Who is your MP & are they any good?
Discussion
rubes78 said:
James Sunderland.
Not really seen or heard much from him, but his voting record seems to be just toe the party line.
Could be worse, we are very close to having John Redwood who seems to have done the square root of fek all for his constituency, yet keeps getting voted in.
Having read Redwoods blog I dont think thats the case.Not really seen or heard much from him, but his voting record seems to be just toe the party line.
Could be worse, we are very close to having John Redwood who seems to have done the square root of fek all for his constituency, yet keeps getting voted in.
Daniel Kawczynski
Comes across as a Polish derived Alan B'Stard at times. Of the three MP's around these parts, he's the least odious, one of which got t
tted in my local for being an outright arse. Seems reasonably well regarded at constituency level and lives in the area. Fairly liberal (left his wife for a bloke) even if he randomly keeps asking the president of Poland to help speed up Brexit. My MP before I moved here was Corbyn (boo hiss). He was actually a very good constituency MP, personable and promptly and effectively dealt with a couple of issues I and an owners' association had. s
t Labour leader though. Pieman68 said:
Replaced Greg Mulholland, who was one of the few LDs who retained his seat after the coalition. Greg was a hard-working local MP who had a lot of respect from the local population and could often be seen offering surgeries at weekends in the local supermarket, with his offices in the same parade of shops (very low-end, low budget space). He got involved at my stepson's old rugby club when they were trying to replace a complex of council garages (there were actually only 2 left) in order to build changing rooms and facilities for a vibrant junior rugby league club
Sobel, I couldn't name you a thing he has done or have ever seen him
I'm not an LD but voted for Greg based on him being the best man for the job locally and was sad to see him go
I also voted for Greg Mulholland when I moved to the area around 5 years ago, I was just outside the area in another constituency prior to that. Sobel, I couldn't name you a thing he has done or have ever seen him
I'm not an LD but voted for Greg based on him being the best man for the job locally and was sad to see him go
When Sobel was first voted in he would attend Holt Park Asda maybe once or twice a month to hold "surgery" whcihw as really for show I believe, surrounded by half a dozen supporters, that fell off fairly quickly and I haven't seen him since. The wife has seen him a few times walking through Headingly where I believe he has his office.
GT03ROB said:
Mine is Sir Desmond Swayne.
Seems to like speaking from the wrong side of the house; falling asleep in the house during speeches by Ken Clarke; blackface and using the rough end of a pineapple on people dragging their feet to get back to work.
Hates muzzles, lockdown, quarantine and the EU.
Other good thing is he answers. Had occasion to email him once, had a response back inside 3hrs & at 7am in the morning.
Gets my vote!
Good to hear him calling sky news presenter "comrade" as he was trying to give Des a hard time last night. Seems to like speaking from the wrong side of the house; falling asleep in the house during speeches by Ken Clarke; blackface and using the rough end of a pineapple on people dragging their feet to get back to work.
Hates muzzles, lockdown, quarantine and the EU.
Other good thing is he answers. Had occasion to email him once, had a response back inside 3hrs & at 7am in the morning.
Gets my vote!
Christopher Chope! 
Absolutely useless.
I've seen him once in the 14yrs I've been here where he has heckled badly. I have emailed him a few times and have never had a single acknowledgement let alone a constructive reply. The sooner he goes the better but the sad thing is the purple rinse brigade will always vote him in.
Absolutely useless.
I've seen him once in the 14yrs I've been here where he has heckled badly. I have emailed him a few times and have never had a single acknowledgement let alone a constructive reply. The sooner he goes the better but the sad thing is the purple rinse brigade will always vote him in.
breamster said:
Christopher Chope!
Absolutely useless.
I've seen him once in the 14yrs I've been here where he has heckled badly. I have emailed him a few times and have never had a single acknowledgement let alone a constructive reply. The sooner he goes the better but the sad thing is the purple rinse brigade will always vote him in.
Yeah he was mine until moved up the road last year.Absolutely useless.
I've seen him once in the 14yrs I've been here where he has heckled badly. I have emailed him a few times and have never had a single acknowledgement let alone a constructive reply. The sooner he goes the better but the sad thing is the purple rinse brigade will always vote him in.
