Nadine Dorries MP showing some class
Fantastic response from Nadine Dorries MP, in response to a possible story on her The Telegraph were due to publish tomorrow, click here .
For me so far, this is the biggest difference between (the majority of) Labour MPs and Conservative MPs . Labour constantly repeat, “in the rules, no probs guvnor”. Well, along that line!
Nadine Dorries publishes a full and frank response, David Davies uses ‘right to reply’, well, to reply click here . Margaret Beckett on Question TIme was shameless, Shahid Malik today was an utter joke.
David Cameron is showing Gordon Brown just how this situation should be managed. As promised, Conservative expenses from the shadow cabinet are now being published live, online, click here . Labour meanwhile, are waiting for an investigation.
Also today, David Cameron scrapped the party political broadcast to apologise. Mean while, Labour yet again smear Conservatives in their party political broadcast.
This whole situation has turned me from anti Labour, unsure who to vote for, into someone who plans to vote Conservative. Gordon Brown must go and I feel David Cameron deserves a chance. We need an election NOW. Not next year, not in six months time, NOW. I and many others have lost all trust in parliament and deserve to say how we feel and who we trust. Please Gordon, do the right thing. Yet you wont will you?
UK Voter replied:
I agree, there has been a clear distinction between the contrite, self-effacing response of most Tory MP’s and the aggressive, indignant responses by Labour MPs’. Clearly the latter have failed to grasp the public anger at this whole sorry affair. Labour are also likely to get a bit of a battering because many, including me, are sick and tired of their holier than thou attitude, of we know what is best for the British public. Their abject failure to admit mistakes, coupled with a willingness to spin, or sometimes even lie about statistics or results is shameful.
That said, I still believe there is a fundamental problem with the selection procedure used by all political parties, which seems to favour candidates from a very small pool, whilst positively excluding ordinary people, that may well have specific (and useful) skill sets in relation to health, business, education, economics etc. A party that is “ready for government” must also convince me that they have the best people to take on these key positions. All parties have, thus far, failed to do that. I would support the Tories if they agreed to complete a modernisation of the candidate selection procedure, that would suggest to me that they are indeed a modern party and in touch with what matters to the people of this country. We need to recruit the best and I for one, would have no problem with higher salaries for better MPs’, but I would never support more money for many of the idiots we have at the moment.
May 15, 2009 at 7:47 pm. Permalink.
allgoodnamesaretaken replied:
Parliamentary reform is a must. Cameron’s desire to reduce the number of MPs is another reason, I feel, to vote Conservative. However I do not feel simply reducing the number of MPs is sufficient. Further exhaustive reform is needed of the whole political system.
Labour have become very stale, it has to be said, as did the previous Tory government. I find most interesting however, the public backlash to the expenses scandal. Over the last two years, for example, there have been far more issues you would have expected people to be annoyed at. Yet the public are silent, mostly, until it comes to this.
If Gordon Brown will not call an election, which seems to be the general mood, what can we do? I cannot see people converging on Parliament Sq demanding an election is called. To say we live in a democratic society, a free society, we find ourselves hamstringed at the moment. If the public majority want an election, why can’t we have an election? Labour have lost the country, but Gordon Brown and Labour will not accept that simple truth.
May 15, 2009 at 8:07 pm. Permalink.
UK Voter replied:
I have argued that the ‘expense scandal’ is but a culmination of the steady decline of the relationship between politicians and the public. Many believe that MP’s in general and this government in particular is not listening to them and that there is nothing that they can do about it. So, now apathy has turned into antipathy. Politicians from all parties need to understand the fundamentals if they are to restore confidence and that will mean a damn sight more listening than talking. I also think some new blood in parliament is necessary, either through deselection within mainstream parties or the voting in of genuine independents. In other words, the mainstream can offer us alternatives (new blood) within their own ranks or we may choose to vote for alternatives outside the mainstream, perhaps independents.
May 17, 2009 at 11:49 pm. Permalink.