Tories vote for motion calling themselves “incompetent”

A brilliant spot from politics.co.uk, who report:

Welsh Conservatives voted to call their own party incompetent yesterday, after a “whipping mistake”.

Assembly members mistakenly voted with Labour and Plaid colleagues to back a motion calling the Westminster government “incompetent” for its handling of the West Coast main line.

“This was a whipping mistake and does not reflect the views of the Welsh Conservative group,” a spokesman said.

You might say they proved their own point by voting for it…

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