Labour MP vs Monarchist lackeys and forelock tuggers (0 - 1)

[jon1959]

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...-it-as-protest

A Labour MP has had to return to parliament to be sworn in again a week after he protested against pledging allegiance to the king as he took the oath.

Clive Lewis, a prominent supporter of Britain becoming a republic, returned after parliamentary authorities told him he might not be able to speak in the Commons, vote or receive a salary, and could even face a byelection if legal action was taken against him under the Parliamentary Oaths Act.

The Norwich South MP did not refer to “his heirs and successors” after a mention of the king when he said during a swearing in last week: “I take this oath under protest and in the hope that one day my fellow citizens will democratically decide to live in a republic.

“Until that time I do solemnly, sincerely and truly declare and affirm that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to His Majesty King Charles, according to law.”

Lewis said on X on Tuesday: “After omitting to swear allegiance to King Charles’ ‘heirs and successors’ last week, I’ve had to take the oath again in order to sit in the House of Commons.

“The majority of the public are committed to democracy, and so I hope one day MPs can swear an oath based on those values.”


We need more Clive Lewis's. A lot more!

[Dorcus]

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...-it-as-protest

A Labour MP has had to return to parliament to be sworn in again a week after he protested against pledging allegiance to the king as he took the oath.

Clive Lewis, a prominent supporter of Britain becoming a republic, returned after parliamentary authorities told him he might not be able to speak in the Commons, vote or receive a salary, and could even face a byelection if legal action was taken against him under the Parliamentary Oaths Act.

The Norwich South MP did not refer to “his heirs and successors” after a mention of the king when he said during a swearing in last week: “I take this oath under protest and in the hope that one day my fellow citizens will democratically decide to live in a republic.

“Until that time I do solemnly, sincerely and truly declare and affirm that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to His Majesty King Charles, according to law.”

Lewis said on X on Tuesday: “After omitting to swear allegiance to King Charles’ ‘heirs and successors’ last week, I’ve had to take the oath again in order to sit in the House of Commons.

“The majority of the public are committed to democracy, and so I hope one day MPs can swear an oath based on those values.”


We need more Clive Lewis's. A lot more!

Clive is an absolute hero! What a brilliant plea for democracy! A special man.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

That will be on the front page of the sun

And he's mixed race so they won't like that !

Sod em

[A Quiet Monkfish]

Clive is an absolute hero! What a brilliant plea for democracy! A special man.

Ah yes, Clive 'get on your knees bitch' Lewis. A very special man indeed..

[pipster]

Is this the same Clive Lewis who along with naz shah embroiled themselves in the Corbinista anti semite brigade

[jon1959]

Is this the same Clive Lewis who along with naz shah embroiled themselves in the Corbinista anti semite brigade

Complete confusion or gross distortion? Let’s call it a score draw!

[JamesWales]

I generally disagree with his politics, but you get nice people across the spectrum and he certainly doesn't come across as one of them. That said, I've never met him but I gather he is not universally admired as one of politics nice guys

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

Complete confusion or gross distortion? Let’s call it a score draw!

I think complete rubbish from an angry right winger out of power more appropriate

[pipster]

He was ousted by his own side, that should tell you all you need to know. He has his head up his own backside on most things
He knew he had to swear an oath to the Monarch (it’s a requirement of the job and has been for hundreds of years) so as per the attention seeking bell end does something to get him the attention he craves
Bellend just like bellends that worship him, including closet tories from the vale

[Hilts]

I generally disagree with his politics, but you get nice people across the spectrum and he certainly doesn't come across as one of them. That said, I've never met him but I gather he is not universally admired as one of politics nice guys

The voice of reason who doesn't like hearsay.🤣

[jon1959]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Lewis_(politician)

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

He was ousted by his own side, that should tell you all you need to know. He has his head up his own backside on most things
He knew he had to swear an oath to the Monarch (it’s a requirement of the job and has been for hundreds of years) so as per the attention seeking bell end does something to get him the attention he craves
Bellend just like bellends that worship him, including closet tories from the vale

Christ you are a fecking sly little prick fair play

[A Quiet Monkfish]

Christ you are a fecking sly little prick fair play

In April 2015, during an interview by the New Statesman, in response to a question on whether he was taking his upcoming victory for granted, he said he would only lose if "he was caught with [his] pants down behind a goat with Ed Miliband at the other end"

Yes, we need more like him..

