New MPs

I've been watching the Maiden Speeches of new MPs on the BBC Parliament channel.
They all seem good hearted, honest, caring people and I was impressed by their enthusiasm. I hope they will help to make this Government better and more humane.
I hope they don't become like some of the others.

There were also some more experienced MPs speaking.
I found Owen Patterson very reassuring about Brexit. I wish we could hear more from him.
I get the feeling that things are beginning to change for the better, I hope so.

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Aren't all new MP's keen? But once they get over it all they can think of is the jollies, expenses, gold plated pensions, automatic pay rises.

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It would be interesting to see the Maiden Speeches of May and Corbyn, I'll have to see if they're recorded somewhere!

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That would be interesting, I suspect Jeremy's would have been delivered with the same sort of zeal last seen at Galillee.

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Hi

Owen Paterson is my local MP.

He is a strong supporter of Fox Hunting and Badger Culling.

He is extremely Right Wing, making Mrs Thatcher look like Corbyn.

He supports more austerity and a liberalisation of employment law, which includes abolishing the minimum wage and letting employers decide pay rates.

He believes that people should make their own pension provision and not be reliant upon the State Pension and that employers should not have to pay NI Contributions.

Paterson raised £20 million to set up the 2020 Group, an extreme right wing think tank of which he is chairman.

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I don't want to marry him, I just felt better listening to his views on Brexit.
Thank heavens you told me what he's really like! Now I'm back to worrying about Brexit and realising I can't trust any Tories!