Westminster Politics

Tracey Crouch has resigned over the delay in reducing the maximum stakes for fixed-odds betting machines. Fair play to her for sticking to her principles on this.
 
Think it's a disgrace the Home Sec that presided over this scandal is still in government.
 
Theresa May will receive a vote of no confidence?

 
 
This is becoming like the English managerial merry go round in the EPL
 
I know for the most part polling means nothing but



UKIP taking over the Lib Dems.
 
Adisa said:
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To be fair, she was given a hospital pass with that, which has been fairly well covered by the British press.

She should have known anyway, and deservedly paid with her job, but she was given false information and passed that along...
 
Sweet Square said:
I know for the most part polling means nothing but



UKIP taking over the Lib Dems.
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Interesting... But if we were to have a ge... Presumably that would at least potentially be with a new conservative leader... Which could impact voting... Equally one party might have a 2nd referendum in their manifesto which could change things... Perhaps even a new remain party (Blair?)... Momentum possibly deselecting mps and labour having to face incumbent independents...
Polling would for sure have some shifts but interesting to see the figures posted there
 
sun_tzu said:
Interesting... But if we were to have a ge... Presumably that would at least potentially be with a new conservative leader... Which could impact voting... Equally one party might have a 2nd referendum in their manifesto which could change things... Perhaps even a new remain party (Blair?)... Momentum possibly deselecting mps and labour having to face incumbent independents...
Polling would for sure have some shifts but interesting to see the figures posted there
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Yeah there's a million outcomes that could dramatically change the outcome of the next election. I do worry about UKIP, they aren't the same UKIP pre referendum. They are really to the far right(and religious)now.
 
Sweet Square said:
Yeah there's a million outcomes that could dramatically change the outcome of the next election. I do worry about UKIP, they aren't the same UKIP pre referendum. They are really to the far right(and religious)now.
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Would farrage eve come back to ukip to be leader and standfor election... After all he will be off the EU gravy train?
 
Sweet Square said:
Can we get rid of this arsehole in the next election please

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But he seems like such a nice guy;
During the expenses scandal of 2009, it emerged that Chope claimed £136,992 in parliamentary expenses in 2007-8. This included claiming £881 to repair a sofa.[11]

On 11 October 2011, Chope questioned the time allotted to a debate on MPs' pensions. Because this debate came before a debate into the Hillsborough disaster inquiry, it was reported that Chope had threatened to delay the inquiry, leading to widespread criticism of Chope's actions.[12][13]

Chope was criticised in January 2013 for referring to House of Commons dining room staff as "servants" in a speech.[14]

On 10 February 2009, Chope co-sponsored an Employment Opportunities Bill to the House of Commons, which would have enabled workers to opt out of the minimum wage.[

Chope is sceptical of climate change and attended a meeting of climate change sceptics in the Palace of Westminster in October 2010.[18]

Chope voted against the legislation for same-sex marriage in 2013.[21]

In 2014, Chope voted against requiring all companies with more than 250 employees to declare the gap in pay between the average male and average female salaries.[22]

In June 2013, Chope was one of four MPs who camped outside Parliament in a move to facilitate parliamentary debate on an "Alternative Queen’s Speech" – an attempt to show what a future Conservative government might deliver.[23] 42 policies were listed including reintroduction of the death penaltyand conscription, the privatisation of the BBC, banning the burka in public places, holding a referendum on same sex marriage and preparing to leave the European Union.[23

On 12 March 2010, he blocked a bill to protect poor countries from vulture funds, despite his party's support for the bill.[31]

In December 2013, Chope objected to the second reading of the Alan Turing (Statutory Pardon) Bill in the House of Commons.[32]

In November 2014, Chope blocked a bill that would have banned the use of wild animals in circus performances, on the basis that a bill on EU membership should have been called before the bill.[35] In the same month, Chope, alongside Philip Davies, the Conservative MP for Shipley, filibustered a bill intended to make revenge evictions an offence.[

In October 2015, Chope, Davies and Conservative MP David Nuttall filibustered a private member's bill that would have placed restrictions on hospital parking charges for carers.[39]

On 15 June 2018, Chope blocked the passage of a private member's bill that would have made upskirting a specific offence.

On the same day as the upskirting bill, Chope and Davies forced a delay to the final debate on a bill which would have improved the oversight of the use of force in mental health units. Chope also blocked a bill which would have given extra legal protection to police dogs and horses.[28][45][46], an action the BBC subsequently cited for the continued lack of protection for police dogs.[47]

On 16 July 2018, Chope blocked a motion calling for the House of Commons chamber to be used for a Women MPs of the World Conference on a day in November when MPs were not sitting.
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And it goes on and on. It's like we're playing a game of MP Simulator and his character is that second playthrough you do when you want to make all the Evil choices just to see what happens.
 
Mr Pigeon said:
And it goes on and on. It's like we're playing a game of MP Simulator and his character is that second playthrough you do when you want to make all the Evil choices just to see what happens.
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:lol:That's a perfect description of him. Also need to question his voters and the sheer size of his majority.
Wow. People actually vote for him thinking'he's a good guy, he really stands for what I believe in'.
 
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