... best not go fishing for the type of fish that enjoy a good Double Gloucester then.

I read yesterday that they had 28 letters towards a vote of no-confidence, over half way there IIRC.

The original referendum was non-binding. Why tie yourself to that big boat o' cheese if it was basically a lark in the first place? That's the part I haven't understood throughout all of this. Take it as advisory, do a study, make all of this BS come out without committing to the BS in the first place, and then say "hey, now that you see all of the lies and BS, can we stop with the cheese boat now?" Probably just me being naive.

Tangential: we were marveling around the dinner table last night about some particularly British governmental machinery description that I read in an article. I'm repeating from memory, but it was something like "A Labour backbencher was ejected from Commons for seizing the ceremonial mace." Now, I can guess what most of that means, but it was an interesting string of words that definitely do not mean the same thing when used in other contexts.

Also, "Crispin Blunt" is a wonderfully English name to my colonial ears. "Jacob Rees-Mogg" is another.

The whole sentence though with backbenchers this and mace that and so on reads like something out of a cricket match to someone who knows neither British government particulars nor cricket.