When It Is Time To Go

Journal

Volume 2 : December 11, 2021

Kenneth Thomas Webb

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Thursday, December 9, 2021

Laurence Robertson MP
Tewkesbury
Gloucestershire

Dear Mr Robertson,

As a member of the Conservative Party may I firstly thank you for the work you are doing on behalf of the Constituency. I appreciate this.

I do not wish to leave the Conservative Party.

That leaves me with no alternative but to affirm formally that I have no confidence in the Rt Hon Mr. Boris Johnson MP, as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

The Conservative Party has been racked by scandal and sleaze. The former health secretary's deliberate flouting of the very rules that he was, effectively, ordering the nation to follow back in the early summer, merely now indicates that at the heart of the Conservative administration, there is a "them and us" attitude.

If this were not the case, then we would not have this situation regarding the Christmas Party debacle.

I look at the mishandling of Operation Pitting by the former foreign secretary and am astounded at how such disinterest by that politician in leading that Operation has managed to find his way into the posts of Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice and deputy Prime Minister, within 15 days of the withdrawal of our forces on 30 August from Kabul, a day earlier than the USA.

The Conservative Government has lost credibility.

It has become complacent upon the foundation of a landslide majority.

I remain a member of the Conservative Party for the moment, but whether I renew that membership depends entirely on how the Government conducts itself, and how backbench MPs hold the front bench to account over the next twelve months.

I voted to remain a member of the European Union. Nevertheless, I accepted the democratic principle and have fervently backed Brexit since then.

I voted for the Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt to take over as prime minister from the Rt Hon Mrs Theresa May. Nevertheless, the victory by the Rt Hon. Mr Johnson meant that he had my full and unequivocal support. That is no longer the case.

During my lifetime, before becoming a member of the Conservative Party, I have been a floating voter. I have, therefore, when required, also voted for both Mr Blair, and later, Mr Brown. I have also voted in local elections for the Liberal Democrats. I vote based on looking to the party that will best serve constituency and national interests.

I recognise the work done with COP 26 and some aspects of dealing with the Pandemic.

Again, thank you for all your hard work throughout the constituency, Mr Robertson.

I should be grateful if you would now register this note of no confidence with the Party Chairman.

Yours sincerely,
Kenneth .T. Webb

To the Reader.

There was no joy in deciding to take this stance. This is a democracy. In 1940, it was necessary to call for the then prime minister, Neville Chamberlain, to go. Mr Chamberlain listened, and tendered his resignation to the King. That same day, the King summonsed Mr Churchill to Buckingham Palace and invited him to form a government of national unity. That very same day - Friday, May 10, 1940 - Hitler had launched his Blitzkrieg against France and the Low Countries.

In 1945, flushed with Victory in Europe, Mr Churchill was confident that he would lead the British People into peace. But we Brits have a way of ‘fast despatch.’ We knew that we needed a fresh start. And Mr Atlee, Churchill’s deputy, replaced Churchill, and under his premiership was launched the greatest piece of social history, namely, the National Assistance Act, 1947, that put firmly in place the very welfare state we are so fortunate to have today.

The British People then, five years later, brought Churchill back into 10 Downing Street.

That is how we do things here.

We do things through the ballot box. It is swift, decisive and meteoric.

We do not have two month periods of ‘elect’ and then inauguration day. We expect the former premier to have vacated Number Ten by lunch time, the the new premier and his or her spouse to be taking up residence by teatime.

As I say, that is how we do things here.

Kenneth Thomas Webb
Liverpool and Gloucestershire

December 11, 2021
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