By Election Bingo 2024-2029

[Ulitzer95 12,654]

9 minutes ago, The Old Crem said:

Andrew Pierce in the Daily Mail saying they are rumours Oliver Dowden and Julian Smith might get peerages and quit the commons. 
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14094205/ANDREW-PIERCE-Rishi-Sunaks-honours-list-dumps-Kemi-Badenoch-Lord-sized-hole.html

 

 

At a cost of £500,000 to the taxpayer. Selfish beyond belief. They should be made to pay that out of their own pockets.

[The Old Crem 3,608]

Losing independent candidate , Leanne Mohamed, in Wes Streeting’s seat of Ilford North launching legal action arguing  irregularities at the count. Unlikely to go anywhere but who knows. 

[Bibliogryphon 9,588]

Reform MP James McMurdock was convicted of domestic violence but this was not revealed during the election process.  Not sure where this sits legally but it is not a good look 

[Ulitzer95 12,654]

1 hour ago, Bibliogryphon said:

Reform MP James McMurdock was convicted of domestic violence but this was not revealed during the election process.  Not sure where this sits legally but it is not a good look 

For full context (and this is why Twitter is dangerous, especially "exposé" accounts that only seek to do damage to someone's image without providing details):

1) This was reported months ago, days after he was elected – he commented on it at the time.

2) It was a fight he had out in public with his then girlfriend when he was 19. He's now 38, has subsequently married another woman and has 4 kids with her.

3) Has had no run ins with the police since.

Short answer is no, nothing will come out of it.

[The Old Crem 3,608]

40 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said:

For full context (and this is why Twitter is dangerous, especially "exposé" accounts that only seek to do damage to someone's image without providing details):

1) This was reported months ago, days after he was elected – he commented on it at the time.

2) It was a fight he had out in public with his then girlfriend when he was 19. He's now 38, has subsequently married another woman and has 4 kids with her.

3) Has had no run ins with the police since.

Short answer is no, nothing will come out of it.

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/reform-mp-james-mcmurdock-kicking-ex-girlfriend-rm3ffx73x
 

‘The MP had told the media he had been jailed for ‘pushing’ former partner in 2006, when the court records suggest a more violent assault.’

 

‘He had not publicly disclosed the conviction before he was elected as an MP and downplayed the attack as a “teenage indiscretion” when details first emerged in the weeks after the election.

 

The Times applied to the courts for information from the official record of his conviction, which was released on Wednesday..’

 

 

 

[Ulitzer95 12,654]

5 minutes ago, The Old Crem said:

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/reform-mp-james-mcmurdock-kicking-ex-girlfriend-rm3ffx73x
 

‘The MP had told the media he had been jailed for ‘pushing’ former partner in 2006, when the court records suggest a more violent assault.’

 

‘He had not publicly disclosed the conviction before he was elected as an MP and downplayed the attack as a “teenage indiscretion” when details first emerged in the weeks after the election.

 

The Times applied to the courts for information from the official record of his conviction, which was released on Wednesday..’

 

 

 

Still happened 18 years ago, and he was punished then and there, AND he's publicly apologised and expressed remorse.

Doesn't matter if it was a push or a kick (or multiple kicks), the charge would have been the same. The sentence was carried out and he was punished as a young offender.

I strongly believe in rehabilitation and second chances for everyone. The ONLY issue I have in any of this was that it wasn't declared publicly before he ran for election. But he's not the only one sitting in either Houses of Parliament with a conviction of some kind, and it's unfair to focus on a single individual.

It's a completely different matter if someone commits a crime WHILST an MP and hasn't yet been punished for it yet. Enter Labour's Mike Amesbury...

[The Old Crem 3,608]

How long till there is a by election in Sheffield Heeley. Can’t imaging Labout will be keen for one even through it doesn’t seem a seat the Tories or Reform could win even with Labour’s current bad poll ratings. 

[Ulitzer95 12,654]

1 hour ago, The Old Crem said:

How long till there is a by election in Sheffield Heeley. Can’t imaging Labout will be keen for one even through it doesn’t seem a seat the Tories or Reform could win even with Labour’s current bad poll ratings. 

Can you explain to me why you think it’s grounds to resign as an MP?

 

I feel sorry for her. Not her fault. Starmer knew about it and gave her the post anyway. He should bloody resign, not her.

[The Old Crem 3,608]

21 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said:

Can you explain to me why you think it’s grounds to resign as an MP?

 

I feel sorry for her. Not her fault. Starmer knew about it and gave her the post anyway. He should bloody resign, not her.

It’s not ground but you can never tell in cases like this if the media and political mood becomes she should quit as MP 

[Toast 16,152]

2 hours ago, Ulitzer95 said:

Can you explain to me why you think it’s grounds to resign as an MP?

I feel sorry for her. Not her fault. Starmer knew about it and gave her the post anyway. He should bloody resign, not her.

 

It's ridiculous that she feels she has to resign. She made a mistake, that's all.

I did something very similar after a burglary.  I listed a piece of jewellery among the stolen items, just a seed pearl brooch, not very valuable. I genuinely thought it had been taken. Claimed on insurance and then it turned up some months later in a coat pocket.