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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
If the Opposition is so concerned about second jobs, when are they going to put forward proposals to stop the practice? Why did they not do it when in office?
This is all politicking designed to wrong-foot the Conservatives, but actually most of the public don’t care. At the election booths, most people make their decisions on the basis of which party is most likely to benefit them and which party is going to achieve the best solutions for the problems in the country and for the economy.
Labour would do well to start shaping its own proposals for levelling up the country to win back the red wall seats they lost last time. Fat chance. Labour MPs come out with stuff like ‘What does levelling up even mean?”
Well the red wall constituents know. Labour would do well to read up on it and to understand what those people want.
The current Westminster hysteria about second jobs is nothing but hot air and it’s totally irrelevant to most people. If the Opposition really wanted to tackle it and stop the practice, they should cease ‘outing’ Conservative MPs and come up with a solution, before MPs on their own side are caught out. The MP with the largest number of outside commitments was Labour’s David Lammy, with 24 entries. What goes around comes around.
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Hugh posted some opinion polls showing support increasing for Labour and decreasing for the Conservatives so it looks like it's starting to cut through. It's the Gvernment's place to enact legislation, not the Opposition's and no Opposition is going to do the government's work for them.
I must admit, I would quite like to know what levelling-up means too but don't want to go off-topic.
Conservative MPs would like to know too. I suspect it's probably akin to Theresa May's definition of Brexit at the moment.