Conservative backbencher Charles Walker appeared visibly outraged over the chaos in the House of Commons on Wednesday evening, following speculation the chief whip has resigned and allegations of ‘bullying’ during the vote on a possible fracking ban.
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Speaking to reporters on BBC News, the Tory MP said: ‘To all those people that put Liz Truss in number 10, I hope it was worth it to sit round the cabinet table’. He went on to say, ‘the damage they have done to our party is extraordinary’, admitting he was ‘livid’ and ‘furious’.
Labour MP says Tories were ‘bullied and manhandled’ during vote on fracking ban – live ► https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2022/oct/19/liz-truss-pmqs-jeremy-hunt-inflation-pensions-triple-lock-politics-live
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Labour MP says Tories were ‘bullied and manhandled’ during vote on fracking ban – live ► https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2022/oct/19/liz-truss-pmqs-jeremy-hunt-inflation-pensions-triple-lock-politics-live
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Charles walker is pretty dam cool
Wow, I don't thing I knew about this guy before. A Tory who actually deserves the description "Honourable member". Is he still there?
"The meek shall inherit the earth."
Or what is left of it.
The Uniparty is a DICTATORSHIP.
Expectations for a politician:
1/ Interest of the country
2/ Interest of the party
3/ Own interest
Tories:
1/ Own interest
2/ Interest of the party
3/ Interest of the country
If all senior tories were like him, party would still be afloat.
Given the last election results he was absolutely right.
If all senior tories were like him, party would still be afloat.
Given the last election results he was absolutely right.
Well then!
Quite suspicious of him to reference the Truss supporters have done to the party, instead of country.
I bet it really hits home now.
The Tories will be back. How can they not be? The system needs a choice to be offered to the voters once the other side eventually becomes a disgrace.
Looking at his hair…is that Michael Heseltine reincarnated…!!?
And yet where was this self-loathing in at least the last 10 years of the Tory debacle?
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Create an egalitarian professional political class
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and you unleash a global scrum for power at any cost,
devoid
of ability,
of love of country,
and of care for one's own people.
Which is why,
after the dismally "conservative" marxists labelled Tory,
we now have a Trotskyist Prime Minister,
and an even worse rabble f talentless "leaders".
As Sir Sheer Charmless is on record as saying,
Davos is more important to him
than Westminster.
They ALL get their instructions
from abroad,
as part of the global agenda.
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The right wing Tories including the Tories members did this and so is he ,,he backed jhonson all the time
Meanwhile new Labour cabinet looking like it's full of talent.
This guy , nail on the head ..
Ssid nothing when in power though, jog on
This guy nailed it, with comments about "talentless people" doing things for their personal interest instead of the national interest.
This is EXACTLY what is wrong with most of what we see with politics; politicians just looking out for themselves rather than the country they claim to love and serve.
"There is nothing as "X" as an Ex MP"
Now he gone
Bye bye culture wars warrior
I agree with talentless people but he is putting party first
And here we are, a year later, with a Labour landslide . . .
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha😅 ha 😊 ha ha🎉 ha ahah
Fresh after 2024 vote, I come back to this gem.
Liz Truss was the WORST PM we have ever had. So glad she lost her seat.
And then he gets driven back to his mansion and eats a big steak. This is an act people. These people only care about numero uno
I wonder if any Canadian Liberal MPs will have the balls to be as candid after Canada's next election.
Yes, and the damage the tories have done to the country is a disgrace. You will never be forgiven for Brexit and the Covid fiasco.
Are you listening to this Cameron ? So clear orf. You are not wanted .
"The damage they have done to our party is just extraordinary". Our party – not our country, eh? Who cares about the country as long as "our party" is ok. So glad they're finally gone.
This has to be the calmest angry man I've ever seen
There was I thinking he was commenting the general election.
"loyally, most of time" at least he's honest.
This guy is like mystic Meg after what happened 4th July🎉🎉
“I am livid.”
He said at the top of his lungs.
Welcome to the club, many of us felt this way for 15 years.
Well, he was proven right. The Truss mini budget was really the final nail in the coffin after Johnson.
Jackie Long: Former prime minister gone, Theresa May’s seat is gone, David Cameron’s seat gone. I mean, the level and the nature of this defeat is enormous, isn’t it?
Sir Charles Walker: It’s huge. I think it’s the greatest defeat the Conservative Party has ever suffered in its history. Now, I think we can come back from it, but that’s going to require a huge amount of discipline over the weeks, months and years ahead. I’m just not sure my party has the capacity to demonstrate discipline. (they don't have the capacity)
Come to rational Reform Uk
if you were interested in national interests and welfare of nation you wouldn't be a tory. Tory is the party of selfish greed.
In general Conservative party has only made society worse barring few issues concerning national security like Falkland war.
They have shown a complete inability to guage and serve the needs of the country, personal interests followed by party , with country interests a poor third.
No mandate to continue as things stand.
Come on guv, could be worse.
This is why they lost! A look back in July 2024!
Truss only lost because of Deform.
Her constituents are right wing nut jobs. Without Deform, she’d have romped it.
The results are scary. The country just got fed up with chaos, but it is lurching rightwards. 😱
I'm nearly 65 years old. Every Conservative government in my lifetime has collapsed under the strain of infighting, disunity and disloyalty. These people never learn. "If history doesn't repeat itself, what is the point of studying it?"
Charles Walker seems honest.