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Some Green policies are pretty dodgy btw, I wonder if she honestly supports them all?
I've heard nothing original in her comments, and far too much rhetoric
How is this amount of rhetoric coming from a politician "a breath of fresh air"?
Any idea if he is likely to run again?
Ken Clarke is a decent chap and is my MP, but his decision to stand again having said he would stand down at the next election is causing me some concern as his motivation is likely to try and stop Brexit happening. Which I would struggle to support.
Our previous MP was Labour and, again, just a good local MP whom I had dealings with through work (and there is a picture on our fridge of her giving an award to my youngest son). I'm glad not to have a 'name' politician locally.
I think I've mentioned before that I used to work with someone who is now a bit of a celeb MP and she was always someone who seemed very driven and ambitious, I don't know if that's a good thing in an MP or not.
You have his motivation entirely wrong. When he said he would stand down at the next election, he assumed that would be 2020, thus giving him a few more years. As his party leader has scuppered the 2020 election, then he's entirely right to say he will stand this year and continue his work. One suspects that he will then stand down as MP well before the 2022 election.
I can't say much good about my local (SNP) MP, unfortunately. He's typical of the hypocrisy and one-party-state behaviour redolent of the old Scottish Labour Party which the SNP has grasped with both hands in a remarkably short space of time.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
It's very hard to answer the question who are the "good" MPs, which seems a sad indictment, but on the other hand that doesn't mean they're "bad" either, apart from some obvious stuff about expenses scandals and the like.
I guess most of us don't really know if our MPs are any good or not unless we've had reason to deal with them personally. Some come across OK on the radio and TV, we can look at their voting records etc but that doesn't tell the whole story.
My MP is Chuka Umunna, I think of him as not much more than an archetypal champagne socialist type but he might do loads of good work in the constituency for all I know.
The only real way is for people/me to put in rather a lot of effort to simply drown out the din off everyone else's opinion, get some research done and come to some kind of informed political decision. I think most people simply can't be bothered to put that much effort into something that generally pisses them off (like I have in the past). The result is this boaty McBoatface political clusterffuck we've ended up in now.
So thanks for the listed MPs. It'll give me a starting point to actually look at and try and work out how to vote for someone I actually want rather than voting against something I don't want.
Am I making any sense? Sorry for rambling if not...