Boris Blunders in Expelling 21 Tory MPs

It comes as no surprise that Boris Johnson's no deal Brexit proposal was defeated in the British House of Commons yesterday.


But it comes as a very big surprise that Johnson saw fit to expel 21 Tory MPs who voted against said proposal. Among those Tory MPs included former Chancellor of The Exchequer Kenneth Clarke (who I once met at a dinner of the UK Parliamentary Beer Club), the outgoing Chancellor Phillip Hammond and Nicholas Soames, the grandson of Winston Churchill. When you couple that with the defection earlier in the day of Tory MP Phillip Lee to the Liberal Democrats as Johnson was speaking from the dispatch box, I cannot see how Johnson survives an impending general election. What is the upside in expelling these MPs from the 1922 Committee?


Now it's true some of these MPs such as Soames won't stand for re-election. But I don't think Johnson should count on those constituencies electing a nameless Tory MP in their place. I also wonder if the Lib Dems will somehow manage to recruit some of these Tory rebels to run under their banner. Combine this with disaffected Labour voters appalled by Corbyn's wobbling on Brexit and his tolerance of anti-Semitism within Labour, the Liberal Democrats could have a breakthrough as a firmly pro-EU party who will restore order.


But should there be a general election anytime soon I fear that Labour will be elected to a majority government with a critical mass of voters looking the other way at Corbyn's anti-Semitic behavior the way a critical mass of American voters looked the other way at Trump's racist behavior. If Corbyn moves into Number 10 Downing not only do I not believe Brexit will be fixed, but that the institutional anti-Semitism which runs through Labour will run throughout the British government and spread out into broad society. Such anti-Semitism will inevitably lead to violence and force Jews to leave the UK en masse. While a Corbyn government would be responsible for such conditions, it is the foolish actions of Johnson which could set this disaster into motion.