No confidence vote: Twitter reacts as PM insists she'll fight 'with everything she's got'
Twitter exploded after the Prime Minister delivered a statement this morning insisting she’ll fight Wednesday’s no confidence vote.
Theresa May appeared outside 10 Downing Street after the vote was confirmed, and said "weeks spent tearing ourselves apart will only create more division."
Political commentators took to social media following the brief speech,
Guardian Diplomatic Editor Patrick Wintour slammed the Conservative Party for putting the country's future in the hands of its "disproportionately old, wealthy, Southern" membership.
Parliament denied a vote, the electorate denied a vote and cabinet denied a vote. Conservative Party seems to believe UK's future relationship with Europe is still its private property, confined to 315 MPs, and then 100,000 party members, disproportionately old, wealthy, Southern
— Patrick Wintour (@patrickwintour) December 12, 2018
The BBC's Laura Kuenssberg suggesting both sides risk "potential purgatory" if May wins the vote.
Some used the vote as an example of why there should be a second Brexit vote, with People's Vote campaigner and former No 10 spokesman Alastair Campbell labelling the Tories "lying useless hypocrites."
Potential purgatory for both sides if she wins because May may never be able to pass her Brexit plans through Parliament, purgatory for her critics because they're stuck for a year which takes us past planned Brexit day
— Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) December 12, 2018
Good point. And we had a general election to get a Prime Minister in 2015. And then a second vote in 2017. A second vote, people. Seeing a pattern here. But apparently second votes are really really bad. Bunch of lying useless hypocrites https://t.co/2NEdCZDKLi
— Alastair PEOPLE’S VOTE Campbell (@campbellclaret) December 12, 2018
ITV Political Editor Robert Peston suggested that Mrs May "wants to be seen as the personification of Brexit" and "this risks uniting Brexiters and Remainers against her."
During her speech, the Prime Minister also suggested that a change of national leader would result in Brexit being delayed or stopped.
Mrs May said that changing leader would "put our country's future at risk and create uncertainty when we can least afford it."
Many said the Prime Minister needed to step down amid party infighting, with people on both sides criticising her.
Britain is in one of its worst peacetime crises, it has been reduced to an international laughing stock, and all of it - every last bit of it - is on the Conservative Party.
— Owen Jones🌹 (@OwenJones84) December 12, 2018
I will vote for change tonight. The EU negotiations are horribly off course and do not command support in Parliament. The policy is inextricable from the person of the Prime Minister, and the stakes are simply too high for endless deferral.
— Simon Clarke MP (@SimonClarkeMP) December 12, 2018