Bob Spink, elected in 2005 as Conservative MP for Castle Point, was kicked out of the Conservative Party last month and has now joined UKIP, calling his former party “dishonest”.
Subscribe
-
Follow @libdemvoice.org on Bluesky
-
Like us on Facebook
-
Subscribe to our feed
-
Sign-up for our daily email digest
Most Read
Search
Op-eds
-
What really happened? (Simon Banks)
-
Why community politics matters (Mark Corner)
-
A Federal Britain: 1. Renewing democracy through fair representation (Iain Donaldson)
-
A roadmap to Queer Equality (Tara Foster)
-
A strange but welcome feeling (Jennie Rigg)
-
From Norman settlement to a civic square
-
Northern Ireland debates the future of its railways in 1957
-
"The old savage England": D.H. Lawrence visits the Stiperstones
-
Church Green video
-
Doing my bit at Whickham Church Green
-
Have a goat day tomorrow!
-
Pride inside instead
-
Replacing a one party state with another
-
Thinking of standing for election or re-election next year? Helpful questions to consider
-
The Joy of Six 1528
Recent Comments
Daniel Walker
@David Raw "I didn’t say that, Daniel, though what I imply is that the party needs to prove to and make clear to the electorate the value and choices that ...
Andrew Tampion
"England is too much larger than the other three for that to work in any satisfactory way, as I mentioned to Kira." I don't agree. If all matters other than th...
Jeff
How relevant is this to Trump’s MAGA movement, to Farage and Reform? Of little to none I would have thought. The political ideologies that came to d...
Nonconformistradical
I second Henry's comments about Barrow - this south-eastener has at least, albeit not recently, set foot in the Barrow constituency (visiting friends who lived ...
John Peters
I would not have classed Barrow-in-Furness as post industrial. For decades it has had the same major employer - the dockyards. It manafactures the UK's nuclear ...
26 Comments
Looking forward to reading the usual purple-faced, sherry-necking suspects on ConHome 🙂
Defectors. I wish we ( Lib Dems)as a Party didn’t accept them if they have a public elected position unless they resign & call a By-election on their new platform of beliefs. Lets take the high ground on this.As for Mr Spink & UKIP – a good match in my book !
Yes, let’s hope the Andrew Rosindells of this world follow suit. They could have, say, the 20 ghastliest MPs 🙂
Ah yes, Bob Spink, co-author of the notorious Human Embryology & Fertilization Bill “minority report” along with “Mad Nad” Nadine Dorries. (See ministryoftruth.me.uk for some quite comprehensive fisking of that report)
His expenses are in the top 10% for MPs, despite living only 40 miles from Westminster, and has voted “strongly for the war in Iraq” and “strongly against gay rights” according to theyworkforyou.com .
Sounds like a thoroughly odious individual. UKIP are doing themselves no favours by consorting with such a person IMO.
UKIP members are now speculating how they can recruit Conway as their next MP!
UKIP appear to be a handy dustbin for the tories to chuck their unwated rubbish in.
All this does is reinforce the Cameron message that the tories are changing.
I seem to recall that a number of Conservative councillors have jumped ship to UKIP after being censored for making racist comments.
UKIP has saved the tories – all those eurosceptic swivel eyed loons have migrated to UKIP. Sadly that means the tories can be left alone to gain momentum.
If today the tories split as they were in the early 90s over Europe then I believe the LibDems would be challenging Labour and the tories would be on 15%.
Lets hope UKIP go away and their members rejoined the tories – now that would cause tory meltdown big time.
Spink of course was the Tory candidate who paid for an advert in a local paper proclaiming ‘What part of send them back don’t you understand Mr Blair?’
No coverage of your ex Leader in Sdgemore defecting to Conservative?
http://conservativehome.blogs.com/localgovernment/2008/04/sedgemoor-libde.html
Great news for UK Independence Party, the only political party that is not giving our Country away like the Dim Libs, Toffs and the dreadful Labour.
At least Bob Spink has the nerve to leave the Tories. UKIP it’s first MP…..History has been made at last…someone who’s willing to save Great Britain not like the Liberal Democrats who want to give GB away to the EU!
well if he is going to save Great Britain the when not let his small part of it approve his decision in a by-election??
Of the 4 or 5 seats in Britain where a UKIP defector might actually hang on Castle Point is one of them. two party politics is collapsing and it isn’t going to be replaced by three party politics.
There is no UKIP party structure in Castle Point.
The Chairman and most of the local members of UKIP defected en masse to the English Democrats.
The few members remaining could only manage to put up 1 candidate in Castle Point this year.
I doubt very much if a UKIP candidate could get themselves elected in Castle Point.
More more more Ukip is for me I want to have British rule for our wonderful country, Let us feed ourselves not have Quotas on what we can grow give us our fishing rights back, let us decide that we have a post office run by great Britain not open to competion to be run by another country, let us manage our economy without having to ask Brussels. I love my country which is truly global, some idiots want it to be dictated to by foreigners, labour liberal conservative green only ukip speak truly for the people of Great Britain I Love UKIP
Were things better in your day, Jan Hollowell?
I won’t vote for Labour or Tory policies and sadly I don’t think the Lib Dems are any better. All three are happy to stick to the same EU defined policies. An independent country, outside of the EU, is the only way to bring about the changes I want to see. That means voting for a party that wants to leave the EU, and UKIP is the most successful of the anti-EU parties.
