MegaSack DRAW - This year's winner is user - rgwb
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Jumping on the band wagon of 'nasty messages attacking pro Syrian bombing voting MPs' she published a 'death threat' that she received on her Facebook page. Unfortunately for her, she wasn't cunning enough to completely fabricate the message, instead she just embellished one to make it look far worse. Amusingly, the original sender spotted this and published the original, non threatening message. Gotcha!
[url= http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tory-mp-defends-faking-death-threat-over-syria-air-strikes-vote-a6764766.html ]lying Tory, surprise.[/url]
I'm more shocked that Telford has a tory MP than I am that said tory is a liar. 😐
A bloke from Harrogate is my MP. (Andrew Jones)
Totally out of touch with anyone outside of his political persuasion. I sent him an email asking a few pertinent questions, (a bit sarcastically maybe, but still topical & pertinent) & got an even more sarcastic one back but which answered none of my questions.
If i was an alien with blue blood I'd never vote for the tories.
My MP is a homophobic racist, who'd struggle to find his constituancy on a map. He's rabidly anti-EU, listed as the Tory MP most likely to defect to UKIP, introduced a private members bill to bring back hanging, and made us all proud of him by trying to make the world a [url= http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/oct/30/tory-mps-filibuster-blocks-bill-to-give-carers-free-hospital-parking ]better place[/url].
I've tried to work out how he could possibly represent my views less? Maybe he supports Liverpool?
Mine can't survive on 90k a year poor dab, utter twunt
Mine had a fight with his own son at a petrol station, and voted against same sex marriage while "representing" the good folk of Hebden Bridge... 🙄
You honestly couldn't make it up
So a totally fictional person complained about the MP posting a composite thus partially fictional message ? Just asking.
@CFH you need to title your threads in a more populist way 😉
Mine is the chairman of a 'defence' corporation
if this is a pissing contest for who has the worst MP, I'm in with a shout. Ive got Boris.
Banners I've recently had the "pleasure" of swapping correspondence with your MP regarding his fillibustering of the bill regarding first aid training in schools.
He has been sarcastic, arrogant and dismissive and clearly is very happy to abuse parliamentary procedure to further his own agenda at the expense of the democratic process.
I share your low opinion of him.
you need to title your threads in a more populist way
No. I just need a more learned audience. 😉
Mine's alright! A gay QC, she became an MP basically by mistake after running in what most folks thought was a safe labour seat and now she's the party's Justice and Home Affairs representative. Usually that's a job that instantly turns you into a fascist nutsack but she's resisted so far. And she answers emails and that, which is also good. Don't know if she's ever actually achieved anything in the role but considering we used to have Malcolm Ri****d all she has to do is not be a total **** and it's an upgrade.
Is my MP?
A: Jessie Norman, a Tory who managed to forget where he lived whilst filling out his expenses claim, repeatedly.
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Or B: Comedy character Tim "Nice" But-Dim.
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Boris - I often wonder how on earth we ended up with such as an odious little turd as our MP. What with his thumping great majority of 110 votes.
Then I go to my local pub and listen to the knuckle- draggers at the bar blaming the ills of the country on '****'s' '****s' and 'Queers' and it all becomes clear. He represents their views perfectly!
Depressing. 😥
Mine shagged John Prescott to get the job.
Jambalaya - Member
So a totally fictional person complained about the MP posting a composite thus partially fictional message ? Just asking. V8ninety I'm gonna effing kill you if you point out that I'm wrong yet again
Just saying. 😉
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Then I go to my local pub and listen to the knuckle- draggers at the bar blaming the ills of the country on '****'s' '****s' and 'Queers' and it all becomes clear. He represents their views perfectly!
You need to find yourself a pub with pitched roof.
Give the woman a break that story is days old and she has apologised. This is what she has said :
[i]"I created a misleading impression, for which I have apologised".[/i]
Of course to no ones surprise, I'm sure, Jambalaya seems to be suggesting that she hasn't done anything wrong - although she thinks she has.
Ours swarms in in her huge Range Rover surrounded by hard men and shifty looking losers once every five years to collect her renewed mandate then disappears off again until the next election. I doubt she knows where the constituency actually is and certainly makes no pretence of representing it.
It wasn't a totally fictional person it was a real person using a pseudonym, just like you do.
It was not a composite it was a real message to which she created a fake ending so a deliberate lie. If she had received an actual threat she would have published that.
So Jam apart from those two factual errors your post is valid as an opinion re the thread title.
"I created a misleading impression,
Politicians are good at that.
