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Every party is going to seize on things like this when another does it, but there's certainly a significant difference between an MP standing in as a surgeon when the NHS had shortages and missing no parliamentary business, which the Daily Mail and Daily Record castigated Phillipa Whitford for, and an MP missing a significant parliamentary vote to officiate in a football game, as Ross is doing.

I have no issue with elected representatives holding second jobs provided those jobs don't cause a conflict with their political responsibilities, and in that light Ross officiating on Saturdays is fine. He should be ruling himself out of midweek fixtures though, and if that prevents him from progressing as an official or earning more then tough.

The fact he's a fucking hopeless official who doesn't understand the offside rule should obviously be a hindrance to his progression as well, but that's irrelevant to the politics.

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He should be ruling himself out of midweek fixtures though, and if that prevents him from progressing as an official or earning more then tough.
The fact he's a fucking hopeless official who doesn't understand the offside rule should obviously be a hindrance to his progression as well, but that's irrelevant to the politics.

He already promised that
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3 minutes ago, The Chlamydia Kid said:

What percentage of those who elected him do you think were oblivious as to his other job? Few id imagine...

He's the former head of the Moray and Banff referee's association and had been refereeing in the Highland League for years.  Unless the majority of his votes were from people based on the base at Kinloss and they had just arrived it should of been very obvious to anyone else that voted for him.

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1 hour ago, munro76 said:

He's the former head of the Moray and Banff referee's association and had been refereeing in the Highland League for years.  Unless the majority of his votes were from people based on the base at Kinloss and they had just arrived it should of been very obvious to anyone else that voted for him.

HAVE. FUCKING HAVE. 

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Turns out that vote he missed was a nothing vote. 100% voted to pause the roll out of Universal Credit but nobody against the motion bothered turning up as the Government can just ignore it. As vile a character as he no doubt is, and hope the Moray fishermen gut him like a herring when they find out the tariffs to sell fish to the EU, I can't hold it against him wanting the chance to play linesman at the Nou Camp for the evening.

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Turns out that vote he missed was a nothing vote. 100% voted to pause the roll out of Universal Credit but nobody against the motion bothered turning up as the Government can just ignore it. As vile a character as he no doubt is, and hope the Moray fishermen gut him like a herring when they find out the tariffs to sell fish to the EU, I can't hold it against him wanting the chance to play linesman at the Nou Camp for the evening.

Vile character because of his mainstream widely held political beliefs [emoji23][emoji23]

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Turns out that vote he missed was a nothing vote. 100% voted to pause the roll out of Universal Credit but nobody against the motion bothered turning up as the Government can just ignore it. As vile a character as he no doubt is, and hope the Moray fishermen gut him like a herring when they find out the tariffs to sell fish to the EU, I can't hold it against him wanting the chance to play linesman at the Nou Camp for the evening.

 

The fishermen are the epitome of turkeys voting for christmas, they'll be gutting nobody.

 

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On 10/18/2017 at 15:05, Dunning1874 said:

I have no issue with elected representatives holding second jobs provided those jobs don't cause a conflict with their political responsibilities, and in that light Ross officiating on Saturdays is fine. He should be ruling himself out of midweek fixtures though, and if that prevents him from progressing as an official or earning more then tough.

No, it isn't fine: while Parliament is in session (and Ross travels from a Teuchter seat as well) Saturday is the only logical day for hosting constituency surgeries.  Being an MP should typically be a six day a week job: even though the actual working time spent on most weekdays can be minimal. 

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