[Abernathy]

Yet another Tory MP from the 2019 intake who is both thicker than the proverbial boxing day turd, and more hateful than the bastard genetically engineered offspring of Enoch Powell and Josef fucking Goebbels. You’d swear that him, 30p Lee, Gullis, Jenkyns , and the rest are all competing for some sort of colossal cunt medal.

[Bones McCoy]

He's right about national embarrassment.
Just 180 degrees wrong about what's causing the embarrassment.

[mattomac]

Thankfully even his local party seem to think he is a Cnut.

I think if I was going bet on the favourite of Gullis, Benton or Anderson to go it would be Benton. I just can’t see him being returned where Stoke wouldn’t surprise me and you have those Indies in Ashford.

Though with the other Stoke MP standing down I think it’s probably likely all three will go, maybe Ashford not to Labour mind.

[Abernathy]

I note (see the Tories generally thread) that we have formal confirmation, as if it were needed, of the MASSIVE CUNT status of this massive cunt. A Neil Hamilton for the 21st century.

Get the message : this is what (most) Tory MPs are.

[Youngian]

If I was an MP for run down Blackpool I would be pushing for the gambling law relaxation that Brown put the kibosh on. It could turn Blackpool and some other moribund resorts into Las Vegas and Atlantic City type entertainment behemoths. In which case you should be giving parts of gambling industry, that coincide with your constituency interests, a shout for free.

[Bones McCoy]

If I was an MP for run down Blackpool I would be pushing for the gambling law relaxation that Brown put the kibosh on. It could turn Blackpool and some other moribund resorts into Las Vegas and Atlantic City type entertainment behemoths. In which case you should be giving parts of gambling industry, that coincide with your constituency interests, a shout for free.

Which peers / donors get to be Bugsy Seigel and Meyer Lansky?

[Youngian]

They didn’t lack vision and flair as to where to stash their ill gotten gains. What did we get from the Brinks Matt robbers? Office blocks in Docklands. That’s America.

Vegas is now smooth running corporate business so could they transplant the model to transform Blackpool and other moribund seaside places? It’ll be a Robbie Williams residency instead of Elvis or Sinatra so not necessarily.

[Andy McDandy]

Vegas took years to turn a profit. Lansky invested in Cuba, and didn't see Castro coming until it was almost too late. He was still a very rich man, but he lost colossal amounts there.

I'd personally say that massive casinos are the last thing Blackpool needs. Or at least its people.

[Watchman]

When has what a town and its people really need been taken into account, when “friends of ours” can be making lots of money

[davidjay]

Resorts World at the NEC was going to be the British Vegas. It isn't.

[Oboogie]

Mad Nad has a theory...

[Abernathy]

Well, it looks like we may be waving a relieved goodbye to this corrupt arsehole sooner than we were hoping to. Praise be for another recall by-election.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/ ... nother_one

EXCLUSIVE: Tory MP Scott Benton to be suspended in sleaze row with ANOTHER by-election on the cards

[Bones McCoy]

Well, it looks like we may be waving a relieved goodbye to this corrupt arsehole sooner than we were hoping to. Praise be for another recall by-election.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/ ... nother_one

EXCLUSIVE: Tory MP Scott Benton to be suspended in sleaze row with ANOTHER by-election on the cards

Right in the middle of conference too.

Oh dear, how sad ...

[Youngian]

A ten day suspension for offering to leak confidential information. And the greedy little turd is an MP for Blackpool, the gambling industry is on his patch.

[Tubby Isaacs]

That's what the real people want him to do, or something.

[mattomac]

Even his local party hated him before he had the whip removed.

He’s a goner.