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Tim Yeo MP 'dropped' by South Suffolk Tories
Conservative MP Tim Yeo has been dropped by his constituency party.
The decision was made by the South Suffolk Conservative Association in a secret ballot on Friday evening.
Last month, Mr Yeo, who has been MP for South Suffolk since 1983, was cleared by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards of breaking lobbying rules.
The Tory MP was secretly filmed by Sunday Times investigators posing as representatives of a fictional energy company seeking to hire his services.
The paper said he had admitted telling a business associate what to say in evidence to the committee he chaired.
But the watchdog said the newspaper had used "subterfuge, misrepresentation and selective quotation" in its report.
Mr Yeo, a former environment minister, had previously told the BBC that he intended to stand again in 2015.
If he does not accept the decision he can appeal or apply to be the new candidate when the selection process gets under way.
Keith Sansum1
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more splits opening up
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Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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With a track record like Tim Yeo's there's a position on the labour front bench for him. He should fit in perfectly well considering the calibre of those serving under Eddie Yates, sorry, Ed Miliband.
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Watch and learn everybody. Below is a link to a Guardian piece which paints Yeo in the best light possible because of his green credentials - it's really quite appalling but so low is the lefto press that they will stoop to the lowest possible slimey stone in order to get their disgusting message across.
Under normal circumstances Yeo (rich, tory, snobbish apparently, arrogant apparently, track record with the ladies, minister of state with outside business interests which some have suggested clash with his position but what do I know about such things) would be a sitting target in the crosshairs of a bog standard jobsworth journalista working for the loss making Guardian but not today.
Why you might ask. Why would these clowns who are in favour of restricting press freedom and therefore the freedom for us all decide to give Yeo an easy ride?
Because He's an environmentalist or so the fools at the Guardianrag consider him to be. So the editor commissions a soft focus angle on the story to some erstwhile hack so that Yeo can be painted as some sort of green saint.
Ye Gods you have to be a complete moron not to spot that.............Oh wait.
Oh, nearly forgot, here's the link:
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/nov/30/tory-mp-tim-yeo-ballot-green-conservative
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Another one bites the dust,,,,,,,,
sure he will be another to tear the tories apart in time
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i thought that mr yeo had made a tidy few bob for himself out of the renewables industry.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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financially im sure hes made a mint
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Boris will not be happy............
Airports Commission shortlist: No room for 'Boris Island' just yet as new runways considered at Heathrow and Gatwick
Thames Estuary options not included 'because there are too many uncertainties and challenges surrounding them at this stage'
One hundred and ten years to the day since the era of powered flight began, aviation's longest-running battle took a new turn this morning. The Airports Commission, chaired by Sir Howard Davies, has shortlisted just two airports for expansion, Heathrow and Gatwic
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The shock inclusion to the short list is a radical proposal to extend Heathrow's existing northerly runway westwards by about a mile-and-a-half, across the M25. It would allow take-offs and landings from the same runway at the same time.
Guest 943- Registered: 15 May 2013
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No mention of Manston? Business opportunity lost ??
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Big business opportunities lost Peter.
Improving the roads/motorways/train lines to/from Manston would have regenerated East Kent enormously.
Roger
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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too much money required to be spent on infrastructure at manston to make it viable.
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A lot less than anywhere else though Howard.
Roger
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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intriguing that the reds have doubled their share since 2010 in folkestone and hythe according to that chart.
that could alter if nigel farage throws his hat into the ring there as seems likely.
Guest 943- Registered: 15 May 2013
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Howard,the Tories in Folkestone have lost a lot of members ,mainly due to the fact that the real activists are now elderly and unable to deliver leaflets and the more active ones have left the Tories and joined UKIP...
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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I posed a bet(and im not a betting person_
that at the next kcc elections UKIP would not gey more than 5 cllrs elected
I threw out the challenge to peter r FIVER to a charity of my choice when i win the bet
or if hes confident enough a fiver to his charity if ukip gets 6 seats or more,,,,,,
of course he lacks the confidence and ddnt take up the challenge
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Vince Cable should resign over immigration remarks, says Tory MP
Nigel Mills criticises business secretary for saying Conservative rhetoric recalled Enoch Powell's 'rivers of blood' speech
Vince Cable said the Tories were creating a panic in Britain about the scale of migration from the European Union.
A Tory MP leading the opposition to lifting controls on Romania and Bulgaria has called for Vince Cable to step down from the cabinet after the business secretary warned that Conservative rhetoric on immigration was reminiscent to Enoch Powell's "rivers of blood" speech.
Nigel Mills said: "It would be very hard for him to sit around the cabinet table having effectively compared his Conservative colleagues to Enoch Powell, which is an utterly ridiculous thing to have done. Mr Cable's always had a rather creative interpretation of what collective responsibility ought to look like but these comments, coming on the back of some would say completely sensible policy announcements by the prime minister to restrict welfare for people newly arrived here [who] can't claim until they've paid in - it just looks completely out of touch with the sentiments of most of the British people.
"What he said yesterday was ridiculously over the top and ill-judged remarks. We've tried to conduct this debate in a sensible manner especially at a time when the economy's still pretty weak
and for him to use such intemperate language really is unacceptable."
The extent of the bitter personal poison seeping into some of the coalition's key policy disputes was revealed on Sunday when Cable accused the Conservatives of grubbing for Ukip votes with irresponsible and populist rhetoric.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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the gaps are opening up
co olition falling apart
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Brian Dixon
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yawny yawn any thing decent to say kieth/reg.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Brian;
some of your posts bore me, but you have the right to post
I did put out a challenge to peter r post 456
peter r is obviously less than hopeful that in the KCC elections any cllrs will be returned
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