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Old 04-11-2021, 20:42   #61
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Re: Owen Paterson: Anger as Tory MP avoids suspension in rule shake-up

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Why stay when you can make much more in the private sector
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How very true. And as a bonus, if he feels that he has been misjudged in relation to his conduct in the future, he will have the right of appeal.
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Old 04-11-2021, 21:06   #62
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How very true. And as a bonus, if he feels that he has been misjudged in relation to his conduct in the future, he will have the right of appeal.
I’m not sure why he would appeal his own resignation in disgrace.
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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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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.
Good one, Andrew.
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I’m not sure why he would appeal his own resignation in disgrace.
I said his conduct in the future. Sadly, you seem to have problems understanding that word ‘future’, jfman.
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No!Not at all We just appreciate that even they can realise when they have taken a step too far.It's basically all we have against these muppets.
I'd prefer not to let them forget we know what they are, the selfservatives

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Good.

Next topic please.
Don't think so, they don't get to try and circumvent the rules and then change the subject just because they got caught out

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I wonder when Claudia Webbe will be in front of the Standards Committee?
I wonder why you've brought her up now and not before, was it for a bit of deflection and whataboutery rather than her unsavory character and crimes?

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True, being an MP was hindering his money making !

Don't know why anyone is surprised by this. This Govt is rotten to the Boris core. We've swapped hedgemonic Brussels and given the absolute power to an even more corrupt set up. Well done us !
You think a man of his talents would make this money in the private sector then?
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I said his conduct in the future. Sadly, you seem to have problems understanding that word ‘future’, jfman.
Your implication was that he would benefit from being corrupt in the private sector in that he would have an appeal process.

As I correctly said I’m not sure resigning in disgrace then appealing is the most solid grounds for an employment tribunal.

I am however hugely entertained by this cruel world of politics narrative being pushed. Yes, it’s a cruel world that allows you to trouser half a million quid moonlighting for 11 days a year serving corporate interests instead of your constituents.

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Re: Owen Paterson: Anger as Tory MP avoids suspension in rule shake-up

Hold on!

The Government is abandoning the new process MPs voted for only yesterday?

This clearly is a slap in the face for the Sovereignty of our Parliament, blatantly ignoring the will of our elected representatives.
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I see no other conclusion that can legitimately be reached.
Of course you dont, you will never see anything unless it suits your hatred of said government.

As I see it, he broke some rules, at some point, and got caught.
For some bizarre reason, a few of his allies tried to get him off the hook in an entirely dumb way.
Unsurprisingly, it totally backfired on them, and they all ended up looking very stupid and foolish.
It all seems entirely unnecessary, they should have just left him to do his original (30 day ?) suspension.

Is this part of some nefarious dastardly plot ? Of course its not.
To think this part of some grand scheme is just plain ridiculous.

Will any of this whole thing actually affect my daily life at all ? No it wont, so I really dont care.
Just another day of haters hating, using the obvious ammunition stupidly fed to them in this case.
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Hatred is quite a strong word. Just because I didn’t vote for them doesn’t exempt me from commenting on their routine incompetence. A nefarious, dastardly plot sounds like an apt description from where I sit. I think the fact it was such an obviously bad idea - condemned almost universally on this forum except the usual one or two who downplay it - yet Ministers went out on television to stand up for it only underlines the fact they genuinely and bizarrely believed they could have got away with it playing the Brexit card.
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The only plot here seems to be the one you have clearly lost.
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Your implication was that he would benefit from being corrupt in the private sector in that he would have an appeal process.

As I correctly said I’m not sure resigning in disgrace then appealing is the most solid grounds for an employment tribunal.

I am however hugely entertained by this cruel world of politics narrative being pushed. Yes, it’s a cruel world that allows you to trouser half a million quid moonlighting for 11 days a year serving corporate interests instead of your constituents.
No - that was your misinterpretation.

If you are accused of something and you feel that the decision to discipline you was made following a shoddy investigation which relied on incorrect evidence, in any other area of life, you would have the right of appeal.

That is all I am arguing here. I am not judging his behaviour.
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in any other area of life, you would have the right of appeal.

That is all I am arguing here. I am not judging his behaviour.
Both the standards commissioner and the standards committee have to agree that an MPs conduct warrants formal action, it's not jut the standards commissioner by themselves
https://publications.parliament.uk/p...dTextAnchor058

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19.Where the Commissioner has concluded that there has been a breach of the rules, and the Committee agrees in whole or in part, those concerned face a range of penalties. In a very few cases, the reputational damage of an adverse report will be deemed sufficient, together with any action required to remedy the breach. In more serious cases the Committee will make recommendations for further action. The Committee may recommend:
At both stages of that investigation, the MP in question is given the opportunity to respond.

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This sudden need for an extra appeal step may have value, but you can't ditch an existing process before deciding what the new one is.

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And if you are going to add new appeals processes, you should also make sure that any final decision is properly enforced and can't be ignored

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...ed-review-says

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The prime minister should no longer be the only person who can give permission for ethics investigations into his own conduct and that of ministers, according to a wide-ranging review by the independent committee on standards in public life.

The committee, chaired by former spy chief Jonathan Evans, found that the rules around the conduct of ministers need strengthening, arguing they currently fall “below the bar” for effective standards regulation.
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Both the standards commissioner and the standards committee have to agree that an MPs conduct warrants formal action, it's not jut the standards commissioner by themselves
https://publications.parliament.uk/p...dTextAnchor058



At both stages of that investigation, the MP in question is given the opportunity to respond.

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This sudden need for an extra appeal step may have value, but you can't ditch an existing process before deciding what the new one is.

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And if you are going to add new appeals processes, you should also make sure that any final decision is properly enforced and can't be ignored

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...ed-review-says
It is Owen Paterson’s argument that the Investigating Committee got its facts wrong and he was not, in fact, given the ability to correct them. He says he has not been listened to. Given that this point has been made, don’t you think that there should be a pause to consider whether there is a need to establish an appeal right?

This whole thing has been politicised and blown up out of all proportion. The belief (or suggestion) is that this is a ruse to let him off the hook, but actually, it is not. It’s about justice - the same kind of justice we give in all other areas of British life. An appeal would not necessarily reduce the penalty or quash the decision. However, it would at least give him the proper opportunity to let him have his say.
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The belief (or suggestion) is that this is a ruse to let him off the hook, but actually, it is not.
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