Jedi wrote:Royal Gooner wrote:UFGN wrote:CORBYN CALLS VOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE
He won't win it.
We're leaving without a deal as the EU, being inflexible, will not renegotiate.
How does the vote of no confidence work? Will only conservatives vote on it? If so, why does Corbyn get to be the one to call it?
Any MP can do that but by convention it just isn't done unless the government has a big defeat on major policy. Corbyn just used a Point of Order to get in first (probably misuse of the custom, but Bercow would clearly allow it).
In reality, despite the huge loss, the confidence vote will be on party lines because the Tories are not going to give up the right for their party to govern and the DUP won't want to throw away all that money promised to Northern Ireland because it would hurt them in their election campaign. The government will win tomorrow, it's just by how many is the question (probably by between 1-10).