Pilgrims' Patter
The Forum => The B-Ark => Topic started by: Shoddys Lane on August 11, 2014, 01:12:27 PM
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http://www.bostonstandard.co.uk/news/local/breaking-mp-mark-simmonds-resigns-from-government-1-6231605
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-28737781
Interesting points about balancing family life away from London, also confirming he won't be standing next year.
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An opportunity for a local guy???
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......sounds like the sort of statement that often precedes a tabloid scandal?
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I think he's "frit" of losing to UKIP, Gawd help us.
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I think he's "frit" of losing to UKIP, Gawd help us.
I think you are right SL. "bottle out " comes to mind .
Not good news for UKIP .
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......sounds like the sort of statement that often precedes a tabloid scandal?
Nice photo of him on the BBC Lincs site if you are a fan of his Ferret .
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I think he's "frit" of losing to UKIP, Gawd help us.
Neil Hamilton UKIP will stand and win the seat with a landslide majority.
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I think he's "frit" of losing to UKIP, Gawd help us.
Neil Hamilton UKIP will stand and win the seat with a landslide majority.
Not so easy now , Simmonds was a great vote winner for UKIP .
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Doesn't Boris want to be an MP? ;D
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Doesn't Boris want to be an MP? ;D
Perhaps when he's finished his stint as a stand up comedian at the Edinburgh Fringe
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I think he's "frit" of losing to UKIP, Gawd help us.
Neil Hamilton UKIP will stand and win the seat with a landslide majority.
Now there's a real comedian, surely people will not vote for that buffoon. Gawd help us again. ::)
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I think he's "frit" of losing to UKIP, Gawd help us.
Neil Hamilton UKIP will stand and win the seat with a landslide majority.
Now there's a real comedian, surely people will not vote for that buffoon. Gawd help us again. ::)
Another lover of brown envelopes coming to Boston?
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an opportunity for you to put your name forward GHM. I would vote for you if I could!!
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an opportunity for you to put your name forward GHM. I would vote for you if I could!!
Sorry dt , i,m useless at telling lies .
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Can't see Boris standing here, for exactly the same reason as Farage. We're not exactly glamorous are we?
Still, interesting to see what happens. UKIP have a lot of work to do to overturn a large Tory majority..
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Mark who?
There will be much anguish and families crying all over Africa tonight on the news that the Minister for Africa has quit.
Is there a fund where we can show our appreciation for all he has done for Boston over the years? Perhaps we can name the town bypass in his honour, when it is built?
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Mark Simmonds is a first class MP. He has done a lot of work for our area as has Lord Tapsell in the Horncastle area. A great deal of the work isn't seen by the general public, but believe me these two MP's have worked hard for Lincolnshire. God help us if Ukip get in.
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Do tell us what he's done...
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Lord Tapsell? In the House of Commons?
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Sir Peter, I knew his gardener well, so did the cogster ;D
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Mark Simmonds is a first class MP. He has done a lot of work for our area as has Lord Tapsell in the Horncastle area. A great deal of the work isn't seen by the general public, but believe me these two MP's have worked hard for Lincolnshire. God help us if Ukip get in.
IF YOU HAVE been watching and listening the last 24hrs you will realise what a arrogant devious chap he is . Dispised by many local tories who will be delighted to to the back of him .
Now the £120k he speaks of is made up of ..... £120k MPs pay but he forgot to remember the following ,
£60k + £10k from directorships + £20-25k taxpayers money to his wife as office manager . £205k is a little more than £120. oh and don,t forget the expences claimed .
Simmonds like other MPS sprouts rubbish which some constituents believe . I just look at the mail I recieve from him and realise what a disgrace he is .
As P86 says show us what he,s done .
A very sad day for UKIP in Mark they have lost their best recruiting agent .
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On 09/05/2014 I emailed David Wooding Political editor of the Sunday Sun .
I predicted that Simmonds would not be Bostons MP after May 2015.
He disagreed .
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Mark Simmonds is a first class MP. He has done a lot of work for our area as has Lord Tapsell in the Horncastle area. A great deal of the work isn't seen by the general public, but believe me these two MP's have worked hard for Lincolnshire. God help us if Ukip get in.
IF YOU HAVE been watching and listening the last 24hrs you will realise what a arrogant devious chap he is . Dispised by many local tories who will be delighted to to the back of him .
Now the £120k he speaks of is made up of ..... £120k MPs pay but he forgot to remember the following ,
£60k + £10k from directorships + £20-25k taxpayers money to his wife as office manager . £205k is a little more than £120. oh and don,t forget the expences claimed .
Simmonds like other MPS sprouts rubbish which some constituents believe . I just look at the mail I recieve from him and realise what a disgrace he is .
As P86 says show us what he,s done .
A very sad day for UKIP in Mark they have lost their best recruiting agent .
As David Cameron rightly pointed out last year, many local Tories are swivel eyed loons. I don't really see what Simmonds has ever done particularly good or bad. He's just been a passable constituency MP, nothing to write home about but there are plenty who are much worse/scandal prone. It's just become a bit fashionable round here because he's been here for 13 years and not said anything particularly xenophobic yet.
I doubt UKIP will get anywhere next May, firstly because all the normal people come out and vote for proper parties when the important elections come round, and secondly because the Tories will flood any potential UKIP-voting seats with campaign resources.
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Been thinking about the bloke for the last half an hour!
TURD!
Tash did Coggie undercover the gardener in a layby?
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I read this on News Thump. ;)
Mark Simmonds MP
The UN has diverted aid convoys bound for Northern Iraq in a bid to save ‘destitute’ Foreign Office Minister Mark Simmonds.
Simmonds has been forced to eke out a meagre existence on a ‘paltry’ 90K per annum plus expenses, which is barely enough to keep his family in pheasant.
