Gosh, doesn’t Hugo (I’m not going to interfere now I’m no longer an MP) Swire look wrecked! Where has he been! Obviously having a good time now he doesn’t have his fourth part-time job to worry about!
And their boss Frit de Peiffel Johnson
Category Archives: Simon Jupp
Jupp’s boss Dominic Raab in danger of losing his seat to Lib Dem
Swire gone.
Raab might be going
Jupp …… ?
Not really a good time to be a “parachuted central casting Tory” with two “mentors” at such a low ebb!
Let’s make it all three out.
Remember: a vote for anyone other than Claire Wright is a vote for the Tories!
En elector speaks …
Comment on post reposted here:
“Had a leaflet arrive this morning from CCHG setting out (again) the already disposed of untruth that all taxpayers are due a £2400 hike in their taxes with a Corbyn administration. and making the proposal that it is best not to vote Labour.
In tiny writing on the front it says ‘vote for Simon Jupp’ . I had never heard of Simon Jupp until a week ago, and there is no other mention of him on this leaflet, which is impertinent enough to tell me to vote for him. No photo, no CV, no statement of suitability for office, no trace of a policy, no ideas, no website, no email address, no sign that Simon Jupp is a real person, or merits any attention whatever.
So, in order that I should consider voting for this Simon Jupp, who Owl has suggested is not sure who he works (or worked) for, or indeed, who he himself is, I pass on to the Conservative website, where I now see many photos of Simon Jupp, who at first I mistake for a tourist who likes to be photographed with random bystanders in as many places as possible with placards saying he is delivering something – maybe he’s on a zero hours for Hermes or whoever. Then I spot his ‘opinions’ posted with the photos. And it is clear enough he does actually think he is a candidate for election to the constituency of East Devon, I can no longer suppose otherwise. But his ‘views’ are dry recantations of Tory mythologies on Brexit (that they’ll ‘get it done’ – no they won’t), that they have saved community hospitals (no they haven’t – they’ve closed them) and on and on through the formulaic dissembling required of the modern Tory candidate.
I suppose with a record in government as bad as the Tories, there is little else to do bar slag off the opposition, and even that involves conscious deception and willful mendacity. In East Devon we have endured eighteen years of lacklustre representation from someone who was sent here for an easy ride and meal ticket. Simon Jupp looks like another one of those and by God we do not want any more of that. It really is time we voted in someone who knows the place and cares about it. And that is Claire Wright – no question.
The leaflet above did have a ‘return address’ in small on the front. So I duly Pritt Stuck the pages together, marked it ‘return to sender’, rewrote the return address to make it clearer for the posties, and popped it back in the post. Suggest you do the same.”
Jupp quickly deleting comments on his Facebook page – they have now returned!
(Tory) -though that isn’t mentioned – Simon Jupp for East Devon Facebook page appears to be deleting most comments on most posts quite quuckly – currently you can see who made them but not what they said ….!
Parachute Tory candidate Jupp …
“Mr Jupp himself moved to Exmouth at the beginning of November from his flat in Wimbledon, which he still owns from his time working in Westminster.” …
A vote for anyone other than Claire Wright is a vote for the parachute Tory.
East Devon’s parachuted Tory candidate …
… seems to be rushing around the constituency trying to get as many photos as possible taken of himself by road signs.
Has anyone actually had a meaningful conversation with him (ie a question honestly answered?). Just so you recognise him, he may or may not have a beard and may or not call himself Simon Jupp!
On his Simon Jupp for East Devon Facebook page he looks like this:
on a Facebook page oddly called only “Simon James” (no mention of Jupp) he looked like this until recently:
The boss of the East Devon Tory candidate in East Devon behaves appallingly at hustings
Owl has found it difficult to find evidence that East Devon’s Toey hopeful (Simon Jupp) IS an aide to Dominic Raab (he is shown as aide to a Treasury MP on the parliamentary list of 5 November 2019) but as he and Swire say he is – it must be so, must it not?
Jupp is said to be a communications expert in the Tory Party – wonder what advice he gave Raab about this?
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Dominic Raab was called a “coward” by the friends and family of Harry Dunn as they were left outside of a hustings in his constituency.
The 19-year-old died in a crash in Northamptonshire in August that led to the suspect leaving the UK claiming diplomatic immunity.
His family had hoped to put pressure on the foreign secretary who attended the event at a packed church in Surrey.
A member of staff at the church said they were kept out due to fire safety.
The Conservative Party has been approached for comment. …”
Left-wing newspaper points out Swire’s extra income as MP
Will Swire find some nice part-time job for Jupp if he succeeds him? Will Dominic Raab (to whom he is said to be an adviser, though parlianmentary records do not show this) give his SPAD a leg up? As Swire organised Raab’s attempt for the Tory Leadership will they perhaps both offer Jupp their help?
Might we see even less of Jupp than Swire (if that’s possible?).
