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Also, it's all very well having bold ideas but, to my knowledge, he's never once actually achieved anything in parliament. No private members bills, never been on a committee etc. He's just all chat.
Great local MP, awful politician
Almost like the job of providing a service to / representing your constituency and governing a country aren't suitable for being lumped together
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This is true. It's a tough line to walk but I feel like many MPs (on both sides) seem able to represent their constituency whilst also being prevalent at a national level.
He seems like the guy in the pub complaining about his wife, family, job, health etc only to go home and do absolutely fuck all about it.
Soul
I think that's polishing the turd a little. He defeated the govt in the chamber as most of the votes were the most divisive in decades. No one could agree on what Brexit was and so voting agains it was the only recourse.
Electorally, he was an absolute disaster. We may well have had a labour majority or at worst a coalition vs May if there was a competent Labour leader with more publicly understood / acceptable policies. The right wing media were never going to get behind him like they did Blair or may do with Starmer now the writing is on the wall for Sunak.
Also, it's all very well having bold ideas but, to my knowledge, he's never once actually achieved anything in parliament. No private members bills, never been on a committee etc. He's just all chat.