Sacked by Boris Johnson for being anti-Brexit | Exit Interviews
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- Опубликовано: 3 мар 2024
- “I found it one of the most emotional and depressing moments in politics…Being chucked out for something which I sincerely believed in.”
Outgoing Conservative MP Stephen Hammond tells Matt Chorley about being one of more than 20 Tories thrown out of the party by Boris Johnson for backing Remain, and how they forged an anti-Brexit alliance.
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In 2014 Johnson was talking up the EU. He is a pathological liar. Good riddance.
Funnily enough, Boris was anti-Brexit as well, but just lied to become PM.
Boris was Britain's answer to Donald tRump
He pretended to become holier than the Pope - perhaps because he thought he was the Pope.
I'll sum up Boris Johnson in one word: Liar!
Whilst I understand that Stephen doesn't support Boris Johnson but I will not forgive the Tory government for electing him as Leader. The public didn't know what he was like, but Tory MPs did know. So why did they vote for him ? Simply to cling on to power, not for the good of our country.
It's not like it's the only thing they did wrong.
"The public didn't know what he was like, "
You speak for yourself and the rest of the propagandised tabloid consuming personality cultists.
There were plenty of people screaming out and alarm bells ringing where I come from.
Only thing I disagree about is the public had every opportunity to see what Boris was, but chose not to... This also explains why doubtful Tories still supported/didn't complain that loudly, which does not exempt them from responsibility or blame!
The public didn't know what Johnson was like? Did 'the public' live under a rock on the dark side of the moon the last 30 years?
@@EllieD.Violet Steady on.
It seems such comments get deleted.
Mine did. It was practically word for word the same as yours ...!!!
Hammond is one of the very few honourable Conservatives . Sad that his Party has destroyed the U.K. through its Brexit madness.
Imagine a Tory wakening up and saying " Who can I help today? "
This is one of those ‘nowaday rare’ Tories, having honesty, integrity & a sense of responsibility.
Lol! Rishi Sunak "integrity"?! The man tells outright lies at the dispatch box almost every week.
Stephen Hammond was my MP for about 3 years. Excellent MP and principled man, unlike so many of them.
He would take the metro regularly like the rest of us and could often be seen in Wimbledon proper or Wimbledon Park running errands and always happy to stop for a chat with anyone who recognised him. I did so a couple of times.
Normal.
Wow - for a Tory, what a thoroughly nice guy! I hate to say it - I like him!
Looking forward to Paul Kohler taking over in Wimbledon. He will be a fantastic MP for the Lib Dems.
Obviously a very good and dissent man. Knows his stuff. Gentleman.
Shows the mark of a man who didn’t have the courage to tell someone they were going to be sacked.
new respect for Stephen that he stood up to AELTC enough that they didn't invite their local MP to last year's tournament!
and also, well done for trying to find something less monstrous than Wimbledon's current proposal for enclosing a shed load of open space!!
Brexit no longer means Brexit
whatever that means
Brexit should have been managed properly.
The biggest pack of lies ever smeared into the faces of the British public.. in the the world
@@Tom_murray89 How would that have helped? No amount of managing will make a pig fly
@@Tom_murray89 Brexit should have never happened.
How anyone can proudly say that they're Tory to the core given the state of the country just beggars belief.
Lord help us.. the thought of meeting David Cameron sends frozen chills down my spine
Yes.
I don't care why he is leaving. Go back to his rolling acres and pontificate or get a job on late-night GB News or Talk TV. Just go and go now with a General Election.
'deluded'. spot on.
is Stephen Hammond the first MP to say that the would NOT encourage friends to do the job these days?
Did he predict : Mass unemployment ? Drastic food shortages ? Troops in
streets of Northern Ireland ? Collapse of City of London as financial hub ?
That's Zero correct out of four. ? Maybe that's why he got sacked...?
He weren't wrong.
Surely having the Wombles as constituents must be the highlight. But no mention of them.