And the 43 year-old Tory insists that unless the world heeds his cry for help, he and other MPs face the horror of living outside London and catching a train in with ordinary peasant scum.
Simmonds blames ‘intolerable’ expenses rules for forcing him to choose between his family and a two-week holiday in Tuscany every three months.
The minister has received backing from Iraqi Kurds who insist they are getting more than enough aid and have clubbed together to allow Simmonds to live in the style he is accustomed to.
Kurd Ali Ashrami said, “We’re all in this together.”
Simmonds resigns
Simmonds, meanwhile, is showing the classic signs of malnutrition such as the trademark distended belly which was popularised in Ethiopia circa 1985.
Last night UN helicopters were seen circling Westminster, dropping essential supplies of Evian, foie gras and Fortnum & Masons hampers.
UN spokesman Simon Williams said, “A Fortnum and Masons hamper can keep a family of Tories alive for anything up to twelve hours. Please just donate what you can.”
However, last night a furious Simmonds reacted angrily to the air-drop, describing the supplies as piecemeal and knee-jerk.
“Some of this pate has started to go off,” he told us.
Check the grassy knoll and the chips and curry :bunny
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Been thinking about the bloke for the last half an hour!
TURD!
Tash did Coggie undercover the gardener in a layby?
He had him in his van(metaphorically speaking) asking about his love life ;D.
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It has now been reported in the National papers and on Look North that he made £500000 on the sale of a taxpayers funded house in London before he bought his mansion in Swineshead
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It has now been reported in the National papers and on Look North that he made £500000 on the sale of a taxpayers funded house in London before he bought his mansion in Swineshead
Look North reported "Mr Simmonds could not contacted " No surprise there for the LN news producer , from mail I have recieved from look LN this is the usual response they get from Simmonds .
Shifty and devious are words that come to mind when discussing this character .
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Money Grabbin MPs Nothing new when it comes to MPs How Greedy can you get
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So we have the swivel eyed loons of the Tory party, the left wing nutters of the Labour party, and the utter fruit cakes of the Lib Dems, and these are the 'Proper parties' that normal people are going to vote for, my God this country is doomed, UKIP will win Simmonds seat.
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I am not, nor ever have been a tory supporter, but I remember some fine constituency members of parliament for Lincolnshire. In particular, Sir Herbert Butcher, Sir Richard Body, Joseph Godber (Grantham) and especially Sir Peter's predecessor, Sir John Maitland. They (except Sir Richard, who is thankfully still with us) must be turning in their graves at the thought of their great county being let down by this midget, even among current money-grabbing MPs, who will be lucky to be remembered beyond the next parliament.
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So we have the swivel eyed loons of the Tory party, the left wing nutters of the Labour party, and the utter fruit cakes of the Lib Dems, and these are the 'Proper parties' that normal people are going to vote for, my God this country is doomed, UKIP will win Simmonds seat.
And you think UKIP are normal? You think Neil Hamilton is normal? You ought to change your medication. Still, you have shown racial tendencies on here.
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So we have the swivel eyed loons of the Tory party, the left wing nutters of the Labour party, and the utter fruit cakes of the Lib Dems, and these are the 'Proper parties' that normal people are going to vote for, my God this country is doomed, UKIP will win Simmonds seat.
And you think UKIP are normal? You think Neil Hamilton is normal? You ought to change your medication. Still, you have shown racial tendencies on here.
Can,t see much to disagree with on above posts .
Does raise the question who do we vote for ?
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dont worry about it GHM. Just think about Boston United, after all this is a football web site isn't it?
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dont worry about it GHM. Just think about Boston United, after all this is a football web site isn't it?
Good point dt , so its the GREENE party then .
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dont worry about it GHM. Just think about Boston United, after all this is a football web site isn't it?
Good point dt , so its the GREENE party then .
;D
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I am not, nor ever have been a tory supporter, but I remember some fine constituency members of parliament for Lincolnshire. In particular, Sir Herbert Butcher, Sir Richard Body, Joseph Godber (Grantham) and especially Sir Peter's predecessor, Sir John Maitland. They (except Sir Richard, who is thankfully still with us) must be turning in their graves at the thought of their great county being let down by this midget, even among current money-grabbing MPs, who will be lucky to be remembered beyond the next parliament.
Did not realise Sir Richard was still alive , having meet him I endorose what a fine MP he was .
Being a tory supporter I have met Simmonds at various times , and yes he is a midget , a devious arrogant one at that .
Noticable tonight on BBC Look North none of his county colleague MPs took the opportunity to defend him or even condemn him (more midgets?).
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So we have the swivel eyed loons of the Tory party, the left wing nutters of the Labour party, and the utter fruit cakes of the Lib Dems, and these are the 'Proper parties' that normal people are going to vote for, my God this country is doomed, UKIP will win Simmonds seat.
Post of the year ;D
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So we have the swivel eyed loons of the Tory party, the left wing nutters of the Labour party, and the utter fruit cakes of the Lib Dems, and these are the 'Proper parties' that normal people are going to vote for, my God this country is doomed, UKIP will win Simmonds seat.
Post of the year ;D
Why?
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Because, IMHO Steviemas has nailed it :dan
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Because, IMHO Steviemas has nailed it :dan
Don't think he has, Labour left wing nutters no way on this earth. The labour lefties are long gone. Centre left maybe.
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Simmonds ? No
Cameron? No
Red Ed ? NO
Glegg ? NO
Farage ? NO .
GIVE US THE GREEN ARMY 8)
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Newton
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As long as we are in the EU we are controlled by Europe which makes all the mainstream parties the same and working under the same rules with no identity. The only way this country can change for the better is to get out of eu. Only one party has the bottle to do it.
What amazeses me most about this thread is that it has more post than any of the football related threads.