Could well have been a TIA, or mini-stroke.
Ironically, these can be life-savers as they draw the medic's attention to an issue before it gets life-threatening - especially in one so relatively young.
I read the news today oh boy! Page 2,780
Couple of weeks ago, a regular local newsreader on Look East, suddenly stopped reading, started shuffling the papers he was holding, and looking around, like he didn't know where he was - most odd. There was a break, and when they came back on him, nothing was said and he carried on like nothing had happened.
Blimey!
"Former minister and Conservative MP Dan Poulter has defected to Labour.
In an exclusive TV interview with the BBC, the MP for Central Suffolk and North Ipswich told Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg that he could no longer look his NHS colleagues in the eye and stay on as a Conservative."
" It is abundantly clear to me that the Labour party alone has the will and the trust to restore and reform the NHS. That's why we need a Labour government, and why I believe Keir Starmer must lead that government as our next prime minister."
Quote: lofthouse @ 27th April 2024, 5:32 PMBlimey!
"Former minister and Conservative MP Dan Poulter has defected to Labour.
Just proves my point that there is no difference between the modern left of centre Conservative Party and the current left of centre Labour Party. (Or indeed the left of centre Lib Dems, SNP, Greens or Plaid Cymru).
Au contraire
This just goes to prove that the Conservative party has moved to the right - to the point where it makes some of their members feel uncomfortable.
Apart from the PR coup (his comments about the safety of the NHS in Tory hands will be a terrific boost at next weeks Local elections) I'm not sure he'll be particularly welcome - this is an MP who voted for austerity and the Rwanda plan - clear points of difference, if one was genuinely minded to look for them.
He's also standing down at the next election - or 'jumping before he's pushed' as we prefer to call it - where he would have been unseated anyway.
Rumours going around the worldwide intraweb net thingy that a GE will be announced imminently - possibly tomorrow
Don't believe it myself
Nor do.
I remember the "It's definitely a May election" rumours circulating before Christmas.
I think they intend to prolong the pain as long as possible, to both feather their own nests and to shit in Starmer's.
The only reason Sunak might call it early is to avoid the possibility of a post-Local Elections leadership challenge.
The Leader of the Opposition job is clearly up for grabs (he'll be off like a shot - yachts to buy, swimming pools to build etc.) and there's a lot of jockeying for position going on at the moment.
He might want to lose on his own terms.
If other Tories were to defect it could force his hand
One can be handled
Two or three? Very difficult
Who let the Genie out to give you three wishes?
You'll have to wait until autumn cos genies don't exist.
Erm
Right
Okay....
Anyhoooooo
Quote: Lazzard @ 28th April 2024, 11:38 AMAu contraire
This just goes to prove that the Conservative party has moved to the right - to the point where it makes some of their members feel uncomfortable.
Nonsense (if I may be so bold). The Parliamentary Conservative Party is its members. It is not some separate entity divorced from its own MPs. If its MPs have moved to the left then, ipso facto, the Conservative Party has moved to the left.
It's like saying Sheffield United are a brilliant football team; it's just that their players are not very good (other crap football teams are available).
Some Tories have moved more to the right, some haven't
The party is splitting into factions and it's hopefully going to tear itself apart for good
The Labour Party has almost done the same over the last 40 years or so when factions have been determined to move away from the centre- way over to the left
Starmer has managed to stop it, like Kinnock did in the 80's
Whether the tories can survive their own civil war remains to be seen...
Quote: lofthouse @ 28th April 2024, 9:25 PMStarmer has managed to stop it, like Kinnock did in the 80's
Not necessarily a good precedent on which to hang your hopes.
Quote: Billy Bunter @ 28th April 2024, 8:51 PMNonsense (if I may be so bold). The Parliamentary Conservative Party is its members. It is not some separate entity divorced from its own MPs. If its MPs have moved to the left then, ipso facto, the Conservative Party has moved to the left.
It's like saying Sheffield United are a brilliant football team; it's just that their players are not very good (other crap football teams are available).
Sorry.
I didn't mean Members - I meant MP's.
The Tory government can never be right wing enough for its members.
They've tried desperately to claw back some support lately
They've gone after the immigrants, the homeless (especially the smelly ones), the sick, Rayner
Today's target is ..... *drum roll* the disabled! Yay
It won't work
Nothing will work because the vast majority of voters recognise now that this government is ran by despicable scumbags
But yeah let's not waste taxpayer's money on the disabled when it's needed for things like this....
"David Cameron has been accused of swanning around the world like a "Kardashian sister" by hiring a £42million VIP plane.
The Foreign Secretary chartered an aircraft described as "one of the best luxury private jets money can buy" for a five-day diplomatic jaunt around Central Asia. The Embraer Lineage 1000 has its own dining table where meals can be served, as well as a separate relaxation zone with extra-long sofas. It can sleep up to nine passengers."