Agreed. I don't think you could get much worse as an MP then Jonathan Djanogoly, but he will get in again. Huntingdonshire doesn't choose MPs of any other party.

S-D

Let's look on the bright side, at least us still serving don't have to put up with Ms SG anymore, with that sort of self promoting aren't I great hyperbole she'd be at least a Gp Capt pushing 1* by now....I'd rather she be an MP than that!!

I remarked to John Major when he was on the campaign trail (before he was P.M.)
"You could tie a blue ribbon around the tail of a donkey in Huntingdon and it would get in"
He came straight back,
" I wonder if I should bray somewhere else?"

JM was a much liked and respected MP in the constituency, and was a good supporter of the RAF locally. Indeed after a "Freedom" parade he came to the civic junket afterwards and spoke to every man and woman who had been on parade. Norma was similarly well-liked and I met her several times presenting cheques from Wyton to her particular charities. Several years later the Majors appeared at the yacht club of which I was Secretary for a relative's "wake". John and Norma came straight over "Hello, W, how are you", from both of them. I was quite taken aback, but well impressed. my staff were too!

Edwina Currie was fairly impressed by John Major too.

Wot, even the (allegedly) grey shreddies!

Back to the very Basics, indeed.

I note that Anne Soubry Minister of State for Defence is speaking in the House as I write his. Looking as her history what on earth are her qualifications for her post???

She got elected..........

She got elected only very recently and only as an MP. She was appointed as a minster. I asked what qualifications has she to decide what is best for our Armed Forces.

1. Doing whatever DC wants
2. See point 1.

I shouldn't worry about Anna Soubry after May as she has the 20th smallest majority in the house as she won with a majority of 389 or 0.74% of the vote in 2010 in her constituancy. I would predict that her replacement will be wearing a red or purple/yellow rosette if the local populace get their way.

LJ

In post 44 Sophy Gardner says:

I am happy to be living in Gloucester as the first home I have not been posted to. It’s a great place in case you haven’t been here.

However, rather than being a specific location of choice, it would appear to be more a case of where she could finally get chosen as a Labour Prospective Parliamentary Candidate. It would appear this was her third attempt, as the quote from the Gloucester Labour website states

Gardner was previously shortlisted for the Feltham and Heston and Rotherham selections. Shortlisted twice previously, but not selected, see

Gloucester CLP select their PPC | LabourList

and see:

Feltham and Heston ? The Shortlist | LabourList

http://labourlist.org/2011/11/feltha...date-selected/

Rotherham by-election shortlist announced | LabourList

http://labourlist.org/2012/11/soarah...-in-rotherham/

No doubt Sophy also thinks that Rotherham and Feltham are "great places"?

I'm sorry if Sophy or anyone thinks the above comments are unfair since I am anonymous and she isn't, but they all come from Labour Party websites, are in the public domain, and as a prospective politician Sophy must expect her actions to come under more scrutiny than most - it goes with the territory I'm afraid!

Haraka, Re your #82.
Do you recall the "Dead Ferret in Blue" reports in the Hunts Post of the same era as your Donkey sketch? That caused quite a fuss and rumbled on for quite a time. I think it even prompted me to contribute to the HP letters page as I have on several occasions. most famously on Alconbury runway not being exploited due to poor transport links and noisy aircraft. Almost 20 years on I don't see many of the jobs promised.


The lady opposite me was one of his canvassers. the night he was elected she received a visitation as he wanted to personally thank all his supporters. I looked out of the bedroom window and thought it was the men in the black Omega coming for me after midnight! Surprisingly this was on the Oxmoor estate!!


JM is several orders of magnitude better than the current incumbent. He was on first name terms with my daughter when he called in at Hodsons chip shop on a Friday night until a year or so ago.


Wander, I concur. He and Norma did quite a lot for the local community. I was involved in school governing and other community work at the time and met Norma on a number of occasions.

You should correct that.