[JamesWales]

The voice of reason who doesn't like hearsay.🤣

Pretty certain I have read opinions from you that are far worse about people that I am certain you wouldn't have met in person yourself

[jon1959]

In April 2015, during an interview by the New Statesman, in response to a question on whether he was taking his upcoming victory for granted, he said he would only lose if "he was caught with [his] pants down behind a goat with Ed Miliband at the other end"

Yes, we need more like him..

Glad someone read the link. I doubt pipster will.

Clive Lewis said 9 years ago that he is 'sincerely sorry if (you) have been offended by the comment'. Take the apology!

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

In April 2015, during an interview by the New Statesman, in response to a question on whether he was taking his upcoming victory for granted, he said he would only lose if "he was caught with [his] pants down behind a goat with Ed Miliband at the other end"

Yes, we need more like him..

I am referring to pipsters very devious ways regarding thinking he knows where someone lives and what they do and his complete lack of willingness to be subject to the same rules

[pipster]

I read the link Jon, I read all of it. The fact he had the bollox to serve is to be applauded, very much so.
However, Lewis like mercer has found politics to be a different kind of enemy.
He should be used to following rules and orders, like he did when he signed up, and would have declared an oath to defend the queen or did he refuse that as well ?

[Citizen's Nephew]

Glad someone read the link. I doubt pipster will.

Clive Lewis said 9 years ago that he is 'sincerely sorry if (you) have been offended by the comment'. Take the apology!

I think there's a lot of 'selective memory' syndrome going since the GE. That, a sense-of-humour failure.

...it's funny how people see activism as self-obsession when in fact it's highlighting the completely awful practice of having an unelected person who was birthed out of a very specific and anointed (by a god) vagina who gets to play cosplay and strut around with a massive sense of entitlement. Yet Clive is the bad 'un! As for all of the rest of them wearing ridiculous clobber...could they look more stupid?

[Citizen's Nephew]

I read the link Jon, I read all of it. The fact he had the bollox to serve is to be applauded, very much so.
However, Lewis like mercer has found politics to be a different kind of enemy.
He should be used to following rules and orders, like he did when he signed up, and would have declared an oath to defend the queen or did he refuse that as well ?

Most of your posts seem to fall into this definition: 'Changing the narrative is synonymous with changing the story which means either something has happened that changes things or you are making something happen that change things or you are choosing to focus on something else that happened which changes the story/narrative'.

[pipster]

Lewis swore on oath of allegiance to the monarch when he signed up for military service. Yet when he is required to do the same thing as an MP he rufuses
Attention seeking pillock, just like Gerry Adams when refused to do the same thing

[Dorcus]

Clive for PM Id say! He's a Godsend in the murky world of politics.

[Dorcus]

In April 2015, during an interview by the New Statesman, in response to a question on whether he was taking his upcoming victory for granted, he said he would only lose if "he was caught with [his] pants down behind a goat with Ed Miliband at the other end"

Yes, we need more like him..

He was only kidding around

[Taunton Blue Genie]

Lewis swore on oath of allegiance to the monarch when he signed up for military service. Yet when he is required to do the same thing as an MP he rufuses
Attention seeking pillock, just like Gerry Adams when refused to do the same thing

I have no skin in this game but it's quite possible that someone takes a different view of the oath situation when they are two or three decades older. I think I swore allegiance to 'God and the Queen' when I was in the Air Training Corps but I certainly wouldn't do it now.

[cyril evans awaydays]

Lewis swore on oath of allegiance to the monarch when he signed up for military service. Yet when he is required to do the same thing as an MP he rufuses
Attention seeking pillock, just like Gerry Adams when refused to do the same thing

I doubt anyone writing a pamphlet on Gerry Adams's virtues would make it to a second page but concluding that him never swearing an oath of allegiance to the British Crown because he was an "attention seeking pillock" demonstrates a breathtaking ignorance of Irish political history.

[jon1959]

He was only kidding around

This deserves more love!