http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-19146805
For reasons I can't quite put a finger on this just doesn't seem right. Fair enough resign for ill health of you or your partner or because you have brought parliament/party/constituency into disrepute but to resign from parliament because you want to move your family to the USA just doesn't seem to be taking your parliamentary responsibility seriously enough. Being an MP shouldn't be like a normal job, I don't think you should be able to resign between elections just because it's now a bit inconvenient or you have had second thoughts. I wonder how much the subsequent by-election is going to cost us?
Expect the inevitable truth to emerge soon; I'm guessing extra-marital affair (not sure which of them tbh) but I'm sure its on the way.
She's a fiction author who has had 15 books published and she's married to someone who manages rock bands in America including Red Hot Chillies. I suspect she doesn't need the hassle of been a MP! I'd rather live in NY too.
we should bill her for the cost of the by-election.
She's a fiction author who has had 15 books published and she's married to someone who manages rock bands in America including Red Hot Chillies. I suspect she doesn't need the hassle of been a MP! I'd rather live in NY too.
Very selfish thing to do if thats the real reason she quit. When you consider the work of many behind the scenes to get her elected in the first place.
I guess there more too it.
Isn't "Quitting to spend more time with your family" just a euphamism for getting the **** out of Dodge before the Sunday Papers headlines about snorting coke off rent boys bottoms, while wearing a gimp mask and being spanked by someone dressed as a priest
Well... when a Tory's involved, it usually is
Being an MP shouldn't be like a normal job, I don't think you should be able to resign between elections just because it's now a bit inconvenient or you have had second thoughts
I didn't bother Tony Blair. When politics was no longer of any personal benefit to him, as he no longer had the top job, he instantly resigned his parliamentary seat. He received no criticism for that, and the self-serving egoistic liar who served the US Republican Party so well, was allowed to remain a member of the Labour Party.
getting the **** out of Dodge before the Sunday Papers headlines about snorting coke off rent boys bottoms, while wearing a gimp mask and being spanked by someone dressed as a priest
www.binnerstshirts.com
I reckon she's been booted for being too much of a firebrand
did you actually read the article? it didn't seem to me like she had just woken up one day and decided the USA might be more fun, rather that her husband is based in the US, and she understandably wants the whole family to be together. That is a problem that affects successful "middle-class" families all the time and I don't see why we would want politicians who don't suffer from some of the same challenges, dilemmas, or problems as the rest of society.
I would suggest she is taking her obligations seriously as I bet there is little to stop her moving to the US and just popping back for a few days every few months to show face, and picking up the rest be email and phone. I'd rather have politicians who take it seriously enough to quit than just not turn up.
Been caught playing hide the sausage.
Sometimes, things don't work out- you commit to something and it doesn't go as you hoped. So you change plans.
Yes I did read the article. tbh in their situation as she holds an official post she was elected into I would have expected her husband to do the commuting across the pond and for them to base themselves here until the end of this parliament - or take a sabbatical from his role career until the next election.
After original post I did a bit of googling and apparently you can't simply resign your seat but there is a mechanism called the [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiltern_Hundreds ]Chiltern Hundreds[/url] where you apply to the Chancellor for a nominal role which means you have to leave your position in parliament.
Did you not see her on HIGNFY? THIS IS A GOOD THING.
surely they've all made such a cock up of it,none of them should be allowed more than a year at it, and it should be a bit like jury service and not a career. does no one remember the expenses scandal? thieving scrotes.
will the septics let her in, being a self confessed class A drug abuser ?
Still at least she'll be able to spend time on her awesome social media website..
[url] https://menshn.com/ [/url]
All over twitter she's off to bigger things along the lines of working with Fox News/Mitt Romney campaign.
Only time will tell.
A few know her or of her at work and they all said they hope it's a one way ticket, not a very nice person apparently.
Why? Why? Why? ... Is [url= http://www.binnerstshirts.com/ ]http://www.binnerstshirts.com/[/url] not a real website?
That's the second time I've gone to it thinking that someone had finally put up the site where I could buy quality casual apparel and have been denied.
NOT FAIR!!
As for the MP, not exactly a bad thing she's gone, but it is a bit off to quit half way through.
Very selfish thing to do if thats the real reason she quit. When you consider the work of many behind the scenes to get her elected in the first place.
She's a conservative. Selfish is their nature.
I may very well be forced to start printing some t-shirts and getting a site together 😀
Isn't "Quitting to spend more time with your family" just a euphamism for getting the **** out of Dodge before the Sunday Papers headlines about snorting coke off rent boys bottoms, while wearing a gimp mask and being spanked by someone dressed as a priest
See, what gets me is, why would that be seen as a problem anyway?
Sexually repressed country we live in, pretending not to like partying or disapproving of others having a good time.
Sounds great, to me...
Mr Woppit, your new found sense of fun is somewhat disconcerting, are you unwell?
See, what gets me is, why would that be seen as a problem anyway?
