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The Scottish National Party (SNP) has launched an unusual motion of no confidence against Boris Johnson for his "disastrous actions" in recent months. The motion directly calls for a cut in the annual salary of the "premier" (

from 189,000 to 48,000 euros

) "based on his conduct", although

it has no chance of succeeding

before the comfortable majority of 77 deputies held by the Conservative Party.

"This prime minister is frankly an embarrassment to democracy and to Parliament," declared Ian Blackford, leading the Scottish nationalists in Westminster. "The Labor spokesman often says these days that

" the joke is no longer funny.

Well, Scotland didn't see the humor in the joke from the start. "

Despite not having a real impact, the SNP's motion comes with a significant symbolic load at the lowest moment in Johnson's popularity since his landslide victory in the December 2019 elections.

64% of British people disapprove of his management and 52% think it is "incompetent".

Keir Starmer's Labor Party has even been ahead of the Conservative Party in polls (37% to 36%), according to the latest Opinium poll for 'The Observer'.

With a score of minus 17.2, Boris Johnson

is the second-lowest-rated member of his cabinet

in an internal Conservative Home poll (behind only his right-hand man in Parliament, Mark Spencer, at minus 21.1). As a counterpoint, the Foreign Secretary, Liz Truss, is the best valued by the militants with a positive "satisfaction" index of 82.3%.

The concern among the "Tories" has grown in the last week, after the fiasco of Boris Johnson in his intervention before the CBI employer, when he lost the papers and spoke about the cartoon character Peppa Pig as an example of creativity and British innovation. The cancellation of a section of the high-speed train to the north and the uneasy vote on the Health and Social Care law (fifty Tory deputies boycotted it), have left the "premier" in a very vulnerable position, who carries a month suffering the

wear and tear of the corruption scandal

starring his old protégé Owen Patterson.

The frustration among the "Tories" is such that at least

a dozen deputies have written letters of "censure"

to the "premier" addressed to the chairman of the parliamentary committee, Graham Brady. If the committee receives 54 letters, the equivalent of 15% of the deputies, a contest for the election of a new leader would be activated, as happened with Theresa May.

Sources quoted by 'The Daily Telegraph', Boris Johnson's longtime newspaper, have nevertheless pointed out that the maneuver is directed by "the usual suspects" of the party and that it will not go very far. The Secretary of Health, Sajid Javid, came out meanwhile in defense of his leader and

assured that Johnson is "a winner"

who will represent the party in the next elections.

The elections this Thursday for the seat of Old Bexley and Sidcup, after the death of the conservative James Brokenshire, will be the clearest occasion to see if Johnson has lost the popular pull. The "premier" now clings to the reaction to the

Omicron variant

of Covid and the presentation of his plan to "equalize and level" the country as his two lifeboats in the final stretch of the year.

"Unless this prime minister is censured, and unless he faces the consequences of disastrous actions, he

will think that he can do the same thing again and again and survive the chaos he has created in recent months,"

said Scottish nationalist Ian Balckford in advance of the motion of no confidence. "All these scandals are distracting us from the issues that really matter: outside of the Westminster circus, people are suffering from the rising cost of living."

The leader of the Labor opposition, Keir Starmer, took advantage of Johnson's moment of weakness to reinforce his cabinet

"in the shadows"

and leave his number two, Angela Rayner, in the lurch, who sees Yvette Cooper rise whole , Lisa Nandy and David Lammy.

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