Originally Posted by ianch99 (Post 36102291)

Spot on

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Nothing snide about pointing out someone being paid for a full time job and only doing it part time. Just show the contempt he holds for his constituents. 50 hours a month is getting on for 25% of his time. Disgraceful.

Shows that you could put a blue rosette on a hat stand and it would get in, in some parts of the country ..

Originally Posted by Damien (Post 36102199)

I think Gove is underrated as a candidate. He seems pretty level headed and competent so he may provide a good contrast to Johnson. I think there are a few candidates that styled themselves as the Tory warriors in a culture war and that doesn't lend itself well to the position of PM.

Sunak is the one people keep mentioning but that's because he was paying loads of people's wages for nearly two years. His popularity will decline as that becomes history and tax raises are met with the infrastructure cuts his Government are pushing at the same time. The tax rise has already made it a bit more difficult for him amongst the Tory base.

Originally Posted by jfman (Post 36102245)

At some point someone has to deliver a solution to Article 16 and deliver on the "levelling up" agenda.

Originally Posted by ianch99 (Post 36102271)

Seems that the good people of Wokingham have a part-time MP. Maybe they should ask for some of their money back? ;)

Originally Posted by Maggy (Post 36102326)

Probably has an excellent secretary..with all that extra dosh.

Originally Posted by Sephiroth (Post 36102297)

Originally Posted by 1andrew1 (Post 36102298)

Gove is an intellectual and political heavyweight. But I fear he's been too involved in Brexit so would be less credible when setting out an agenda to solve its problems.

Originally Posted by TheDaddy (Post 36102413)

The thing I take most from Deadwood, Cox and the rest of their ilk is that being an MP isn't a real job and that's pretty sad really, I mean how can it be a real job and you serve your constituents interests when you can jet of for weeks on end or devote a quarter of your time to other peoples interests

Originally Posted by OLD BOY (Post 36102313)

And yet, the strange thing is, whenever I have written to him, and whenever anyone I know contacts him, he responds very quickly and raises issues in the House as well. Strange, that.

Some people are good at multi-tasking and selecting a good team to assist.

Originally Posted by ianch99 (Post 36102439)

You are spot on. You & I would not be able to do this in our jobs so why the special treatment for them? Imagine if a prospective MP stood up at a hustings and said "if you vote for me, I will dedicate a full 75% of my time to this constituency" :)

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Just think how good he would be if he did his job full time.

Originally Posted by Sephiroth (Post 36102450)

There's something really wrong with your thinking.

Originally Posted by Paul (Post 36102451)

He hates conservatives, and cant see past that.

Originally Posted by Sephiroth (Post 36102450)

Originally Posted by ianch99 (Post 36102497)

Do you think MP's should work full-time or part-time when they are elected? It's a simple question

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Sorry, two Conservative supporting constituents think it is ok for a Conservative MP to work part time is validation? I think not ..

Answer this question please: if he was in any other job, would he be allowed to work part-time when he was recruited as a full time employee?

Originally Posted by Sephiroth (Post 36102505)

Originally Posted by pip08456 (Post 36102499)

MP's are not full time employees.

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/reque..._of_employment

Originally Posted by ianch99 (Post 36102510)

You won, get over it. Let's not dwell in the past, eh? The name calling is beneath you. Let's focus instead on the train wreck this country is fast becoming. You seem content to accept what the Tories are doing to this country and the direction they are taking it, I am not. It is a simple decision to make.

You hide behind the "fundamentals of British democracy" when this Government is literally, as we speak, dismantling it.

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I never said he was.

Let me ask you this question, the one that people are struggling to answer:

Originally Posted by ianch99 (Post 36102497)

Do you think MP's should work full-time or part-time when they are elected? It's a simple question