Your party is down in the polls for the first time in 18 months, so what do you do? Call for a no confidence vote, of course – if you’re disloyal spineless bastard.

“David Cameron faces calls to resign from a handful of Conservative MPs who have lodged formal requests for a vote of no confidence in his leadership…
At least two MPs, and possibly as many as half a dozen, have written to Sir Michael Spicer, the chairman of the 1922 Committee, to call for a vote of no confidence…
A no confidence motion would be triggered if 29 MPs – 15 per cent of the parliamentary party – write to call for a vote. While there is no suggestion that anything like that number has done so, even a small number risks triggering similar demands from malcontent MPs.” (Sunday Telegraph)

Why and how can this “handful” of Tory MPs justify their call? Yes the Conservative Party is down in the polls and the recent by-elections in Ealing and Sedgefield were hardly great, when the best thing that could be said about it is that the Lib Dems don’t have a ready excuse to dump Ming Campbell.

But that is not grounds for a call for a vote of no confidence in David Cameron. We have changed leaders far too much over the last decade, and especially recently. The polls right now may not be great news, but they were not so long ago – and probably will be again in a few months time. To call for a vote of no confidence on that basis, and claims that the ‘Cameron Project’ has nothing at the heart of it is sickening. Only one of the task groups have reported, IDS’ report on the Broken Society, and two more are to report their findings this week – the National and International Security group and the International Development review.

To even consider calls for a no confidence vote right now is foolish and despicable. Especially when that “handful” of MPs have not put their own necks on the line, protected by confidentiality. If this small group of MPs have something to say, let them come out and say it to the camera. Put your own neck on the line or shut the hell up. The MPs who have written to the 1922 Committee to make this call now are disloyal spineless bastards. All they are doing is giving ammo to the other parties, and certainly not helping their own. Do they want to win the next general election?!

Sources: Sunday Telegraph, BBC