PETConroy

Perpetual Student, Startup Novelist, Lapsed Podcaster, Academic in Theology, History and Communications

[PETConroy @PETConroy]

* Whilst the SNP have never won an outright majority, the fact they have been closer than even Labour at it's height in Scotland, is evidence that even proportional or semi-proportional systems designed to prevent outright majorities are NOT the answer

[PETConroy @PETConroy]

I detest what Reform stands for. The sudden clamour for #proportionalrepresentation (which is needed) can't be used to prevent them, it must be democratically decided. Suggestions to bring it in now are attempts to prevent Reform, but Scotland* proves that 1 party can dominate.

[PETConroy @PETConroy]

My 9fficial complaint was finally submitted to @thisisyourparty HQ... They confirmed today that the submission is by email, so document written, typed on my phone, so maybe a few errors.
Bring on member justice against any staffer or member being abusive.

[PETConroy @PETConroy]

Watching Chris Lang's "Unforgotten". Se4, Ep6 broke me, and then Se5, Ep1. I'm with Sunny. Not cause of the characters but cause the show is a mirror of relationships & grief, as the twin sister says in Se3 it's not about them, it's people holding up a mirror of themselves (para)

[Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP @BellRibeiroAddy]

I am not in Parliament for today's vote on referring Keir Starmer.

If I was, I would be voting for the motion. Transparency is a cornerstone of our democracy.

The best thing for the PM to do would be to simply refer himself on this matter and save us all the drama.

[The Green Party @TheGreenParty]

“The idea that MPs can go for a drink and then make decisions on 69 million people’s lives - and not be doing that sober - will seem very strange to the public.”

Zack Polanski on Westminster’s drinking culture on Sky News.

[PETConroy @PETConroy]

Wow they are all using the same script today... Literally the last half of this has appeared on various MPs threads, Maybot was an unfair characterisation of TM, but robotic appears to be the Labour Party today!

[Lucy Powell MP @LucyMPowell]

I am a strong advocate of parliamentary accountability, transparency & scrutiny. However uncomfortable that may be, it’s vital to our democracy. It is on display today through the hearings of the powerful Foreign Affairs Select Committee and their ongoing inquiry. Taken together with the Humble Address process publishing every document & note for this appointment. That’s how all that we know has come to light so far. It’s right parliament should hold ministers to account for this.

Let’s be absolutely clear that today’s motion is entirely politically motivated. It’s a motion in the name of the Leader of the Opposition supported by other Opposition parties. It’s not a house motion or neutral. As such we take a collective view to vote against it.

Indeed another inquiry, one which should be reserved for the most serious cases of misleading of the House, would only duplicate and cut across the cross-party scrutiny already under way. It would not bring anything further to light.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 IN FULL: The 15 Labour MPs who rebelled against Keir Starmer and voted to refer him to the Privileges Committee

Apsana Begum
Richard Burgon
Ian Bryne
Mary Kelly Foy
Imran Hussain
Brian Leishman
Emma Lewell
Rebecca Long Bailey
Andy McDonald
John McDonnell
Graham Morris
Luke Myer
Kate Osbourne
Cat Smith
Nadia Whittome

[TonyMac @TonyMac67s]

Hit the nail on the head.
The stench of entitlement is off the charts.
Yearly medicals, weekly alcohol and drug testing, performance reviews and more.
Just to work in construction.
And these pissed up charlatans are making life Changing decisions.

[The Daily Britain @dailybritainonx]

Think about this differently. Parliament makes rules about pubs, licensing hours, minimum alcohol prices and workplace safety for every other establishment in Britain.

The one building exempt from all of those standards is parliament itself. Should the people who write the rules live by them - or is it acceptable for the rule-makers to occupy a different world from the people the rules apply to?

[Michael Walsh @thatbloodyMikey]

I don't care what your political Leaning is, If you're out here defending a Politicians right to be paid a £100,000 a year, to get pissed on Subsidised Cocktails before going to Vote against your interests & rights, you are the epitome of a back broken, peasant-brained Serf.

[Spencer Hakimian @SpencerHakimian]

🚨BREAKING: A new bill has been proposed to BREATHALYZE all members of government every morning.

Do you support this?

[PETConroy @PETConroy]

One should add that IF you work longer hours, then less alcohol will impair judgement more than it would normally. The "role" framing makes the work of MPs less serious. In any other 24/7 environment (Oil Rig, A&E,Crisis Command Centre) with long, erratic hours = no on-site pub.

[PETConroy @PETConroy]

So, kinda like an on-call surgeon? or if it's a role not a job, it's voluntary, I mean we don't pay people for being parents (a role), unless we're saying they're actors, in which case, can we get a better cast, because this lot are unbelievable as humans or is this a SciFi show?

[The Last Blairite #TrueLabour @LastBlairite]

Being an MP is not a job it’s a role. It’s not shift work, there are no set hours. It can be close to 24/7. MPs have to turn up to vote. Walk through a door they are told to by the whip. This lad clearly understands little about how Parliament works or the role of an MP

[PETConroy @PETConroy]

Except that's not what she said, gosh is this is the comprehension of the Starmer faction of Labour, no wonder they didn't ask him to go through ethics yesterday, probably too pissed to see it'd clear the decks if he's cleared of wrong doing 🤷🏻‍♂️

[Chris Murray MP @ChrisMurrayMP]

The Greens’ world: you can’t have a pint after work but heroin is legal.

[PETConroy @PETConroy]

And we still expect the emergency consultant surgeon on call to be sober when he performs an operation... They are operating on our laws, legislation and national policy, I think a sober Judge is perfectly reasonable to expect, no?

[The Last Blairite #TrueLabour @LastBlairite]

What Hannah Spencer’s comments on drinking on Parliamentary estate have highlighted is how ignorant many people are of the role (not job) of an MP, how hard they do actually work & how time is managed. They clear don’t understand the voting process and whipping system.

[PETConroy @PETConroy]

I have no love or hate for the MP, but her point was about drinking AT work wasn't it, not about alcohol itself 🙄 If the majority of folks drank at work they'd be fired, what's the difference - handling sensitive legislation vs a forklift? Both have the potential to kill 🤷🏻‍♂️

[The Spectator @spectator]

I’m sorry Hannah Spencer doesn’t like the smell.

I suspect her fellow MPs aren’t too keen on the stench of semi-digested kale which emanates from the woman, either, but we have to put these minor inconveniences aside.

She represents a party which sees no harm in legalising Class A drugs, but cavils at alcohol. And she does so because alcohol is enjoyed largely by people who don’t like the Greens. It is alcohol as a signifier which annoys her, not the state of being incapacitated by it.

✍️ Rod Liddle

Article | https://t.co/1rUboJi1Mp

[PETConroy @PETConroy]

*I should add technically the Petite Bourgeoisie in Marxism are those who live in a "middle place" or "transitional" space between proletariat (Working Class) and the Bourgeoisie - they own their own means of production, BUT, generally subsist like the proletariat.

[PETConroy @PETConroy]

Most Marxists define class as the relationship to the means of production if you earn to live, rather than earn through assets - but not this Marxist, they think it's entirely to do with the amount you earn! I'm not a Marxist and I know the Petite Bourgeoisie are working class.

[Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @LeftieStats]

I see a lot of people are strongly convinced that you inherit your class and can never change it, so I guess by this logic I can start calling myself working-class because my father was

[PETConroy @PETConroy]

@onalifeglug Is it not a YP HQ directed project, I'm convinced it's a shell game 🤷🏻‍♂️