Rats getting off the sinking ship. The Tories have destroyed this country
No tories with a spine left
spine is only worth something it its holding up a brain
Rats leaving the sinking ship heh??
Look at hammonds history, i am afraid he will do anything to hold on to his seat or make himself a bob or 2. (led by donkeys expose for eg.) Not the worst MP, but the bar is extraodinarily low at this time
Educate people that's a joke the remain ergot there way in the end now look at the state of the country so the EU will able to take over and this country will just be cash cow, if it's not all ready. 🏴🇬🇧🏴🇬🇧🏴🇬🇧 14:03
21:40 "Eddie Lister (born October 1949) was 10 years too old". Lord Udny-Lister was the Downing Street Chief of Staff under Johnson for 18 months. He was also Deputy Mayor of London under Johnson.
500 Acres? Let's start a gofundme for him.
Thought Bojo would be a hero to Times Radio, Bojo stopped the peace deal between Ukraine and Russia!
What peace deal? Quisling
Anti-Brexit means anti-Britain.
Don't blame Boris Johnson. This 'alliance' has ruined his own party. The people voted and they should have done as the people wanted. We'd have been in a better position now if they had. May was a disaster, neither one nor tother.
The British public made a decision, your job was to follow it! Not your personal feelings whilst on holiday. Your lack of accountability for directly disobeying your constituents wishes is disgusting.
Their job is to vote for what they believe in, the public's is to vote for them. Not everything is a referendum & not all referendums are binding, they are just advisory.
Its always family reasons lol. He will lose. Moderate in a nasty party? Dont think so.
I was sacked for being pro brexit
Good.
I suppose it depends what your job was doesn't it?
If you were a mechanic or a baker that was unfair. But if you worked for a business who's very existence depended on trading within the EU, then that's not a surprise.
There’s no way to reconcile UK self-government with European federation. We can try to be polite about our differences, but we can’t reconcile them. It’s better to be upfront and honest about it.
I still remember the battle John Major fought to get the UK Parliament to approve the Maastricht Treaty. In the end, he threatened his own party that he would call a General Election and deliberately set out to lose it if they didn’t pass the Bill. It passed with a majority of three.
Later, every household in the UK was sent a government leaflet about the Treaty. It explained that the reason the Prime Minister had been prepared to destroy his own Party to bring this vital Treaty into law was because - wait for it - the Treaty didn’t change anything at all. That’s right. The leaflet insisted that Maastricht had not moved any powers up to the European level, and it didn’t represent any forward movement towards a Federal Europe whatsoever. That’s why it was so desperately important to pass it.
I would rather hear Guy Verhofstadt talk honestly of wanting to build a European Empire stretching from Luhansk to the Azores, from the Arctic Circle to the Canary Islands, than have any more John Major style mendacious dissimulation.
But if they admit that everyone would turn against it. So they have to crawl at a snail's pace so people don't even notice
500 acre farm in the family, must be missing those EU Subsidies. Says it all really!!….
Go on leave the politics as you haven't done anything for the young generation and families of Uk, go in farming as the pilitics where to much for your limited knowledge
Boris Johnson was the greatest British PM since Thatcher.
Lol . Good one. I presume you arent serious .
@scooby1992 He achieved Brexit and he got the resistance to Russia going.
Who has achieved more than that since Thatcher?
subrey was totally in the wrong and you deserved the sack for not backing the country.
Stephen Hammond is a weasel. He's also a Liberal Democrat. But, like many Liberals, he doesn't have the integrity to actually stand as one.
you still talk about Brexit? lol
Of course we do it’s the most important decision we have taken that is crippling my country !
@@marksykes5434 Brexit will never go away until we re-join the EU.
@@joesoy9185 👍👍👍
@@joesoy9185It might if we rejoined the Single Market, I honestly don’t think the average person cares where legislation comes from so rejoining the bureaucracy wouldn’t make a difference imo
Hopefully they will for good decades. No place for moaning Britons in the EU so they can soak an absolute success of their narrow-mined chauvinism
No mention if his 6 London apartments then no!