Thread: Owen Paterson: Anger as Tory MP avoids suspension in rule shake-up
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Old 04-11-2021, 22:46   #63
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Re: Owen Paterson: Anger as Tory MP avoids suspension in rule shake-up
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Originally Posted by Mick View Post
Yes, but at least we can evict corrupt and lost souls via the ballot box, we couldn’t do sweet FA with those lot in the corrupted EU.
It's a lovely theory but one that bears little resemblance to constitutional reality.

For example, Zac Goldsmith gets kicked out from his Richmond Park constituency via the ballot box. What happens next? Johnson gives him a peerage and retains him as a Minister. Goldsmith happens to provide Johnson with free holidays at his £25k-a-night family house in Spain.

So Goldsmith stays in government to become yet another unelected official we cannot evict via the ballot box.
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