Tory rebels will challenge Cameron by Christmas, claims Dorries

May 5, 2012 9:56 pm

There’s a highly provocative article in the Mail on Sunday by Nadine Dorries. The headline is:

“Be warned: Party bosses only need 46 signatures to ditch leader. They’ll have them by Christmas.”

This is an escalation, even compared to her previous attacks.

  • treborc1

    Not a hope in hell

    • MonkeyBot5000

       I have to agree.

      As much as I’d enjoy watching the Tories tear each other apart, you have to take in to account the fact that Dorries is a loon.

  • AlanGiles

    Ms Dorries is the new Edwina Curry – she will say anything for another chance to pop up on radio and TV to preen and promote herself.

    I am afraid my views on this is the same as that of the Ken Livingstone saga. Cameron hasn’t suddenly changed – he is more or less the same in 2012 as he was when they elected him in 2005, so if he is unacceptable today, why wasn’t she getting on her soapbox back then?

    I cannot abide Cameron, but the knives are out now, yet we all know IF (a very big if) things do improve for his party by 2015 it will be good old Dave, just as all those who are now lining up to give KL a thrashing would have been saying good old Ken today if he had won.

    As for Ms Dorries – no doubt it will soon be “Have I Got News For You” and writing “novels” next, or perhaps prancing round on Strictly Come Dancing when her constituengts kick her out.

    • postageincluded

      Suggestions of a Dorries-Cameron link to match the Curry-Major one are best not mentioned. Especially just after breakfast.

  • AlanGiles

    Perhaps Dorries wpuld like mone of the old leaders back?

    How about Duncan-Twit: even the Sunday Express find him beyond the pale – and rightly so:

    http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/318425/Tory-sneers-at-disabled

  • Brumanuensis

    Oh come on. Dorries has become another Charles Clarke or Barry Sheerman, whose constant willingness to attach themselves to any anti-Brown band-wagon eventually ended up discrediting them in the eyes of their colleagues. They became ‘the usual suspects’ and were ignored as a result.     

  • Spotify

    It’s such a pity that these anti-Cameron rants originate with Dorries. If they were coming from one or more senior and sane Conservative MPs they might actually mean something. The funny thing is that the Tories seem to think that their unpopularity can be explained by the fact that Cameron is too “mild” or “liberal” and that a more “full blooded” Conservatism, i.e., more cuts to welfare spending etc., would get both them and the economy out of the doldrums! Brother, are they on a hiding to nothing if they go down that road.

    • Mike Murray

      Exactly:  the Coalition of the Clueless’s strategy seems to be ‘Steady as she goes –Straight towards the iceberg.’

      But my own feeling is that many Tory backbenchers are happy to have Dorries as a stalking horse — saying in public what they are saying in private and would say publicly were it not for fear of having the Tory Whip withdrawn.

  • MattWales

    File under mentalist says mental stuff.

    This may actually have the effect of rallying support around Cameron.

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