Jenrick sacked by Badenoch. Planning to defect.

jam69 said:
And at a time to damage the leader as much as possible
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Yes. Incredibly, the BBC correspondents are spinning it as a win for Badenoch because it makes her look strong and decisive!

In reality it is the most Pyhrric of victories. She couldn't keep her own senior cabinet member in the party as he schemed to stab her in the back.
 
ThePrisoner said:
Yes. Incredibly, the BBC correspondents are spinning it as a win for Badenoch because it makes her look strong and decisive!

In reality it is the most Pyhrric of victories. She couldn't keep her own senior cabinet member in the party as he schemed to stab her in the back.
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Beth Rigby describing that he would a "great signing" for Reform...
 
Great ministerial record:

Jenrick travelled 150 miles to see visit his parents during Covid . The Friday before he went to see them he#d tweeted: “If you are considering going out this weekend, please don’t, unless it’s for work (where you cannot work from home), health reasons, food shopping or exercise. We need to stay at home to protect the NHS and save lives.”

Jenrick took a decision on a big development in East London on the day before a hike in the Community Infrastructure Levy which would have cost the developer an estimated extra £40m. A few weeks later the developer, Richard Desmond, made a £12,000 donation to the Conservative Party. A few weeks previously, with the decision sitting on Jenrick’s desk, Desmond had sat next to the secretary of state at a Conservative Party fund-raising dinner.
 
This made me laugh on the BBC report

A shadow cabinet minister tells the BBC's political editor that Jenrick "left his resignation speech printed out and hanging around" and "someone got hold of it"

He’s a useless, appalling figure. He will fit in well with the Temu Tories of Reform.(This part is not from the BBC report)
 
One thing this highlights, and we see it every time, is an MP gets elected on a ‘ticket’ switches allegiances and there are no immediate options for those that elected him/her.

A change in the law is long overdue - you switch your allegiance… you face the electorate again.
 
1finny said:
One thing this highlights, and we see it every time, is an MP gets elected on a ‘ticket’ switches allegiances and there are no immediate options for those that elected him/her.

A change in the law is long overdue - you switch your allegiance… you face the electorate again.
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Are there any grounds for a recall petition or is that just for when MPs have actually been caught and convicted of a crime?
 
ThePrisoner said:
Are there any grounds for a recall petition or is that just for when MPs have actually been caught and convicted of a crime?
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you got it

A recall petition will take place if an MP is:

  • convicted of an offence in the UK and receives a custodial sentence (including a suspended sentence) or is ordered to be detained, other than solely under mental health legislation
  • suspended from the House of Commons for 10 sitting days or 14 calendar days
  • convicted of providing false or misleading information for allowance claims under the Parliamentary Standards Act 2009.
 
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