Woodchopper wrote: ↑Thu Jan 20, 2022 12:14 pm
Whips have always threatened to expose aspects of MPs private lives. They keep dossiers on MPs.
Prime Ministers have always used public spending in order to gain party political advantage. One prominent example was in 1966 when the Labour government announced during a by-election campaign for the Kingston upon Hull North constituency that they were going to build what became the Humber suspension bridge (which at the time was the longest suspension bridge in the world).
Newsnight has just been graced by the impressively low-wattage
Greg Hands MP.
As a former Whip he pooh-poohed any suggestion that the Whips would act in anyway like has been repeatedly been documented over the centuries.
His main arguments against a Whip ever possibly resorting to their well-established MO were (brace yourself):-
1. If Whips needed to blackmail MPs to support a government policy that would suggest the policy mightn't be very good and would have failed to pass on its own merits [/end sentence apparently]
2. If Whips were blackmailing MPs then loads of MPs would be rushing forward to highlight the fact they were being blackmailed and damn the consequences because that's how blackmail works.
3. Christian Wakeford is a Labour MP and therefore would be incredibly biased and as such can not at all be considered a credible impartial witness so his testimony should be ignored outright. Wragg who? Fortunately as a former Whip and current Tory Minister desperately trying to save the jobs of himself and his lying scumbag boss we can trust him implicitly on everything that he has to say on the matter and therfore shoulud consider it closed.
IIRC as the interview ended you can just see him have a sudden epiphany of self-awareness and Kirsty Wark's segue to the next segment was drowned out by the sounds of his soul-deep wracking sobs as he stared into the howling void of his own pointlessness ... and the void looked back.
This place is not a place of honor, no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here, nothing valued is here.
What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us.
This place is best shunned and left uninhabited.