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Post by johnofgwent on Apr 27, 2024 16:30:56 GMT
From the BBC Page above Dr Poulter, who works part time as a doctor, said that Conservatives were no longer focused on public services. Dr Poulter said he would sit as a Labour MP until the general election and then stand down. He said: "The difficulty for the Conservative Party is that the party I was elected into valued public services... it had a compassionate view about supporting the more disadvantaged in society".
That's the problem right there. The Conservative Party I was brought up to view with suspicion had no time, or place for such left wing bollocks
Mind you, he's done rather well out of the system hasn't he. Fourteen years as an MP AND a Doctor means he must have made as much as Sunak, bit probably not as much as Sunak's wife
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Post by Red Rackham on Apr 27, 2024 20:17:38 GMT
Poulter, who has been a Tory MP for 14 years, has said the conservative party is now, and I quote: 'a nationalist right wing party'.
Anyone who seriously thinks the current conservative party is a nationalist right wing party is either an idiot, or a liar, and although I don't know him I wouldn't have thought Dr Poulter was an idiot. But I do think his constituents will see him for what he is, a two faced shyster who has jumped ship to save his own skin.
Edit: Just listened to an interview in which Poulter said he was a Labour voter before becoming a Tory MP! The man is a slippery snake oil salesman who quite clearly is more concerned about saving his job than his political beliefs, assuming he has any. This man has no loyalty and not a shred of credibility. Is he typical of the modern MP? Quite possibly.
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Post by patman post on Apr 27, 2024 20:25:01 GMT
From the BBC Page above Dr Poulter, who works part time as a doctor, said that Conservatives were no longer focused on public services. Dr Poulter said he would sit as a Labour MP until the general election and then stand down. He said: "The difficulty for the Conservative Party is that the party I was elected into valued public services... it had a compassionate view about supporting the more disadvantaged in society".
That's the problem right there. The Conservative Party I was brought up to view with suspicion had no time, or place for such left wing bollocks
Mind you, he's done rather well out of the system hasn't he. Fourteen years as an MP AND a Doctor means he must have made as much as Sunak, bit probably not as much as Sunak's wife
At least he's seen the light — today's Tory party places about as much value on public services and welfare of the country as Truss did on longevity... |
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Post by andrewbrown on Apr 28, 2024 9:17:14 GMT
But I do think his constituents will see him for what he is, a two faced shyster who has jumped ship to save his own skin. Not true. He's standing down at the election anyway. |
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Post by johnofgwent on Apr 28, 2024 21:29:41 GMT
But I do think his constituents will see him for what he is, a two faced shyster who has jumped ship to save his own skin. Not true. He's standing down at the election anyway. I did see that He’s made a few million by now from it though |
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Post by johnofgwent on May 15, 2024 10:07:45 GMT
But I do think his constituents will see him for what he is, a two faced shyster who has jumped ship to save his own skin. Not true. He's standing down at the election anyway. Well, as i have said before here and elsewhere, and i am sure you will agree, if an MP decides, for whatever reason, to call it a day and leave the house, there are significant financial advantages to doing so at the end of a parliament, not least the golden handshake, so all other things being considered it is hardly surprisng that he chooses to stay on a few more months in order to collect that five figure sum.
Another point to make is that it used to be considered common courtesy to give as much notice as possible to one's constituency party of a decision to stand down in order that arrangements can be made for a replacement to be recruited. Who that might be, and whether the local party has any say these days i do not know, but it is another reason why any MP might stay on....
In this case as with the case of our Labour MP from 1997 the former Tory MP for Stratford Upon Avon i doubt the locals of the seat he is departing would vote for him anyway
In Newport East the Tory party were delighted to have as their regional assembly member the daughter of the man who got thrown out of Labour after canvassing for his wife to get a council officer's job before the outgoing officer had cooled enough for the pathologist to begin his post mortem, the man who campaigned to paint yellow lines aroud the free parting at St Woolos's cathedral while demanding free parking allocated to moslems only outside his mosque, the man who having switched from labour to plaid in order to become the first moslem welsh nationalist candidate who on getting elected demanded a bribe in the form for a job for his wife and daughter at public or party expense, and who jumped to become a tory after the welsh nationalists refused but the tories gave him the bribe to dent the labour majority, and the daughter he got the job for became the candidate after his death thanks in large measure to her mother being the party selection committee chair (another job the said corrupt bastard engineered to advance himself and his dynasty) despite being PLAID CYMRU's candidate in te 2011 election standing against me
So it's fair to say bribery and corruption are endemic and success despite more ethical people's abhorrence of such continues
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Post by patman post on May 17, 2024 13:35:16 GMT
Poulter, who has been a Tory MP for 14 years, has said the conservative party is now, and I quote: 'a nationalist right wing party'. Anyone who seriously thinks the current conservative party is a nationalist right wing party is either an idiot, or a liar, and although I don't know him I wouldn't have thought Dr Poulter was an idiot. But I do think his constituents will see him for what he is, a two faced shyster who has jumped ship to save his own skin. Edit: Just listened to an interview in which Poulter said he was a Labour voter before becoming a Tory MP! The man is a slippery snake oil salesman who quite clearly is more concerned about saving his job than his political beliefs, assuming he has any. This man has no loyalty and not a shred of credibility. Is he typical of the modern MP? Quite possibly. "My party right or wrong" is just a condensed form of blind obedience to nationalism peddled and exploited by bad leaders... |
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Post by Red Rackham on May 17, 2024 22:16:21 GMT
Poulter, who has been a Tory MP for 14 years, has said the conservative party is now, and I quote: 'a nationalist right wing party'. Anyone who seriously thinks the current conservative party is a nationalist right wing party is either an idiot, or a liar, and although I don't know him I wouldn't have thought Dr Poulter was an idiot. But I do think his constituents will see him for what he is, a two faced shyster who has jumped ship to save his own skin. Edit: Just listened to an interview in which Poulter said he was a Labour voter before becoming a Tory MP! The man is a slippery snake oil salesman who quite clearly is more concerned about saving his job than his political beliefs, assuming he has any. This man has no loyalty and not a shred of credibility. Is he typical of the modern MP? Quite possibly. "My party right or wrong" is just a condensed form of blind obedience to nationalism peddled and exploited by bad leaders... I do not consider the current conservative party to be 'my' party, largely because it's not very Conservative. Does that mean I prefer Labour? LOL, not on your nelly. I cant envisage any situation in which I could with a clear conscience vote for a socialist lawyer who for three years faught tooth & nail to overturn the biggest democratic vote in British political history, and now he wants us to forget about it. Starmer is pro EU, pro net zero, and pro mass immigration. Labour are the party of minorities, the children's party, the Islamic party. I would vote for Beelzebub himself before voting Labour. |
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