Some good news out of Britain, global warming alarmist and Senior Conservative MP Tim Yeo has lost his fight against being deselected by party activists.
The former environment minister demanded the secret ballot by Tory members in South Suffolk after the association’s committee voted not to re-adopt him as a candidate.
Mr Yeo promised his “unqualified support” to his successor.
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-26015369
h/t to Fretslider
I do hope you’re kidding.
He’s an absolute shower!
No wonder he was drawn to climate related scams.
With grateful acknowledgements to Terry-Thomas.
Yeo: “I’m happy to be jusged by what’s on the record”
Great. Looks like everybody is happy then.
Thanks for making your obstinatacy and ignorance clear “on the record”. I’m sure that was a great help to the de-selection process.
Good news indeed! Looks like the climate really is changing.
To paraphrase an old joke from Yes Minister, the Right Honorable Member’s departure from Parliament will lower the average age of MPs while raising the average IQ.
Jeff says:
“Mr Yeo promised his “unqualified support” to his successor.”
Unqualified….hit the nail on the head….
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LOL. Like his “unqualified” attempt to make fool on Prof Lindzen.
However, it is only his candidacy for the Tory party that he has lost. Until the next general election he will remain the “unqualified” head of the energy and climate change select committee
Taphonomic says:
February 3, 2014 at 10:56 am
Yeoooww. After reading about the interchange between Yeo and Lindzen a few days ago, I thought Yeo was an American politician (guess I didn’t think that a Brit could be that pedantically stupid; but then, never underestimate a politician). Glad to see that he is gone no matter where he is from. He reminds me of US Rep. Henry Waxman, who is also leaving.
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I am happy to see Waxman gone. I remember watching CSPAN where the debate was related to fiscal matters. Waxman was arguing that Obama saved GM from bankruptcy. And then someone let him know that GM went bankrupt under Obama. He never heard that happened, he said. Then someone asked him about the national debt and if he knew what it was (at the time 16Trillion). He did not know and could not even guess. He was a “good politician” and dumbass ignoramus. Good riddance.
I thought a parliamentary select committee was supposed to seek answers to complex issues, to try and draw out a level of understanding.
Yet watching that shameful episode it was more like Yeo vs Lindzen. This was a court room adversarial approach – just answer the question, [I don’t want any of your elaborations, it might destroy my case]. How they allowed this, or why nobody picked up on it is remarkable.
OMG, this is good news. I never thought I’d live to see this day. I thought Yeo would be one of those cranky old MPs who somehow manages to hang around for decades on end. This is fantastic.
GOOD. He is a self serving ignorant twit.
Ron Manley says on February 3, 2014 at 5:58 pm
“Tim Yeo was deselected because he was not seen to be representing his constituents’ interests. He did not live in the constituency and was considered to be more concerned with his role as Chair of a House of Commons committee. That it happened to the “Energy and Climate Change Committee” was incidental. Another senior Conservative the Chair of the “Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee” was recently deselected for similar reasons.”
This is the official reason but is short of the whole truth (and probably a little naive). The local members (85% of them anyway) booted him out because he didn’t represent them. Their reasons will have been many but they will have included those you mention above as well as;
• He (allegedly) used his position to promote his own best interests rather than theirs.
• They disagreed with his position on climate, EU etc. – take your pick
• He treated the local members and their association with distain.
In short, if you are going to wear the party badge, make sure you represent the local party members; or you won’t be wearing it next time.
One down! how many more to go?
We have another individual who it is reported to be a fine upstanding member of the British Royal family, who it is alleged to have said at a recent meeting ( as reported briefly by the BBC early evening news) that all thos who support the view that AGW is not happening, are nothing but a load of ‘headles chickens’ for daring to dispute the gospel of Saint Warmer!
Mind you,this individual has close links with the plant world and has had many illuminating discussions with plants as to the way forward for mankind!
Maybe this individual is promoting a new form of Flower Power for the planet?
His days were numbered as soon as he got the Prime Minister’s ‘unqualified support’….
I’ve had this going round in my head today… “The Volga Boatmen.”
Yeo, ho ho!
Yeo, no dough!
Once, twice, thrice and again,
Yeo, heave ho!
I see a lot of Left v. Right/Labour v. Tory stuff here. Let us not forget that while Tim Yeo was towards the right, the disastrous green taxes were introduced by a labour government with the current labour leader in place in the DECC.
Both sides will use whatever excuse they can to promote a cause that allows them to raise revenue. The accounts don’t balance so they will raise taxes at any excuse and while they are being fed disaster stories by scientists they will lap them up. It is not in their interest to not listen. It is one issue where both sides are in agreement: it is definitely worse than we thought.
The current floods in Somerset have been attributed to global warming…no one in the government or media has pointed out that this conflicts with all the evidence and the beliefs of the met office. The media is reporting that THE WINTER OF 2013/14 IS THE WETTEST ON RECORD. The bit of that statistic that says “in parts of the country” has been lost somewhere. While the floods on ’53 and ’57 did not go on as long they were caused greater disruption and more importantly they were not on a flood plain.
Regarding Tim Yeo, it really is a case with “out with the old, in with the new”. With Tim Yeo, one can be forgiven for thinking his years in politics turned him into a pompous git.
What is the Chair (Yeo) doing participating in the questioning anyway ? Yeo is clearly using his position as Chair to have the final word, however ridiculous, by then immediately directing business to move on. Prof Lindzen isn’t letting him away with though. Is it only because Lindzen is so good humoured or perhaps because he’s not cowed by the awe of Parliament , by being a nonUK citizen , that he does persist in calling out Yeo’s nonsense ?
Shouldn’t the chair be neutral though ?
Fascinating watching the entire UK Climate Committee hearing, posted up thread at around 10:50 3 Feb. The full 3 hour + hearing becoming accessible after watching the initial 3 minute extract posted.
Yeo’s questioning of Dick & Donna is just one abstraction to the absurd after another.
What you don’t read (surprize!) in the BBC report is that a major consideration in the vote appears to have been the various interests of Yeo in green technology companies. One would think that for a chair of the “climate change” committee this might be considered a conflict of interest, but he clearly got away with it. Until his constituents pulled the plug.
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/10658/tim_yeo/south_suffolk
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he clearly got away with it. Until his constituents pulled the plug.”
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Never underestimate the power of grass roots democracy, for curbing the worst excesses allowed in ghe name of representative democracy. It may take a painfully long and sometimes itself painful time, but like the Mounties, they’ll eventually get their man.