Rocky To Step Down

[Clone]

By-election 

How do you think that will go?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62z9ell358o

[ToraToraTora]

Apollo Creed will win?

[sandyRoe]

Would a Reform candidate be seriously in the running?

[ToraToraTora]

I think it's a shoe in, Reform are attractive to both Labour and Tory voters.

[fripfrip]

^^          ^^

Not if they don't stop all the inhouse bickering,if they do not get their act together they will lose out on potential voters.

[Old_Geezer]

But at this time they seem to be imploding.

[Clone]

Runcorn Rocky got 53% of the vote, surely that won't be overturned.

 

[davebro3]

Reform - no contest

[Hymie]

Maybe he is doing the decent thing (highly unusual for a politician); but you never know ‘resigning as an MP, as soon as possible’ might turn into 4 years.

[gulliver1]

Well being as he is Labour MP ..He is doing the decent thing by stepping down .Not like the cowardly Disgraced Con MPs who were caught out and went running to Boris to change the laws to try and save them. Chris pincher and Owen Paterson. And Boris was willing to change the laws to save them.

 

[New Judge]

"...but you never know ‘resigning as an MP, as soon as possible’ might turn into 4 years."

An MP cannot actully resign.

He must apply for either the Stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds or of the Manor of Northstead. Holding either of these offices is incompatible with membership of the House, and accepting either office leads to the forfeiture of a Member’s seat.

The Honourable or Right Honourable Member must apply to the Chancellor of the Exchequer for appoinment to one of the offices and the process normally takes just a few weeks.

There is nothing to prevent Mr Amesbury making his application tomorrow.

[sandyRoe]

If Labour Grandees don't want an embarrassing bye election result could they direct the chief whip to tell Amesbury there's no rush.  He should take his time.

[davebro3]

//He must apply for either the Stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds or of the Manor of Northstead.//

Anachronistic bullcarp. Should be consigned to history (along with the HoL).

[Paul22118]

Reform might have temporarily blotted their copybook.  Labour are now pariahs having soaked just about everyone from pensioners to farmers. I think there is a chance the Torys could squeek in.