i know it is a hard task these days.....but who do you like and trust..
my vote goes to Vince Cable.
and i am not a lib dem supporter.
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a trustworthy and likeable MP..............
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Gordon Prentice, Labour, Pendle
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Dennis Skinner would be my shout.
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I'll be so slated for this, it's William Hague for me.
A top favourite is/was Tony Benn, obviously not now.
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Isn't it a contradiction in terms?
Has to go to somebody with no power and never likely to have any, since power corrupts, so yes Vince is a good choice
Edit: I agree with both bunnyhop's choices.
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I have been struggling with this one a lot recently and found it hard to come up with any really - even including MSPs
Ken Clarke is at least an honest scoundrel.
Anabel Goldie has played a limited hand well at Holyrood but I don't think I could ever trust her
Malcolm Chisholm is about as close as I can get I think.
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Hi Ton, ive spoke to Harry the spider and i will use your entry for hit the north, you want me to send you a cheque??
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Billy Connolly got it right when he said
'The desire to be a politician should automatically exclude you from ever being one'
When you think about it, it does make sense
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Yeah I've always like William Hague and Ken Clarke too other than his involvement with a tobacco company.
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teamyeti - Member
Hi Ton, ive spoke to Harry the spider and i will use your entry for hit the north, you want me to send you a cheque??no mate, have it on me.........but
i hope you win like i was gonna do......... Posted 2 years ago # -
David Davis for throwing away his front bench position to have a by-election over civil liberties.
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will be doin my best mate.
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I'd have to agree with Dennis Skinner
Past MPs who I believe have been decent & trustworthy are
Tony Benn
Eric Heffer
David DavisPosted 2 years ago # -
Based on my known knowns, I reckon Vince Cable but I'll be honest, it would hardly raise an eyebrow from me if that turned out to be wrong (or a known unknown)
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I can think of only 2 people in recent years who have put their money where their mouth is, and stepped outside the molly-coddled tent to piss in instead
Robin Cook
David DaviesPosted 2 years ago # -
Skinner likeable ? lol
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I used to think David Davis was a bit of a tit, esp with respect to the by-election, but after hearing him on Desert Island disks last year and learning a bit more about him, he went up in my estimation a lot.
/EDIT
FAO mods. The word tit, as in blue tit, great tit and long tailed tit should be 3 asterisks, not 4
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+1 for Robin Cook
and regrettably Ann WiddecombePosted 2 years ago # -
David Davis - that was a cynical ploy for party political gain that failed - not some great idealist move. he is a slimebag.
In the past there did seem to be more.
Trustworthy and likeable is a hard combination - Skinner for example was hardly likeable I think. A real dogmatic and singleminded person
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Skinner likeable ? lol
you've obviously never spoken to him
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he is a slimebag.
What makes you think that?
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David Davis - that was a cynical ploy for party political gain that failed - not some great idealist move.
Well I think this is a first - I agree with TJ on something political. Was just going to post something similar myself.If we're talking ex-MPs, then Tam Dalyell?
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...actually if we're talking ex-MPs (though in his case still a current politician), then I have to mention the ex-Welsh First Minister, Rhodri Morgan - the only MP I've met in a totally social sense (his daughter shared a house with mrs aracer).
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Iris Robinson? oh sorry, i thought the question was who is derelict of all positive attributes....
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"None of the above" always gets my choice...
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Ian Munro - Member
"he is a slimebag."
What makes you think that?
Have you heard him speak? did you follow his resignation over the supposed matter of principle?
he clearly did that for political gain not idealism nd he failed miserably. He is thick and he tell lies = slimebag in my book.
I am not being party political on this I just find it hard to fins any politicians who are both trustworthy and likable. The trustworthy ones tend to be monomaniacs at best - Skinner / Dalyell et al. The likable ones tend to be rogues
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I think TJ is quite wrong about David Davis but as he's a Tory then I expected not less
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So what do you reckon to Hague then, TJ?
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I think TJ is quite wrong about David Davis but as he's a Tory then I expected not less
Do you also reckon I'm wrong on that basis?Posted 2 years ago # -
Your opinion allthepies - note aracer agreed with me.
It really was a cynical ploy and he suckered loads of people - you included it would seem
Nothing to do with any party allegiance - I lauded a couple of Tories further up and of all current politicians Annabel Goldie the scots tory leader is probably the one I have most respect for for playing a very poor hand well. She has made the labour party in Scotland look small minded, petty and an irrelevance despite having very little representation.
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The problem with ALL politicians locked into a 4-year cycle process, is that they always unavoidably operate via short-term solutions whilst trying to solve long-term problems. That's why nothing ever seems to get better.
A permanent, benevolent meritocratic dictatorship would probably be the way to go, but who'd have the nerve?
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aracer - Member
So what do you reckon to Hague then, TJ?
Better than the average. Decent chap, believes he is honest but too close to Ashcroft for safety. He is a bit thick tho.
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He is a bit thick tho.
Now that I strongly disagree with!Posted 2 years ago # -
TJ, enough about Ashcroft, how about Lord Paul? Non-Dom, up before the beak for some very dodgy expenses claims and one of Labour's biggest donors.....
Oh, and Hague being a bit thick? First at Oxford, MBA at INSEAD. Of course, only thick people can get that, can't they?
Anyway, my two penn'orth here;
Hague and Clarke appeal to me as they really do seem to say what they think.
Tony Benn, in a way, is someone I respect as, once again, he seemed to say what he realy thought. The way he and his family have handled a land access dispute around their estate has rather soured this, though.
Robert Key, Salisbury MP, always seemed bery good on local issues, which counts a lot for me.
Cleggy - Odd to say it, but I really do value the way he has taken up the cause of the armed forces at PMQs recently.Posted 2 years ago # -
Have you heard him speak? did you follow his resignation over the supposed matter of principle?
I have, which is when I thought he was a tit (and i'm sure there are forum threads from that time, when I said as much), then I discovered more about him and changed my mind.
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