The Reform UK Party (latest nigel farage vehicle) is it to be laughed at or not

[andysays]

Not sure where that story's from, but if true is the possibility of a recall petition? Between them the Tories and Labour got well over 50% of the vote there last year, although admittedly I suspect only the Tories have a chance of taking the seat.

On what basis is there the possibility of a recall position?

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Not sure where that story's from, but if true is the possibility of a recall petition? Between them the Tories and Labour got well over 50% of the vote there last year, although admittedly I suspect only the Tories have a chance of taking the seat.

an MP has to do something that's within specific categories of 'wrong' before a recall petition can even be started, not just because (some) voters are pissed off with / don't like an MP (otherwise you'd get endless recall petitions in marginal seats until one party got bored or ran out of money, or the far right pushing recall petitions against MPs who are LGBT+ / black etc.)

unlike local councillors, who can be disqualified if they don't attend any council meetings for more than x amount of time, don't think there's any actual requirement for an MP to do anything specific at all once they have been elected.

A recall petition will take place if an MP is:

• convicted of an offence in the UK and receives a custodial sentence (including a suspended sentence) or is ordered to be detained, other than solely under mental health legislation
• suspended from the House of Commons for 10 sitting days or 14 calendar days
• convicted of providing false or misleading information for allowance claims under the Parliamentary Standards Act 2009.

source - electoral commission.

 

[stavros]

On what basis is there the possibility of a recall position?

I had thought that if enough contituents wanted it it happened, but Puddy_Tat has corrected me.

 

[Dom Traynor]

Sir Stuart Bell the MP for one of the Middlesbrough seats was famous as the member for the South of France as he spent most of his time there, even his own party (Labour) couldn't get rid of him...

 

[andysays]

I had thought that if enough contituents wanted it it happened, but Puddy_Tat has corrected me.

Strangely enough, there isn't a special provision for a recall petition if an MP's partner moves abroad.

 

[Lotte]

So I guess old Nige is going to the inauguration instead of doing his actual job?

 

[Calamity1971]

You couldn't make it up!

 

[cupid_stunt]

First Oakeshott moves to Dubai, now she's posting about loving the call to prayer, I wonder when Tice will get the hint.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Not satisfied with rubbing shoulders with Trump the rapist, he's rubbing shoulders with McGregor the rapist too.

Nigel Farage is facing cross-party condemnation for posting a photo to social media smiling alongside MMA fighter Conor McGregor, who last year was ordered to pay damages to a woman who accused him of raping her.

The woman, who accused McGregor of raping her in a Dublin hotel in 2018, won her claim against him for damages in an Irish civil case in November.

The Reform UK leader, who captioned the photo, “We are so back”, can be seen shaking McGregor’s hand in the photo, taken at a victory rally for Donald Trump in Washington on Sunday.

Farage condemned for posing with Conor McGregor on social media

Reform UK leader criticised for posing with MMA fighter, who lost civil rape case in Ireland last year

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Lotte]

Farage is totally fine with rapists if they're the right kind. McGregor isn't a Pakistani taxi driver, so he's the good kind of rapist.

 

[BusLanes]

ElectionMapsUK has inputted their rolling poll tracker % numbers into Electoral Calculus and produced these figures (seats change to 2024 GE) :

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and then mapped it (showing E&W; no refUKers in Scotland or NI AFAICS):

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Bit of a marsh-based thing going on for the fans of Farage?

Mildly amusing to see the Greena and LD almost getting no change

 

[Elohim]

'Labour refuse to open enquiry into grooming gangs' is all over the press now. All according to keikaku.

This issue is not going away and will be used to destroy the labour party not that Keir Starmer is dragging the labour party into the gutter himself.
The amount of labour members who have ripped up their membership cards since keir took control is unbelievable.

 

[Lotte]

I'll be joining them at this rate.

I am seriously getting to the point where I plan to kill myself in five years, unless we're all dead by then from nukes or whatever. I don't want to live on this planet anymore. Nothing will get better.

 

[not a trot]

I'll be joining them at this rate.

I am seriously getting to the point where I plan to kill myself in five years, unless we're all dead by then from nukes or whatever. I don't want to live on this planet anymore. Nothing will get better.

Are you a spurs supporter ?

 

[Smokeandsteam]

This issue is not going away and will be used to destroy the labour party not that Keir Starmer is dragging the labour party into the gutter himself.
The amount of labour members who have ripped up their membership cards since keir took control is unbelievable.

Got any evidence to back that up? I'm not disagreeing with you, you'd need your head examined to be a member of the Labour Party under Starmer, but I'd like to see it.

 

[ska invita]

Got any evidence to back that up? I'm not disagreeing with you, you'd need your head examined to be a member of the Labour Party under Starmer, but I'd like to see it.

Evidence of LP membership decline?
well this article is from summer 2023

Labour has lost 170,000 members since 2018 - but 50,000 have joined in a year - LabourList

Labour Party membership has fallen by almost 170,000 since 2018 and by approximately 19,000 since last summer, despite tens of thousands of members joining the party over the last year, new figures suggest.

labourlist.org

must be even worse now

 

[Smokeandsteam]

Evidence of LP membership decline?
well this article is from summer 2023

Yes. But specifically evidence of membership decline due to the grooming gangs issue.

 

[Elohim]

Yes. But specifically evidence of membership decline due to the grooming gangs issue.

I can only really mention from my own circle and when I'm at work the grooming issue's have been a hot topic especially on building sites

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

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[Smokeandsteam]

I can only really mention from my own circle and when I'm at work the grooming issue's have been a hot topic especially on building sites

Yeah, it definitely is. Same at our place. But the builders wouldn’t have been members would they?

 

[Elohim]

Yes. But specifically evidence of membership decline due to the grooming gangs issue.

Can Raja Miah be taken seriously what he is saying in regards to gangs connected to the labour party?

 

[Smokeandsteam]

Can Raja Miah be taken seriously what he is saying in regards to gangs connected to the labour party?

Eh?

 

[Lotte]

Are you a spurs supporter ?

Sheffield Wednesday. Tbh I'm fairly happy with where we are so football is one of the few things that I'm not upset about.

 

[cupid_stunt]

This is amusing.

Nigel Farage was asked if he actually made it into the Capitol for Trump’s inauguration and it’s the most satisfying thing you’ll watch today

Hard to believe we know but Donald Trump’s second inauguration day turned out to be more shocking – so much more shocking – than many people had anticipated (and not just because of Elon Musk). There were glimmers of light in the gloom of course – Melania Trump’s hat and that most unfortunate...

www.thepoke.com

Turns out he didn't even get an invite to the Capital's rotunda for the inauguration, best tweet on there - @Nigel_Farage You might as well have watched it in Clacton.

 

[Elohim]

Eh?

Is Raja Miah trust worthy or is he telling lies

 

[Smokeandsteam]

Is Raja Miah trust worthy or is he telling lies

Right, but what’s that got to do with my question? Which, to remind you, was about Labour Party membership levels!

 

[Elohim]

Right, but what’s that got to do with my question? Which, to remind you, was about Labour Party membership levels!

To honest I've got no hard evidence that the labour number's are declining all over the UK but in my area I've now left the labour party and over the last 18 months I've known plenty that have left.
I just imagine if what Raga Miah mentions about grooming gangs certain gang members having connections to the labour party then its going to be embarrassing and another of the reasons people leave the labour party.
The winter fuel allowance another factor that has destroyed much credibility to the labour party.

 

[Elohim]

Labour Party membership dips below 400,000 for first time in almost a decade - LabourList

Membership of the Labour Party dipped below 400,000 for the first time since 2015, according to recently published documents.

www.google.com