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Originally Posted by tweetiepooh
Likely to vote for our standing MP who is now Independent. Good bloke who cares for the area and nation and will vote against the whip if he feels it's needed.
He is also a positive campaigner. He never mentions the opposition in elections or regular updates.
Just seen from article above that he will be standing as Tory.
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I think Steve Brine will lose his seat in Winchester. His track record, up until his recent overdue rebellion, has been a Tory party yes man. His previous voting track record does not do him many favours:
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Steve_Brine
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Brine, unlike the vast majority of his conservative colleagues, voted against investigation into the UK's involvement in the Iraq War in November 2016. He has voted twice against equal gay rights, including same sex marriage. He voted against allowing terminally ill people to be allowed to have assisted suicide. He has previously voted in support of airstrikes against ISIL in Syria and continued deployment in Afghanistan.
He voted to allow Theresa May to trigger Article 50 and since 7 December 2016 has voted against continued membership of the EU. He almost always supported policies in the 2010 Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition Agreement.
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A humorous critique of his Twitter record sums him up:
https://www.politics.co.uk/comment-a...ee-steve-brine
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7/30
Entertaining 2
Informative 3
Engaging with constituents 1
Regularity 1
Boredom interspersed with moments of genuine horror. Brine's account of his life in parliament usually revolves around archaic descriptions of visiting constituents. "Very pleasant chaps who stopped by for a chat while inside Parliament for a tour. Constituents from Chandler's Ford," he tweeted recently. Note the way he combines public school vocabulary with primary school grammar. His efforts at party-political point-scoring are toe-curling. "House of Commons is buzzing. Full Tory benches, lots of Labour - one Lib Dem. Good luck explaining that to constituents!" he writes. To which one can only reply: good luck developing a writing style which does not rob your readers of a desire to live. But every so often an unsettling predatory personality takes over, triggering revulsion and horror, like suddenly finding Tom Jones in your bedroom in the dead of night. "Take my hat & everything else (well almost everything) off to the good ppl of East Stratton 4 another cracking fete," he wrote recently. The horror.
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His "finest" hour was opening Winchester's second food back in 2017:
Winchester MP Steve Brine opens new Stanmore Basics Bank
You couldn't make it up ..