Topic ID 5226
I take it he will claiming his usual £209 1st class rail ticket back on expenses . http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid62612474001?bctid=78079273001
Reply ID 73496
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/vote_2010/vote+2010+fighting+on+the+beaches++of+cornwall/3612892 Does anyone NOT think he's taking East Herts for granted? He's certainly taking something and not just a tax-payer funded London home
Reply ID 73498
quote:Of course he is, and sadly, understandably. It's the same reason Labour and the Lib Dems are putting up no-hopers against him (a union official and a 23 year-old respectively). The swing required to remove him from the seat is huge, and when you consider the prevailing political climate, impossible. The Tories could field a goat in a straw hat and it would win. I'm not sure who's to blame - the parties, the candidates or the electorate.
Originally posted by Enoughofthat
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/vote_2010/vote+2010+fighting+on+the+beaches++of+cornwall/3612892 Does anyone NOT think he's taking East Herts for granted? He's certainly taking something and not just a tax-payer funded London home
Reply ID 73506
It has been said many times before on these boards, how can he be minister for Cornwall whilst holding a seat in Hertfordshire. Is this just not an excuse for him to influence matters in the county he is from?
Reply ID 73515
quote:The question should be how can he be shadow minister for Cornwall when there is no government minister for Cornwall? Who is he shadowing? No one!
Originally posted by Harry Palmer
It has been said many times before on these boards, how can he be minister for Cornwall whilst holding a seat in Hertfordshire. Is this just not an excuse for him to influence matters in the county he is from?
Reply ID 73516
Perhaps he's a vampire (or was that the other way round?).
Reply ID 73521
In case you don't want to watch the whole report, here is a picture of our local MP enjoying campaigning in sunny Cornwall: [img]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_m1EAJm8WmB8/S8bg3d62dAI/AAAAAAAAAD0/M-XuGmRsotg/s1600/priskcornwall_sm.JPG"[/img]
Reply ID 73574
A couple of blogs with references to Mark Prisk's activity in Cornwall. I hadn't realised that he received a rebuke from the Speaker for claiming travelling expenses. http://libcync.blogspot.com/2010/04/mark-prisk-hertfordshire-tory-mp-who.html Somebody noticed his predilection some time ago but gave up posting in 2007. He logs a number of visits. http://libcync.blogspot.com/2010/04/mark-prisk-hertfordshire-tory-mp-who.html
Reply ID 73580
quote:Your a bit of a Johnny-come-lately on the Prisk front eh !
I hadn't realised that he received a rebuke from the Speaker for claiming travelling expenses. Somebody noticed his predilection some time ago but gave up posting in 2007. He logs a number of visits.
Reply ID 73795
This has now been picked up in the local press. The Bishops Stortford Observer has the [url="http://www.hertsandessexobserver.co.uk/Election/Stortford-MP-Prisk-denies-split-loyalties.htm"]story here[/url]. (If you read the Mercury, you'd be hard pressed to notice that there was an election going on!) I'm amazed he actually tries to use the (undoubtedly sad) recent death of this mother to explain his recent campaigning in Cornwall. What about the last 3 years?
Reply ID 73796
" . . . when shadow ministers speak for their party they leave their own constituency . . . ". Does this still apply when the shadow ministerial position is fictional? The bare-faced cheek of the man to go on to say ". . . no-one was asking this before the campaign started . . ." in reference to his frequent Cornish visits in the past few years. So what of the posts here? And what of the posts/blogs elsewhere, dating back to 2007, that have been referenced to here? In my book, this is an outright lie by Prisk. [:(!]
Reply ID 73798
Out of interest, was he there protecting Dave when when an egg was thrown this week? Couldn't spot him on the news footage...
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