Joe seems to be quite popular with his constituents of differing political hues. Well maybe not the Tories since in the last round of votes he was pro-referendum. I passed him in the street later that day and told him I supported him.
No so long ago I gather the local party tried to de-select him.... @Royston Vasey was there... I am not sure if this was to either help or hinder Jo?
I’ve told him to his face I won’t support his readoption as the candidate, and so have a lot of others.
Like Sourpuss he is basically a Lib Dem pretending to be a Tory … shirt tailing off his brother's name.
It would be very unusual for an MP with such a large majority to be deselected. In his case he is representing his constituents, who voted remain by a clear margin.
MP's who represent Leave constituencies are expected to vote leave. Royston has made this point. This is a perfect example of how Brexit has smashed the two-party system. Johnson would otherwise have no problem.
indeed, but Labour MP's are ignoring this.... I do respect Kate Hoey though, she's wasted in the Labour Party.
If you look at the voting records of MP's you'll find that Labour MP's are more compromising, Tory MP's by and large voted against any solution to the impasse. Yet they called the referendum, negotiated the withdrawal agreement, and called a general election to get a bigger majority. Granted the opposition are useless, but blaming them for the government's failure to fulfil their promises doesn't seem fair.
I thought it was a wind-up, but no, Boris is to appear in court charged with public misconduct, ie lying to the public by claiming we give £350m a week to the EU. His fans say they knew he was lying, but I don't expect that he will use that as his defense.
Oh Boris, you old rogue! If £350 million per week is not the correct figure or even roughly right - and presumably this will have to be proved to a magistrate before he can send Boris down - I wonder what the figure actually is? And if it turns out that Boris was just being economical with the truth, by perhaps failing to mention that the UK gets a fair whack of that £350 million back in EU investment in UK projects, so the net outgoing figure is quite a lot less, isn't that just what most politicians do? Personally I wouldn't mind if the term "crash out" was made illegal with reference to a no-deal Brexit. Everybody the BBC ever interviews on the subject would need his/her collar felt.
