Who is Chris Clarkson, our new Conservative Party Candidate?
Stratford Conservatives tonight have chosen Chris Clarkson, the former MP for Heywood and Middleton.
Here are some facts about our new Conservative Party candidate:
- Clarkson was born in Germany, grew up in Lancashire, and went to University in Dundee. He was a Councillor in Salford and stood as MP for Wallasey in Merseyside before winning Heywood and Middleton in Greater Manchester. He has ZERO connections with Stratford-upon-Avon.
- Clarkson won Heywood and Middleton by just 663 votes during Boris’s 2019 red wall sweep. He announced he would stand down as MP there in June 2023 blaming boundary changes and not referencing his tiny majority. Clarkson is chicken-running to a safe seat to try and prolong his political career.
- In his 5 years as an MP, Clarkson spoke in the Commons just 166 times – that’s just 33 times a year or fewer than 3 times a month.
- In his 5 years as MP, Clarkson asked just 21 written questions – that’s fewer than 5 a year.
- In his 5 years as MP, Clarkson held 0 adjournment debates on local issues.
Stratford-upon-Avon have traded one absentee MP who did nothing for Stratford-upon-Avon for a candidate with arguably an even worse Parliamentary record.
Stratford CAN do better than this!
Sources:
https://members.parliament.uk/member/4835/contributions
1 Comment
Dick Hemsley
I disagree with Stratford CAN’s stated and implied critiques.
Mr Clarkson spoke very well at last night’s meeting, and won selection at the first count at a well-attended meeting.
He was clearly stronger than the local candidate, worthy though she was.
And head and shoulders better than the ex-SPAD apparatchik from No 10.
We should now unite behind Mr Clarkson, and give thanks for the departure of his predecessor to pastures new.