[Politics] Maria Caulfield, Lewes MP

[Monkey Man]

Seems the Lewes MP's rather unpleasant Twitter career may be at an end:

https://www.theguardian.com/politic...-mps-to-admit-keir-starmer-video-was-doctored

 

[Horton's halftime iceberg]

She has under a 2.5K majority, over 4.7K voted Labour and Green.

26,820 voted for her, cannot find the amount of registered voters in Lewes Constituency

She is a member of the hard line ERG. you gets what you vote for or what you didn't tactically vote for.

 

[nicko31]

Come back Maria all is forgiven!!

 

[Horton's halftime iceberg]

Lewes has 71,500 registered voters.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Deleting the account isnt gunna stop you getting sued sweetness

 

[aftershavedave]

Seems the Lewes MP's rather unpleasant Twitter career may be at an end:

https://www.theguardian.com/politic...-mps-to-admit-keir-starmer-video-was-doctored

rather unpleasant is a massive understatement. this so called "returned nurse" fighting the good fight against CV was in parliament yesterday, nodding like a dog. thought she should maybe have been at the hospital which is the image she's so keen to portray

 

[Papa Lazarou]

Deleting the account isnt gunna stop you getting sued sweetness

In fact it might make it more likely. A heart-felt apology would have been the best course of action.

 

[Horton's halftime iceberg]

The original tweeter she reposted, also regularly posts anti-Islam messages and far-right content.

She does not associate with the best people on line, amazing someone in her position even wants to use far right fake news in her communications.

 

[vegster]

The original tweeter she reposted, also regularly posts anti-Islam messages and far-right content.

She does not associate with the best people on line, amazing someone in her position even wants to use far right fake news in her communications.

Certainly a major misjudgement by her, surely we expect better from Tory's ?

 

[Monkey Man]

The original tweeter she reposted, also regularly posts anti-Islam messages and far-right content.

She does not associate with the best people on line, amazing someone in her position even wants to use far right fake news in her communications.

I don't think she realises quite how badly she comes across on Twitter. Some of her followers would have been quite at home in Nazi Germany, which isn't necessarily her fault ... but she allows some pretty fascist-themed views to stay on the Twitter feed while other stuff gets deleted.

I don't vote Tory, and I wish we didn't have a Tory MP in Lewes. I also voted Remain. I accept that I've been outvoted on both scores, and there's a national crisis to deal with and we might as well get behind our elected representatives to make the best of things. But Maria's a difficult person to learn to like, I'm afraid – at least based on the views she espouses.

 

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Downing Street has declined to condemn the actions of Conservative MPs, including a minister, who shared a video from a far-right Twitter account that falsely claimed Sir Keir Starmer obstructed the prosecution of grooming gang members when he led the Crown Prosecution Service.

Asked if the MPs, including Nadine Dorries, a health minister, should not have shared the misleading 22-second clip, Boris Johnson’s spokesman said he had no comment.

The video was shared by Dorries as well as the Telford MP, Lucy Allan, and Maria Caulfield, who represents Lewes. All commented at what the video purported to show, with Dorries calling it “revealing”.

They have all now deleted their tweets. Johnson’s spokesman declined to say whether they had been ordered to do so, or whether Dorries might have breached the ministerial code in sharing the video.

 

[The Large One]

The woman who single-handedly saved the Lewes to Seaford railway line.

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[kevo]

I don't think she realises quite how badly she comes across on Twitter. Some of her followers would have been quite at home in Nazi Germany, which isn't necessarily her fault ... but she allows some pretty fascist-themed views to stay on the Twitter feed while other stuff gets deleted.

I don't vote Tory, and I wish we didn't have a Tory MP in Lewes. I also voted Remain. I accept that I've been outvoted on both scores, and there's a national crisis to deal with and we might as well get behind our elected representatives to make the best of things. But Maria's a difficult person to learn to like, I'm afraid – at least based on the views she espouses.

I'm actually quite surprised Lewes has a Tory MP, as it's usually regarded as such a liberal and progressive town. I guess it's all the villages in the surrounding area.

 

[Frutos]

BBC News - Nadine Dorries told to check 'validity' of social media posts
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-52653609

 

[clapham_gull]

BBC News - Nadine Dorries told to check 'validity' of social media posts
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-52653609

and presumably Maria Caulfield now resigns as an Assistant Whip ?

 

[Monkey Man]

I'm actually quite surprised Lewes has a Tory MP, as it's usually regarded as such a liberal and progressive town. I guess it's all the villages in the surrounding area.

Seaford, Newhaven and Polegate are also in the constituency. Lewes itself is only a minority element of the constituency.

Plus all the villages as you say.

Norman Baker held the constituency for the Lib Dems, in his own admission, rather against the odds. It's a naturally Tory-leaning area though as someone who lives here I don't encounter many people with quite the same hard-right opinions as our MP.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Seaford, Newhaven and Polegate are also in the constituency. Lewes itself is only a minority element of the constituency.

Plus all the villages as you say.

Norman Baker held the constituency for the Lib Dems, in his own admission, rather against the odds. It's a naturally Tory-leaning area though as someone who lives here I don't encounter many people with quite the same hard-right opinions as our MP.

Newhaven has a Libdem council. Seaford is definitely Tory.

 

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Quote from Tory HQ -These tweets have now rightly been deleted. The MPs involved have been spoken to by the whips’ office and reminded of their responsibility to check the validity of information before they post on social media sites.

Caulfield IS a government whip herself, which makes this a mockery.

 

[Horton's halftime iceberg]

and presumably Maria Caulfield now resigns as an Assistant Whip ?

THIS

 

[Thunder Bolt]

She has under a 2.5K majority, over 4.7K voted Labour and Green.

26,820 voted for her, cannot find the amount of registered voters in Lewes Constituency

She is a member of the hard line ERG. you gets what you vote for or what you didn't tactically vote for.

That was reduced from a 5K majority previously. She benefited originally from getting rid of Norman Baker.