UPDATE (6/7/22): Warburton Back In Hospital and New Statement - No Response To Our Questions From Warburton - David Warburton The Suspended Tory MP Actually Replies To Some Constituents!

David Warburton STILL Hiding
Behind the Prime Minister
Photo: Wyke Farms Election PR

UPDATE (1853 hours 6/7/22)

No, David Warburton has still not answered our questions.

But another statement has appeared on his website after our update below. It says:

"Following a sharp decline in his mental health, David has today been readmitted to a psychiatric hospital for urgent treatment. David’s office continues to function as normal."

 

UPDATE (6/7/22)

David Warburton has still not answered our questions.

He has updated his website with a very short statement.

It seems that the pressure from Somerset Independents is making a difference.

Does it address the situation? ABSOLUTELY NOT. HE MUST RESIGN. 

UPDATE (2/7/22)

Somerton and Frome Conservative Association told us - before they blocked our Twitter account - that David Warburton was only an email away.

Constituents of Warburton have consistently told us - over years - that Warburton does not respond.

You only need to look around our website to see the evidence of that and that the Chief Whip of Conservative MPs did not intervene when we approached him in 2020.

So on 21st June 2022 we emailed David Warburton with some questions.

And it is no surprise that as at 2nd July 2022, he has not responded.

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Somerset Independents puts residents first. One of the biggest criticisms that we have heard across Somerset from residents is that their MPs do not respond to them.

We have endeavoured to stand up to residents, ever since we were formed over two years ago.

As is shown elsewhere on this website, we challenged the Conservative Chief Whip to intervene over David Warburton, the Somerton and Frome (now suspended Tory) MP. But he did not.

And still David Warburton's constituents have complained.

We've demonstrated Warburton's lack of activity at Parliament and we have challenged the Somerton and Frome Conservative Association directly. They refused to confirm his record, but as we have shown, these are facts of the Parliamentary record.

Now we have seen actual replies from David Warburton to constituents.

One constituent received the below reply, when they asked Warburton about the Prime Minister and that Johnson should go. They have given us permission to use the full response. Other constituents have received the same (copied and pasted) response.

Do you think Warburton is really listening to his constituents? 

Tell us what you think of his response and the investigations.

 

BBC News 3rd April 2022

 

"Thank you for sharing your thoughts with me about the Prime Minister. Your comments have been carefully read and digested. I was not able to vote on Monday, but my views expressed in my statement on 15th February remain unchanged.
Statement on the Prime Minister | David Warburton
 
I believe that the public are rightly anxious about the cost of living challenges we face; these caused by the twin scourges of global inflation and rising energy prices. From the many conversations I've had with him, I know that Boris Johnson's number one focus is always on the people's priorities. We must focus on the pressing issues both domestically and globally and I am pleased to see that along with delivering cost of living help to one third of all households, the Prime Minister has pledged further arsenal to our European friends in Ukraine. Tackling these challenges is exactly what the public expects of us instead of a distracting, divisive and destructive internal leadership contest. Change may well be the salt in the soup of life as the fantastic Gyles Brandreth suggests but we all know that too much salt is not good for us.
 
Now we need urgently to reunite, put the distractions of the last few months and the vote last week behind us and get on with the job of serving our constituents and the country. For me, one of the messages from the Queen’s jubilee celebrations that shone through is that unity, stability and resolve are the backbone of our wonderful country.
 
To those many who have voted Conservative in the past, I urge you to offer your support to a Prime Minister who delivered the largest election win in a generation and is best placed to deliver the Conservative priorities we hold dear.
 
And to those who have not voted Conservative, or who may have once but are wavering, my pledge as your elected representative is to follow the wisdom of Thomas Aquinas: "We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have laboured in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it."
 
Best wishes
 
Yours,   David
  David Warburton MP
Member of Parliament for Somerton and Frome"

 

Andrew Pope, Leader of Somerset Independents, responds:

Andrew Pope

"Despite the massive by-election losses, Warburton seems still to be not listening - his response appears to be laden with heavy sarcasm. And it seems, neither is Boris Johnson listening and is pledging to carry on! It's amazing.

Warburton was hiding behind David Cameron when they visited Wyke Farms in Somerset. Warburton is STILL hiding behind the Prime Minister, seven years later. 

Both Warburton and Johnson have to go. Perhaps they will both go at the General Election, but maybe Warburton will do the decent thing and quit now, because he simply is not representing Somerton and Frome."

 

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