What should Greg Pope do next?

What should Greg do now?

  • Keep his head down and obey the party whips

    Votes: 3 15.8%

  • Become a labour rebel and give 'em hell

    Votes: 15 78.9%

  • Cross the floor and take the Tory whip

    Votes: 2 10.5%

  • ditto - take the Lib-Dem whip

    Votes: 1 5.3%

  • Declare independence

    Votes: 1 5.3%

  • Retie into Annie's Bar for tyhe rest of this parliament

    Votes: 3 15.8%
  • Total voters
    19
  • Poll closed .
Tealeaf

Tealeaf

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Well, we all know by now Grag kicked off all the fuss with Gordon Brown over the 10p tax debacle. Whatever the detailed outcome of that will be, the government is now the most unpopular administration for the last 40 years. Well, public opinion is a fickle thing and a week is a long time in politics but if there is no change by the next election then Mr Pope will be out of a job and Hyndburn with Haslingden will be a Tory seat again. Well, Greg is not a bad lad as a constituency MP - he is certainly popular on here, irrespective of people's political preferences - so the question is this:- what strategy should do you thinkhe now adopt in order to keep his seat?
 
The closest I could vote was to become a rebel, but that is not exactly what I want... I just want him to stand by his beliefs... regardless of what anyone thinks of the govt I would vote for him if he didn't back down from what he had stood for
 
Ban the use of his name in accyweb polls......always ends up as an argument




*ooooh deja-vu :D:D*
 
Tealeaf said:
So he's voted out!
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Your opinion maybe, but personally I feel it depends on whether people vote on national party politics at the next election, or who they think will be the best representative at Westminster.

It also depends on who he stands against.

The rumoured Tory candidate would greatly increase Greg's chances of remaining as our M.P.
 
garinda said:
Your opinion maybe, but personally I feel it depends on whether people vote on national party politics at the next election, or who they think will be the best representative at Westminster.

It also depends on who he stands against.

The rumoured Tory candidate would greatly increase Greg's chances of remaining as our M.P.
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Spill the beans....who's the Tory? Not Britcliffe, surely?
 
Tealeaf said:
Spill the beans....who's the Tory? Not Britcliffe, surely?
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Even the local Tories wouldn't be so daft as to go for third time unlucky.

Apparently the local Conservative party want Janet Storey as their candidate, but Tory H.Q. are too thrilled with their choice.;)
 
garinda said:
Even the local Tories wouldn't be so daft as to go for third time unlucky.

Apparently the local Conservative party want Janet Storey as their candidate, but Tory H.Q. are too thrilled with their choice.;)
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By the way, she isn't offically the candidate, she was put forward when it looked like Brown may have called a General Election last Autumn, and the local Tories were flappling around in a panic, without any suitable opponents to stand against Greg Pope.
 
as my choice is not really practical, i voted become a rebel, hes a damn good local MP n deserves better n that rabble.
 
I don't think it helps the Labour party if it's members leave just because of a little controversy, he should stand his ground and stick by his beliefs. But if not then he should go Tory ;) just for a laugh.
 
It's reported in today's Sunday Times that both Greg and Frank Fields were invited to Alistair Darling's office for tea on Tuesday.

Somehow I don't think you can quell rebellions with cucumber sandwiches and Earl Gray.

By the way, why was there no option for Greg to challenge Brown for the Premiership?

It'd be fun to have a P.M. from Hyndburn.:D
 
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emamum23 said:
because you can! ive just voted for all of them to see if it worked..... sorry :(
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Well, I didn't think it was worth sabotaging the result for that purpose lol when it TELLS you you can do that but whatever :p mad woman
 
please ignore my votes... i have absolutely no idea what i am doing.....

please refer to my sig for proof

I think the cow poo fumes coming through my window are affecting my brain
 
I'd rather have an MP who votes how his constituency would like him to vote either for teh benefit of the people or becasue teh majority of people canvass him to do so. During the Iraq War vote he openly said he didn't care what the people of hyndburn wanted him to vote for he would do what "HE" wanted

I notice the goverment are good at quickly introducing things when it benefits them but extremely slow when it comes to giving back. all people want is an equal crack of the whip.

PS, not voted casue there wasn't a "resign" option.

The only thing I think he has in his favour is that the Conservatives should announce who will be standing against him now so that person can start making waves in the community, they can start holding surgeries and they can start building the very rapport that so many people on here seem to hold in Gregs favour. Unfortunately they seem to have their heads up their backsides. fo goodness sake put Cyfr up for it. He has more drive and vigour in his arguments and a genuine passion for it than I have seen in any politician round this neck of the woods.
 
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