Yeah, can't believe she wasn't challenged to show the other message with the "unless you die" lineIt was not a composite it was a real message to which she created a fake ending so a deliberate lie. If she had received an actual threat she would have published that.
If it happened at all it was probably waaay out of context - e.g. "you're lucky to be in a constituency where you'll keep being re-elected whatever you do, unless you die"
They were all the correct words but not necessarily in the right order.
Wasn't that the MP for Morecambe?
Seems to apply to an awful lot of MPs, judging by the replies above. Sad state of affairs. The actual MP I'm talking about is the MP for Telford.
Mine's Craig Whittaker, his voting record is enviable 😆
always votes against welfare spending, voted against tax raises on salaries above £150,000, always votes for bombing brown people, always votes for increases in VAT, voted against a bankers bonus tax, votes against removing hereditary peers from the HoL. consistently votes for less local govt funding from central govt, but at the same time always votes against increasing local govt. powers.
At least he knows who is bosses are though, I guess. 🙄
Isn't he representing the views of his constituents? If not he'll get voted out, if he is the you have to accept you live in an area where your views are a minority.
But lying mp's need to be exposed, but it's upto the voters to boot them out. If you don't like your mp and feel there is no alternative then run yourself!
you could stick a blue rosette on a pig round here and it'd get elected. which is why we have this...
Yeah we ended up with a Tory, after the local labour party [url= http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/local-news/ex-bury-north-mp-david-chaytor-851180 ]covered itself in glory[/url]
"I created a misleading impression"
Isn't that what most people call lying?
TBH, if you have MPs of any party resigning for stretching the truth or outright lying, you'd have few politicians left.
if you have MPs of any party resigning for stretching the truth or outright lying, you'd have few politicians left.
Few of the [i]current batch[/i] maybe. But would that be a bad thing? Maybe, if we summarily dismissed the proven dishonest ones, it may encourage a bit more honesty? Just because they are accepted as 'mostly liars' now, doesn't mean it couldn't change.
wow she sounds like a lovely person
Seems like she's managed to tick every box on the 'Typical Tory MP charactature ' checklist there
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MPS should be chosen at random from the electoral roll
Easy
Hmmm 2 scandals in a couple of weeks. Not sure she'll shrug this one off.
Ah, sortition, an important element of democracy as originally conceived by the Greeks, and in principle a very, very good idea.
However, many of us that have served on juries have experienced the drawbacks of this - mainly that you put important decision making powers in the hands of people who shouldn't be trusted to adjudicate on whether they want to "go large" at McDonalds.
Not sure she'll shrug this one off.
Surely it's an instant promotion to Cabinet?
I really would not be surprised. There's a local feeling that she should step down (although disgustingly, she has the local rag in her pocket apparently), but I disagree; far better that she presents herself to the electorate next time and she can be held to account for her dishonest and unpleasant conduct at the ballot box in this EXTREMELY marginal constituency. I'm going to remember.Surely it's an instant promotion to Cabinet?
Stocks and tomatoes?
From how that girl seems to have behaved, I have a fair bit of sympathy.
I suppose 'our' Tory is one of the better ones - Rory Stewart. Mind you, I'd never vote for him.
From how that girl seems to have behaved, I have a fair bit of sympathy.
"ninfan in knee-jerk pro-Torty reaction". I'm shocked, I tell you, shocked!
Me too. But I'm not sure it's entirely acceptable to refer to the Honourable (!) Member of Parliment as a 'girl'... It's a bit, 70s. Do you like Maxxis calendars?From how that girl seems to have behaved, I have a fair bit of sympathy.
What I'm amazed at is the MPs stupidity. Awful morals yes but why put yourself on the record doing these things?
Dunno. Arrogance? Ego? An indefatigable sense of superiority? Being surrounded by a simpering team of yes men/women for far too long? All of which do not seem particularly uncommon or even undesirable in Tory party candidates. Makes me proud to have her representing me in Parliament. Her response to the whole thing is very telling, IMHO.
Ms Allan has been watching too much Malcolm Tucker it seems
http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/uk_news/article1647547.ece
When the aide asked Allan for a weekend off to accompany a grandfather, who had terminal cancer, to chemotherapy, Allan allegedly said: “I don’t give a shit about your dying grandfather.”
Either way she seems epic at inspiring loyalty in her staff 😉
Stay classy Lucy! 😕
When the aide asked Allan for a weekend off to accompany a grandfather, who had terminal cancer, to chemotherapy, Allan allegedly said: “I don’t give a shit about your dying grandfather.”
Clearly positioning herself for a front bench post in health.
Sir Alan Duncan. He is occasionally seen about town with his boyfriend and a little dog.