Owen Paterson: Anger as Tory MP avoids suspension in rule shake-up
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Re: Owen Paterson: Anger as Tory MP avoids suspension in rule shake-up
I wonder when Claudia Webbe will be in front of the Standards Committee?
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04-11-2021, 16:50
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Re: Owen Paterson: Anger as Tory MP avoids suspension in rule shake-up
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I wonder when Claudia Webbe will be in front of the Standards Committee?
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04-11-2021, 16:52
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Re: Owen Paterson: Anger as Tory MP avoids suspension in rule shake-up
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I wonder when Claudia Webbe will be in front of the Standards Committee?
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Hopefully around the same time Owen Paterson is in court.
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04-11-2021, 17:00
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Re: Owen Paterson: Anger as Tory MP avoids suspension in rule shake-up
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True, being an MP was hindering his money making !
Don't know why anyone is surprised by this. This Govt is rotten to the Boris core. We've swapped hedgemonic Brussels and given the absolute power to an even more corrupt set up. Well done us !
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Yes, but at least we can evict corrupt and lost souls via the ballot box, we couldn’t do sweet FA with those lot in the corrupted EU.
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04-11-2021, 17:01
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Re: Owen Paterson: Anger as Tory MP avoids suspension in rule shake-up
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True, being an MP was hindering his money making !
Don't know why anyone is surprised by this. This Govt is rotten to the Boris core. We've swapped hedgemonic Brussels and given the absolute power to an even more corrupt set up. Well done us !
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I suspect being an MP was the making of his lobbying career. He can only hope that the contacts he has built up as an MP can still be tapped.
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04-11-2021, 17:04
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Re: Owen Paterson: Anger as Tory MP avoids suspension in rule shake-up
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I wonder when Claudia Webbe will be in front of the Standards Committee?
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One can only imagine threatening to throw acid into someone's face was the highlight of her political career.
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04-11-2021, 17:11
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Re: Owen Paterson: Anger as Tory MP avoids suspension in rule shake-up
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I suspect being an MP was the making of his lobbying career. He can only hope that the contacts he has built up as an MP can still be tapped.
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He's possibly toxic, now.
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04-11-2021, 17:55
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Re: Owen Paterson: Anger as Tory MP avoids suspension in rule shake-up
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I wonder when Claudia Webbe will be in front of the Standards Committee?
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What she did was literally a criminal offence so they can already recall her. She has already been kicked out of Labour so won’t be their candidate. Unfortunately I don’t think she can be automatically removed as she didn’t get a years sentence.
Labour are pushing for a recall petition though so hopefully she’ll be out.
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04-11-2021, 18:08
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Re: Owen Paterson: Anger as Tory MP avoids suspension in rule shake-up
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An embarrassing climb down but at least we know the direction the Tories want to take us in.
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What 'direction' is that ?
They screwed this one up badly, but I dont see how that indicates a direction of anything.
I've also removed a number of posts from this topic.
Disliking or disagreeing with a political party fine, but throwing around strong generic insults is not ok.
Clearly many of the party disagreed with this from the start.
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04-11-2021, 18:17
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Re: Owen Paterson: Anger as Tory MP avoids suspension in rule shake-up
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What 'direction' is that ?
They screwed this one up badly, but I dont see how that indicates a direction of anything.
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Lowering the threshold for standards in public life, essentially normalising and permitting what would reasonably be described as corruption in any civilised democracy.
250 of them didn’t walk down the division lobby approving of something more appropriate to a banana republic by accident.
Kwasi Kwarteng summed it up when pressed on standards when interviewed “ we delivered Brexit.”
It’s the division that, for some, will give them a free pass.
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04-11-2021, 18:22
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Re: Owen Paterson: Anger as Tory MP avoids suspension in rule shake-up
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Lowering the threshold for standards in public life, essentially normalising and permitting what would reasonably be described as corruption in any civilised democracy.
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Right, Im sure thats exactly the plan.
That Eiffel Tower is still for sale if you want to buy it.
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Re: Owen Paterson: Anger as Tory MP avoids suspension in rule shake-up
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Lowering the threshold for standards in public life, essentially normalising and permitting what would reasonably be described as corruption in any civilised democracy.
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And that is why I use the insult that I use. I’ve never been a Tory fan but this incarnation (especially those in the Cabinet) is the worst excuse of human beings I’ve ever encountered.
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04-11-2021, 18:38
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Re: Owen Paterson: Anger as Tory MP avoids suspension in rule shake-up
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Right, Im sure thats exactly the plan.
That Eiffel Tower is still for sale if you want to buy it.
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I’m not really sure why the need for the rolling of eyes. They literally voted to undermine and then replace the independent standards body. At the same time they have decided to rerun the selection of the OFCOM Chair in order to impose a political ally as the outcome of a selection process from which he was sifted out the first time.
If politicians are free to earn six figure sums to represent the interests of corporations instead of their constituents and the freedom of the media is undermined by a politically driven regulatory body I see no other conclusion that can legitimately be reached.
It’s more appropriate to Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe than the “ mother of all Parliaments”.
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04-11-2021, 18:41
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Re: Owen Paterson: Anger as Tory MP avoids suspension in rule shake-up
At the end of all of it, the Tories are in a worse position than before. They've had all these bad headlines, Owen Paterson would have been suspended but unlikely to have been recalled but instead he's gone.
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04-11-2021, 18:44
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Re: Owen Paterson: Anger as Tory MP avoids suspension in rule shake-up
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I’m not really sure why the need for the rolling of eyes. They literally voted to undermine and then replace the independent standards body. At the same time they have decided to rerun the selection of the OFCOM Chair in order to impose a political ally as the outcome of a selection process from which he was sifted out the first time.
If politicians are free to earn six figure sums to represent the interests of corporations instead of their constituents and the freedom of the media is undermined by a politically driven regulatory body I see no other conclusion that can legitimately be reached.
It’s more appropriate to Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe than the “mother of all Parliaments”.
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Let’s not miss out proroguing Parliament, lying to the Queen, selling the House a BS story about having an “oven ready” deal as well as breaking the law “in a specific and limited way”.
I could go on but you get my point. This shower of brown-stuff think the law and rules don’t apply to them.
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