The race to be Lichfield’s next MP will officially begin when Parliament is dissolved this evening (29th May).
The Royal Proclamation will take effect at midnight – but residents will still be able to access MPs for support.
Sir Michael Fabricant, who will hope to retain the seat for the Conservatives at the General Election on 4th July, said:
“Parliament will be dissolved at midnight – this will mean that until the General Election there will be no Members of Parliament until they are elected or re-elected.
“Indeed, elected MPs only actually become MPs when they swear an oath of loyalty to the King in the Chamber House of Commons and witnessed by the Speaker when Parliament is recalled on 9th July.
“However, Parliament recognises that the vital work MPs carry out helping their constituents cannot stop with the dissolution of Parliament so these former MPs still have full access to Government departments and local government as if dissolution had not taken place.
“Constituents with urgent problems can still contact their former MPs after the midnight deadline and these will be acted upon as usual.”
Sir Michael Fabricant
So far four parties have unveiled their candidates for the Lichfield constituency:
- Conservatives – Sir Michael Fabricant
- Labour – Dave Robertson
- Lib Dem – Paul Ray
- Reform UK – Richard Howard
If you want Fabricant out … vote for Labour. Unfortunately a vote for the Lib Dem’s is a vote for him in this area.
I know who I’ll be voting for and it is not Sir Michael Fabricant. Kick the Tories out completely into oblivion.
I have in the past voted Tory.
They don’t deserve anything
I do not believe Sir Michael Fabricant deserves to be running as Conservative candidate. It’s incredible that the Lichfield Conservative Association have looked at his record and thought, yes, he’s the one for us! His judgement is appalling. He backs Brexit, Truss, Johnson, sewage in rivers and sees nothing wrong in increasing levels of child poverty or lengthening queues in NHS. He spends more time defending Israel and promoting GB news than he ever does speaking up for us in Lichfield and Burntwood.
The old order changeth yielding place to new
Let’s blow away the cobwebs and show the country that Lichfield isn’t some stuffy old Conservative stronghold. A vote for Dave Robertson is a vote for a refreshing new modern era in Lichfield.
What are the chances Lichfield will soon be rid of Fabricant and then not long after that we will be looking for a new leader of LDC? Slim to nonexistent I’d say. Like it or not, the local voters would vote for a Donkey if it had a blue rosette on. I don’t like Fab, there are many issues I would disagree with him on but I won’t vote Labour and Lib Dem’s are a waste of space. Fab will retain Lichfield, hopefully though his majority is vastly reduced and we end up with a new Tory MP at some point in the next Parliament that actually works for Lichfield and not GB News.
Curborough Rd Resident – Always good to read some Tennyson, is the sword that Arthur wants thrown back into the lake a metaphor for Brexit?
Fabricant needs to go, we deserve much better than this. Every vote counts so make sure you, your fiends and family exercise that. Lichfield deserves better than being tarred with Fabricant being its MP for the next 5 years, it’ll take a huge swing but it can be done, every hopeful and optimistic that Lichfield does the right thing……
Fabricant has been here for so long because old people vote conservatives, and Lichfield is full of old people who struggle to cope with change and are set in their ways.
Every vote counts. It is time for change.
Lets just hope that the Greens have the sense not to put up a candidate and that Lib Dem supporters vote tactically for Labour so there is a realistic chance of getting rid of ‘Sir’ Michael.
Are Labour going to stand aside in LibDem or Green target seats? It’s no good Labour expecting something for nothing. Labour also failed to support the alternative voting system when it was proposed in 2011. We’ll be stuck with the current unfair system as long as the two largest parties consider it in their interest to maintain the duopoly, and we’ll be stuck with our useless MP for another term at least.