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Bishop Hill
Bishop Hill Yeo fights on
Dec 11, 2013 Yeo ;)
The news on Twitter is that Tim Yeo has sounded out support in his constituency and is confident enough to put the question of his standing for the party at the next election to a ballot.
Reader Comments (19)
What frightens me is that the average voter may well vote him back in: “Well, we know him, and he’s a nice guy, really…”
You would have thought he would be happy to be Lord Yeo of Troughertown.
You do not expect him to give up his MP's salary & expenses, his select committee payment and the large payments for consultancy?
He will do what he can to preserve his very comfortable lifestyle.
Even Ceaușescu had initial difficulty accepting his declining popularity.
For the first time, energy with rent costs are top of the list for households.
Http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/consumertips/household-bills/10510447/Energy-and-rent-are-now-the-biggest-family-bills.html
Givem Tim's already poor reputation locally and his association with high energy costs nationally, if he stands again it will be a gift to the other parties all round. The national Conservative party must see that if by some chance he is reselected, then this 8,000majority, 30 year constituency, is under a very real threat. The persona of 'Trougher Tim' is a damaging legacy to a government tarnished with charges of pandering to lobbyists and self interest groups.
Given that the man is a shameless shit of the old school, nakedly greedy, smug, dismissive and contemptuous, it can hardly be a surprise that he is attempting to remain as an MP. Even Evelyn Waugh might have struggled to do justice to Yeo's insouciant cynicism.
Thought we were supposed to be getting powers to sack MPs promised at the last election
I have been saying it for years but the average brit is as thick as two short planks and there are some planks more intelligent than the worst brit.
The politicians have been using this knowledge for years and Yeo is just another in the line of deceitful polis.
UK government criticised for Soviet style energy planning without knowing what they were doing: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/10508792/Ministers-must-stop-Soviet-style-interference-in-energy-markets-says-IEA.html
"sounded out support in his constituency"
I wonder who he asked? I can't see his local party being too cooperative even if he does get himself back onto the ballot paper, given that they didn't want him there!
My guess is that he is so arrogant and detached that the deselection came as a bolt from the blue, and he's now calculated the consequent effect on trough futures...
Dec 11, 2013 at 4:18 PM | Unregistered Commenter agouts
+10 : pure poetry.
Unless he's underestimating his party members.
Et tu, Brute?
Lets see whether their smart enough to dump him.
Maybe their not.
Their decision I suppose, but, if he's back we know for certain we have a political Oligarchy in the UK, not anything that even vaguely passes for democracy,
The local paper, The East Anglian Daily Times, is a fully paid up member of the church of man made climate change, so even though it leans to the left, it will support Yeo, and that makes a lot of difference.
mike fowle:
"The local paper, The East Anglian Daily Times, is a fully paid up member of the church of man made climate change... "
The EADT wlll publish letters pointing out the mistakes made in regard of climate change and also letters opposing renewables, but it also has a regular 'green' energy supplement, with renewable energy advertisers and other sponsored material. There are some columnists, such as Paul Geater, who are pro-AGW, but their main motive is financial gain.
Postal ballot in New Year by 600 members of the South Suffolk Conservatives. (If they're still there)
http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/politics/south_suffolk_mp_tim_yeo_to_fight_for_his_seat_with_party_ballot_1_3101155
http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/politics/reaction_mixture_of_views_over_tim_yeo_being_dropped_by_south_suffolk_conservatives_1_3061106
He must know a lot of closets where the skeletons are...
Steven Whalley (obviously another East Anglian resident), true. Indeed in today's edition there are a couple of letters ridiculing a recent letter from a Green Party chap who claimed that the St Jude's Day storm and the tidal surge were due to fossil fuels. On the other hand the front page gives very sympathetic coverage to Yeo. And of course the Environment supplement every Saturday contains pages and pages of propaganda.
I was away when the Yeo story broke and when I heard it I cheered, it was the best news since the end on the Korean War. I knew of him in the 1980s and early 90s and he was a self serving ignoramus then. Best they keep out for good.
Re the EADT - it's a sister to the Eastern Daily Press which has similar views. I've just submitted a rebuttal to yet another emotive diatribe in favour of wind, which was given the pride of place on today's letters page. The EDP, along with the Norwich Evening News and the Ipswich Star, all come under the Archant umbrella, and much the same articles and advertisers tend to appear in all titles, with just small variations to suit each local market. I get the distinct impression that they only allow a certain amount of anti - renewable comment, so as not to upset their financial supporters, and backers.