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Post by rcronald on Mar 3, 2023 6:39:26 GMT
Even a kebab shop wouldn't want Chris Leslie. I am just receiving reports that Chris Leslie has been employed by our local kebab shop sweeping the floors & cleaning the grease off everything after closing He’s soon gonna claim that the shop is successful because of his brilliant cleaning techniques...
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Post by batman on Mar 3, 2023 7:57:07 GMT
of course, with him working there, the floors are wet.
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Post by stb12 on Mar 3, 2023 9:28:01 GMT
Funny to think considering how he’s ridiculed from all sides these days that Leslie is a former Shadow Chancellor, albeit in Harriet Harman’s caretaker shadow cabinet
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Post by batman on Mar 3, 2023 9:36:01 GMT
I was astonished he was appointed at the time. It was one of the grossest overpromotions I've seen in politics, and boy I've seen a few. Including my own MP at the time, Jeremy Hanley, a very nice man but hopelessly out of his depth as Chairman of the Conservative Party.
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Post by stb12 on Mar 3, 2023 10:00:55 GMT
I was astonished he was appointed at the time. It was one of the grossest overpromotions I've seen in politics, and boy I've seen a few. Including my own MP at the time, Jeremy Hanley, a very nice man but hopelessly out of his depth as Chairman of the Conservative Party. To be fair he did keep rising through the ranks up until Corbyn’s leadership, even when he had a period out of parliament 2005-10 he seemed to work quite closely with Gordon Brown Although I know these things can be decided on factions and influence rather than pure talent
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Mar 3, 2023 10:06:11 GMT
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Post by The Bishop on Mar 3, 2023 11:01:26 GMT
Funny to think considering how he’s ridiculed from all sides these days that Leslie is a former Shadow Chancellor, albeit in Harriet Harman’s caretaker shadow cabinet In which role he was utterly, unequivocally dreadful.
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Post by Wisconsin on Mar 7, 2023 8:26:25 GMT
As expected, (former MP) Mike Gapes has applied to rejoin Labour:
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Post by batman on Mar 10, 2023 15:46:58 GMT
Neil Coyle has regained the Labour Whip & been readmitted as a Party member :
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Post by southernliberal on Mar 19, 2023 20:12:47 GMT
I'm sceptical myself, but have seen some chatter on Twitter this "announcement" coming tommorrow from Reform UK could potentially be related to a defection, the only potential name I've heard is Andrew Bridgen:
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Post by CatholicLeft on Mar 19, 2023 20:18:24 GMT
I'm sceptical myself, but have seen some chatter on Twitter this "announcement" coming tommorrow from Reform UK could potentially be related to a defection, the only potential name I've heard is Andrew Bridgen: Well, if it is unlikely that he will regain the whip, standing again will secure his severance payment when (if - no, when) defeated, and having a party behind him might be advantageous in terms of publicity. Never had him down as a defector to Reform though. Maybe the announcement is about putting up candidates everywhere.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Mar 19, 2023 20:33:35 GMT
Bridgen had an adjournment debate on Friday on his favourite subject. He may not have used any holocaust analogies but the general tone makes it clear he's not resiling from his views.
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Post by maxque on Mar 19, 2023 20:48:28 GMT
Bridgen had an adjournment debate on Friday on his favourite subject. He may not have used any holocaust analogies but the general tone makes it clear he's not resiling from his views. With how many problems there is right now, why Parliament wastes time giving an adjournment debate on a fake problem?
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Post by swindonlad on Mar 19, 2023 20:49:23 GMT
I'm sceptical myself, but have seen some chatter on Twitter this "announcement" coming tommorrow from Reform UK could potentially be related to a defection, the only potential name I've heard is Andrew Bridgen: What's the odds the rumour was started by the Tory whips office in hope he would leave?
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Post by johnloony on Mar 19, 2023 20:57:28 GMT
Bridgen had an adjournment debate on Friday on his favourite subject. He may not have used any holocaust analogies but the general tone makes it clear he's not resiling from his views. Line 8 “despite” hahaha
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Post by bsjmcr on Mar 19, 2023 21:04:04 GMT
I'm sceptical myself, but have seen some chatter on Twitter this "announcement" coming tommorrow from Reform UK could potentially be related to a defection, the only potential name I've heard is Andrew Bridgen: Well, if it is unlikely that he will regain the whip, standing again will secure his severance payment when (if - no, when) defeated, and having a party behind him might be advantageous in terms of publicity. Never had him down as a defector to Reform though. Maybe the announcement is about putting up candidates everywhere. I have little time for Reform so can’t be bothered checking but I seem to recall something was put out by Tice denouncing Bridgen’s views and that he wouldn’t be accepted by the party, in the wake of his suspension? It would be a monumental u-turn if it turns out he does join and they’d end up just making a mockery of themselves / appear to be clutching at straws given they don’t seem to be cutting through at all, and I don’t think they will unless Farage takes a more active role again. I think it’s more likely Dorries (not that it matters given she’s standing down) or even Johnson would defect (and be accepted!)
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Post by YL on Mar 19, 2023 22:22:12 GMT
I think Bridgen is too out there for Reform UK these days, so I'd be a bit surprised if that's what it's about.
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Post by stb12 on Mar 19, 2023 22:23:21 GMT
Bridgen had an adjournment debate on Friday on his favourite subject. He may not have used any holocaust analogies but the general tone makes it clear he's not resiling from his views. With how many problems there is right now, why Parliament wastes time giving an adjournment debate on a fake problem? I don’t have any time for Bridgen or his obsession with this but adjournment debates regularly are quite pointless and simply a chance for MPs to sound off about any issue they want including local issues that parliament isn’t even responsible for
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Post by ilerda on Mar 20, 2023 9:19:17 GMT
I'm sceptical myself, but have seen some chatter on Twitter this "announcement" coming tommorrow from Reform UK could potentially be related to a defection, the only potential name I've heard is Andrew Bridgen: Well, if it is unlikely that he will regain the whip, standing again will secure his severance payment when (if - no, when) defeated, and having a party behind him might be advantageous in terms of publicity. Never had him down as a defector to Reform though. Maybe the announcement is about putting up candidates everywhere. This sort of thing (pre-announcing announcements rather than springing them from nowhere) reminds me of UKIP's MO and the Banks 'defection'. You generate far more talk by letting people get carried away in advance that you do from the actual rather dull announcement, unless it's something genuinely newsworthy like the Carswell and Reckless defections. Now that I've said this it will probably turn to be something genuinely interesting!
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Mar 20, 2023 9:33:13 GMT
There's a very long history of parties hyping up that they've got a major defection to announce, only for it to be someone nobody's ever heard of. Jeremy Thorpe's Liberal Party went overboard in 1974 about a major defection, only for it to be an obscure Labour peer.
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