UKIP trolls, you’d be better off posting at ConservativeHome. At least there you can pretend to be disillusioned Tories, and thereby do some actual work in undermining the party. Here it’s just silly!
Diktat a word used in councils these days, a german or serbian word, to DICTATE that is what the European union is all about wake up you people who want to surrender our country, Blair was a dictator, he stopped 60,000,000 of us from havin a referendum on the EU
ON leader crossing over to Conservatives forgive me for thinking you were talking of the past about T Bliar chuckle chuckle
GERMAN! DICTATE! GIRD YOUR LOINS AND DON YOUR TIN FOIL HATS!
Bob Spink was not thrown out by the Tories, he resigned. Just a little truth goes a long way. Just for the record, to show how UKIP Swindon in 8 of 11 wards pushed the Lib-Dems into 4th place. Just goes to show how UKIP is moving forward. The Lib-Dems are now a spent force given their sell out of the British people over the Reform Treaty vote. Your party ignored the wishes of 85% of the electorate for selfish ‘gravy train’ reasons. Your party has not improved since the immoral way you kept 2.4 million from a convicted fraudster. Short memories I suppose helps in politics. Sadly for you many voted now don’t.
Sorry to upset Robert Feal-Martinez but Spink was sacked check Hansard? A week before he attempted to jump ship he sent an e-mail to Nadinne Dorries saying “they are saying I am going to Join UKIP where do they get this rubbish from ” The man is a hypocritical liar and will probably jump to the european list for UKIP next May ,a bigger gravy train. The people of Castle Point will never elect him.
I notice Bill Sharp chooses to completely ignore most of my post and introduces a reference to an email, which clearly we cannot verify, unless of course he has a copy to post here. One of the things I have learnt in the last year is how the main parties and media post totally unsubstantiated claims and never produce the proof. Gutter politics at it’s worst.
For all the anti-europeans on here, wot are you doing on here????go on the ukip website if you love them so much, and no we don’t want to be ruled by the EU, thats the point of subsidiarity and the fact of the matter is that working with the rest of the EU we can accomplish alot more than on our own, obviously we would never give up sovereignty over education and health but in any federal state (which,as yet is not te=otally what we are calling for) the states still have these powers. Arguing against this to me just reinforces my beliefs that alot of the british public are little Englanders who couldn’t care about anyone else and believe that they are never wrong!
Also to the person against quotas, we would need them any way even if we were out of the eu because greedy fishing has meant that Cod supplies are dwindling!
Oh Liberalism at it’s best. If you don’t agree with us don’t post on here. Very Democratic. The protection of our Sovereignty and our borders is what 88% of the population said they wanted, or doesn’t that matter to the Lib-Dems. Your party sold out the British Public and when the penny drops as it surely will with the public once Ireland votes NO to the Reform Treaty, the EU pack of corrupt cards will come tumbling down, leaving the 3 main parties exposed for what they are, apologists for democracy. I happen to be British first and English second. As for Cod supplies, it is because of the Common Fisheries Policy that the entire fish stock is under so much threat. Mainly caused by foreign fishing vessels who totally ignore quota’s. More and more countries outside the Euro zone have realised there is a far bigger market than just Europe. European rules prevent EU states from competing.
Hope you don’t mind me poking my nose in. What a fine political debate you have here. Not too much name calling or mud slinging. I think it is very good that UKIP is being supported on a lib dem site without being censored. My own view is that anyone who still thinks we are better off ‘IN’ so that we can affect EU policy has had their eyes and ears tight shut for the last 30 years.
Ever since I was one of the minority who voted ‘NO’ back in the 1975 referendum I’ve been waiting for the day that the EU and its effect on us finally slaps the average citizen around the face and wakes him up to what has been going on. It has been a long time coming, and I fear it will still take time. The post office closures are a wake-up call, but the media refuses to report the root of the cause. An all to common problem.
Philip, I sadly was one who voted yes. I really believed we were voting for an EEC, I listened to Ted Heath, but now the contempt in which he held the public. You are so right about the media. Hardly a word has been posted that the Lib-Dems and Labour Peers voted to effectively give away the pound and our Sovereignty a couple of nights ago, when they voted down an amendment in relation to Article 48 of the Reform Treaty. The amendment would have made it an obligation for an Act of Parliament if there were any actions under Article 48 which were to be decided by QMV. By putting it into law that the people would have the final say on the Euro, again a promise made by all parties. This will mean if the reform treaty is ratified next year, within months rather than years the pound will be lost.
Hooray! for Dr Bob Spink. He’s the greatest politician and most certainly the only really honest one I have EVER met. He works massive hours for his constituents & for this wonderful nation. If anyone does not beleive this-go along & spend a day with him.!!
We need the UKIP to get us out of the ridiculous E.U. Of course, we need to trade with Europe, but we do NOT need Brussels and all the hangers on.. 70% of our laws are now enforced upon us by Brussels-is that what YOU really want? The E.U. costs each one of us about £900 per year!!UKIP proposes to scrap Inheritance tax and ensure that there would be no tax on the minimum wage.
Immigration-ask your M.P. under the freedom of information act just how many immigrants there are in this nation now?! There is very much to sort out-let Dr. Spink & similar people do it – SOON.