Oh FFS! He’s standing again! (Version 2, with added YT clip)

Posted by @ 7:27 pm on Thursday 11th May, 2017.
Categories: A bit of a rant, In the News
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This is a re-hash of my post of 7th May 2010. Not much has changed, so for obvious reasons it's a copy/paste job with only minor edits and additions...

For 30 years we've had the same MP, and in all that time we've only ever seen him once, when he was in Hinckley town centre drumming up support for his re-election in 2015. Hardly surprising, really, as he still lives nowhere near his Bosworth constituency, he still lives 140 miles away in Sussex, which is still even further away from Bosworth than Westminster is. He's tried to claim expenses for astrology software and for an intimate relationships course, and was guilty of accepting cash-for-questions. He believes that homeopathy can fix the NHS. He's still never responded directly to any of the questions that I've put to him, preferring to "sub out" the job to somebody else. We had high hopes that he'd be ousted in 2010, and even higher hopes in 2015, but, despite calls for him to stand down he's going to be campaigning for yet another term.

His obsession with using his parliamentary position to campaign for homeopathy is, to me, just plain wrong. He's paid to represent his constituents, not to pursue his own personal agenda.

Don't get me wrong - I'm not anti-homeopathy, I'm not anti-Tory, I don't much mind which party ends up in government and if the Tories had decided to adopt a different candidate here I would have given him/her due consideration for my vote. No, I just want to see the back of this self-serving fool. Actually, seeing ANY part of this fool is unlikely. He's like the absentee landlord, happy to accept the rent-money but never there when you need him to fix the property. It's not what's expected of a public servant, and certainly not what I expect of my representative in Parliament.

We're going to be screwed. Again.

Source

I think he gets through the candidate adoption process using homeopathic methods like this:

2 Responses to “Oh FFS! He’s standing again! (Version 2, with added YT clip)”

  1. Glen says:
    Thursday 18th May, 2017 at 9:45 am

    His non-appearance within the constituency to be effective is totally consistent with a belief in homeopathy.

    Reply? or Quote in reply?
  2. BG! says:
    Thursday 18th May, 2017 at 8:53 pm

    Originally Posted By Glen
    His non-appearance within the constituency to be effective is totally consistent with a belief in homeopathy.

    It's totally consistent with my belief in his apathy.

    Reply? or Quote in reply?

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