Thread: Owen Paterson: Anger as Tory MP avoids suspension in rule shake-up
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Old 08-11-2021, 20:44   #156
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Re: Owen Paterson: Anger as Tory MP avoids suspension in rule shake-up
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Originally Posted by Hugh View Post
My post was in reply to your comment about Boris



It would appear it’s OK for you to defend Johnson on this thread, but if anyone questions your defence, it’s "deflection"….

The thread is about someone not following the rules - I highlighted that Johnson was also not following the rules (albeit different rules), so your proposition that it is off-topic is incorrect.

Strange that you give credit to the Government for saying it got it wrong, but no criticism for the fact it got it wrong…
I suggest you take another look at the title of this thread. It is specifically about the Paterson case. So the deflections I have been referring to certainly are off-topic.

I am giving credit to the government for being conciliatory about this but I don’t accept they did anything wrong. They did what they did for the best of reasons and to see justice done and failed. But they did not attempt to ‘let him off the hook’ as far as I can see. Delay the suspension until an appeals mechanism was established, yes, but there is nothing to suggest that an appeal would come to a different conclusion. This was just about a fair system of justice, and it was right to suggest that Paterson was given this right of appeal given the particular issues he raised.
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