Tory Whip labels Cadbury workers ‘whingers’
It’ll be interesting to see what Mike Smithson makes of this story over at Political Betting…
CADBURY workers fearing for their jobs have been branded “whingers” by a Midland MP…
Mr Wiggin – whose Leominster constituency in Herefordshire includes Cadbury’s Marlbrook plant – said:
“Who wants to hire a whingeing workforce when you can have a positive upbeat one?”
Wiggin, who’s currently sitting on a hefty majority of 13,167 over the second-placed Lib Dems, from the last general election, would ordinarily be considered to be a safe as houses but he does seem to have a knack of opening his mouth and putting his foot right in it, as the Telegraph noted during its coverage of the MPs expenses scandal:
Mr Wiggin, the MP for Leominster in Herefordshire, has been contacted by John Lyon, the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, over his claims for £13,000 in council tax and household bills between 2004 and 2006.
Mr Lyon is acting on a complaint from one of Mr Wiggin’s constituents who believes that the MP – a contemporary of David Cameron at Eton – may have claimed thousands of pounds too much.
The MP has accused the constituent, Jim Miller, a self-employed writer, of being a “trouble-maker”. He asked whether Mr Miller was “on benefits” and said: “His time would be better spent finding a job than pursuing a vendetta.”
Could Wiggin now be a more attractive target for the Lib Dems than his majority at the last election suggests, especially as his CV prior to entering parliament includes stints as a Forex trader with UBS, an associate directorship with Kleinwort Benson and a management position in the Forex department of Commerzbank?
After all, he seems to be a right merchant banker from where I’m sitting?
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Nobody should be suprised at an out of touch Tory toff has nothing but contempt for working class fears. Wiggin is merely in it for the money and despises the voters who elected him. Still, if that is who they want to vote for, who are we to complain?
The Lib Dems are unlikely to make an attempt to unseat this guy. They are shaping to join the Tories in a hung Parliment anyway.
If these people do lose their jobs they will stop being ‘whingers’ and become scroungers’
Personally I find politics betting to have a Tory slant, they rarely rip into them with any frequency or gusto.
Why this is, I don’t know, maybe he’s got all his money on them.
Given the Cadbury plant in his constituency (which is a fair size for the sort of area we’re talking about and a major employer in Leominster town) this is an amazing thing to say. But then Wiggen always did have a tin ear. I don’t think a serious LibDem challenge is likely though; they were very strong in the area as recently as the 1970s but have fallen back a massive amount over the past few decades. Leominster itself actually has a decent sized Labour vote, amusingly enough given the general outlook of North Herefordshire.
How about this Daily Mirror article for a laugh: it illustrates that metropolitan mindset of the media:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/01/22/let-them-eat-flake-115875-21986225/
The Leamington (sic) MP said he had heard workers complaining about the US firm’s takeover. He said: “I worry that by sending out such negative signals it puts people’s jobs more at risk. . . Voters will remember when this MP turned his back on Cadbury’s workers in their hour of need.” Staff at the Marlbrook factory in his Warwickshire (sic) seat, fighting to keep Cadbury independent, have written to tell him they are “bitterly disappointed”.
Still, I suppose to a Londoner, it’s all the same outside the M25. Leamington – Leominster, Warwickshire – Herefordshire. What’s in a name. So much for the Daily Mirror.
Don’t forget that this bloke has one of the largest Polish communities in Britain in his constituency. In fact the village shop in Marden, between Leominster and Hereford is run by a Polish couple.
Filth.
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