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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