Thread: Owen Paterson: Anger as Tory MP avoids suspension in rule shake-up
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Old 03-11-2021, 23:19   #6
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Re: Owen Paterson: Anger as Tory MP avoids suspension in rule shake-up
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Originally Posted by 1andrew1 View Post
That's all spin for the weak-minded party faithful to lap up. Even MPs don't believe that hyperbole though they do feel understandably sorry for the popular MP in question whose wife committed suicide last year. It's just a purely political decision which lessens the checks and balances in British democracy. When one of Johnson's men was caught out by the rules, they decided to change the rules.

As Robert Shrimsley in the FT notes

https://www.ft.com/content/859a0859-...a-8e22131eab97
That is your inevitable opinion, but Paterson is not off the hook. All the PM is saying is that he, and every MP, should have the right of appeal.

What’s wrong with that?
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