{"id":3762,"date":"2014-02-03T20:41:07","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T20:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/?p=3762"},"modified":"2014-02-03T20:42:09","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T20:42:09","slug":"are-suffolk-conservative-party-members-idiots-er-yes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/2014\/02\/03\/are-suffolk-conservative-party-members-idiots-er-yes\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Suffolk Conservative Party Members Idiots? (Er, yes)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As The BBC <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-26015369\">reports<\/a>:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"Tim Yeo\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/72716000\/jpg\/_72716896_72716891.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"216\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"story_continues_1\" style=\"text-align: justify\">Senior Conservative MP Tim Yeo has lost his fight against being deselected by party activists.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The former environment minister demanded the secret ballot by Tory members in South Suffolk after the association&#8217;s committee voted not to re-adopt him as a candidate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Mr Yeo promised his &#8220;unqualified support&#8221; to his successor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The result of the count comes three days after fellow Tory MP Anne McIntosh was deselected.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">David Cameron had backed Mr Yeo, saying he would be a &#8220;great loss&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The 68-year-old, an MP since 1983, was cleared last year of breaking parliamentary rules on lobbying.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8216;Immensely grateful&#8217;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He stood aside temporarily as chairman of the Commons Energy and Climate Committee while an investigation was carried out following a newspaper story.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Why do I report this? Well, it seems to me that the party members who deselected him did so on the basis that he:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>supported the change in legislation for same-sex marriage<\/li>\n<li>campaigned for climate change initiatives and on it being, you know, real<\/li>\n<li>the UK remaining in Europe<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Essentially, the party members who deselected him show just how backwards the Conservatives are becoming, and how out of touch with reality, with social and moral progress they really are.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Why can&#8217;t they deselect Education secretary Michael Gove? I mean, he&#8217;s a total plank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As The BBC reports:<\/p>\n<p>Senior Conservative MP Tim Yeo has lost his fight against being deselected by party activists.<\/p>\n<p>The former environment minister demanded the secret ballot by Tory members in South Suffolk after the association&#8217;s committee voted not to re-adopt him as a candidate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[724,994,1171,118],"class_list":["post-3762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-conservatives","tag-michael-gove","tag-tim-yeo","tag-uk-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}