“TOP Tories stand to collectively lose more than £2.5 million a year under Labour’s plan to stop MPs moonlighting for extra money, the Morning Star can reveal.
Labour’s manifesto has set out plans to “tackle vested interests” in British politics — including a pledge to “stop MPs from taking paid second jobs” with limited exemptions to maintain professional registrations like nursing.
The move would hit around a fifth of Tory MPs, according to the Star’s analysis of the register of MPs’ interests.
More than 50 were topping up their £79,468 salaries with permanent second jobs on which they spent a combined 9,500 hours a year. …
… Mark Pritchard and Hugo Swire were also managing to hold down an extra four jobs outside of Parliament, making them £77,880 per annum and £104,996 (almost half of it in shares) respectively. …”
Questions for the Tory candidate as he rushes around East Devon
Claire Wright has been clear with her manifesto – protecting what is best about East Devon, standing up for the NHS am]nd social care, conserving the environment and improving education and inequality.
Click to access GEManifesto2019FINAL5.pdf
Unfortunately, the Conservative Party has not been so clear.
Other party manifestos are unimportant in East Devon.
A vote for anyone other than Claire Wright is a vote for the Tories.
Our parachuted-in, Tory apparatchik candidate is throwing himself around the constituency like a whirling dervish (mostly accompanied by the same old 5-6 people – who must be finding it quite tiring) But has anyone asked him these questions and, if so, has he given any answers?
If not, maybe hustings will provide a platform for him to answer.
What do you think of the Tory fake-news “factcheck uk” Twitter account? Is that acceptable?
What do you think of the “50,000 more nurses” which includes 19,000 that you think you might be able to persuade NOT to leave? Is this acceptable?
What do you think about the “20,000 more police” when you got rid of 21,000. Is this acceptable?
What do you think of the “60 new hospitals” when itis actually only 6 – the others to get minimal funding to plan new hospitals, not build them? Is this acceptable?
Why has social care been left out of the manifesto? Is this acceptable?
All the above is said to be taking 10 years to achieve – if at all? Is this acceptable?
Tory candidate sucks up to Carters at Greendale
Anyone who reads this blog knows the contempt it has for the Carters and the Greendale empire, which spreads its ever-growing tentacles throughout East Devon. Just put “Greendale” or “Carter” in the blog search box to see how they control many industries and landholdings (which they are notorious for extending by retrospective planning applications for or exploiting planning loopholes).
Now we read this from the parachuted-in East Devon Tory candidate on his Facebook page:
“Great to welcome the Secretary of State for International Trade, Liz Truss, to #EastDevon. We visited two thriving businesses – Little Pod in Farringdon and Greendale Farm. I will always back business to create more jobs and opportunities. Check out the beard net!”
Why would anyone vote for someone who gives this group publicity and support?
Well, Swire had his office in one of their properties, of course …
Did our Tory candidate give his boss this advice?
More on East Devon Tory “parachute” candidate
The paywall seems to have been removed from this story in the Daily Telegraph for some reason … Owl would have liked to be at the selection meeting where this candidate – until recently competing for a seat in Bristol – was chosen!
“As we near the deadline for candidate nominations ahead of next month’s general election, both major parties are embroiled in an evergreen row. This is not just about being forced to dump individuals who have a record of unsavoury remarks or (in Labour’s case) allegedly antisemitic views. Both Labour and Conservative headquarters are also being accused of stitching up selection races for favoured insiders.
On the Tory side, disgruntled members cite the selection of several former Downing Street aides for safe seats. These include Andrew Griffith in Arundel and South Downs, James Wild in West Norfolk, and Danny Kruger in Devizes – all despite the Prime Minister’s team having only been in office, with a non-existent majority, for a few months. Nor does the run of advisers stop there: we also find Claire Coutinho, who previously worked for Rishi Sunak, in East Surrey; Simon Jupp, who advises Dominic Raab, in East Devon; and Anthony Browne, who served as an aide to Boris Johnson during his time as Mayor of London, in South Cambridgeshire.
This last is already the subject of controversy, with Browne facing calls to stand down over allegedly racist arguments he advanced in the Spectator – not helpful in a seat where local polling shows the Conservatives may already have fallen behind the Liberal Democrats. Mims Davies, meanwhile, stands accused of launching a “chicken run” from her current seat of Eastleigh, where the Lib Dems are again expected to do well, to Mid Sussex, the safe seat vacated by Sir Nicholas Soames. This has reportedly angered other MPs defending marginal seats, who feel neglected by CCHQ.”
Source: Daily Telegraph
Daily Telegraph: “For the Tories, choosing candidates is a trade-off between parachuting in favoured sons and alienating grassroots members”
This is not Mr Jupp on his parachute into East Devon – just his boss … on a sort-of parachute …
The Daily Telegraph article (which, unfortunately is behind a pay wall) goes on to give the example of an adviser being parachuted in of “Simon Jupp, who advises Dominic Raab, in East Devon”.