Evoluzione said:
Where I was born and currently work we have ex Coronation actress Tracy huge mouth Brabin, she doesn't even know what the place looks like.
Whilst I didn't necessarily agree with her politics she seems such an inadequate replacement for Jo Cox, who I believe tried very hard to represent her constituents and was truly local (she went to school with several of my friends)thetapeworm said:
Andrea Jenkyns (Conservative) - ardent Brexiteer, attention seeker, embarrassing interviewee and non-existent local MP other than for photo opportunities that allow further self promotion.
Tows the party line relentlessly, retweets nonsense and rarely adds her own thoughts. Unable to enter into any form of debate on any topic without resorting to "sore loser" script or blocking the other side.
Comes across as a party suck-up in the hope of promotion. This tactic isn't working much.
The best you get from her is that she is "opposed to..." or "in support of..." a local issue but appears unable to actually make any kind of personal impact on anything. Will happily have a photo taken at the site before disappearing into the shadows.
Relies on the hive of nepotism that is the local independent council to mask her lack of activity at a local level.
Fell off her own office chair and gave herself whiplash and concussion.
Gave a positive character reference for a chap that threatened to have MP Yvette Cooper beaten up.
Gets £25,000 a year to work for a think tank that doesn't exist.
Was the "other woman" when Jack Lopresti cheated on his wife (she's married to him now with a child)
Oddly has increasing support locally amongst a predominantly low-income, working class, population having initially beaten Ed Balls to the seat by a tiny majority. That said they voted the BNP in once so are hardly a benchmark for political matters.
I can't name a single thing she's done to make things better here.
So yeah, I'm a big fan.
And now she's in a Twitter spat with James O'Brien.Tows the party line relentlessly, retweets nonsense and rarely adds her own thoughts. Unable to enter into any form of debate on any topic without resorting to "sore loser" script or blocking the other side.
Comes across as a party suck-up in the hope of promotion. This tactic isn't working much.
The best you get from her is that she is "opposed to..." or "in support of..." a local issue but appears unable to actually make any kind of personal impact on anything. Will happily have a photo taken at the site before disappearing into the shadows.
Relies on the hive of nepotism that is the local independent council to mask her lack of activity at a local level.
Fell off her own office chair and gave herself whiplash and concussion.
Gave a positive character reference for a chap that threatened to have MP Yvette Cooper beaten up.
Gets £25,000 a year to work for a think tank that doesn't exist.
Was the "other woman" when Jack Lopresti cheated on his wife (she's married to him now with a child)
Oddly has increasing support locally amongst a predominantly low-income, working class, population having initially beaten Ed Balls to the seat by a tiny majority. That said they voted the BNP in once so are hardly a benchmark for political matters.
I can't name a single thing she's done to make things better here.
So yeah, I'm a big fan.
It started with this:
https://twitter.com/mrjamesob/status/1308316177941...
Now we're here:
https://twitter.com/mrjamesob/status/1308334684011...
Edited by thetapeworm on Wednesday 23 September 09:57
hantsxlg said:
Ranil Jayawardena.. seems good. Drives around in a FFRR... agreed with me that stupid how Hampshire council is dropping speedlimits on local dual carriageways. Active in local events, attends kids school activities. Has been part of JP trade deal, and promoting Hampshire's Bubbly wine production (better than that French muck now....). Overall a good un I think.
Doesn't reply to emails though, waste of space as far as I can see. But I haven't invited him to an event - god help us if that is the limit of his ability.
nealeh1875 said:
jess phillips
nope
Is that because you don't agree with her politics or because she's a useless MP. I always got the impression she was always fighting for her area. The way she took a stand against the Muslim parents and supported the school in the spat between them was quite impressive, when many of her fellow Birmingham MPs supported the parents because they were scared of losing votes. nope
Grant Shapps - met him a few times, he voted for ir35 even though he was self employed and knew exactly what it would create (zero rights employment and 30% fall in peoples incomes over night).
