Wokingham Conservatives Selection Council

The Wokingham Conservatives Selection Council last night passed a motion to adopt John Redwood as their candidate for the next election.
The Selection Council comprised representatives from the different parts of the new Wokingham seat. It did not include representatives from the parts of the present constituency that pass to  new seats being formed.

53 Comments

  1. John McDonald
    February 25, 2023

    Congratulations Sir John but a great pity that your advice and experience ignored by the majority of the Conservative Party in Government. In fact is there a Conservative Party in Government?
    Maybe after the next General Election the two party system will disappear as it is no longer democratic and reflecting the wishes of the electorate.
    But perhaps more to do with the Morden day politician than the system itself ?

    1. glen cullen
      February 25, 2023

      Agree

  2. Cheshire Girl
    February 25, 2023

    A very wise decision.

  3. Sea_Warrior
    February 25, 2023

    Congratulations, Sir John.

  4. DOM
    February 25, 2023

    Congratulations but I urge you and other non-woke, sensible and normal politicians to speak out against the attacks on our culture, our freedoms and our sanity by those who seek a world in which discrimination and surveillance becomes the norm

  5. Donna
    February 25, 2023

    Congratulations Sir John, thought quite why you want to continue associating yourself with the Blu-Green who are Socialists destroying your Party is beyond me.

  6. Ian wragg
    February 25, 2023

    Congratulations, it’s a pity you’ll be outnumbered by dripping wet limp dumb.

    1. Ian wragg
      February 25, 2023

      So it looks like Fishy is going to do a May on the NIP. Try to ram it through Parliament without anyone reading it and relying on liebour and the limp dumb to get it through.
      He really has a death wish for your party
      Still, Sleepy Joe will be pleased

    2. Peter Wood
      February 25, 2023

      Yes quite so. I admire Sir John, but I don’t think the PCP, as opposed to the general members of the Conservative and Unionist Party, is remotely representative of conservative principles. It must change or disappear.

  7. Bloke
    February 25, 2023

    The Council made an excellent choice in maintaining high quality standards.

  8. Beecee
    February 25, 2023

    Congratulations, your voice is needed even more now.

  9. Mickey Taking
    February 25, 2023

    No surprise there then. I’m sure you will continue to do your best as you have always.
    The future turnout and support will be revealing. For many Tories it is likely to be a farewell.

    1. Lynn Atkinson
      February 25, 2023

      No. Given a chance to vote for a Tory candidate, the Tories turn out. They have a problem in the majority of seats because they cannot be satisfied that the candidate with the blue rosette is a Tory.

      1. Mickey Taking
        February 26, 2023

        so you’ll put a bet on for Conservative 80 majority again?

  10. Wanderer
    February 25, 2023

    Congratulations. At least the activists haven’t infiltrated your selection committee.

    1. agricola
      February 25, 2023

      Wanderer, a superb class of yacht.
      Are Wokingham’s activists decendents of Guy Fawkes to be so fearful. Most of us only have the Greens and Lib/Dems.

  11. Sakara Gold
    February 25, 2023

    I think you are brave standing again. In 2022 local elections the Conservatives lost control of Wokingham Borough Council after two decades in charge. The local authority now has no party in overall control after the Tories lost five seats, the Liberal Democrats won nine, while the Labour party picked up one.

    In the 2019 GE your majority was reduced to 7300 with the Liberal Democrat picking up a lot of your vote. On current polling a wind of change is blowing through the nation and it looks like they will take your seat

    You have proven over many years to be an excellent consituency MP. Many will regret it if you have to leave Parliament. Good luck!

    Reply The new Wokingham seat performed better for Conservatives in 2019 than the seat I won. Lib Dem’s are on 8% nationally. The threat to Conservatives comes from Labour.

    1. Ashley
      February 25, 2023

      Well the threat comes from Labour &/or SNP, Libdim, Plaid coalition combined. The chance of a Conservative majority or coalition, given the dire 12 year we have suffered under Cameron, May, Boris, Truss, Sunak is very slim indeed. Especially as Sunak is clearly a green crap pushing, open door to illegal immigration, tax to death, anti growth, borrow and waste, stitch up NI and now clearly anti-Brexit, Globalist.

    2. Nottingham Lad Himself
      February 25, 2023

      I’m not sure how many illegal dog breeders, cash-in-hand tax dodgers, speeders-through-residential-avenues, and all the others upon whose votes the Tories these days rely there are in Wokingham tbh.

      1. EU fan
        February 25, 2023

        NLH
        What a totally ridiculous post.

      2. mancunius
        February 25, 2023

        You seem to know very little about Wokingham. But why not buy some cod to heap on your other shoulder? 🙂

      3. Mickey Taking
        February 26, 2023

        speeding through residential avenues? – Hilarious.
        Most of the residential roads are narrow with parked cars forcing slalom driving, again most being very short rabbit warren designs to maximise developer profits. Dog breeders? I think the average terraced box or flat dweller owner would be found out by neighbours! Moving away from speeding through residential roads, you could try speeding on the main roads but will have to drive on the wrong side of the road facing oncoming queues of slow vehicles.
        Martin you are quite ridiculous, but no longer funny.

    3. British Patriot
      February 25, 2023

      Congratulations, Sir John; there is no doubt you richly deserved to be selected. Maybe, if the Conservative Party is decimated at the next election – as it deserves to be – and you win this new seat, you might be one of a very small handful of Tories and might get to actually affect party policy. If you were honest you would admit that the current leadership ignores and despises you and your views. The budget will NOT be one that encourages growth – quite the opposite. Will you speak out and vote against it?