Because of the trap every politician set for themselves: do as I say, don't do as I do?
I'd rather have politicians who take it seriously enough to quit
crikey - MemberMr Woppit, your new found sense of fun is somewhat disconcerting, are you unwell?
Olympic euphoria. Soon wear off. 😆
Edit: Don't think Elbent [i]quite[/i] gets my point...
This should help - 😀
Since becoming an MP, she's taken a stand on several issues, including measures to prevent child access to internet pornography. She was brought up a Catholic and, after some years of doubt in which she thought about converting to Judaism, she is now a committed, mass-going, confession-making believer.This reconfirmation of faith led her to tone down the sex in her fiction. "I'm not embarrassed about the novels I wrote when I was younger," she said three years or four novels ago, "but I couldn't write them today because of my religion."
Eeeew... I'm just going for a REALLY HOT shower.
"I have been struggling for some time to find the best outcome for my family life, and have decided, in order to keep us together, to move to New York."
Suggests it's not just a whim she's taken this decision on. The implied alternative to her quitting parliament being her relationship failing. Is that what you'd prefer, convert?
Well since you approve of that kind of behavior Woppit, I hope that shower won't be a golden one.
The implied alternative to her quitting parliament being her relationship failing.
If only all conservatives would follow in her footsteps and quit the country.
Is that what you'd prefer, convert?
Nope - As she is the one with a constitutional obligation and he is "just" a promoter I would expect him to move over here until the end of the parliment if that's what was needed to keep the relationship strong. Unless of course you think money (I suspect he is paid gazillions more) matters more than obligation.... There were always two ways they could be together and I'm not sexist enough to think that "the little lady" should automatically be the one to quit her job.
Having said that, the more I read about her, the more I'm not sure it's a great loss.
[i]"I have been struggling for some time to find the best outcome for my family life, and have decided, in order to keep us together, to move to New York."
Suggests it's not just a whim she's taken this decision on. The implied alternative to her quitting parliament being her relationship failing. Is that what you'd prefer, convert? [/i]
But she's only been an MP for a couple of years - sounds like she didn't really consider it before pushing for election.
Probably one off her Bucket List now 😉
[i]Louise Daphne Bagshawe, born on 28 June 1971 in London, England is the daughter of Nicholas Wilfrid and Daphne Margaret Bagshawe née Triggs.[3] Her father comes from a family of Roman Catholic gentry;[4] his grandfather was the marine artist Joseph Richard Bagshawe, who was himself grandson of one of the 19th century's most renowned marine artists Clarkson Stanfield,[5] and a nephew of Edward Gilpin Bagshawe, Roman Catholic Bishop of Nottingham. Her paternal grandmother Mary Frideswide Bagshawe was the daughter of Charles Robertson, a stockbroker and benefactor of St Philip's Priory, Begbroke and one of the co-founders of Westminster Cathedral.[6] She is the sister of Tilly Bagshawe, a freelance journalist and author, and also has a younger sister Alice and a brother, James.[7]
Her family moved to the countryside when she was seven. She was educated at Beechwood Sacred Heart School in Tunbridge Wells,[8] and Woldingham School, a Roman Catholic girls' boarding school in Surrey, and was named "Young Poet of the Year" in 1989 at the age of 18.[9] After reading English Language and Literature at Christ Church, Oxford,[10] and following a six month internship at MTV Europe she worked as a press officer with EMI Records (a position from which she was formally dismissed),[11] and then as a marketing official for Sony.[/i]
How did she get to be an MP for Corby, ex steel making town?
I'm sure there are many other examples of MPs from both sides of the house, and from the middle of the house who have little in common with the aea they represent, but really, how?
That's politics for you crikey. I believe the correct phrase is "parachuted in", rather like our current MP, Mrs Baldwin who used to be an investment banker <spit> in London.
[i]I'm sure there are many other examples of MPs from both sides of the house, and from the middle of the house who have little in common with the aea they represent, but really, how? [/i]
Peter Mandleson, Tony Blair, The Balls, etc, etc
If I spent two years with the incompetent self serving idiots of politics I think I'd walk away too.
Unless she has a personality transplant I think she'll be spending the rest of her life with one of the worst of the incompetent self serving idiots of politics.
How did she get to be an MP for Corby, ex steel making town?
1) They don't make steel there any more
2) Labour Party's 30 year campaign to punch itself and everyone else in the face
Labour Party's 30 year campaign to punch itself and everyone else in the face
I'm not sure what that's suppose to mean but 30 years ago Corby was a Tory seat, and remained so until the 1997 landslide Labour victory. I think it is probably fair to assume it will revert back to Labour in the forthcoming by-election. Specially as Labour now has a well established and large opinion poll lead, and the LibDem vote will almost certainly collapse.
[i]Labour's support rose to an average of 42 per cent last month, nine points ahead of the Conservatives on 33 per cent. The Liberal Democrats slipped back to 11 per cent.[/i]