JM
 

dragartist ; see yer PMs :)

Tell you what fellows, I would vote for a dead ferret rather than any LibLabCon representative in modern times, none of whom put our country at the top of the priority tree. Maybe that exposes my ignorance as an ex SNCO, rather than a recipient of the wisdom of a Commission, but just like all of the Commisioned votes, I have one too, and I will use it, not follow family routine. UKIP, Greens whatever, if it's not LibLabCon, it will get my vote, at 62 years old, I've seen enough two faced CaMorons in my life.

Smudge:ok:

That ignorance is not because you were a SNCO smuj, that is just plain ignorance. If you think your ability to cast your vote is somehow demeaned by having given non-commissioned service rather than commissioned service, then that is really rather sad. Unfortunately your attitude is all too prevalent.

S-D

Is this the same Paul Smyth who was on 27 in 1984?

Many years ago when he was a F/O I flew with an ex Harrier Pilot who was a big wig in UKIP at the time. Name escapes me but I think he lived in Hants/Isle of Wight area.

Yes it is.

I think that she clearly has all the attributes required to be a politician, being duplicitous, disingenuous, and with an over-inflated sense of her own importance, that no one else seems to share.

Whatever you may think of Sophy Gardner..

http://order-order.com/

....Therefore, I can confirm I would decline this money.”

Whatever......:rolleyes:

Jack

TBB (That B@st@rd Bliar) donated £106,000 to the Labour party for its 106 target seats; Gloucester is #38. Thus Ms Gardner's form of words is probably because she hasn't been formally offered it yet, but fully expected to be offered it.

Well maybe if you'd have served in a more operationally focussed role over the previous 10 years that led to GW2 and had been closer to the high-level intel then you may have a different view? Instead, by apparently sitting behind a similarly 'sexed-up' CV on your website and making a political point about your own service in the RAF, then you are, in my personal opinion, no better [edit] than Mr Bliar.

Furthermore, why your Party would support donations of such kind is beyond me. Why you did not take the money and gift it to the underclass, I don't know either - that would be true socialism. That is just another reason why the 'Champagne Socialism' of today's Labour Party will never, ever, enjoy my vote again since I voted for you in 1997.

LJ

Leon, should that be 'no better' rather than 'no worse'?

Thanks :ok:

Leon, your involvement in the incident with the pig, the banana and the vicar's wife could be forgiven as 'high jinks' , but this ?!?! ;)

You know what to do...

Well Leon, if you believe Ed Balls, you might repeat your 1997 choice... :eek:

Reference my foolishness in '97...

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4...1579o1_500.jpg

Or shall I fetch the Mess Revolver...

http://cache2.asset-cache.net/gc/488...rc5DOjDwoqCqiS

Good to see a chap doing the decent thing..................you've got no chance in Politics LJ ;)

Well done people of Gloucester - you made the right choice! :D:D:D

IMHO, of course...:ok:

It would appear that I was wrong about the Rt Hon Anna Soubry MP - she has increased her share of the vote by 6.2% over Labour in the Broxtowe marginal seat.

Credit, where credit is due. Well done. :D

LJ

Equally glad that Galloway has gone. I can remember his PR stunt in a red London bus to Baghdad whilst I was being shot at about 20-30 miles south by AAA!

Leon, please tell me you that you didn't have 'lock' on the bus and didn't take the shot! Far worse than the '97 incident.

Very sensible people in Gloucester. OBVIOUSLY!:ok:

I'm sure that by Monday morning her online profile will reflect that not only did she win her seat but she was made Prime Minister, Secretary General of the UN and captain of the England Rugby World Cup Squad, the first time that a woman has held these posts simultaneously. Well done Air Chief Marshall Sophy VC, Nobel Prize for Physics and Gold Blue Peter Badge winner.

Leon, I am puzzled, why six rounds with the pistol, are you such a poor shot at close range? :}

Thread Drift
 

I know I am a bluff old traditionalist, but returning to the thread title for a brief interlude, in fact Paul Smyth came second to Elizabeth Truss. This was a significant achievement as he polled nearly 12,000 votes.