So no, plus Hs2 lol come on with still 25% of people wfh and who is going London to Birmingham now or ever
So no, plus Hs2 lol come on with still 25% of people wfh and who is going London to Birmingham now or ever
Mims Davis or Davies. I'm in a safe tory seat and the previous incumbent had been in situ since they invented the constituency. He was lazy and, according to a neighbour who went to see him to complain about the local tory council going back on a promise, was abrupt, disinterested and rude. I spoke with him three times, without result. He was on TV a lot, but did bugger all for those who voted him in. He retired/kicked out by Johnson after voting against something or other, and Davis was parachuted in. She's local and, I'm told, destined for greater things. Her only claim to fame, which was mentioned more than once during the 2019 campaign, was that she voted against an amendment to require landlords to provide accommodation fit for human habitation.
She's done nothing locally that I can see, although someone mentioned it's a waste of time writing to or emailing her.
What makes a good MP? Difficult to be precise, but I've had three MPs whom I would regard as good. All of them were availalbe, all listened to problems, and if nothing could be done, reasons were given without too much patronising. One put pressure on the local police - after I left the job - and an investigation resumed, resulting in an arrest, charge, conviction of someone for fraud.
Of the three good ones, two were tory and one was labour. None seemed particularly ambitious. Oddly enough, they all looked the same and if they were in a room, I'd have found it difficult to say which was which.
Does Davis compare? She's a career politician, which negates any chance of her being even adequate, let alone good.
She's done nothing locally that I can see, although someone mentioned it's a waste of time writing to or emailing her.
What makes a good MP? Difficult to be precise, but I've had three MPs whom I would regard as good. All of them were availalbe, all listened to problems, and if nothing could be done, reasons were given without too much patronising. One put pressure on the local police - after I left the job - and an investigation resumed, resulting in an arrest, charge, conviction of someone for fraud.
Of the three good ones, two were tory and one was labour. None seemed particularly ambitious. Oddly enough, they all looked the same and if they were in a room, I'd have found it difficult to say which was which.
Does Davis compare? She's a career politician, which negates any chance of her being even adequate, let alone good.
Challo said:
John Redwood is ours. Only lived in the constituency for the last year, so no real idea on how he is.
Previously had Dr Phillip Lee in Bracknell Forest, seemed ok till he defected over to the Lib Dems.
Redwood, the much loathed Member for Wokingham, which has never returned anyone other than a Tory. Previously had Dr Phillip Lee in Bracknell Forest, seemed ok till he defected over to the Lib Dems.
You could put a blue rosette on a dog turd there and they would still vote for it.
Not sure that's really a fair comment on Dr Phillip Lee though. He was a Remain voting Conservative in (strong) Leave voting Bracknell. He was clearly not the man to represent the majority there, so expectedly fell out with the local Conservative Association.
Instead of just toeing the line and taking his MP's salary against his personal convictions, he stood by his principles and crossed the floor to join the Lib Dems, knowing he was writing his own P45 as the Bracknell MP.
To me that says he is a man of integrity, unlike many politicians.
Meanwhile, in nearby Reading West, Alok Sharma campaigned to Remain but is now a fully paid up Leaver, 'cos Boris gave him a seat in the Cabinet. Shameful turncoat.
Matt Rodda is my MP in pro-EU Reading East.
I voted Labour for the first time ever to help him retain his seat against an absolute @rse of a Brexiteer first time Tory candidate called Craig Morley, whose approach to standing for Parliament for the first time involved abusing as many of his would be constituents as possible on Twitter, blocking anyone who disagreed with him. Utterly deluded in his approach to dealing with people.
Consequently, against the backdrop of a national electoral Labour disaster because of Corbyn, Matt Rodda saw a healthy increase in his majority in 2019.
He's a good constituency MP, who lives in it and campaigns on a number of local issues.
I voted Labour for the first time ever to help him retain his seat against an absolute @rse of a Brexiteer first time Tory candidate called Craig Morley, whose approach to standing for Parliament for the first time involved abusing as many of his would be constituents as possible on Twitter, blocking anyone who disagreed with him. Utterly deluded in his approach to dealing with people.
Consequently, against the backdrop of a national electoral Labour disaster because of Corbyn, Matt Rodda saw a healthy increase in his majority in 2019.
He's a good constituency MP, who lives in it and campaigns on a number of local issues.
Edited by PurpleTurtle on Wednesday 23 September 12:07
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