Andrew Moulding joins election insults battle
Just about the only candidate who HASN’T joined the slag-fest is Claire Wright!
“Tories and Independent trade insults over former radio candidate.
Housing? Employment? Refuse collection? Regeneration of seafront towns? Any one of them could be top of the charts when it comes to issues of critical importance to East Devon. But Tory and Independent council leaders in the constituency are instead having a spat over whether ageing rocker Iggy Pop would do a better job than Conservative candidate Simon Jupp.
The former radio presenter and journalist won the selection battle to wear the biggest blue rosette at the weekend and took immediately to door-knocking to drum up support. He’s defending an 8,000 majority bequeathed to him by outgoing MP Sir Hugo Swire. But that majority itself was down from 12,000 on the 2015 election, with independent Claire Wright snatching a sizeable share of the vote.
Now East Devon District Council leader Ben Ingham, an independent, has told a local newspaper he thinks Mr Pop – who had a top 10 hit in 1986 with ‘Real Wild Child’ – would have been a better candidate. “People would be able to relate to him more than a DJ from Plymouth,” he’s reported as saying. Mr Ingham also says he’d thought of running for parliament himself because he’s disappointed by the area’s MPs.
That’s got the leader of East Devon Conservatives, Andrew Moulding, into a lather. He’s penned a 500-word response metaphorically telling Mr Ingham to wind his neck in. Being “a DJ from Plymouth [is[ not in itself a crime,” he claims (although he may not have met some of the profession in that city). If Mr Ingham thinks he can do a better job, he’s still got time to stand, he suggests. And “To compare [Mr Jupp] with Iggy Pop shows how out of touch with reality disaffected Conservative Ben Ingham actually is, stuck in some 1970’s time warp, where Simon Jupp will be nobody’s ‘Stooge’ and has a clear ‘Lust for Life’ (apologies to Iggy), working hard for residents of East Devon on both local and national issues.”
East Devon and its predecessors have been Conservative for more than a century. It’s considered a two-way battle in next month’s election between Mr Jupp and Ms Wright. “
East Devon leader Ingham “nearly stood for Parliament “
NOT in East Devon, but in Tiverton and Honiton. He has strong views on East Devon candidates:
“Independent councillor Ben Ingham told this title he seriously considered running for Parliament as a protest candidate – so dismayed is he at the performance of the area’s MPs.
He is a supporter of Ms Wright and said he would not have stood against her in East Devon, but he said he might have challenged MP Neil Parish in Tiverton and Honiton.
“That would be the obvious one or maybe Mid Devon…or even West Devon and Torridge where Geoffrey Cox is,” he said. “I think he needs to be questioned now and again, I think he’s a bit too full of himself for my liking.”
He said the aim of a campaign would have been ‘to give people the opportunity to show their disquiet at the political parties’.
All the main parties, he said, have ‘let down’ the people by failing to achieve a good Brexit deal in three years.
Ultimately, he said he decided to focus on his role as leader of East Devon District Council.
In the East Devon constituency, Conservative Sir Hugo Swire is not running again and Claire Wright, currently a county councillor, has come second in each of the last two elections.
Her opponents, announced so far, are Simon Jupp (Conservative), Henry Gent (Green), Daniel Wilson (Labour) and Eleanor Rylance (Lib Dem).
Cllr Ingham said he believes Cllr Wright is the favourite in the race.
He said: “As an Independent, I think it’s wonderful that we’ve got this chance to put an Independent in the House of Commons.”
The Woodbury and Lympstone councillor said he heard ‘last year’ MP Sir Hugo Swire planned to stand down, describing it as ‘disrespectful’ of the Conservatives to pick a candidate at such a late stage.
Of the selection of Simon Jupp, he said: “If they wanted someone charismatic, which is what I think they tried to do, they would have been better off with Iggy Pop in my opinion. People would be able to relate to him more than a DJ from Plymouth.“
https://www.exmouthjournal.co.uk/news/general-election-ben-ingham-considered-standing-1-6370864
What do we know about the EDDC Tory candidate?
He failed to be selected for Bristol North West last year when he was described rather differently than in today’s press release (see earlier post below):
“Simon Jupp: Currently Special Adviser to Tim Bowles, the elected Mayor of the West of England [today described as a special adviser to Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab but see further on]. Jupp is a former journalist, having worked as a News Editor for ITV and as a BBC Radio Presenter. He is also a former press adviser and Head of Broadcast for the Conservative Party.”
Selection news: Shortlist for Bristol North West; Tall selected in Bath
He thinks many MPs are ignorant:
He was in and around Bath complaining about police cuts when he was on the Bristol South West short list:
https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/in-your-area/bath-been-unfairly-targeted-police-1920628
He’s listed as working for Simon Clarke MP on 5 November 2019 not Dominic Raab (Simon Clarke works at the Treasury)
So, a little confused: has worked for or works for: Tim Bowles, Simon Clarke or Dominic Raab.
Busy man!
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