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Property investments (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
Text us your views & comments on 61124 or email via the postform below. (Not all contributions can be used, UK users only, costs 10-15p) 1230: David Clelland asks about working men's clubs, which he says are struggling after recent legislation. Ms ... Hedge Funds Fall In June, Indices Show - FINalternatives Hedge Funds Fall In June, Indices Show FINalternatives, NY - 7 hours ago Hedge funds took a...
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RecessMonkey (Free subscription) | 06/07/2008
Dear David Clelland, It is not often that I feel the need to write to my MP, in fact the last time I did so I was living across the river and it was a Lib Dem MP. He was kind enough to write a considerate reply and I hope you will do the same. The reason I am writing [...]
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Paul Linford (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
As promised, my weekly column in today's Newcastle Journal focuses on Mr David Clelland's little local difficulty, the row over MPs expenses - and what it all tells us about trust. *** Over the course of his political career, David Clelland has been a notable servant of the North-East, both as an MP for the past 23 years and as leader of Gateshead council before that. But in spite of – or perhaps because...
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Jonathan Wallace (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
A special message to David Clelland, Labour MP for Tyne Bridge and reader of this blog. Thank you for providing this week's entertainment. Most enjoyable. What are you going to do for an encore!? Whatever it is, stick with it! You may of course not be too worried by the furore over your comments to your constituent. Perhaps you feel that sticks and stones may break bones, but words will never
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The ThunderDragon (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
This is not the sort of thing that MPs should say: Labour’s fight to regain the support of the electorate took a less conventional turn this week as David Clelland began an epistolary battle with one dissatisfied voter. Mr Clelland, who has represented the people of Tyne Bridge in Newcastle for 23 years, has written to one [...]
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The Wardman Wire (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
This is not the sort of thing that MPs should say: Labour’s fight to regain the support of the electorate took a less conventional turn this week as David Clelland began an epistolary battle with one dissatisfied voter. Mr Clelland, who has represented the people of Tyne Bridge in Newcastle for 23 years, has written to one [...]
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The Lone Voice (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
A LABOUR MP told a constituent he could “stick his vote where it best pleased him” in reply to a critical letter. Gary Scott had written to his MP, David Clelland, to question his support for certain Government policies but was shocked when he received the angry response. Mr Clelland, who has been MP for Tyne Bridge for the past 23 years, told Mr Scott: “I do not want your vote so you can stick it...
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Luke's Blog (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
What a great letter. I hope the PLP office send a template version to all Labour MPs to deploy in case of receipt of letters like this one.
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donpaskini (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
David Clelland, MP in Gateshead, has been in the news for writing to one of his constituents telling him to 'stick his vote wherever it best pleases him'. His whole letter is here and is Good Old Boy-tastic. I particularly like the phrase 'I suggest you stand for election and test the popularity of your views. I am very relaxed about contesting them and letting the people decide'. The constituent who...
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Curly's Corner Shop, the blog! (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
Tyneside Labour MP tell constituent where he can stick his vote! David Clelland the Labour MP for Tyne Bridge cannot have expected quite so much publicity following his rebuttal of a constituent’s complaint over civil liberties. Clelland clearly sits on the wrong side of the fence when it comes to defending freedom and liberty in the [...]
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Phil Slocombe (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
I probably shouldn't say this, but there isn't a politician in the country who won't, on some level, have sympathised with David Clelland , the Labour MP who told a constituent that he didn't want his vote, thank you very much, and that he could stuff it wherever he liked. Never mind that, on the issue itself, Clelland was talking balls. His constituent had complained about his support for internment...
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RecessMonkey (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
MP David Clelland is in hot water after suggesting to a voter that he didn’t want his vote. I just wanted to say well done David. Years ago, we were bombarded weekly by a woman who would write letters attached to cuttings of the most recent Daily Mail anti-immigrant propaganda. It got to the point where instead [...]
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Dizzy Thinks (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
What can I do but tip my hat to the Labour MP for Tyne Bridge David Clelland after he told a constituent "I don't want your vote, stick it". Some may be surprised by this reaction, they might think that as a Tory supporting blogger, and a right winger I would be waving my arms in faux moral outrage, however, not this time. You see, David Clelland was brutally honest with his constiuent who wrote
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Iain Dale's Diary (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
There's an old saying in Parliament: never write something to a constituent you wouldn't want to see on the front page of your local newspaper. The Sun reports this morning that after receiving an abusive letter from a constituent, Labour MP David Clelland sent back a reply telling his constituent to "stick your vote where it best pleases you". The constituent says he is "very offended". Most MPs would...
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Raedwald (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
When a constituent wrote to MP David Clelland accusing him not of representing the interests of local people but those of his party it touched a raw nerve. Sir Patrick Cormack, a much under-valued MP of the old school, is one of the few who can honestly say 'I've always taken the line it's country-constituency-party, in that order.' For most, it's party first and last. So Clelland replied petulantly...
