Chesham & Amersham results since the formation of the constituency at the the Feb 1974 General Election: pic.twitter.com/93RvdUydGY
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Sarah is only the third MP for this constituency. The first (1974 -1992) was Ian Gilmour, the archetypal ‘wet’ Tory who opposed many illiberal aspects of Toryism and opposed aspects of Thatcherism from within the government and the back-benches. I believe his political journey ended with him as a LibDem.
I am not quite sure that Ian Gilmour ended by as a Lib Dem. His book “Dancing with dogma” though is a delicious if not wholly accurate evisceration of Thatcherism and well worth a read if you happen upon it.
What Wikipedia does report in regard of Gilmour is: “He was expelled from the Conservative Party in 1999 for supporting the Pro-Euro Conservative Party in the European Parliament elections. At Question Time on 23 June 1999, Prime Minister Tony Blair described this move as a demonstration of how right-wing and anti-European the Conservative Party had become.”
TB was right – the Conservative Party has become very “right-wing and anti-European”
But it is hidden (successfully) by Boris.
He is completely in hock to the CRG, ERG, Express/Mail/Telegraph and big business. Over developers. Over Europe – you can’t be a Tory MP and a pro-European – a position *never* taken in reverse when the pro-Europeans were in power. And killing 60,000 of us with Covid rather than taking sensible health precautions so that big business can open up.
Come on folks! Time to expose this clown! This killer! This shower!