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My MP thinks self ID is ridiculous

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MyMPfinallyreplied · 10/10/2018 22:23

So I finally got a reply from my MP - I'd actually given up hope. He's Conservative, very right wing, and I disagree with a lot of his voting record. However, I wrote in the vain hope that he would actually get it. He's not on twitter and replies with actual letters so takes a while to get hold of.

I never expected him to quote the Pope in his reply (he's C of E). I haven't been able to post that part as he uses my name close by, but it made me smile.

This all makes for strange bedfellows.

My MP thinks self ID is ridiculous
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JaniceBattersby · 10/10/2018 23:32

On the contrary. MPs should be absolutely transparent about their views on all relevant subjects. No MP would expect a letter written to a constituent to remain private. They’d always write it with the expectation it would end up in the public domain.

NameChangedAgain18 · 10/10/2018 23:28

I would advise people not to name supportive MPs on here. There will be a pile-on from TRAs, and that might put other MPs off raising concerns with self-id.

R0wantrees · 10/10/2018 23:15

There is a real danger that politicians from the right wing (often Brexit supporting) of the Conservative party will gain considerable political capital unless more MPs from other parties and other positions with the Conservatives start standing up soon.

Thank goodness for Maria Miller and Penny Mordant! Wink

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MyMPfinallyreplied · 10/10/2018 22:43

He does indeed - he also writes the date in with the same lovely pen.

I'm not sure of the etiquette of this: I presume since he wrote to me he's happy with his views being on record, so do I name him here and we sigh collectively that our support comes from as far right as you can get in the Conservative Party?

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Redkeyboard · 10/10/2018 22:41

I honestly don’t think that many MPs agree with dropping the medical requirements.

GreyPJs · 10/10/2018 22:40

Fantastic letter.

Does he sign with a lovely blue fountain pen?

JackyHolyoake · 10/10/2018 22:39

I rather suspect my MP [a Conservative] would respond in the same vein ...

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MyMPfinallyreplied · 10/10/2018 22:39

Pope Benedict - we are moving towards a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognise anything as definitive and has its highest values in one's own ego and one's own desires.

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InfidelForever · 10/10/2018 22:34

Excellent response. For the record the Pope is very much against teaching gender theory in schools

scotsheather · 10/10/2018 22:27

It is mostly the right wing tories it seems who get it. David Davies and so on. We need more in the center ground on our side as I don't particularly want aligned with the ukip-py type. Mine is SNP so zero chance.

Great reply you got though.

newtlover · 10/10/2018 22:27

what does the pope have to say on the matter?

UpstartCrow · 10/10/2018 22:24
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