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Post by doktorb🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ on Sept 19, 2024 22:39:41 GMT
This is excellent news. MPs holding surgeries are an entirely bad thing and should be actively discouraged. If the good people of Clacton wanted an MP who held lots of surgeries that could have elected the tosspot Lib Dem candidate. They rejected that option and voted for Farage. They knew what they were voting for a few will care whether or not he holds surgeries. Maybe you'd have a point (sic) if Farage had said before polling day that he wouldn't be holding surgeries. Then you might just be able to argue that the minority who voted for him "knew what they were voting for". Farage sold Leave without really explaining what people were voting for. It's just his nature. Consequences are for other people.
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Jack
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Post by Jack on Sept 19, 2024 22:51:00 GMT
Maybe you'd have a point (sic) if Farage had said before polling day that he wouldn't be holding surgeries. Then you might just be able to argue that the minority who voted for him "knew what they were voting for". Farage sold Leave without really explaining what people were voting for. It's just his nature. Consequences are for other people. I knew exactly what I was voting for. I didn't need people to tell me what to think.
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Post by eastmidlandsright on Sept 19, 2024 22:52:55 GMT
This is excellent news. MPs holding surgeries are an entirely bad thing and should be actively discouraged. If the good people of Clacton wanted an MP who held lots of surgeries that could have elected the tosspot Lib Dem candidate. They rejected that option and voted for Farage. They knew what they were voting for a few will care whether or not he holds surgeries. Maybe you'd have a point (sic) if Farage had said before polling day that he wouldn't be holding surgeries. Then you might just be able to argue that the minority who voted for him "knew what they were voting for". Do you have any examples of him saying he would hold surgeries? If not why would anybody assume that he would? And yes they knew what they were voting for. Farage is one of the most well known politicians in the country, few will have thought he had any interest holding surgeries for the assorted spastics, trouble makers and undesirables that turn up at such events.
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Post by cathyc on Sept 19, 2024 23:56:17 GMT
Maybe you'd have a point (sic) if Farage had said before polling day that he wouldn't be holding surgeries. Then you might just be able to argue that the minority who voted for him "knew what they were voting for". Do you have any examples of him saying he would hold surgeries? If not why would anybody assume that he would? And yes they knew what they were voting for. Farage is one of the most well known politicians in the country, few will have thought he had any interest holding surgeries for the assorted spastics, trouble makers and undesirables that turn up at such events. I can't remember any other MP refusing to hold surgeries and that's why people would assume that he would. It's the natural default position and therefore it's not really incumbent on candidates to say they will hold them if elected but it's definitely required that lazy grifters say that they won't. He's even claiming that he intended to hold them and told LBC when asked if he was hosting in-person surgeries, "not yet" but that he would "when Parliament allows me" - whatever the hell that means. Now he claims that the Speaker's Office has advised him not to but they've said they have "no record" of saying that. Basically they're diplomatically not calling him a liar but they're saying he's lying. If he wasn't intending to run them, as you claim, then why would he even ask the question (ignoring the fact that he clearly hasn't)? And who else have the Office supposedly given this advice to? Farage cites the horrible murder of David Amess as reason to skive, but Amess' successor still held surgeries. The reality is that he has exactly the same disgusting opinions about the electorate and those with genuine issues to raise as you do with your vile comments.
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