Sarah Pochin Mp; - Fasten Your Seat Belts

[Khandro]

Did anyone see her interviewed tonight on GB News ?

She's just what the doctored ordered.

She didn't take Runcorn by just 6 votes she took it by c. 14,000. A staggering achievement & I can see why.

[sandyRoe]

I didn't see the interview.  What's her vision of the future of our country?  How would she deal with the occupants of the small boats, and what's her thoughts on the NHS?

[Ellipsis]

She is certainly a character with a chequered political past ...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Pochin#Political_career

But it could have been worse, looking at other Reform candidates ...

Shropshire councillor resigns from Reform UK after suspension - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c230je4dmklo

Jimmy Savile supporter second in local election vote - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy0y0ny527wo

[ynnafymmi]

Is that the same Jimmy Savile who a certain Sir Keir Starmer failed to prosecute when he was the head of the DPP?

[naomi24]

That Jimmy Savile supporter heading is highly misleading.

[Khandro]

sandy:  Last night's interview has now been downloaded onto youtube, your questions are here answered, let us know what you think please; 

[Ellipsis]

> That Jimmy Savile supporter heading is highly misleading

No it isn't. Stephen Hartley the Reform UK candidate. They then disowned him after they realised their "mistake" (ie their lack of checking) but the suspension was after close of nominations, so the ballots still had "Stephen Hartley - Reform UK" on them and the electorate voted on that basis. He was short of winning by 55 votes - a lucky escape by Reform.

[naomi24]

His name was on the ballot sheet but he was suspended.  What would have happened if he'd won?

[Ellipsis]

He would have won and been elected. Reform would then have reviewed his suspension and probably thrown him out, leaving him as an independent. Or maybe they would have kept him, who knows ...

[ynnafymmi]

Is that the same Jimmy Savile who Sir Keir Starmer failed to prosecute when Starmer was DPP,ellipsis?

[gulliver1]

Naomi 07.03 Is this the same Jimmy So-vile that Margaret Thatcher.  Ex leader of the CON party used to invite to take tea with her at Chequers on a Sunday afternoon.

[ynnafymmi]

Also is this the same Jimmy Savile who became a Knight of the Roman Catholic church(a ceremony which involves kissing the Popes ring,i believe)?

[naomi24]

This isn't about Jimmy Savile.

[gulliver1]

09.35 OK Naomi, I get the gist of it now .If this thread mentions the Jimmy Savile... that Starmer failed to prosecute 06.56 It is about jimmy Savile... But if this thread mentions the same Jimmy Savile that Margaret Thatcher used to invite for tea ..then this thread isn't about jimmy Savile OK I get it .Naomi ,,sorry.

[Ellipsis]

> This isn't about Jimmy Savile

My post at 22:37 yesterday was about Reform UK's poor choices of candidates, with examples ... it's you who went off down the Savile rabbit hole, that was just a detail of one of the candidates.

[naomi24]

Ellipsis, I typed one line to question the information in your link, to which you responded.   My post at 09.35 was intended for gulliver and ynnafymmi, neither of whom are talking about the recent elections or anything connected to them.

 

[Ellipsis]

> Is that the same Jimmy Savile who a certain Sir Keir Starmer failed to prosecute when he was the head of the DPP?

That's another rabbit hole. My quick take on it is that to fail to prosecute, he would first have to try to prosecute, and the reason he didn't even try is clouded by bias; some say he didn't even know, others that he did.  If he did know and he didn't prosecute then you'd have to wonder why, considering the political capital he could gain - the relationship between Savile and Margaret Thatcher (who was still alive at the time), for example.  But I fear we will never know the unvarnished truth, and in this thread (on Sarah Pochin) it is definitely a distraction.

[Khandro]

THIS THREAD IS ABOUT SARAH POCHIN !!

Start one on Savile if that's all you want to talk about.

[maggiebee]

Well said Khandro.  Stick to the topic.

[gulliver1]

10.46  "THIS THREAD IS ABOUT SARAH POCHIN.                Who was formerly  a Con Councillor who according to Wikipedia is not sure when she was born  .She thinks it was 1969 but could have been 1970 . Wonder if she know what day it is.

[Clone]

She is very good at posting links, apparently.