Political prisoner, activist, journalist, hymn-writer, emerging thinktanker, aspiring novelist, "tribal elder", 2019 parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, 2024 parliamentary candidate for North Durham, 2028 candidate for Mayor of the North East Mayoral Combined Authority, Shadow Leader of the Opposition, "Speedboat", "The Cockroach", banned from Twitter so officially more dangerous than the Taliban, eagerly awaiting the second (or possibly third) attempt to murder me.
Wednesday 26 January 2011
Sit Down or Stand Down
No one should be paid either salary or expenses as an MP until taking their seat, and if anyone has not done so by a decent period after election, then that seat should be declared vacant, with the non-attending ex-MP disqualified from contesting the consequent by-election. There are only so many by-elections for which any local authority's taxpayers will permit it to pay.
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