Shipley West Yorkshire - are you proud of Philip Davies your MP?

It is odd how certain places in acquire a stereo type image. Anyone would think Yorkshire of all places would be a friendly down to earth left leaning place. A place where being neighbourly and looking after each other was a norm. Yet somehow Shipley has elected in a Tory MP. Well, it is their privilege to elect whomever they want, however Philip Davies has got a bit of a name for himself. He's the one who likes to prevent as many private members bills single handedly. No matter what they were for. An example would be fellow Tory Nusrat Ghani, who tried to stop the use of the term 'honour killing' for simply it is a misnomer, there is no such thing in it and it should be called out for what it is, murder. The use of the word honour bestows an aura of justification not criminality or evil doing, there can never be any honour in killing. Even though we all think about it at times to our relates the vast majority don't do it. Then there was the occasion when Davies talked and talked and talked, by doing so he filibustered Caroline Lucas's bill in which she wanted to make sex and relationship education mandatory for kids. In fact you'd of thought such a bill to be quite reasoned, Davies didn't think so. He did the same to prevent the Istanbul Convention from ratification. This set a high bar for which violence against women should be dealt with. In a bill to allow free hospital parking for carers he did it again and in another bill to ensure landlords made their properties fit for human habitation he again gassed long enough to kill the bill. In fact it looks like Davies is the original Kill Bill.

So why Shipley, why, have you allowed this man to continue as your MP? People of Shipley is this who you really want to represent you, because it really does look like here is a man who represents himself very well. Do the people of Shipley also think and speak and feel the same way as Philip Davies? Because it is hard to believe they can for this behaviour is pretty low. To take this further there is now a video of a very distraught Luisa Omielan who tried to interview Davies, in a brief and upsetting interview she tried to understand why it was the NHS was suffering from cuts to it's services. Luisa had witnessed her own mother die in a NHs hospital and she was seeking to understand Philip Davies position on the matter. But it didn't end up as one rational person talking to another. Philip Davies shouted, accused and blocked Luisa from leaving with her camera recording of
events that had taken place. It can only be because Davis had shown his underbelly, not only is it yellow and cowardly it was the belly of a bully a man who tells doesn't listen and certainly is not worthy of the post of being an MP. A man who represents Shipley and you have to ask should this man have any power at all in the corridors of Parliament, for it seems there is more compassion in a sewer worker than this individual.

Now Luisa Omielan is a comedian by profession and she's not a hard wing left sympathiser, she does care about the NHS and her experience of it was on a personal level, an intimate level. In witnessing the decline and death of her mother. This is a person who had something to say and her voice should of been heard. Perhaps she should of asked to speak to Jeremy Hunt instead, but then surely any Tory MP should be able to show compassion to another individual and hear what they say. Followed by giving their astute political opinion on the issue raised. In this instance her interview with Philip Davies was scheduled and set in his diary so he had time to consider an answer. The interview wasn't about him being accosted out of the blue by a member of the public it was about him accounting for himself in what is a reasonable request. He didn't rise to it as a gentleman and certainly not as an honourable MP.

People of Shipley, seriously, is this who should continue to represent you?