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I'll start.. Vincent cable.
You got my first pick....
My other thought was Stammer in the doing what he can from where he is.
(International entries Penny Wong from Aus very well respected and did a lot in government and opposition)
You got my second pick lol!
Nicola Sturgeon
Nope. Not Cable. sold the post office for half its value and blustered about it. Completely outmanoeuvred in the coalition.
How about Sturgeon? YOu may not agree with her but she is pretty gaffe free, has good values and has made no serious blunders
Starmer? Yet to be tested with any power of course
Patrick Harvie? - Scottish green leader in Holyrood. Made his few msps count.
Nicola is a fair shout. Although how much longer will she be a 'UK' politican? 😉
I’ll start.. Vincent cable.
Yip. But then I am a fully paid up member of his party.
TJ does make a valid point, but I'm willing to forgive that considering Maybots wasted £6bn on brexit and the rest of the conservatives are dinosaurs who really should lie down somewhere in a dark corner and we should lock the cell door on them.
Watch out a Lib Dem could give you CPR, transplant their own heart into you and drop you 3 pints of the red stuff and TJ would still complain about something 😉
I voted for Vince. I’ll be voting for the LDs in the upcoming European elections :p
How are you defining competent?
Cable completely out manoeuvred in the minority coalition? Who'd have thunk it. You only had to look at Cameron who wheeled clegg out whenever there was bad news.
Hywel Williams
A truly wonderful guy who came from a Social care background.
When the DVLA buggered up my driving license he sorted it out for me.
Hilary Benn, Yvette Cooper
How are you defining competent?
Any active MP who does the right thing by the public, (as is thier job) rather than sticking strictly to party politics, broadly speaking.
Yvette Cooper - most credible politician we have in the UK.
Angela Raynor hasn't had a chance to prove her incompetence yet, but I do like her.
Dennis Healey was a pretty decent bloke and our local MP, Julie Cooper has been faultless so far.
Our previous MP, Gordon Birtwhistle was superb right up until he decided to oppose gay marriage because 'The people of Burnley don't want it'.
He promptly lost the next election.
Idiot.
BY that definition Cable certainly does not count. The selloff of the post office was a massive blunder and he should have refused to do it. grossly incompenent. You can forgive it if you want but to claimsommeone who has done this is competent is wrong.
Want a competent Lib Dem - how about paddy pantsdown?
Any active MP who does the right thing by the public, (as is thier job) rather than sticking strictly to party politics
In that case none of them. How do we judge whether they have done 'right' by the public though?
Ben McPherson ( none of yo will have heard of him) strikes me as pretty good as well.
Even Ruth Davidson is competent if abhorrent.
How do we judge whether they have done ‘right’ by the public though?
It's a game, just try playing the game....
Mhairi Black
Dennis Skinner. Legend.
Hilary Benn
Not a chance. Twice I've been at work things with him "answering" questions on a panel. Both times he swerved even the softest of questions from friendly crowds. Everything was just a sound bite.
I'd go with Nicola sturgeon mhari black and Ruth Davidson. There were mutterings that our honourable member was to be offered a seat in the other house if he'd step aside and let her in. Apparently she refused as London far from her family.
Philippa whitford, my local MP, breast cancer surgeon, honest and hardworking, a gem.
There will be some amongst the 650 who you won't ever hear about simply because they are just getting on with their job, keeping out of the spotlight away from the circus. You'll only ever get to know about them if you are lucky enough to have them as your MP and maybe require their services. How many is some though? I suspect not a lot.
David Lammy.
Rory Stewart is a pretty remarkable person.
Caroline Lucas and Amir Khan (Mayor of London)
Although Nicola Sturgeon and John Swinney are also up there.
TBH Ruth Davidson is very good too....even though she’s a Tory
dennis skinner.
There will be some amongst the 650 who you won’t ever hear about simply because they are just getting on with their job, keeping out of the spotlight away from the circus. You’ll only ever get to know about them if you are lucky enough to have them as your MP and maybe require their services. How many is some though? I suspect not a lot.
There may be many competent at their current level. That's no indicator of how they would be once given more responsibility
Rory Stewart - really knows his stuff when interviewed, actually thinks about things in a hollistic way and his achievements are pretty notable too.
David lammy is a really good shout. Very good speaker on a number of occasions and on a number of subjects.
Shame his peers seem to ignore him. He talks absolute sense with out any of the crap.
TBH Ruth Davidson is very good too….even though she’s a Tory
I actually thought Annabel Goldie was better, just bad timing for her I think in terms of the 'resurgence'. I think she would have received a bigger share of the vote had she been in place now instead of before Ruth.
Who was the female Labour MP who sadly died at the hands of a moron?
By all accounts, she was a decent sort of person one too few in politics.
😔
Aye - Goldie was very good - especially as she engaged with the minority SNP government constructively. The comparison with labour was telling as they sat on the back benches shouting SNP baaaaaaad and thus got nothing
Ruth "line in the sand" Davidson? The one distinguished by her lack of constituency surgeries and notable liar?
Goldie was cringeworthy. No as bad as wee Kezia mind....
Anyone else looking back fondly to when Ken Clarke and Michael Heseltine were still big names in the Tories?
Who was the female Labour MP who sadly died at the hands of a moron?
Jo Cox.
Murdered by a timmy robinson type lunatic.
Ken Clarke was and still is wasted on the the Tories.
Jo Cox
Indeed. Scotroutes.
IN an earlier era Sturgeon would just be another competent politician. In this era she looks a political giant compared to the utter dross around. Basic competence seems in very short supply. Sturgeon has that plus sound values - very rare indeed nowadays.
Who was the female Labour MP who sadly died at the hands of a moron?
Jo Cox. Very sad. Coincidentally, the policeman who arrested the moron featured on Look North tonight.
Kerry McCarthy. Not my MP but she represents a large portion of the city I live in and I broadly side with her views and voting record. I think she comes across OK.
Same goes I think for the Labour MP in north Bristol. Don’t know enough detail quite yet though.
As for my own MP In Bristol South? Too quiet.