    4. Sir Joe Soap
      February 25, 2023

      Look at the priorities of the Libdem Labour coalition in Wokingham. Their bringing in wheelie bins @£1.5m and reducing to fortnightly bin collections. So much for saving money and helping the environment.

      1. Peter Parsons
        February 26, 2023

        Wheelie bins are a one off cost, whereas the blue bag scheme has incurred cost every year. The previous Conservative council administration put the price of the blue baga up to £1/bag, which means a year’s supply retailed for more than you buy an 80l wheelie bin for.

    5. Mickey Taking
      February 25, 2023

      The failed Libdem was in reality an ejected ‘Tory’ from Bracknell who had the nerve to masquerade as being something else. However, it fooled plenty – such is the electorate Sir John faces, although somewhat different this time.

    6. Mickey Taking
      February 26, 2023

      reply to reply…not in Wokingham it doesn’t.

  12. Berkshire Alan
    February 25, 2023

    No more than you deserve given your past service, not only for your work as a constituency MP, but as one of the few in Parliament who actually understands finance and economics.

    1. SM
      February 25, 2023

      Ditto!

    2. Mickey Taking
      February 25, 2023

      we have to wonder what some of them understand at all.

  13. agricola
    February 25, 2023

    With luck, and if the people of Wokingham continue to appreciate what they have got, we can look forward to another seven years of diary and comment.

    1. Mickey Taking
      February 25, 2023

      Seven years?

      1. Mickey Taking
        February 25, 2023

        Oh I hit send before I realised you were adding 2+5 ….doh.

  14. Stephen Barrington
    February 25, 2023

    GREAT! That’s what I have been waiting for for years!

  15. Lynn Atkinson
    February 25, 2023

    Congratulations. They could never have found a better candidate.

  16. Chris S
    February 25, 2023

    Congratulations. The only sensible option for your new constituency council. I am sure they realise that they are very lucky to have you,. I’m equally certain that many others around the country would have wanted you to represent them.

  17. William Long
    February 25, 2023

    A very good decision and welcome confirmation that you intend to stand again!

    1. Mickey Taking
      February 25, 2023

      but better as Independent, since his colleagues don’t listen.

  18. Kayla Tomlinson
    February 25, 2023

    Congratulations Sir John. So glad that you are standing again.

  19. IanT
    February 25, 2023

    I’m afraid Wokingham seems to be very much a Lib Dem ‘target’ seat Sir John.

    The LDs seem to be spending a small fortune promoting themselves (at least judged by the number of flyers posted through in my letter box). Then there’s that nice Councilor Jones telling us how hard the Council is working to protect us all from (your) uncaring Government and keep vital local services going. I think you need to start digging your trenches and calling up the true-blue volunteers to man them. The barbarians are at the gates!

  20. Cuibono
    February 25, 2023

    So there are some sane, conservative tories then.
    Well done! 🌺
    Good!!

    1. Ashley
      February 25, 2023

      A few, but alas only a few.

  21. Keith from Leeds
    February 25, 2023

    Excellent news, Sir John, Keep battling on & maybe in opposition the conservatives will listen to you.

  22. Sharon
    February 25, 2023

    Congratulations Sir John!

    We could do with more honourable people like you!

    1. Lifelogic
      February 25, 2023

      Far more like JR please, but it is not a very appealing profession for bright, honourable & honest people who are not on the make! So we get what we get.

      1. Lynn Atkinson
        February 25, 2023

        Politics should NEVER be a profession! That’s the whole point!

  23. Ian B
    February 25, 2023

    Congratulations, Sir John. Well don dont stop, we need more Conservatives.

    On a separate note I would have liked to have seen an effort to achieve a reduction of MP’s in Parliament, not an increase. Our Parliament is to big, it finishes up thrashing around looking to have a job, a job that most of the time is better left with those best placed to follow through

  24. Richard1
    February 25, 2023

    An excellent choice. Good luck Sir John.

  25. XY
    February 25, 2023

    Congratulatons, well deserved in your case.

    Interesting that other associations are rebelling and refusing to select MPs who are clearly not small-c conservatives or who pretended to be something they were not.

    One association committee member said their MP claimed to be a \Brexiteer and then voted and spoke in favour of remain, had promised to move into the area and only rented a flat which they stayed at 1/2 a day a month, didn’t get involved in local issues and only turned up for photo ops.

    If CCHQ keeps parachuting people in, it will take a grass roots rebellion to reclaim the Conservative party from socialist infiltrators. Boris had the right idea in holding a vote on an issue that smoked them out just before an election, then removing the whip before the GE.

    The only right of centre party really does not need to be a particularly broad church. It certainly doesn’t need to accommodate any left of centre views – there are more than enough flavours of socialist parties such people can join.

    1. margaret
      February 25, 2023

      die hard .

  26. SimonR
    February 25, 2023

    Congratulations, well deserved.

  27. Geoffrey Berg
    February 25, 2023

    Wokingham Conservatives have evidently selected the best available candidate. Now (or very soon) Conservative M.P.s must nominate the best available candidate to lead the Conservative Party into the next General Election – otherwise with Sunak there will be no safe Conservative seats and pitifully few Conservative M.P.s will be elected to the next Parliament.

  28. mancunius
    February 25, 2023

    It is the constituency party that should be congratulated on their common sense. Sir John deserves a medal for fortitude at putting up with the gradual dissolution of his parliamentary party’s manifesto and even their existence.
    The Conservative and Unionist Party should either alter its title, or get behind the Unionists of Northern Ireland, which has been an integral part of the Union of the United Kingdom since 1801 and remains so according to the wishes of the majority of its people. Watch out for the imminent opportunistic attempt by the Tory leadership to collude with Labour and the SNP in throwing NI and its precarious peace under the proverbial bus.

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