Conservative Leader David Cameron has called for ‘ordinary voters’ to stand as tory candidates at the next election.
The call comes at a time when many expect a massive change in the faces swanning around the Houses of Parliament after the next election.
A publicity stunt on the part of Mr cameron? absolutely! but it stands to reason that the replacements for the ones who have forced to quit will be voters.
Before Mr Cameron gets too carried away selecting new candidates though, there are still individuals walking the corridors of Westminster who have mis-used public funds and one would hope he will spend as much time keeping the pressure on for them to quit and repay the money they have ’stolen’ from the public purse, regardless of which political banner they may unite under.
Tory MP Anthony Steen is on his ’final warning’ according to David Cameron. This came about as a response to Steens interview which he gave to the BBC and broadcast on Radio 4’s The World at One show.
In the interview he blamed the freedom of information act for his downfall, accused ‘people’ of being jealous of his large house, which according to the MP looks like Balmoral, and questioned peoples ‘right’ to interfere with his private life.
Well i have to say Mr Steen, you are seriously out of touch with reality here. When your frittering away the taxpayers money they have EVERY right to know where it is going and why. Consider your self lucky to still be in a job, any ordinary citizen of this country in an ordinary job would definately have lost that job already and most likely be answering charges of fraud.
Gordon Brown has been humiliated in the commons during a vote on Gurkha’s rights to settle in the UK at the hands of the opposition and some of his own backbenchers.
This humiliation was dished out by Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg and his motion calling for the scrapping of restrictions placed upon Gurkha’s rights to settle in the UK.
The Vote was supported by the Conservatives and Telegraph.co.uk reports that some 27 Labour back benchers defied party orders and voted with the opposition.
The BBC’s News 24 channel broadcast that with the number of Labour MP’s that abstained from the vote, that the number of backbenchers that refused to vote with the government could be as many as 100.
The defeat came only hours after the home secretary Jacqui Smith made last minute compromises to try and secure a government victory in the vote but it was a case of Too little, Too late it seems.
Telegraph.co.uk, also reports the PM as saying that to admit all Gurkha’s would cost £1.4billion.
The Times Online website reported David Cameron as saying: “The basic presumption that people who fight for our country should have a right to come and live in our country has been set out very clearly. The Government has now got to come back with immediate proposals so that those Gurkhas who have been waiting so long for an answer can have that answer.”
Given the vast amounts of money the government pours into the EC and any other cause detrimental to the UK i would have thought that £1.4billion to allow veterans who have risked life and limb for this country is a small price to pay.
The Gurkha’s are not just any kind of immigrant, They are soldiers who have fought for this country ever since 1815.
I would love to know what kind of deranged reasoning our illustrious un-elected PM uses to ban Gurkha’s from settling in the UK when he allows any other Immigrant to set up camp here while spouting anti-British rhetoric while the brave soldiers who defended this country and its interests have to rely on legal battles and public petitions to stand just a hope of being allowed of living here.
The government has claimed as many as 100,000 Gurkha’s could flood into the UK, The Gurkha’s and their supporters have rubbished that claim. Personally i would rather see 100,000 Gurkha’s come to britain than the countless hundreds of thousands of immegrants that the government currently and openly welcomes. In fact as a born and bred white brit, i would personally hold the door open and welcome the Gurkha’s to britain.
While the result isnt legally binding, it does however put the PM in a sticky situation. He has to do something. Now more than ever before it should be obvious to him that not only will the conservatives and lib dems unite forces against him BUT also that he is losing control of his own party.
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Conservative Leader David Cameron has called for ‘ordinary voters’ to stand as tory candidates at the next election.