a return to frontline politics by next year.
Of course, from the moment Boris was booted, Labour and its MSM allies admitted what their eight-month campaign of destruction against him had really been about: They KNEW he was the only Tory guaranteed to beat them at the next election.
That is the reason why the little-reported Privileges Committee probe into the Prime Minister – led by Labour’s hunter-in-chief Harriet Harman – is now nothing short of a Westminster plot to finish him off once and for all.
The seven MPs on the committee have decided that Boris could be found in contempt and suspended from Parliament even if they find he unintentionally misled Parliament, something he has already apologised for.
If that suspension lasts for more than ten days, Boris could face a recall election in his constituency.
The entire thing stinks to me as a total stitch up.
No wonder a Boris ally has described the moving of the goalposts as a ‘witch hunt against one of the most successful politicians of our time’.
Just like with Donald Trump in the US, the political establishment wants to do everything possible to end BoJo’s political career once and for all and leave him a ‘disgraced’ Prime Minister with no chance of a comeback.
Of course, it will fail in the end because the public is now wise to these sorts of nefarious inquiries where the outcome is so obviously pre-determined.
The irony of the blob turning a blind eye to Tony Blair leading the UK into an illegal war while putting all their energies into bringing down Boris Johnson largely over parties he didn’t attend and the dodgy behaviour of minor league MPs is off the scale.
Even the first victim of the alleged MP bum groper Chris Pincher expressed outrage that Boris paid for the scandal with his job.
As he wrote in the Daily Mail today: ‘The most successful Tory Prime Minister Britain has seen in 30 years was being forced out of office over a scandal that was none of his doing.
‘A group of ambitious Cabinet ministers and their acolytes had taken it upon themselves to bring him down, aided and abetted by a broadcast media that appeared bent on turning petty peccadilloes into earth-shattering scandals.’
So, even though I believe Liz Truss would make an excellent leader, I am convinced Conservative members must be allowed to vote on whether the Prime Minister’s ouster was the wrong decision in a so-called Boris ballot.
If political parties believe they are at the behest of Westminster insiders and the toxic mainstream broadcast media, rather than the people, then our very system of democracy is under threat.
The Tories ignore thousands of furious members at their peril.
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