Originally Posted by
jon1959
Jared O'Mara is my MP.
No one had heard of him before the 2017 election. He was one of many candidates across most parties who were selected in a hurry, not adequately vetted, and subsequently turned out to have a load of skeletons in the cupboard (mainly in his social media record).
It wasn't Jared O'Mara who won the seat from Clegg - it was the Labour Party. Any candidate would have won at that time as Clegg was so toxic after his role in the Austerity Coalition (and a lot of students in Sheffield Hallam who despised him for the fees U turn).
He has done nothing as an MP. He no longer holds surgeries, has no remaining staff and no local office. I'm sure he's in a bad way, but he should have resigned 18 months ago and triggered a by election. I think Labour would have struggled to keep hold of the seat from the Lib Dems if that had happened (mainly because of a backlash against O'Mara) but at least we would have had a proper MP in place.